Patent Publication Number: US-3971818-A

Title: Method of preparing olefinic siloxane by GLC

Description:
The following examples are presented for illustrative purposes and should not be construed as limiting the invention which is properly delineated in the appended claims. 
     EXAMPLE 1 
     The stainless steel injection port of a GLC unit was coated with platinum catalyst by injecting a solution of chloroplatinic acid hexahydrate in isopropanol. The alcohol was then removed and the injection port was heated to 350°C., a 4-foot packed column (1.219 meter column) was heated to 240°C. and an equal molar mixture of 3-methyl-1-butyn-3-ol and the siloxane of formula (II) was injected through the coated injection port. A detector at 350°C. was used and the mono-adduct represented by formula (III) was collected in a yield of about 30 weight percent. The mono-adduct had a boiling point of 265°C. The column was packed with a commercially available screened calcined diatomic aggregate which was acid washed and treated with dimethyldichlorosilane as the support for a non-volatile polydimethylsiloxane containing about 5 mole percent phenyl radicals where the polydimethylsiloxane was about 10 weight percent of the packing. 
     The above procedure was repeated except that one part by weight platinum in the form of chloroplatinic acid hexahydrate per million parts by weight mixture was combined with the mixture. The same product was collected but in a yield of about 35 weight percent. 
     Repeating the above procedure wherein one p.p.m. of platinum was used but the injection port temperature was 310°C. and the column temperature was 250°C., resulted in collecting a much smaller yield of the mono-adduct. 
     EXAMPLE 2 
     The above procedure was followed except the column temperature was programmed to increase at a rate of 30°C. per minute from 100°C. to 300°C. and the mixture as defined in the Table contained 10 parts by weight platinum per one million parts by weight mixture and was in the form of a platinum catalyst complex of chloroplatinic acid hexahydrate and symmetrical divinyltetramethyldisiloxane. The products collected were mono-adducts as defined in the Table and had the boiling points indicated by the peak temperature as it came off the column. 
     
                                           Table                                   
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                                                    Elution Temperature,  
Acetylenic Alcohol                                                        
          Siloxane             Mono-adduct          °C.            
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                                ##STR3##            200                   
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                                ##STR6##            263                   
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                                ##STR9##            293                   
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     EXAMPLE 3 
     A composition was prepared by thoroughly mixing 63 grams of a phenylmethylvinylsiloxy endblocked polydimethylsiloxane having a viscosity of 400 centistokes at 25°C., 33 grams of five micron quartz and 12 parts by weight platinum per one million parts by weight total composition wherein the platinum was added in the form of the platinum catalyst complex defined in Example 2. To this mixture was added and thoroughly mixed in 4.86 grams of trimethylsiloxy endblocked polyorganosiloxane having an average of five methylhydrogensiloxane units and three dimethylsiloxane units. The resulting mixture cured at room temperature to a coherent solid elastomer in one hour and at 150°C. cured to an elastomer in two minutes. The above composition was prepared again except 0.00166 moles of the mono-adduct of formula (III) was mixed with the hydrogen containing trimethylsiloxy endblocked polyorganosiloxane. This mixture cured at 150°C. to an elastomer in two minutes, but did not cure at room temperature in 10 days.