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Ethylene trimerization with a half-sandwich titanium complex bearing a pendant thienyl group
Jiling Huang1, Tianzhi Wu, Yanlong Qian
1The Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China. qianling@online.sh.cn
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 4, 2003
Abstract:
A half-sandwich titanium complex with a pendant thienyl group, activated by methylalumoxane (MAO), can trimerize ethylene to 1-hexene with considerable activity and high selectivity; the coodination of the sulfur atom to the titanium center is proposed to be responsible for the selective trimerization of ethylene.