Monitoring of the thermal decomposition of solid silver citrate

Abstract The reductive decarboxylation is a reaction which is used for the reduction of silver(I)-ions to solid silver in manifold applications. Despite the reductive decarboxylation is well investigated, details for the special case of silver citrate regarding the reaction mechanism and the structure of the products remained unrevealed. Herein, we monitor the decomposition reaction of solid silver citrate via dynamic thermal analysis with thermogravimetry and coupled mass spectrometry (DTA/TGA-