Organometallics 1996, 15, 2575-2578
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Syn th esis a n d Ch a r a cter iza tion of (â-Dik eton a to)silver
Vin yltr ieth ylsila n e Com p ou n d s a n d Th eir Ap p lica tion to
CVD of Silver Th in F ilm s. Cr ysta l Str u ctu r e of th e
(2,2-Dim eth yl-6,6,7,7,8,8,8-h ep ta flu or o-3,5-octa n ed ion a to)silver
Vin yltr ieth ylsila n e Dim er
Kai-Ming Chi* and Kuo-Hsien Chen
Department of Chemistry, National Chung Cheng University,
Ming-Hsiung, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 621, ROC
Shie-Ming Peng* and Gene-Hsiang Lee
Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Received J anuary 9, 1996X
Summary: New silver complexes of alkenes of empirical
formula (â-diketonato)Ag(VTES), where â-diketonato )
1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedionato (hfac) (1), 1,1,1-
trifluoro-2,4-pentanedionato (tfac) (2), and 2,2-dimethyl-
6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptafluoro-3,5-octanedionato (fod) (3) and
VTES ) vinyltriethylsilane, were prepared from reac-
tions of Ag2O with â-diketones in the presence of VTES.
All compounds were characterized by elemental analyses
thermal or plasma conditions. In contrast to (â-dike-
tonato)Cu(alkene) compounds being widely used as CVD
precursors,8 no silver analogue was reported to be
suitable for CVD although such complexes have been
known for years.9,10 It is probably due to loss of alkene
during or before these complexes are vaporized. In this
paper, we report the synthesis and characterization of
(â-diketonato)Ag(VTES) complexes, in which VTES )
vinyltriethylsilane and â-diketonato ) 1,1,1,5,5,5-
hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedionato (hfac) (1), 1,1,1-trifluoro-
2,4-pentanedionato (tfac) (2), and 2,2-dimethyl-
6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptafluoro-3,5-octanedionato (fod) (3), a
unique single-crystal structure of compound 3, and the
results of hot-wall CVD experiments with compound 1
as a precursor.
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and H, 13C, and 19F NMR and IR spectra. The crystal
structure of compound 3 determined by X-ray diffraction
analysis showed a dimeric silver species with coordina-
tion of the CdC double bond of VTES, two oxygen atoms
of a chelating fod ligand, and the methine C atom of
another fod in the solid state. Hot-wall chemical vapor
deposition experiments revealed that compound 1 is
suitable as a precursor to deposit pure silver films in
the temperature range 160-280 °C.
Resu lts a n d Discu ssion
In tr od u ction
Syn th esis of (â-diketon ato)Ag(VTES) Com plexes.
The title compounds were prepared from reactions of
Ag2O with the corresponding â-diketones in the pres-
ence of vinyltriethylsilane according to eq 1. The
Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of
metals attracts great research interest as the result of
the important applications in the microelectronics in-
dustry.1 For instance, CVD of aluminum and tungsten
thin films can be used to deposit interconnected layers
in microelectronic devices. Development of CVD of
highly conductive coinage metals recently became cru-
cial because of the reduction in dimensions of new
generation microelectronic devices. Several organome-
tallic compounds2-7 including [AgC(CF3)dCF(CF3)]4,
[Ag(O2CCF3)]n, (â-diketonato)Ag(PR3), and (hfac)Ag-
(CtNMe) were used to deposit silver films under
Ag2O + 2â-diketone + 2VTES f
2(â-diketonato)Ag(VTES) + H2O (1)
reactions were carried out in Et2O solutions at room
temperature, and products were isolated on extraction
with hexane and removal of volatile species in vacuo.
Similar methods were used to prepare other (â-diketo-
nato)Ag complexes.5,10-13 Compounds 1 and 2 are
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
X Abstract published in Advance ACS Abstracts, May 1, 1996.
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