D. Massiot et al., RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOLID-STATE P-31 NMR PARAMETERS AND X-RAY STRUCTURAL DATA IN SOME ZINC PHOSPHONATES, Chemistry of materials, 9(1), 1997, pp. 6
P-31 solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a powerful tool to get structural
information about the environment of the phosphorus atoms in zinc pho
sphonates. In a series of various known structures taken as reference,
the connectivity of the RPO(3) groups (i.e., the number of zinc atoms
bonded to each of the three oxygen atoms of the phosphonate units) ca
n be differentiated on the basis of the value of the chemical shift as
ymmetry and anisotropy.