General Description
A liquid. Boiling point of 260°F. Flash point 77°F. May be toxic by ingestion. Irritates skin and eyes. Vapors are heavier than air. May emit highly toxic nitrogen oxide fumes when heated to decomposition. Used to make other chemicals.
Reactivity Profile
HEXAMETHYL DISILAZANE(999-97-3) reacts with many carbonyl containing organic compounds to generate gaseous ammonia. May be incompatible with isocyanates, halogenated organics, peroxides, phenols (acidic), epoxides, anhydrides, and acid halides. Flammable gaseous hydrogen may be generated in combination with strong reducing agents, such as hydrides.
Air & Water Reactions
Highly flammable. Moisture sensitive.
Hazard
Flammable, moderate fire risk.
Health Hazard
Inhalation or contact with material may irritate or burn skin and eyes. Fire may produce irritating, corrosive and/or toxic gases. Vapors may cause dizziness or suffocation. Runoff from fire control or dilution water may cause pollution.
Description
Hexamethyldisilazane is a bulk organo silicon compound, being a quite useful silanizing agent. It is a reagent for the preparation of trimethylsilyl derivatives. It can also be used to dehydrate cells of biomaterials for scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Moreover, it is an adhesion promoter for photoresist in photolithography, and is also useful in the pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to enhance the detectability of compounds with polar functional groups.
Chemical Properties
Colorless liquid
Physical properties
bp 125 °C; d 0.765 g cm?3.
Uses
A reagent for the preparation of trimethylsilyl derivatives.
Uses
Deactivation of chromatographic support materials. In electronic industry as an adhesion promoter for photoresists on silicon.
Uses
Hexamethyldisilazane mainly used as methyl silane alkylation (such as amikacin, penicillin, cephalosporins and kinds of penicillin derivatives), hydroxyl protectants of antibiotics.
It is used as surface treatment agent of diatomite, white carbon black, titanium and blond additives of photoresist in the semiconductor industry.
It is used as treatment agent of tearing strength resistance.
It is used as a solvent in organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry.
It is used as an adhesion promoter for photoresist in photolithography.
it is used for the preparation of trimethylsilyl ethers from hydroxy compounds.
It is used as an alternative to critical point drying during sample preparation in electron microscopy.
It is added to analyte to get silylated diagnostic products during pyrolysis in gas chromatography- mass spectrometry.
Definition
ChEBI: An N-silyl compound obtained from ammonia by replacement of two of the hydrogens with trimethylsilyl groups. Hexamethyldisilazane is a derivatisation agent used in gas chromatography mass spectrometry applications.
Reactions
Hexamethyldisilazane(HMDS) is an extremely versatile and strong silylating agent. It is primarily used for the protection of sensitive functional groups during chemical synthesis.One of the advantages of Hexamethyldisilazane over chlorosilanes is that no base is needed as a hydrochloric acid acceptor. It produces ammonia which escapes easily from the reaction mixture during silylation.
Flammability and Explosibility
Flammable
reaction suitability
reagent type: derivatization reagent
reaction type: Silylations
Synthesis
A production method for hexamethyldisilazane comprises the following steps: trimethylsilyl chloride is added into a sealed reaction kettle with a bearing pressure higher than 0.5MPa, stirring is carried out, ammonia gas is introduced, the ammonia pressure in the reaction kettle is maintained at a value between 0.1MPa and 0.2MPa, the temperature is between 40 ℃ and 50 ℃, the reaction is carried out, and the ammonia gas quantity is gradually reduced till the stop; and then, the pressure is maintained at the unchanged value between 0.1MPa and 0.2MPa, the reaction is maintained for 0.5h to 2h, then, the temperature in the kettle is lowered to a value below 10 ℃, water with the temperature lower than 10 ℃ is added, the dissolution reaction is carried out to generate ammonia chloride, and upper layer materials are hexamethyldisilazane after the delamination.
Purification Methods
A possible impurity is Me3SiCl. Wash it well with pet ether and fractionate it through a vacuum jacketed column packed with Helipac using a reflux ratio of 10:1. [Langer et al. J Org Chem 23 50 1958, Beilstein 4 IV 4014.]
Toxics Screening Level
The ITSL is 206 μg/m3, based on annual averaging time.
References
Deng, Xiang. "Hexamethyldisilazane." Synlett 2011.06(2011):881-882. Chiavari, G, D. Fabbri, and S. Prati. "Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of products arising from pyrolysis of amino acids in the presence of hexamethyldisilazane." Journal of Chromatography A922.1–2(2001):235-241.
Nation, J. L. "A new method using hexamethyldisilazane for preparation of soft insect tissues for scanning electron microscopy." Stain Technology 58.6(1983):347-51.
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