IE56457B1 - Method for preparing compounds of silicon and hydrogen,especially silane - Google Patents

Method for preparing compounds of silicon and hydrogen,especially silane

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IE56457B1
IE56457B1 IE3016/83A IE301683A IE56457B1 IE 56457 B1 IE56457 B1 IE 56457B1 IE 3016/83 A IE3016/83 A IE 3016/83A IE 301683 A IE301683 A IE 301683A IE 56457 B1 IE56457 B1 IE 56457B1
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Abstract

1. Process for the preparation of silicon hydride compounds, in particular of silane (SiH4 ) from halogen silanes, characterized in that halogen silanes, in particular tetrachlorosilane, are reacted with magnesium hydride in a solvent in the absence of additional catalysts and/or activators, which magnesium hydride is obtained by reacting magnesium with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a halide of a metal of sub-Groups IV to VIII of the periodic System and of an organic magnesium compound or of a magnesium hydride and optionally in the presence of a polycyclic aromatic compound or af a tertiary amine and optionally in the presence of a magnesium halide MgX2 where X = Cl, Br, l.

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This invention relates to a process for the preparation of silicon hydride compounds, in particular silane (SiH) which is used industrially for the production (J of highly pure silicon.
Of t.hf? ’wo conventional methods for the synthesis of silane, namely the protolytic decomposition of magnos- j. ium silicide (M^Si) and the reaction of tetrachlorosilane with metal hydrides (Gmelin's Handbuch d. Anorg.Chem., S_i , Supplement Volume 1, page 59 ( 1 982 )), the latter has the advantage, inter alia, that the silane can be obtained free from unwanted impurities, in particular of higher silanes.
Since the discovery of lithium aluminium hydride and its use for the synthesis of metal hydrides and hydrides; of other elements (Finholt, Bond, Wilzbach and Schlesinger, J .Amer.Chem.Soc. 69 , 2962 (1 947)), the reaction of SiCl^ with LiAlH^ is regarded-as the best and simplest laboratory method for the preparation of silane (Norman, Webster, Jolly, Inorg.Syn. 1 1 , 170 (1968)). Silane prepared by this method is suitable for the production of silicon for the semi-conductor and solar cell industry since it is free from boron hydride compounds and higher silanes (Gmelin's Handbuch, loc.cit page 63). For industrial application of this reaction on a large scale, however, the relatively high cost of lithium aluminium hydride is found to be a disadvantage. There has therefore been no lack of attempts in the last 20 to 25 years to replace LiAlH^, which is suitable for this purpose but expensive, by less expensive metal hydrides, if necessary in complex φ form. According to Zakharkin et al (Bull. Acad. Sci.(USSR), Chem. Sci. Div. (1962, 1784) and Antipin et al (J.Appl.
Chem.(USSR) 42, 416 (1969)), SiCl4, HSiCl^ and alkoxysilanes react, with NaAllI^ or KAlII^ in THF or diglyme even at low ί.(·ιηρ«.·ι ,it ni '«.·:» Ι.ο I or m silane in high yields. Not hint, is known about the industrial application of this method to the synthesis of silane.
It is significant in relation to the present invention that the simple, binary hydrides of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals such as NaH, MgH^ and CaH^ have not hitherto been used as such for the preparation of silane but only after their conversion into complex hydrides of aluminium (by a reaction with AlCl^: GB-A 832 333 C.A. 16765 (1960), Vit et al, Czech. 126672 (1962/68), C.A. 7θ . 39392 (1969)) or in the presence of activators or catalysts. The reason for this is presumably the low solubility and/or reactivity of the binary metal hydrides which are produced from the elements at high temperatures and pressures. Zinc haiides, zinc hydrides and zinc alkyls and zinc oxide (GB-A 909 950, C.A. 58 (1963) 2185) and metallic zinc and zinc alloys (US-A 3 050 366, C.A. 58 (1963) 280) have been recommended as catalysts for the reaction of NaH, CaH2 or MgH2 with SiCl4, but the ZnCl2 required as catalyst" for the reaction of SiCl^ with, for example, NaH in THF is used in a molar ratio of SnCl2 : SiCl^ = 1:2, i.e. in virtually stoichiometric quantity. Boron alkyls and aluminium alkyls (DE-C 1 034 1 59, C.A. 56 , 16764 ; Jenkner, Chemiker Ztg. 85, 264/72 (1961)) and boron and aluminium hydrides (DE-C 1 085 505, C.A. 21505 (1961) and DE-C 1 096 341, C.A. 26388 (1961)) have also been recommended as catalysts or activators for the 'production of SiH^ from NaH and SiCl4, but when these catalystrs or activators are employed there is a risk of the silane containing the unwanted alkyl silanes (when AlR^ is used as activator) or boron compounds (when boron activators are used) as impurities. According to SU-A 126 672, C.A. 84 166812 (1976). on the other hand, these disadvantages do not arise when NaAlH^ is used as activator.
The experiments described in GB-A 909 950 for the preparation of silane SiH^ using magnesium hydride should -3b<· ρ.ι ι t ί ru 1 u c 1 y noted. Th'’ s«i i d document explicitly states that magnesium hydrides arc? unsuitable tor the preparation of high purity silane by a reaction with halogen silanes.
It is clear from what has been said above that no simple and economical technical solution is as yet available for the production of silane from binary metal hydrides by their reaction with halogen silanes. „ According to EP-A 0 003 564, however, metallic magnesium may be hydrogenated under mild reaction conditions with the aid of homogeneous transition metal catalysts to produce a magnesium hydride which in contrast to magnesium hydride prepared by the conventional method (high temperature hydrogenation) is highly reactive.
The process described there is one in which magnesium is reacted with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a halide of a metal of sub-Groups IV to VIII of the Periodic System and of an organic magnesium compound or of a magnesium hydride and optionally in the presence of a polycyclic aromatic compound or of a tertiary amine or optionally in the presence of a magnesium halide MgX2where X = Cl, Br or I.
It has now surprisingly been found that magnesium hydride which is readily available by this method is eminently suitable for the production of silanes from tetrachlorosilane or other chlorosilanes without the use of any further catalysts or activators.
When carried out in a cyclic or linear ether or a polyether such as THF or glyme as solvent, the reaction will take place even at room temperature or at slightly elevated temperature (50 to 70°C) and gives rise to the corresponding silanes in high yields.
In combination with.the above mentioned synthesis of magnesium hydride, therefore, silane is obtained by a two-stage synthesis from the inexpensive raw materials, Mg. and, for example, SiCl^, as follows: -4Catalyst Mg + H2 -> Mg2 Activator MgH2 + SiCl4 -> SiH4 + 2 MgCl2· Another advantage of this method is that the hydrogenation of magnesium and subsequent reaction of MgH2 with SiCl2 can be carried out in one and the same reaction vessel using, for example, THF as reaction medium.
Alternatively, the MgH2 prepared according to EP-A 0 003 564 may be isolated in solid form and then used in another suitable solvent for the reaction with chloro10 silanes, e.g. SiCl4> The invention is described in more detail below with the aid of the following Examples without, however, being limited to these.
Example 1 0.68 g of the magnesium hydride prepared according to EP-A 0 003 564 using Ti catalyst was introduced under argon into an apparatus consisting of a 100 ml three-necked flask equipped with a dropping funnel, internal thermometer, magnetic stirrer and cooling finger (-78°C) and an attached gas burette filled with mercury, and the magnesium hydride was covered with a layer of 20 ml of absolute THF. A solution of 1.40 g (0.7 ml, 6.1 mmol) of SiCl4 in 20 ml of THF was added dropwise to the MgH2 suspension at room temperature with stirring. The reaction mixture was slowly heated and evolution of gas set in at about 40°C. The gas evolved was measured by means of the gas burette. The heat of the reaction temporarily raised the temperature of the reaction mixture to 65°C.
After completion of the reaction, the amount of gas evolved was 134 ml (20°C, 1 bar). MS Analysis of the gas showed it to contain 20.9 mol-% of SiH^ (remainder argon). Taking into account the total volume of the apparatus, the SiH4 -5yield war, calculated from ( l·, i s t.<> he BO'*..
Exampl u_ 2 The experiment was carried out as in Example 1, using an in situ produced suspension of M9If2 catalyst). The reaction of MgH^ with SiCl4 to form SiH^ in this case already took place at 25 to 28°C. The yield of SiH. was 76?..
Example 3 18-56 g of the magnesium hydride prepared according to EP-A 0 003 564 (Ti catalyst) was introduced under argon into an apparatus consisting of a 1-litre threenecked flask equipped with dropping funnel, internal thermometer, magnetic guide and reflux condenser (methanol 10°C) and attached to a cooling trap (-78°C), and the reactant was covered with a layer of 250 ml of absolute glyme. A solution of 107.20 g (126 ml, 0.99 mol) of (CH^)SiCl in 100 ml of glyme was added dropwise to the MgH2 suspension over a period of 3 hours with stirring, the temperature of the mixture rising to 25 to 27°CAfter all the (CH^)siCl had been added, the reaction was briefly heated to boiling in the stream of argon.
The yield of trimethylsilane condensed in the cooling trap (b.p. 6.7°C) was 80%.

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1. Process for the preparation of silicon hydride compounds, in particular of silane (SiH^) from halogen silanes, wherein halogen silanes, in particular tetrachlorosilane, are reacted with magnesium hydride in a solvent in the absence of additional catalysts and/or activators, which magnesium hydride is obtained by reacting magnesium with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a halide of a metal of sub-Groups IV to VIII of the Periodic System and of an organic magnesium compound or of a magnesium hydride and optionally in the presence of a polycyclic aromatic compound or of a tertiary amine and optionally in the presence of a magnesium halide MgX 2 where X = Cl, Br , I.
2. Process according to claim 1 , wherein open chained and cyclic mono- and polyethers, preferably THF or glycol dimethylether,are used as solvents.
3. Process according to claims 1 and 2, wherein the reaction is carried out in the temperature range of from 0 to 15O°C, preferably from 20 to 70 ft C.
4. Process according to claims 1 to 3, wherein the hydrogenation of magnesium and the subsequent reaction of magnesium hydride with chlorosilanes, preferably tetrachlorosilane, are carried out as a one pot process.
5. Process for the preparation of silicon hydride compounds substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the Examples.
6. Silicon hydride compounds whenever prepared by a process as claimed in any of the preceding claims.
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