Date of Award
6-1966
Document Type
Open Access
Degree Name
Masters of Science
Department
Chemistry
First Advisor
K. V. Nahabedian
Language
English
Abstract
The application of modern silicone chemistry knowledge and new analytical techniques to the elucidation of the structure of the hitherto uncharacterized, crystalline salt, sodium phenysiliconate, has been achieved. This salt, produced in 1914 by J. A. Meads and F. S. Kipping,. had been left structurally uncharacterized. This thesis builds upon the early work by applying to the problem the recent knowledge developed by J. F. Brown, Jr., and coworkers at the General Electric Research Laboratory.
Derivatives of the salt were made and characterized by a variety of analytical techniques. The silanols produced by the acidification of the sodium phenylsiliconate are shown to yield the same derivatives as those made from cis-cis-cis-2,4,6,8-tetraphenycyclotetrasiloxanetetrol. The nature of the sodium phenylsiliconate, as dictated by the experimental results, is discussed. The use of gel permeation chromatography has made it relatively easy to distinguish between the production of a monomeric or polymeric reaction product.
Recommended Citation
Daane, John Henry, "A Study of Sodium Phenylsiliconate" (1966). Honors Theses. 2199.
https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/2199
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