Synthesis and characterization of organic zinc chelates through FT-IR

Abstract

Zinc is an important micronutrient which is required for better plant growth and alleviate its deficiencies in various crops through its involvement in many metabolic functions. Generally zinc use efficiency hardly exceeds 2% hence to improve the use efficiency zinc has been chelated with various organic acids. The zinc chelates synthesized with various chelating agents like citric acid, glycine, lysine, maleate, tartrate, and oxalate were analysed with the extent of chelation with Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Out of the six zinc chelates produced, zinc glycine sulphate and zinc citrate sulphate were processing better chelation properties and characteristics.