アスコルビン酸を還元剤とする無電解金めっき浴の電気化学的挙動

抄録

A novel electroless (autocatalytic) gold plating bath containing sodium L-ascorbate as the reducing agent has been developed. A suitable bath composition was formulated based on the results of an electrochemical study in which were determined at a gold electrode the anodic polarization curves of various reducing agents and the cathodic polarization curves of sodium tetrachloroaurate (III) dissolved in solutions of sodium sulfite and/or sodium thiosulfate.
A typical bath containing 0.0125mol/dm³ sodium tetrachloroaurate (III), 0.1mol/dm³ sodium sulfite, 0.1 mol/dm³ sodium thiosulfate, and 0.25mol/dm³ sodium L-ascorbate, was operated under moderate conditions, typically at a pH of 6.0 and 333K. The rate of gold deposition obtained with this bath was in the same range or greater than that obtained with the classical cyanide-borohydride bath. The deposition rate of the new bath depended on both the ascorbate and gold concentrations, and the gravimetrically determined deposition rate was found to correspond well with the rate estimated from electrochemical polarization measurements.