(1) Materials Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India;(2) Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India;
Abstract:
Al(OPh)3 involving sterically hindered phenyl groups on ultrasonic assisted micro hydrolysis yielded a mixture of boehmite and bayerite as deduced from the FTIR and powder X-ray diffraction pattern. In the thermogravimetric trace, the complete removal of decomposable moieties of the hydrolyzed gel occurred around 530 °C. Calcining the gel at temperatures 600, 700, 800 and 900 °C showed crystalline tetragonal δ-Al2O3 to be the product at 900 °C as deduced from FTIR, 27Al NMR and PXRD techniques. δ-Al2O3 showed a surface area of 135 m2/g with rectangular bar like morphology with the sizes below 50 nm in the TEM images.
