Onwudiwe, Damian C.Strydom, Christien A.2016-09-062016-09-062015Onwudiwe, D.C. & Strydom, C.A. 2015. The bipyridine adducts of N-phenyldithiocarbamato complexes of Zn(II) and Cd(II); synthesis, spectral, thermal decomposition studies and use as precursors for ZnS and CdS nanoparticles. Spectrochimica acta. Part A, 135:1080-1089. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2014.08.004]1386-1425http://hdl.handle.net/10394/18555https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2014.08.004https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138614251401186XBipyridine adducts of N-phenyldithiocarbamato complexes, [ML12L2] (M = Cd(II), Zn(II); L1 = N-phenyldithiocarbamate, L2 = 2,2′ bipyridine), have been synthesized and characterised. The decomposition of these complexes to metal sulphides has been investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The complexes were used as single-source precursors to synthesize MS (M = Zn, Cd) nanoparticles (NPs) passivated by hexadecyl amine (HDA). The growth of the nanoparticles was carried out at two different temperatures: 180 and 220 °C, and the optical and structural properties of the nanoparticles were studied using UV–Vis spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), transmission emission microscopy (TEM) and powdered X-ray diffraction (p-XRD). Nanoparticles, whose average diameters are 2.90 and 3.54 nm for ZnS, and 8.96 and 9.76 nm for CdS grown at 180 and 220 °C respectively, were obtainedenZnSCdSDithiocarbamateNanoparticlesOptical propertiesMorphologyArticle