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Urea/thiourea induced crystal growth of ammonium nickel sulfate hexahydrate and characterization studies

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Single crystals of ammonium nickel sulfate hexahydrate, (NH4)2Ni(SO4)2·6H2O (ANSH), are grown by conventional slow evaporation solution growth technique at room temperature from an aqueous solution containing an excess of urea/thiourea. Structural analysis by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that the crystal belongs to monoclinic system with centrosymmetric space group P21/c and the cell parameters are a = 6.246(2) Å, b = 12.45(4) Å, c = 9.21(2) Å, β = 106.96°. The powder X-ray diffraction and high-resolution X-ray diffraction studies reveal the crystallinity and crystalline perfection of the grown crystal. Optical absorbance spectrum indicates a discontinuous transmission pattern. An increase in dielectric and conductivity parameters with the increase of temperature at all frequencies is observed. Thermal studies reveal that there is no decomposition up to the melting point. Probable mechanism of facile crystal growth of the title compound in the presence of excess urea/thiourea as inducer is analyzed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr. C. K. Mahadevan, Physics Research Centre, S. T. Hindu College, Nagercoil for the support in dielectric studies. One of the authors, K. Muthu is thankful to CSIR, New Delhi, for the award (no. 9/3(0009)2K11-EMR-I) of a Senior Research Fellowship.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, 608 002, India

    K. Meena, K. Muthu, M. Rajasekar & S. P. Meenakshisundaram

  2. Crystal Growth & X-ray Analysis Activity, CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, 110 012, India

    G. Bhagavannarayana

  3. Department of Chemical Technologies and Environment, Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Trenčín University of A. Dubček, 02032, Púchov, Slovakia

    S. C. Mojumdar

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

    S. C. Mojumdar

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Meena, K., Muthu, K., Rajasekar, M. et al. Urea/thiourea induced crystal growth of ammonium nickel sulfate hexahydrate and characterization studies. J Therm Anal Calorim 119, 963–968 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-4246-9

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