Electrodeposition of tin, lead and tin-lead alloys

Abstract

A bath for the electrodeposition of bright tin-lead alloys which comprises an aqueous acidic bath containing at least one soluble tin compound and one soluble lead compound to which there has been added: A. a lower alkylene oxide condensation product, and B. an effective amount of at least one pyridine or quinoline compound having the structure ##STR1## wherein the substituents R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each is a hydrogen or halogen atom, a lower alkyl radical containing a hydroxyl group, an alkenyl radical, the radical (C.sub.n H.sub.2n --CO.sub.2 H in which n has a value from 0 to 6 or a carbamide radical or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 combined form a divalent radical to provide a compound having the structure ##STR2## in which R.sub.6 is nothing or a hydroxyl radical; Z is nothing, 0.sup.- or a quaternary ammonium forming hydrocarbon radical provided that when Z is nothing, at least one of the substituents R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 is a halogen atom, a lower alkyl radical containing a hydroxyl group, an alkenyl radical, the radical (C.sub.n H.sub.2n --CO.sub.2 H in which n has a value from 0 to 6 or a carbamide radical or R.sub.6 is a hydroxy radical; and X is nothing or when Z is a quaternary ammonium forming hydrocarbon radical X is an anion. The invention also includes the addition of an aromatic aldehyde in combination with pyridine or quinoline compounds and the alkylene oxide condensation product which results in the production of even brighter to brilliant deposits over a wide current density range.

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