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Oscillations, Waves, and Interactions - GWDG

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354 R. Pottel, J. Haller <strong>and</strong> U. Kaatze<br />

Figure 19. Zinc(II)chloride complexation scheme in water (w).<br />

the characteristics of zinc chloride aqueous solutions. The formation of mono-, bi-,<br />

tri-, <strong>and</strong> tetrachloro complexes is well established now. All these species seem to<br />

exist not only as contact ion complexes but also as solvent separated outer-sphere<br />

species [89–92].<br />

Following the above lines of reasoning (sect. 4.1) the extrapolated solvent contribution<br />

ɛ1 to the static permittivity can be evaluated in terms of the concentration<br />

C0 of completely dissociated zinc ions. According to our arguments zinc chloride<br />

ion complexes unlikely induce dielectric saturation effects. Let us assume the number<br />

Z + of apparently irrotationally bound water molecules around the completely<br />

dissociated Zn 2+ ion to agree with that around the Mg 2+ ion. The cation-water<br />

distances (Zn 2+ : 2.08 ˚A; Mg 2+ : 2.11 ˚A [93]) <strong>and</strong> the apparent molar volumes at infinite<br />

dilution (Zn 2+ : -32.4 cm 3 mol −1 ; Mg 2+ : -32.0 cm 3 mol −1 [94]) almost agree with<br />

one another. The experimental ɛ1 data can thus be evaluated in terms of the Zn 2+<br />

concentration. The relative Zn 2+ content C0/C following thereby is displayed in<br />

Fig. 20 where also predictions from a reasonable set of of equilibrium constants Ki,<br />

i = 1, 2, 3, 4 [95] for the association scheme of zinc ions <strong>and</strong> chloride ions are shown.<br />

In deriving this set of Ki values no distinction was made between inner sphere complexes<br />

<strong>and</strong> their water-containing analoga. The transition between these species <strong>and</strong><br />

their outer-sphere analoga was assumed to be fast as compared to the transition between<br />

the complexes with different number of chloride ions. The agreement between<br />

our data from the ɛ1 values <strong>and</strong> the predictions from the equilibrium constants of<br />

the multistep reaction scheme is striking. According to our expectations the relative<br />

content of completely dissociated Zn 2+ ions decreases substantially with C.<br />

Most species in the zinc chloride complexation scheme (Fig. 19) are nondipolar or<br />

only weakly dipolar. In the dichloro complex with linearly arranged chloride, zinc,<br />

<strong>and</strong> chloride ions, in the planar trichloro complex, as well as in the tetrahedrally<br />

structured tetrachloro complex the individual dipole moments largely compensate

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