title: Usefulness of alkoxyltitanosiloxane for the preparation of mesoporous silica containing a large amount of isolated titanium.
abstract: Mesoporous silica containing a large amount of isolated Ti was prepared from an alkoxytitanosiloxane precursor through a hard template method. Isopropoxytris(tris-tert-butoxysiloxy)titanium (((i)PrO)Ti[OSi(O(t)Bu)(3)](3), TS3) was synthesized and TS3 was mixed with mesoporous carbon (CMK-3), a hard template. The mixture was pyrolyzed at 180 °C to form a composite consisting of titanosilica and the hard template. After calcination at 600 °C for the removal of the carbon template, the titanium species were not transformed to anatase TiO(2), proved by DR-UV-Vis, FTIR, XPS, and XRD, while the ESR results indicated the presence of isolated Ti. The mesoporous structure was verified by SEM, TEM, and N(2) adsorption. The Si/Ti ratio of the product was consistent with that of the precursor. All the results show that the material prepared from the precursor is ordered mesoporous silica containing a large amount of isolated Ti in the frameworks. The use of well-defined alkoxytitanosiloxane precursor leads to the formation of mesoporous silica with exactly controlled composition of titanium with neither loss of Ti nor transformation to anatase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: Kwang-Min
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Ryutaro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wakabayashi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tatsumi
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokoi
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuroda
mesh_terms: D010316:Particle Size; D016062:Porosity; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D012833:Siloxanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties; D014025:Titanium / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D012833:Siloxanes; D012822:Silicon Dioxide; D014025:Titanium