Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym14071427
Keywords
half-titanocene complexes; pi,pi-stacking interaction; fused-aryloxide ligands; ethylene (co)polymerization
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- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2021Me244]
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This study disclosed a family of half-titanocene complexes with pi,pi-stacked aryloxide ligands and their catalytic performances towards ethylene homo-/co- polymerizations. It was found that these complexes could highly catalyze ethylene polymerizations and copolymerizations, and the strength of pi,pi-stacking interaction was influenced by the size of the aryloxide's 7 pi-system. Additionally, the catalytic efficiency could be significantly enhanced by the addition of external pyrene molecules.
A family of half-titanocene complexes bearing pi,pi-stacked aryloxide ligands and their catalytic performances towards ethylene homo-/co- polymerizations were disclosed herein. All the complexes were well characterized, and the intermolecular pi,pi-stacking interactions could be clearly identified from single crystal X-ray analysis, in which a stronger interaction could be reflected for aryloxides bearing bigger 7 pi-systems, e.g., pyrenoxide. Due to the formation of such interactions, these complexes were able to highly catalyze the ethylene homopolymerizations and copolymerization with 1-hexene comonomer, even without any additiveson the aryloxide group, which showed striking contrast to other half-titanocene analogues, implying the positive influence of pi,pi-stacking interaction in enhancing the catalytic performances of the corresponding catalysts. Moreover, it was found that addition of external pyrene molecules was capable of boosting the catalytic efficiency significantly, due to the formation of a stronger pi,pi-stacking interaction between the complexes and pyrene molecules.
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