A. Baumer et al., CHARACTERIZATION BY INFRARED SPECTROMETRY OF CHLORINE AND FLUORINE IONS IN APATITES, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre, 319(2), 1994, pp. 193-200
Synthetic hydroxyapatites with low chlorine and fluorine contents have
been prepared hydrothermally according to the reaction: Ca(s) (PO4)3
OH + xNH4 Cl or + xNH4F. The infrared spectra of these samples show th
at the 3,498 cm-1 band of OH, Cl apatites and 3,545 cm-1 band of OH, F
apatites make it possible to detect respectively 350 ppm of chlorine
and 150 ppm of fluorine. A comparative infrared study of natural apati
tes confirms that the 3,485 and 3,480 cm-1 bands must, be attributed t
o the O-H...Cl hydrogen bond.