Titan Based Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Gels Comprising Carbohydrate Moiety

International audienceA series of titanium based gels comprising carbohydrate moieties was synthesized. The sugars used include a specific hydrazide group as complex forming agent. Additionally, this group forms stable hydrates which allow further slow water release. As a result, the compounds used in this study form transparent and stable gels with titanium alkoxide without addition of external water. Interpretation of the IR-spectra reveals that some compounds form monodentate ligands and other bidentate ligands. Further Tian-Calvet calorimetric measurements confirmed our IR-based conclusions. This strategy of synthesis gives a new opportunity to obtain hybrid materials by addition of natural chelating ligands to slow down the hydrolysis/condensation reactions that occur during the sol-gel process. Therefore, carbohydrate moieties have been incorporated in the gels obtained and different type of Ti coordination was proposed based on the IR spectroscopy studies. SEM investigations show the influence of the ligand on the morphology of the xerogel. GRAPHICAL ABSTRAC