Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art and provides a preparation method of low-oxygen high-purity polycarbosilane, wherein the prepared polycarbosilane has the number average molecular weight of 600-1500, the oxygen content of 0.05-0.6 wt% and the alkali metal content of less than 25 ppm.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
1) melting alkali metal by using an organic solvent, and dropwise adding dimethyldichlorosilane to generate polydimethylsilane;
wherein M represents alkali metals Na and K.
The organic solvent is preferably toluene (boiling point 110.4 ℃) or xylene (boiling point 137-140 ℃).
In this step, polydimethylsilane (CH3SiCH3) was formed as the main intermediatenAnd alkali metal by-product MCl. Polydimethylsilane (CH3SiCH3)nIs a powdery white particle insoluble in any solvent, and the cracking temperature is above 320 ℃.
2) Reacting the residual reactant with anhydrous alcohol, and filtering to remove the organic solvent;
due to the isolation of the polydimethyl silane particles, the reactants polydimethyl dichlorosilane and alkali metal are difficult to react sufficiently. The residual reactants react with alcohol respectively to lose activity, reduce danger and facilitate treatment.
(CH3)2Si(Cl)2+2ROH→(CH3)2Si(OR)2+2HCl
2M+2ROH→ROM+H2↑
ROH represents an alcohol. Methanol CH is preferred3OH (boiling point 64.7 ℃), by-product (CH) being formed3)2Si(O CH3)2Boiling point of 81.4 ℃. Preferably ethanol C2H5OH (boiling point 78 ℃ C.), by-product (CH)3)2Si(O C2H5)2The boiling point of (b) is 114 ℃. The alkali metal reacts with ROH to form an alkoxide.
3) Washing by-products of alkali metal chloride, hydroxide and alcohol by pure water, and filtering to obtain crude polydimethylsilane;
(CH3)2Si(OR)2+2H2O→(CH3)2Si(OH)2+2ROH
ROM+H2O→MOH+ROH
(CH3)2Si(OR)2hydrolysis to form (CH)3)2Si(OH)2Boiling point 122.2+23 ℃; (CH)3)2Si(OH)2Condensation of the majority to form siloxanes [ C ]2H6SiO]n. Siloxane [ C ]2H6SiO]nThe polymer is a complex polymer system, the appearance of the polymer system is colorless transparent or yellowish liquid, and the boiling point of the main component is 155-220 ℃; the alkali metal alkoxide is hydrolyzed to form an alkali metal hydroxide and an alcohol.
The chloride and hydroxide produced as by-products of alkali metal are mainly dissolved in pure water and removed by filtration.
4) Vacuumizing the crude polydimethylsilane in a cracking kettle at RT-320 ℃, specifically, heating at a heating rate of 0.1-2 ℃/min, preserving the temperature at 220-320 ℃ for 1-36 h, and removing water and siloxane;
siloxane [ C ] as a by-product of dimethyldichlorosilane production2H6SiO]nThe boiling point is 155-220 ℃. Small amount of by-product H remained in the intermediate process2O、ROH、(CH3)2Si(OR)2、(CH3)2Si(OH)2The boiling points are all below 155 ℃. These oxygen-containing by-products can be removed by distillation under reduced pressure, which is characterized by a low boiling point. The residual solvent toluene or xylene was distilled off under reduced pressure.
5) At normal pressure N2Or cracking at high temperature in Ar atmosphere and collecting fractions at 320-450 ℃;
because of the instability of the high molecular polymer, a small amount of poor-quality polydimethylsiloxane is cracked into cyclic silane before the temperature is lower than 320 ℃. The low molecular weight of the cyclic silane accounts for a large amount, and the cyclic silane is more easily heated and cracked into free carbon in high-temperature synthesis, so that the purity of the polycarbosilane is reduced. Free carbon is mostly dispersed in the polymeric silane as submicron particles, and cannot be completely separated by filtration. The content of free carbon of submicron pole is usually far lower than 1%, relative to the carbon content of polycarbosilane about 40% and the detection error of carbon content of 5% of the oxygen carbon instrument, it is difficult to distinguish specifically by using the oxygen carbon instrument to measure data. In actual production, the more free carbon contained in polycarbosilane, the more the block-shaped appearance color gradually changes from colorless transparency to dark transparency. The content of free carbon in the polycarbosilane can be preliminarily judged through the block color of the polycarbosilane. In addition, the low molecular weight cyclosilane participates in the synthesis reaction, so that short branched chains of the polycarbosilane are increased, and the quality of the polycarbosilane is reduced. Therefore, the fraction below 320 ℃ for cracking polydimethylsilane is not excluded.
After the polydimethyl silane is cleaned by pure water, a small amount of alkali metal chloride and hydroxide still remain in the powder. Since both alkali chlorides and hydroxides have boiling points above 1000 c, they are not distilled at 450 c. Through the high-temperature pyrolysis of the polydimethylsiloxane, fractions at 320-450 ℃ are collected, and the content of alkali metal in the product is lower than 25 ppm.
6) Fraction at normal pressure N2Or synthesizing polycarbosilane at 450-520 ℃ in Ar atmosphere for 1-20 h.
Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. the polydimethylsiloxane is continuously vacuumized at RT-320 ℃, so that the moisture and siloxane containing oxygen components are effectively removed, and the oxygen content of the polycarbosilane is 0.05-0.6%.
2. The 320-450 ℃ fractions are collected by cracking the polydimethylsilane to synthesize the polycarbosilane, low-molecular polymers cracked at the temperature lower than 320 ℃ are excluded from participating in the synthesis reaction, the branching degree of the polycarbosilane and the generation of free carbon are reduced, and the high purity of the polycarbosilane is ensured.
3. The polycarbosilane is synthesized by cracking polydimethylsilane and collecting fractions at 320-450 ℃, so that the content of alkali metal is lower than 25ppm, and the high purity of the polycarbosilane is ensured.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention clearer and more obvious, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the following embodiments.
Example 1:
(1) 200 parts of dimethylbenzene and 36 parts of sodium metal are added into a reaction kettle according to the parts by weight, and stirring is startedIn N at2Heating to 110 ℃ under protection, melting the sodium metal, then slowly dropwise adding 100 parts of dimethyldichlorosilane, and curing for 30 hours at 120 ℃.
(2) Transferring the purple black reactant to a filtering kettle, starting stirring, cooling to the temperature below 60 ℃, slowly adding 60 parts of absolute ethyl alcohol, continuously stirring for 5 hours, and filtering to remove the organic solvent.
(3) 300 parts of pure water was added to wash sodium chloride and sodium hydroxide, and filtered to obtain white crude polydimethylsilane.
(4) Transferring the crude polydimethylsiloxane to a cracking kettle, starting stirring, continuously vacuumizing, heating to 250 ℃ at the heating rate of 0.5 ℃/min, keeping vacuumizing for 6h, and removing water and siloxane. The vacuum degree is required to be below-0.1 MPa.
(5) Cracking kettle N2And increasing the temperature to 430 ℃ at the heating rate of 1 ℃/min to reach the micro positive pressure, and collecting the fraction at the temperature of 320-420 ℃.
(6) Transferring the distillate to a synthesis kettle at normal pressure N2Under protection, slowly raising the temperature from normal temperature to 475 ℃, and reacting at 475 ℃ for 8h to synthesize polycarbosilane.
Example 2:
(1) the same as in example 1.
(2) The same as in example 1.
(3) The same as in example 1.
(4) Transferring the crude polydimethylsiloxane to a cracking kettle, starting stirring, continuously vacuumizing, heating to 280 ℃ at the heating rate of 0.5 ℃/min, keeping vacuumizing for 6h, and removing water and siloxane. The vacuum degree is required to be below-0.1 MPa.
(5) The same as in example 1.
(6) The same as in example 1.
Example 3:
(1) the same as in example 1.
(2) Same as example 1
(3) The same as in example 1.
(4) Transferring the crude polydimethylsiloxane to a cracking kettle, starting stirring, continuously vacuumizing, heating to 300 ℃ at the heating rate of 0.5 ℃/min, keeping vacuumizing for 6h, and removing water and siloxane. The vacuum degree is required to be below-0.1 MPa.
(5) The same as in example 1.
(6) The same as in example 1.
Example 4:
(1) the same as in example 2.
(2) The same as in example 2.
(3) The same as in example 2.
(4) Transferring the crude polydimethylsiloxane to a cracking kettle, starting stirring, continuously vacuumizing, heating to 280 ℃ at the heating rate of 0.5 ℃/min, keeping vacuumizing for 2h, and removing water and siloxane. The vacuum degree is required to be below-0.1 MPa.
(5) The same as in example 2.
(6) The same as in example 2.
Example 5:
(1) the same as in example 2.
(2) Same as example 2
(3) The same as in example 2.
(4) Transferring the crude polydimethylsiloxane to a cracking kettle, starting stirring, continuously vacuumizing, heating to 280 ℃ at the heating rate of 0.5 ℃/min, keeping vacuumizing for 12h, and removing water and siloxane. The vacuum degree is required to be below-0.1 MPa.
(5) The same as in example 2.
(6) The same as in example 2.
Example 6:
(1) the same as in example 2.
(2) The same as in example 2.
(3) The same as in example 2.
(4) The same as in example 2.
(5) The same as in example 2.
(6) Transferring the distillate to a synthesis kettle at normal pressure N2Under the protection, slowly heating from normal temperature to 450 ℃, and reacting at 450 ℃ for 8h to synthesize polycarbosilane.
Example 7:
(1) the same as in example 2.
(2) The same as in example 2.
(3) The same as in example 2.
(4) The same as in example 2.
(5) The same as in example 2.
(6) Transferring the distillate to a synthesis kettle at normal pressure N2Under protection, slowly raising the temperature from normal temperature to 490 ℃, and reacting at 490 ℃ for 8h to synthesize polycarbosilane.
Example 8:
(1) the same as in example 2.
(2) The same as in example 2.
(3) The same as in example 2.
(4) The same as in example 2.
(5) Cracking kettle N2And increasing the temperature to 430 ℃ at the heating rate of 1 ℃/min under the micro-positive pressure, and collecting the fraction at the temperature of 250-420 ℃.
(6) The same as in example 2.
The molecular weight, softening point, oxygen content, appearance color and sodium content of the polycarbosilanes prepared in the examples are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1
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Molecular weight
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Softening point of
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Oxygen content%
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Color appearance
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Sodium content ppm
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Example 1
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1121
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189.5
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0.51
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Colorless and transparent
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11
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Example 2
|
1007
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187.1
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0.32
|
Colorless and transparent
|
9
|
Example 3
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1027
|
184.2
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0.12
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Colorless and transparent
|
12
|
Example 4
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1132
|
187.1
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0.53
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Colorless and transparent
|
8
|
Example 5
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1115
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183.5
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0.17
|
Colorless and transparent
|
15
|
Example 6
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856
|
155.7
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0.34
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Colorless and transparent
|
13
|
Example 7
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1413
|
225.7
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0.33
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Light gray transparent
|
11
|
Example 8
|
1026
|
190.5
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0.58
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Light gray transparent
|
22 |
Analysis from the data above:
1. by adopting the embodiments 1-3, the vacuumizing temperature of the crude polydimethylsiloxane is increased, and the oxygen content of the polycarbosilane is reduced;
2. by adopting the embodiments 4, 2 and 5, the vacuumizing time of the crude polydimethylsilane is prolonged, and the oxygen content of polycarbosilane is reduced;
3. by adopting the embodiments 6, 2 and 7, the synthesis reaction temperature of the distillate is increased, the molecular weight of the polycarbosilane is increased, and the color is gradually changed into light gray and transparent, which shows that the higher the synthesis temperature is, the more easily the free carbon is generated;
4. by adopting the embodiment 8, the fraction below 320 ℃ is collected for synthesis, the color of polycarbosilane is changed into light gray and transparent, which shows that the fraction below 320 ℃ is collected for synthesis, and free carbon is easier to generate;
5. from the examples, polycarbosilanes were synthesized using the cracked collected fractions with alkali metal contents below 25 ppm.
The method can realize the mass production of the polycarbosilane with low oxygen content and high purity. The number average molecular weight of the polycarbosilane is 600-1500, the oxygen content is 0.05% -0.6%, and the alkali metal content is lower than 25 ppm.