Solution structure of cadmium carboxylate and its implications for the synthesis of cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystals.

Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) was used to investigate the solution structure of cadmium carboxylate. The molecular weights of cadmium complexes highly depend on the solvent; the complexes are polymeric in toluene but break up in the presence of polar solvents or coordinating ligands.