Melting of Saturated Fatty Acid Zinc Soaps | The Journal ...
The melting of alkyl chains in the saturated fatty acid zinc soaps of different chain lengths, Zn(CnH2n+1COO)2; n = 11, 13, 15, and 17, have been investigated by powder X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, and vibrational spectroscopy. These compounds have a layer structure with the alkyl chains arranged as tilted bilayers and with all methylene chains adopting a planar, all ...