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ORGANOMETALLICS
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 2144-2148Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/om101008j
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- National Natural Science Fundation of China [20774025]
- Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program [2007BAE50B04]
- Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan Project [08PJ14032]
- Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities [B08021]
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A novel dinuclear oxygen-bridged chromium(II) complex of [(Ph3SiO)Cr center dot(THF)](2)(mu-OSiPh3)(2) (1) was successfully synthesized and structurally characterized. The crystal structure of complex 1 shows that the chromium centers adopt a tetrahedrally distorted square-planar coordination geometry. Complex 1 was tested for ethylene polymerization upon activation with and without aluminum alkyl cocatalysts. No ethylene polymerization activity was observed in the absence of aluminum alkyl cocatalysts; however, in the presence of methylaluminoxane (MAO), complex 1 demonstrates an unexpected transformation from ethylene polymerization to ethylene oligomerization, with the molar ratio of Al to Cr increasing from 50 to 1000. The activation of complex 1 with MAO was investigated by ESR and Si-29 NMR spectroscopy. It was found that the Ph3SiO- groups could be transferred from the chromium centers of complex 1 to the aluminum of MAO.
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