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Novel Cr-PNP complexes as catalysts for the trimerisation of ethylene
David S McGuinness1, Peter Wasserscheid, Wilhelm Keim
1Institut für Technische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie der RWTH Aachen, Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 5, 2003
Abstract:
Cr(III) complexes of tridentate PNP ligands have been prepared and evaluated as catalysts for ethylene trimerisation, with several giving high activity and excellent selectivity towards 1-hexene when activated with methylaluminoxane.