Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1395, Issue -, Pages 129-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2015.03.079
Keywords
Vinylmethoxysiloxane oligomers; Silsesquioxanes; Hydrolytic condensation; Hybrid materials; Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
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A high-performance liquid chromatography with online electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS) has been used to separate and identify the reaction products resulting from controlled acid-catalyzed hydrolytic polycondensation of vinyltrimethoxysilane (VMS). The reaction products were prepared in the molar ratio of water to VMS (r(1)) ranging from 0.6 to 1.2, characterized by standard spectroscopic techniques, and subsequently analyzed by HPLC-UV absorbance detection and HPLC-ESI-MS. Linear vinylmethoxysiloxane oligomers with the number of repeat units (n) ranging from 3 to 11 are predominant species at the beginning of the reaction (for r(1) =0.6). Then they transform into monocyclic (for r(1) =1.0) and bicyclic (for r(1) =1.2) species with gradually increasing amount of water in the reaction mixture. The oligomer conversions suggest that structure growth of vinylmetoxysiloxanes proceeds by nonrandom cyclization reactions, which are favored over chain extension under the chosen reaction conditions. Direct ESI-MS, HPLC-ESI-MS and HPLC-UV were used to determine the molar mass distributions for the vinylmethoxysiloxane oligomers prepared in three different values of r(1). The molar mass averages increase slightly with the amount of water in the reaction mixture and vary somewhat with the method used. Our results indicate that with the combined capability of separation, sensitivity and identification, HPLC-ESI-MS is especially useful to study highly complex silicon-based compounds with hyperbranched, caged or cubic structures as building blocks for hybrid materials. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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