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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 51, Issue 21, Pages 12041-12052Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic302137w
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- Department of Energy, Basic Chemical Sciences Division
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The reactivities of chromium(III) complexes LCrX, where L = 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP), 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin (TFPP), and 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethylporphyrin (OEP) and X = Cl or OH, have been studied with respect to their ability to homopolymerize propylene oxide (PO) and copolymerize PO and CO2 to yield polypropylene oxide (PPO) and polypropylene carbonate (PPC) or propylene carbonate (PC), respectively, with and without the presence of a cocatalyst, namely, 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) or PPN+Cl- (bis(triphenylphosphine)iminium chloride). The homopolymerization is notably faster (TOF approximate to 2000 h(-1) at room temperature) than copolymerization, which commonly leads to ether-rich polymers. Studies of kinetics reveal that for TPPCr(OH) with DMAP (1 equiv) the propagation reaction rate is first order in [Cr] with excess PO. With PPN+Cl- as a cocatalyst the reaction order in [Cr] and [Cl-] is complicated by the presence of two growing chains, and the presence of excess [Cl-] facilitates the formation of PC by two different backbiting mechanisms. The fixation of CO2 is promoted by [Cl-] but is not greatly influenced by CO2 pressure (1-50 bar). The reactions and polymers have been monitored by UV-visible spectroscopy, react-IR, GPC, ESI, and MALDI TOF, and NMR (H-1, C-13{H-1}) spectroscopy. Notable differences are seen in these reactions when compared with earlier studies by Darensbourg et al. with salen chromium(III) systems and related aluminum(III) porphyrins.
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