In order to examine the pyrolytic behavior of the silk samples treated with an aqueous solution of Sn (IV)-complex, ammonium (A-salt) or potassium (K-salt) hexachlorostannate, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was carried out in vacuum, and high-resolution mass spectra (MS) of pyrolysis products of the silk treated with A-salt or treated with K-salt were also measured, and the results were compared with those of the silk untreated, treated with SnCl
4 solution or with 0.1 N HCl.
In order to clarify the bonding mechanism between A or K-salt and silk fibroin, TGA of the mixed samples of silk and Sn-complex by a ratio of 10:1 Was also measured.
Mass spectrometry was carried out according to the storage method on the pyrolyzed gas (300±10°C) and molecular ions were determined. The results obtained were as follows:
1. The peaks of velocity (
dw/dt)-temperature curve of treated silks obtained from TGA measurements were somewhat shifted to higher temperature than those of untreated silk.
2. From the results of TGA, A-salt seemed to suppress the thermal degradation of silk due to NH
3-gas generated from itself. But K-salt showed the different effect, so weak bonding between silk and K-salt was expected.
3. Many parent and fragment ions appeared in MS in the m/e range of 31-131. For example, benzene, phenol, toluene, aniline as carbocylic compounds, and also pyrrole, pyrazole, pyrazoline, γ-pyrone as heterocyclic compounds.
It was cosidered that these carbocyclic compounds were pyrolysis products of aromatic aminoacid residue, hence thermal degradation process of some aminoacids were easily clarified. On the other hand, some compounds such as pyrazole, pyrazoline and γ-pyrone were not pyrolysis droducts but rearranged ions. Further more, other ions such as hydrocarbons, aldehydes, lower alcohols, alkylamine and CO
2 were also detected. The peaks of C
2H
4, N
2 at m/e 28 and NH
3, OH at m/e 17 were also recognized from different MS.
4. Presence of these pyrolyzed products qualitatively indicates the degree of thermal degradation of silk. Especially in the case of silk treated with A-salt, the number of the components of pyrolyzed gas was small. Hence it is concluded in this experiment that A-salt suppress the thermal degradation of silk.
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