What are the reactions between Zinc acetate dihydrate and Methoxyethanol? [closed]








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I am synthesizing a sol-gel solution with Zinc acetate dihydrate + Methoxyethanol and ethanolamine as stabilizer, and I wonder what are the reactions that are taking place in the process. Could you help me please?
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I had zinc atetate dihydrate (sigma aldrich 99.999% trace metal basis) and I added 0.913 g to 20 mL of Methoxyethanol. It was stirred at 60 °C during 30 minutes. Then, 1 mL of ethanolamine (stabilizer) was added, and the solution was stirred during 90 minutes at 60 °C.
After that, it was kept aging at room temperature during 24 hours, and then stirred at 60 °C during 3 hours (were the solvents vaporized and the sol gel was formed).




[Zinc acetate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_acetate) ($\ce{Zn(CH3COO)2}$) is known to form the complex $\ce{Zn4O(CH3COO)6}$ with loss of acetic anhydride on heating. [2-methoxyethanol](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Methoxyethanol) and [ethanolamine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanolamine) will also evaporate, leaving the Zinc complex as your sol gel.


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