Abstract
Organosilsesquioxane-metal oxide hybrid materials prepared by the Sol-Gel process are mainly heterogeneous. In this paper we report the preparation of methylsilsesquioxane-titanium oxide, and methylsilsesquioxane-aluminium oxide hybrid materials by a nonhydrolytic sol-gel process involving the etherolysis-condensation of a mixture of methyltrichlorosilane and metal chloride. The Si/M ration in the xerogels were very closed to the one of the starting solutions. 29Si MAS NMR study has revealed that the methylsilsesquioxane-titanium oxide xerogel was heterogeneous at the atomic level. The spectrum of the hybrid containing aluminium, has shown beside a peak at −66 ppm corresponding to MeSi(OSi)3 environment, another peak at −47 ppm which was ascribed to MeSi(OAl)3 environment. The presence of only these two sites might be due to their stability.
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