Claims
- 1. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane, comprising in any operative order:a) charging a reaction vessel with a dual phase solvent including a non-polar solvent and a polar solvent; b) adding a monomer solution comprising organotrihalosilanes and hydridotrihalosilanes to the dual phase solvent to provide a reaction mixture; c) introducing a catalyst to the reaction mixture; and d) reacting the organotrihalosilanes and hydridotrihalosilanes to form an organohydridosiloxane resin product.
- 2. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 further comprising recovering the organohydridosiloxane resin from the reaction mixture.
- 3. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 wherein said catalyst is selected from a solid phase catalyst and a phase-transfer catalyst solution.
- 4. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 3 wherein said catalyst is selected from tetrabutylammonium chloride, benzyltrimethylammonium chloride, and a solid phase catalyst which surface catalyzes the polymerization of the trihalosilane and organotrihalosilane monomers.
- 5. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 wherein said catalyst is a solid phase catalyst which surface catalyzes the polymerization of the trihalosilane and organotrihalosilane monomers.
- 6. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 wherein said catalyst is tetrabutylammonium chloride.
- 7. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 wherein the hydridotrihalosilane is trichlorosilane, and the organo-trihalosilane is selected from the group consisting of methyltrichlorosilane, ethyltrichlorosilane, n-butyltrichlorosilane, t-butyltrichlorosilane, n-phenyltrichlorosilane, n-hexyltrichlorosilane, cyclohexyltrichlorosilane, phenyltrichlorosilane, 3,3,3-trifluoropropyltrichlorosilane, and mixtures thereof.
- 8. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 7, wherein said catalyst is a solid phase catalyst which surface catalyzes the polymerization of the trihalosilane and organotrihalosilane monomers.
- 9. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 wherein said non-polar solvent is selected from the group consisting of pentane, hexane, heptane, cyclohexane, benzene, toluene, xylene, and carbon tetrachloride, and mixture, thereof.
- 10. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 1 wherein said polar solvent is selected from the group consisting of water, methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, glycerol, diethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran, diglyme, and mixtures thereof.
- 11. A method for making an organohydridosiloxane as in claim 10 wherein the non-polar solvent is hexane, and the polar solvent is a water and ethanol mixture.
- 12. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process, comprising in any operative order:a) charging a reaction vessel with a dual phase solvent including a non-polar solvent, and a polar solvent, said polar solvent comprising alcohol and water; b) adding a monomer solution comprising organotrihalosilanes and hydridotrihalosilanes to provide a reaction mixture, wherein said monomer solution is between about 0.1 and about 40 mole percent organotrihalosilane; c) introducing a catalyst to the reaction mixture; and d) reacting the organotrihalosilanes and hydridotrihalosilanes to form an organohydridosiloxane resin.
- 13. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12, the process further comprising recovering the organohydridosiloxane from the reaction mixture.
- 14. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein said catalyst is selected from a solid phase catalyst and a liquid phase-transfer catalyst.
- 15. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 14 wherein said catalyst is selected from tetrabutylammonium chloride, and a solid phase catalyst which surface catalyzes the polymerization of the trihalosilane and organotrihalosilane monomers.
- 16. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 15 wherein said catalyst is a solid phase catalyst which surface catalyzes the polymerization of the trihalosilane and organotrihalosilane monomers.
- 17. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 15 wherein said catalyst is tetrabutylammonium chloride.
- 18. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein the hydridotrihalosilane is trichlorosilane, and the organo-trihalosilane is selected from the group consisting of methyltrichlorsilane, ethyltrichlorosilane, n-butyltrichlorosilane, t-butyltrichiorosilane, n-pentyltrichlorosilane, n-hexyltrichlorosilane, cyclohexyltrichlorosilane, phenyltrichlorosilane, and mixtures thereof.
- 19. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 18, wherein said catalyst is a solid phase catalyst which surface catalyzes the polymerization of the trihalosilane and organotrihalosilane monomers.
- 20. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein said non-polar solvent is selected from the group consisting of pentane, hexane, heptane, cyclohexane, benzene, toluene, xylene, carbon tetrachloride, and mixtures thereof.
- 21. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein said polar solvent is selected from the group consisting of water, methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, glycerol, diethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran, diglyme, and mixtures thereof.
- 22. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 21 wherein the polar solvent is hexane, and the non-polar solvent is a water and ethanol mixture.
- 23. The method of claim 1 wherein the ratio of the moles of water in said polar solvent to the sum of the moles of organotrihalosilanes and the moles of hydridotrihalosilanes in said monomer solution is less than or about equal to 2.
- 24. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein said resin comprises a caged structure.
- 25. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein said resin has essentially no hydroxyl or alkoxy groups bonded to backbone silicon atoms.
- 26. An organohydridosiloxane composition produced by the process of claim 12 wherein said polymer has a general formula:H0.4-1.0SiO1.5-1.8)n(R0.4-1.0SiO1.5-1.8)m orH0-1.0SiO1.5-2.0)n(RSiO1.5)m, wherein the sum of n and m is from about 8 to about 5000 and R is selected from the group consisting of normal and branched alkyl groups, cycloalkyl groups, aryl groups, and mixture thereof.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/044,831, filed Mar. 20, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,218,497 which is the non-provisional application of related provisional application entitled “HYDROGENSILOXANE RESINS WITH LOW ORGANIC CONTENT,” provisional Ser. No. 60/044,482, filed on Apr. 21, 1997 the benefit of whose priority date is hereby claimed, and the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
This application is also related to U.S. application Ser. No. 09/044,798, filed Mar. 28, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,143,855 and the divisional application thereof [docket number 30-4305DIV1], co-filed with this application.
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