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content of oxygen and nitrogen under normal conditions
–30.94, –31.03, –31.08, –31.10, and –31.16 ppm owing
to cis/trans isomerism. A weak triplet centered at δ =
–33.98 ppm was assigned to the methylphenylsiloxy units
of the linear pentamer MePh SiO[(SiMePh)O] SiMePh
–
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was found to be 90 and 40–45 mL L atm, respectively.
Such a high solubility of oxygen in the siloxane liquid
could favor the occurrence of thermal oxidation processes
studied in this work.
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(IV). It is manifested in the chromatograms as the peak
with the retention time of 12.2 min.
The water content of FM-1 samples was determined
by Fischer titration and was found to be 60–80 mg L .
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The most unexpected feature of the 29Si NMR
spectra of FM-1 liquid is the presence of weak signals
of phenylsilyltrioxy moieties at –77 to –78 ppm. Their
assignment to a specific compound is extremely difficult,
and their presence is difficult to account for, because the
commercial product is isolated by vacuum distillation.
It should be noted that the 29Si NMR spectra are
largely informative only when studying neat commercial
trimethylpentaphenyltrisiloxane. For 5% solutions, the
measurement uncertainty can range from 20 to 50%.
The composition of FM-1 liquid and products of its
possible degradation was studied by GLC. However,
because of high boiling point of I, this method of analysis
requires setting high temperatures of the vaporizer and
detector, which can disturb the measurement results
because of the occurrence of pyrolytic processes.
Therefore, to monitor the coolant quality, we chose
the procedure based on high-performance liquid
chromatography with UV detection.
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Along with GLC and HPLC, the initial samples
and their pyrolysis products were analyzed by NMR
spectroscopy. Combined use of the HPLC data, H NMR
The H NMR spectra allow more accurate quantitative
measurements. In these spectra, the phenyl groups give
a complex pattern. The signals of methyl groups are the
most informative. The pattern is considerably complicated
only in the case when the components exhibit structural
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data for 5% solutions of the siloxanes in CDCl , and
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9Si NMR data for the neat substances gives the best
isomerism, e.g., in the case of compounds A and A .
For the methyl protons in individual compounds I and
II, we determined the following chemical shifts: for I,
analytical results. In the chromatograms of solutions of
FM-1 liquid and its analog, DC-705, in acetonitrile, there
are well-defined peaks of the main substance I with the
retention time of 4.9 min and of the major impurity, linear
tetrasiloxane MePh SiO[(SiMePh)O] SiMePh (II), with
the retention time of 7.2 min in various ratios. The peak
area of any of the other impurity components does not
exceed 1.4% of the total peak area of all the components.
The 29Si NMR spectra of all the samples, recorded
with long signal accumulation, contained, along with
the signals of terminal Si atoms of compounds I and II
at δ = –11.14 ppm and signals of methylphenyl groups
of these compounds at –32.18 and –33.10, –33.12 ppm,
respectively, also other signals.Analysis of the published
data [3, 4] allowed the following assignment of these
signals: the signal at –10.2 ppm and the shoulder
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0
.567 (2СН ) and 0.329 (СН ); for II, 0.591 and 0.589
3 3
(
2СН ), 0.326 (СН ), and 0.283 (СН ).
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It should be noted that the Н NMR spectra bear
important information on impurities in individual
methylphenylsiloxanes. A conventional characteristic
of methylphenylsiloxane liquids is the index of the
Me Ph
phenyl substituent content, n = N /N , where N is
the number of the indicated groups in the molecule of
individual methylphenylsiloxane. This index can be
calculated from the experimental data by the formula
n = 5/3(Σ∫Me/Σ∫Ph), where Σ∫Me and Σ∫Ph are the
total integral intensities of methyl and phenyl proton
signals in the spectrum, respectively. The index n
calculated from the spectra is one of the most important
characteristics of methylphenylsiloxanes, determining
their physicochemical properties. When compared to
the theoretical value, it serves as a quantitative measure
of the impurity content, characterizing the prevalence of
methyl or phenyl substituents in the impurities.
(inflection) at –10.73 ppm are due to an impurity of the
linear disiloxane MePh SiOSiMePh (III), whose content
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in different samples was 1.4 mol % at maximum. The
impurity signal at δ = –21.53 ppm (center of triplet) is
unambiguously assigned to the cyclic trimer present in
the initial samples, trimethyltriphenylcyclotrisiloxane
(
so-called product А ). Its content in the samples did not
To study the heat resistance of FM-1 liquid, the
samples of the commercial liquid and its individual
components, degassed in a vacuum and purged with
argon, were initially heated in a glass reactor or in a
metal autoclave at maximal temperatures, and then the
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exceed1mol%.Theidentificationwasbasedonmeasuring
the spectra of FM-1 samples with additions of А and its
homolog, tetramethyltetraphenylcyclotetrasiloxane (so-
called product А ). The latter gives a set of Si signals at
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