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The Pyrolysis of a Tungsten Alkyne Complex as a Low Temperature Route to Tungsten Carbide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Richard N. Laine  and
Albert S. Hirschon
Richard N. Laine
Affiliation:
Contribution from the Organometallic Chemistry ProgramSRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Albert S. Hirschon
Affiliation:
Contribution from the Organometallic Chemistry ProgramSRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Abstract

The synthesis of designed organometallic compounds and their selective activation and transformation into materials of high purity (for electronic applications), high strength and/or high temperature stability (for refrac-tory or structural applications), represents a potential area of extreme growth in organometallic chemistry. Research in this area could provide entirely new, inexpensive, fabrication methods for common and exotic materials.

In this paper, we develop design principles for the preparation of organometallic precursors, “premetallics” that can be selectively con-verted, in high yields, to a desired refractory metal. We also describe our preliminary efforts to prepare tungsten carbides (WCx) from a pre-metallic. Pyrolysis studies using Cp2W2(CO)4(DMAD) [DMAD = Dimethyl-acetylene dicarboxylate], 5, as the premetallic demonstrate that 5 will decompose at temperatures of ∼ 700°C to give good yields of W2C. 5 is soluble and decomposes fully in 10–20 minutes, without the need of another reactant.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 73: Symposium H – Better Ceramics Through Chemistry II , 1986 , 373
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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