Hydrothermal Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Solid State NMR spectroscopy of Metal silicates

 

Kwang-Hwa Lii

 

Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 320, R.O.C. (liikh@cc.ncu.edu.tw)

 

 

Organically templated metal phosphates have been extensively studied because of interesting structural chemistry and potential applications in catalysis. However, in most cases the organic templates cannot be removed without collapse of the frameworks. This is in contrast to the high thermal stability and extensive applications of zeolites in refinery and petrochemical processes. Therefore, studies have been directed to the synthesis of transition metal silicates to produce more stable frameworks [1,2]. Our synthetic methods are 2-fold, namely mild hydrothermal reactions in Teflon-lined autoclaves at 100-200 ¼C using organic amines as templates and high-temperature, high-pressure hydrothermal reactions in gold ampoules contained in a high-pressure reaction vessel at ca. 550 ¼C and 150 Mpa using alkali metal cations as templates. In this presentation I shall report the high-temperature, high-pressure hydrothermal synthesis, crystal structures, and solid-state NMR spectroscopy of several new silicates of transition metals and group 13 elements [3-5].

 

References

1.          Francis, R., Jacobson, A. J. (2001) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40, 2879.

2.          Wang, X., Liu, L., Jacobson, A. J. (2002) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 7812.

3.          Li, C.-Y., Hsieh, C.-Y., Lin, H.-M., Kao, H.-M., Lii, K.-H. (2002) Inorg. Chem. 41, 4206.

4.          Kao, H.-M., Lii, K.-H. (2002) Inorg. Chem. 41, 5644.

5.          Hung, L.-I., Wang, S.-L., Kao, H.-M., Lii, K.-H. Inorg. Chem. in press.