摘要:
The chemistry of trimethylsilylmethyl acetate in the gas phase in the temperature range 623-813 K has been investigated under static conditions using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy. Little change occurs at temperatures lower than 623 K, at which temperature a thermally induced isomerization to form ethyldimethylsilyl acetate occurs. Some ethanoic acid is also produced at this temperature. The ethyldimethylsilyl acetate produced undergoes thermolysis at temperatures > 723 K giving methane, ethene, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ethanoic acid, 1,3-diethyl-1,1,3,3-tetramethyldisiloxane, cyclohexamethyltrisiloxane, and cyclo-octamethyltetrasiloxane as products. Loss of ethyldimethylsilyl acetate is first order over the whole temperature range, and first-order rate constants vary from 4.87 x 10(-5) s(-1) at 723 K to 33.5 x 10-5 s(-1) at 813 K, respectively, leading to an activation energy, E-a, of 110(4) kJ mol(-1). An intramolecular five-centre process is proposed for the isomerization reaction. The thermolysis is interpreted in terms of principally radical reactions involving initial homolytic dissociation of the EtMe2SiO-C(O)CH3 bond. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.