Thermal decomposition of metal dithiocarbamates can be used to produce metal sulfides. These metal sulfides have numerous aerospace applications including hydrocracking catalysts for upgrading Fischer-Tropsch products to jet fuels,  modeling of pre-biotic chemistry,  production of high fidelity lunar regolith (soil) simulants, and photovoltaic devices. Bis(diorganodithiocarbamate)iron(II) complexes are air-sensitive and difficult to work with, their dicarbonyl derivatives, however, are stable in air. Previous thermal analysis work by faculty and students at WJU has focused on the mass loss during thermal decomposition using thermogravimetric analysis. While this provides indirect evidence for the identity of thermal decomposition products, analysis of the gaseous products using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy provides conformation of the product, particularly carbon monoxide produced by the loss of the carbonyl ligands.

Investigation of the thermal decomposition of <i>cis</i>-dicarbonylbis(diorganodithiocarbamato)iron(II) complexes using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy coupled to thermogravimetric analysis

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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Investigation of the thermal decomposition of cis-dicarbonylbis(diorganodithiocarbamato)iron(II) complexes using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy coupled to thermogravimetric analysis