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Title: Chemical reactions on the surface of dispersed silica during gas-phase modification with MoCl{sub 5} vapors

Journal Article · · Colloid Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
OSTI ID:75690
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  1. Institute of Surface Chemistry, Kiev (Ukraine)

The characteristic features of the gas-phase modification of silica by molybdenum pentachloride vapors were investigated. The grafted molybdenum chloride groups {triple_bond}SiOMoCl{sub 4} formed as a result of the reaction of MoCl{sub 5} with the silanol groups and siloxane bridges of the SiO{sub 2} surface undergo a rearrangement as a result of their instability, forming chlorosilyl groups and molybdenum oxychloride, which is removed from the silica surface. In the presence of an excess of the modifier MoCl{sub 5}, the reaction with siloxane bridges of the surface layer leads to the formation of silicon tetrachloride and is accompanied by etching of the surface of the dispersed silica globules.

OSTI ID:
75690
Journal Information:
Colloid Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 55, Issue 6; Other Information: PBD: May 1994; TN: Translated from Kolloidnyi Zhurnal; 55: No. 6, 85-89(Nov-Dec 1993)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English