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METAL soaps occur as two distinct types of aggregate in non-polar solvents. The majority of mono- and di-valent soaps form large complexes held together by dipole association1. The trivalent aluminium compounds which are obtained as the basic mono- or di-soaps appear, on the other hand, to have a polymeric structure joined by metal–oxygen co-ordinate links2 or by hydrogen bonds3. Solutions of the aluminium soaps exhibit characteristic visco-elastic phenomena and are believed to contain large fibrous aggregates.
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NELSON, S., PINK, R. Monomeric Ferric Laurate in Toluene. Nature 169, 620–621 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169620b0
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