Insight Into Framework Destruction in Ultramarine Pigments
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-6-2006
Abstract
We report key evidence on the framework destruction in ultramarine pigments upon color fading. Experiments on faded pigments in a fresco painting environment reveal that the paramagnetic chromophores are set free via sodalite framework destruction and are subsequently degraded. Fading in acidic media produces similar results, although a larger number of β-cages appear to be destroyed, and H2S is released. The findings are further supported by studies on natural and synthetic ultramarine pigments of various shades via solid-state resonance-Raman spectroscopy, colorimentry, and solid-state 29Si and 27Al NMR spectroscopy. NMR parameters are shown to correlate well with the intensities of Raman signals corresponding to the S3-. chromophores. A further correlation is established between the colorimetric parameters, L* (lightness) and C* (chroma), and the paramagnetic shift and paramagnetic linebroadening in NMR spectra for both 27Al and 29Si.
DOI
10.1021/ic050903z
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Del Federico, Eleonora; Shöfberger, Wolfgang; Schelvis, Johannes; Kapetanaki, Sofia; Tyne, Lindsey; and Jerschow, Alexej, "Insight Into Framework Destruction in Ultramarine Pigments" (2006). Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 501.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/chem-biochem-facpubs/501