US3642588A - Addition compositions for acid electroplating baths - Google Patents

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US3642588A
US3642588A US2406A US3642588DA US3642588A US 3642588 A US3642588 A US 3642588A US 2406 A US2406 A US 2406A US 3642588D A US3642588D A US 3642588DA US 3642588 A US3642588 A US 3642588A
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    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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  • Cellulose is degraded in a strong acid (such as H2804 01' BC] in the presence of glycocoll and an alkali halide is added such as NaCl or NaF;
  • a strong acid such as H2804 01' BC
  • an alkali halide such as NaCl or NaF
  • the present invention relates to the compositions used for making additions to baths in standard electroplating operations in order to obtain metallic coatings of better quality.
  • the invention is primarily directed to a method of preparation of addition compositions.
  • an ideal coating has good penetrating power (or in other words is capable of filling the porosities or cracks of the base metal), ensures uniform thickness, is nonporous (which entails a high surface density), has good adhesion, ductility and brightness.
  • Nickel plating bath which contains the basic composition (nickel sulphate or sulphamate solution) as well as an addition of propane-sulphone or of sulphonic organic acids linked with a polymethylene radical.
  • This bath lacks penetrating power and produces a nonuniform deposit which exhibits porosity as a result of the codeposition of the addition agent and is brittle by reason of high internal stresses which tend to be relieved only at the cost of failure of the plating.
  • the deposits have poor throwing power, result in only moderate penetration and cannot withstand high current densities in electrolytes which have low concentrations.
  • the deposits are usually porous and nonductile, which makes it necessary in order to guard against corrosion to superpose two layers of nickel: the bottom layer is deposited with a different current density by employing a soluble anode in order to ensure a nonporous but mat surface.
  • the surface layer is formed under conditions such as to ensure brightness but is nevertheless porous.
  • acetylene derivatives have been employed as adjuvants with the addition of sulphonated derivatives (Kampschulte and Hanson van Wickle baths).
  • the baths obtained have poor penetrating power and the deposits are highly porous.
  • the baths contain compounds which have a multiple linkage with the carbon.
  • the deposit does not offer any real guarantee against corrosion and has low ductility by reason of high internal stresses which probably arise partly from the presence of entrained organic substances in the deposit.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a composition which is intended to be added to electroplating baths and meets practical requirements more effectively than addition compositions employed in the prior art, particularly insofar as the resultant baths permit the deposition of metallic coatings which are endowed at the same time with all the properties of freedom from porosity, good adhesion, ductility and brightness.
  • the invention proposes in particular a method of preparation of an addition composition which is intended to be employed in acid baths for the electrodeposition of nickel, chromium, cadmium, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, copper, lead and tin or their alloys, wherein:
  • Cellulose is degraded in a strong acid (such as H SO or HCl) in the presence of glycocoll and there is added an alkali metal halide such as NaCl or NaF;
  • a strong acid such as H SO or HCl
  • an alkali metal halide such as NaCl or NaF
  • a ketone such as acetone
  • a cyclic aldehyde such as furfural
  • an alkali metal sulphide or a mercaptan is then added I in the presence of a mercury salt followed by halogenation and stabilization by addition of an oxidizing agent
  • stage (b) is carried out and controlled in the following manner: the ketone fraction which is intended to be employed in this stage is mixed with aldehyde (furfural, for example) and with unsaturated alcohol (propargyl alcohol, for example) and possibly with a lower saturated alcohol such as denatured alcohol which is intended to perform the function of solvent having a low specific density soas to compensate for the specific density of furfural which is higher than that of water.
  • aldehyde furfural, for example
  • unsaturated alcohol propargyl alcohol, for example
  • denatured alcohol which is intended to perform the function of solvent having a low specific density soas to compensate for the specific density of furfural which is higher than that of water.
  • Controlled chlorination or fluorination of the mixture is carried out in an anhydrous medium after having added the mercaptan or the sulphide and a mercury salt to the mixture: the reaction starts up progressively and has the effect of stopping the evolution of gas which is resumed after a period of 5 to 10 minutes and indicates completion of the reaction.
  • the color of the medium changes from pale yellow which is due to the sulphide to an amber shade which is probably due to the precipitation of a fraction of the sulphur, then to a greenish tinge if the reaction proceeds too far.
  • Stage (a) begins with the degradation of the cellulose in strong acid in the presence of glycocoll which acts as a stabilizer. The alkali chloride or fluoride is then added.
  • derivatives of acetone in particular in the form of sulphonated and chlorinated or fiuorinated derivatives, degraded cellulose in the form of hydrolyzed sugars and aldehydes,
  • the addition composition can be considered to have three characteristic properties: it does not contain any compound having a multiple bond; if sodium hydroxide is added, for example, in order to bring the composition to a pH value which is higher than 7, the solution becomes turbid but again becomes clear if it is brought back to an acid pH value; the addition of hydrogen peroxide to a bath which contains the addition composition not only does not destroy this composition but also regenerates this latter to a partial extent. And by way of example, the addition of one-eighth to one-fourth of cc./l. of bath (hydrogen peroxide having a strength of l 10 volumes) makes it possible to extend the life of the bath as expressed in ampere-hours by approximately 1/5.
  • propargyl alcohol 10 to 100 cm.
  • denatured alcohol 10 to 200 cm.
  • furfural 10 to 200 cm.
  • sodium sulphide 2 to 10 g.
  • glycocoll 2 to 100 g.
  • mercury bromide traces hydrogen peroxide: 1 cm. at 1 l volumes.
  • the proportion of addition composition which can be adopted varies between 0.10 cm. and 1 cm. per liter in nickel plating acid baths containing sulphate, sulphamate, chloride or fluoborate, the optimum proportion being evidently dependent on the concentration of the composition.
  • An increase in the proportion results in a progressive increase in the ratio of metal deposited to hydrogen released but correlatively entails the need to adopt high current densities above a certain value. Since all the products employed in the composition are relatively stable, it is possible to operate at a temperature which attains 70 C.
  • Current densities can be as follows in the case of a composition which is prepared from the following compounds (in respect of a quantity of 20 liters):
  • electrodeposition is carried out only at low current densities.
  • the pH value can be selected from a wide range which depends in any case on the type of coating which it is desired to obtain.
  • a low value of the order of pH2 may be preferable in order to obtain a metal having a high value of hardness.
  • the plating bath which contains the addition composition can be employed either in a tank which has no partition or in a tank which is provided with a porous barrier between the anode and the cathode.
  • Changeover to a low pH value can be carried out by addition of a mineral acid such as HCl or H 50
  • a mineral acid such as HCl or H 50
  • the deposits obtained are nonporous and crackfree.
  • the coatings are both bright and penetrating (or in other words fill the porosities or fissures of the base metal) as well as being ductile and adherent if the base metal has been subjected to a correct surface preparation.
  • Denatured ethyl alcohol 50 cm Acetone 20 cmf Propargyl alcohol 50 emf Furfural 50 cm.
  • Mercaptans dimethylsulphoxide 5 g. Cellulose 10 g. Glycoeoll 5 g. Excipient brought to 1 liter The pH of this bath can be adjusted by addition of boric acid.
  • composition as thus constituted can in particular be added to the following baths in a proportion which is com- After neutralization, the last-mentioned bath is reacidified by hydrofluoric acid and the operating conditions are:
  • EXAMPLE 3 Plating baths for electrodeposition of a lead-tin alloy.
  • the addition composition is prepared from the following constituents, again by means of the same method.
  • EXAMPLE 4 Plating baths for electrodeposition of lead.
  • Example 3 can be 200 to 250 g./l. to 30 gJl. 5 to g./l. 0.5 g to 5 all l to 2.5 a./dm. to C. 120 m 300 g./l. 150 m 500 g./l. 80 to 220 g./l.
  • EXAMPLE 5 Plating baths for deposition of zinc.
  • Zinc fluoborate Ammonium fluoborate Ammonium chloride Current density Temperature Addition of Zinc sulphate Boric acid Ammonium sulphate Addition Current density Temperature Zinc Fluoborate Ammonium fluoborate Ammonium chloride Addition Current density Temperature Zinc fluosilicate Aluminum sulphate Ammonium chloride Temperature Current density Addition Dibasic potassium phosphate Potassium pyrophosphate Zinc sulphate (thioacetic acid 150 to 350 g./l. 301540 g./l. 20 to so g./l.
  • EXAMPLE 6 Gold plating baths
  • the addition composition can be prepared from the following constituents:
  • composition can be added to of composition are also given:
  • EXAMPLE 7 Cadmiumplating baths The addition composition is prepared from the following constituents:
  • compositions for addition to quality protective layer on a base one of the two basic baths given below, in which the operating condition and proportion their alloys to obtain plated coatings of better quality the steps of a. degrading cellulose in a strong acid selected from H SO and HCl in the presence of glycocoll and adding an alkali metal halide;
  • a ketone in an anhydrous medium having an alkaline pH value with a cyclic aldehyde and with at least one third compound selected from the group consisting of the unsaturated alcohols, amyl aldehyde, cinnamic aldehyde and amylcinnamic aldehyde; then adding an alkali sulphide or a mercaptan in the presence ofa mercury salt; then halogenating and stabilizing the mixture by addition of an oxidizing agent;
  • alkali metal halide is selected from the group consisting of N aCl and NaF.
  • step (b) is carried out until an amber shade appears in the mixture.
  • step (a) is carried out using about g. of glycocoll and 100 g. of NaCl per 20 g. of cellulose and step (b) is carried out starting with 600 cm. of acetone, 1,200 cm. of propargyl alcohol, 1,000 cm. of furfural, 200 g. of Na S, and 20 cm. of hydrogen peroxide.

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