Chemistry World has highlighted, in a recent article, work published in NJC by Dr Massimiliano Arca (Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy) and his colleagues. The authors have made a new oxamate salt that could help protect monuments from weathering. In their study, they show that the introduction of structural modifications on the oxamate anion provides a promising tool for the development of protective agents for calcareous stones.
The treatment was tested on marble statues by Giuseppe Maria Sartorio in the Monumental Cemetery of Bonaria in Cagliari, Sardinia © Paola Meloni
You can access the original NJC article:
Oxamate salts as novel agents for the restoration of marble and limestone substrates: case study of ammonium N-phenyloxamate
Laura Maiore, M. Carla Aragoni, Gianfranco Carcangiu, Ombretta Cocco, Francesco Isaia, Vito Lippolis, Paola Meloni, Arianna Murru, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Enrica Tuveri, J. Derek Woollins and Massimiliano Arca.
New J. Chem., 2016, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C5NJ02505B.
