Estudo conformacional e vibracional do tetraetoxisilano (TEOS) e seus produtos de hidrólise

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Edna da Silva
• Orientador(a): Sarmento, Victor Hugo Vitorino
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Química
• Palavras-chave em Português: Química; Ortosilicato de tetraetila; Análise conformacional; Espectros vibracionais; Tetraetoxisilano
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Chemistry; Conformational analysis; Vibrational spectra
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::QUIMICA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6091

Several studies have long been carried out for inorganic compounds involving a net of SiO chemical bonds. This is due to fact of these chemical bonds be present in high number of many inorganic materials. The formation process of these compounds involving SiO bonds is well-known as sol-gel technology, which give rises to the molecular systems containg the silanol functional group as one of most important intermediate species of the process. Due to major industrial importance of process, a systematic theoretical studied based on DFT/B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) methodology was performed to evaluate the conformational and vibrational variation of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and its complete and incomplete hydrolysis products. First of all, a conformational analysis was done considering several conformers of silicic acid, Si(OH)4, which was obtained using the following point group symmetry: D2d, S4, C2v e Cs. These structures were investigated by using different rotations for the formation of the potential energy curves, where the most stable geometry was later optimized. These results indicate the S4 conformer as the global minimum structure for complete hydrolysis product,Si(OH)4. At a later time, frequency calculations were performed to investigated the harmonic vibrational spectra of the most stable conformers within the D2d, S4, C2v e Cs symmetry point groups. The obtained results pointed out that the perfil of vibration spectra, between 700-1000 cm-1, shows different characteristics along the decrease of the point group symmetry, which is indicated by the formation of the two active frequency models in C2v and Cs structures. In a second part of this study, a conformational study was carried out to obtain the geometries of the incomplete hydrolysis products of TEOS, Si(OC2H5)4-n(OH)n, withn=1-3. Geometry optimization and vibrational calculations were performed for these structures. The main results are compared with the silicic acid and indicate a hypsocromic shift of vibrational mode Þas SiO as the etoxi group (.OC2H5) is substituted by smaller hydroxil groups (.OH).