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Wen-Hua Sun1, Miao Shen, Wenjuan Zhang
1Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. whsun@iccas.ac.cn
Abstract:
The stoichiometric reactions of 2-(2,6-R-phenylimino)quinolin-8-ol (L1-L5, L1: R = Me, L2: R = Et, L3: R = (i)Pr, L4: R = Cl, L5: R = F) with Me(3)Al afforded the dimeric aluminium complexes [Me(2)AlL](2) (1-5) in good yields. By contrast, stoichiometric reactions of 2-(1-(2,6-R-phenylimino)propyl) quinolin-8-ol (L6-L10, L6: R = Me, L7: R = Et, L8: R = (i)Pr, L9: R = Cl, L10: R = F)) with Me(3)Al gave the mononuclear aluminium complexes Me(2)AlL (6-10) accompanied with by-products of the form Me(2)AlL·Me(3)Al (11-15). All methylaluminium complexes were characterized by NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and the molecular structures of complexes 3, 6 and 8 were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Aluminium compounds 1-5 possessed negligible activity towards the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone either in the presence or absence of BnOH. In contrast, in the presence of BnOH, the mononuclear aluminium compounds 6-10 could efficiently initiate the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone; the polymerization proceeded in a living manner.
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