Synthesis and properties of zirconium glyphosate and monochromatic zirconium glyphosate-Eu

A series of layered compounds of zirconium glyphosate and zirconium phosphate–glyphosates were synthesized with ZrOCl2, N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine and H3PO4 for the first time. It was found that the morphologies of zirconium phosphate–glyphosates had a strong variational rule from hexagon to sphere and sphere to lamella when nH3PO4/nGlyphosatenH3PO4/nGlyphosate changed from ∞ to 0, and also it was found that the product of zirconium glyphosate could be decomposed gradually in basic condition with pH value of lye increased. A monochromatic body of ZrGPEu under illumination of UV light was obtained by Eu3+ exchanged and coordinated with imido and carbonyl groups in the gallery of the layers.