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Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Synthesis from Benzimidazolium Salts and Catalytic Activity in Carbon-carbon Bond-forming Reactions
Published on: July 30, 2017
Ethylene polymerization by 2-iminopyridylnickel halide complexes: synthesis, characterization and catalytic influence
Wen-Hua Sun1, Shengju Song, Baixiang Li
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:
A series of 2-(2-benzhydrylbenzenamino)pyridine ligands (L1–L13) was synthesized and used as bidentate N^N ligands with nickel halides to afford the corresponding nickel dihalide complexes L(2)Ni(2)Cl(4) C1–C13 and L(2)NiBr(2) D1–D13. All ligands and complexes were characterized by IR and NMR spectroscopy, and by elemental analysis. The molecular structures of the representative complexes C1·2CH(3)OH, C5·2H(2)O, D4, D7 and D9 were confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Upon activation with either methylaluminoxane (MAO) or ethylaluminium sesquichloride (Et(3)Al(2)Cl(3), EASC), these nickel pre-catalysts exhibited high activities (up to the range of 10(7) g mol(-1) (Ni) h(-1)) towards ethylene polymerization, producing branched polyethylenes with narrow polydispersity.
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