Process for the preparation of organophilic metal oxide particles

Abstract

Organophilic particles of a metal oxide chosen from alumina Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, silica SiO.sub.2, transition metal oxides, especially titanium oxide TiO.sub.2, and rare-earth metal oxides, especially cerium oxide CeO.sub.2, are prepared by reacting an aqueous-alcoholic suspension (a) of metal Oxide particles which have no pores less than 5 nm in di-meter at their surface with an anhydrous alcoholic solution (b) comprising at least one alkoxysilane of formula (1) Si(OR).sub.x R'.sub.4-x (1) in which R represents an alkyl group containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R' represents a hydrocarbon group chosen from alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, alkenyl and alkynyl groups containing at least one carbon atom and x is an integer from 1 to 3, the said alcohols, which may be identical or different, containing from 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

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