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Facile Preparation of Ultrafine Aluminum Hydroxide Particles with or without Mesoporous MCM-41 in Ambient Environments
Published on: May 11, 2017
[Electron spectra of chemical assembly mesoporous MCM-41 with transition metal complexes]
Yong-qian Huo1, Jun Li, Wei Wang
1Chemistry Department, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China.
Abstract:
In the paper the complexes of metal cobalt(III), manganese(III), iron(III) and copper(II) with Schiff-base N,N-ethylenebis(salicylideneaminnato) have been synthesized and characterized. The nanosized porous material MCM-41 has been functionalized by the modification of the internal pore surface with gamma-aminopropyl and was assembled by the modification groups with metal complex of Schiff-base. These metal complexes and functionalized nanosized porous materials were charcterized by XRD, IR and UV-Vis. It is indicated by spectral analysis that the synthesized nanosized porous materials have been confirmed to be MCM-41 with hexagon bores, and the gamma-aminopropyls have been bonded on their internal pore surface. And the complexes of metal cobalt(III), manganese(III), iron(III) and copper(II) with Schiff-base N,N-ethylenebis(salicylideneaminnato) were assembled into MCM-41. The IR spectra of these samples show that there were characteristic absorptions of the amino and the Schiff base groups, and the absorption of amino shifted to longer wavelength.
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