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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 346-353Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3dt03641c
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The report presents the expansion of a catalyst system into bimetallic assemblies, which offer predetermined metal-metal distances and locked-in binding sites. The bimetallic complexes show superior efficiency and product properties compared to the mononuclear analogues.
The report concerns expansion of the previously developed M-[O,N,C] [pyridine-2-phenolate-6-(sigma-aryl)] catalyst system into rigid, coplanar bimetallic assemblies, which afford metal-metal distances that are predetermined yet amenable for cooperativity, as well as locked-in syn orientation of binding sites that offer the same direction of access for substrates. The binuclear complexes are generated in a regioselective manner to yield para hydrogen atoms (not ortho) at the central mu-aryl moiety, and have been characterised by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. The anti (showing opposite directions of access) and mononuclear analogues have also been prepared for comparison purposes. Six syn-type bimetallic derivatives of Ti, Zr and Hf have been characterised by X-ray crystallography, to reveal metal-metal separations of 6.3-6.7 & Aring;. For ethylene and ethylene/1-octene polymerisation reactions in conjunction with trityl borate, the syn-Ti-2 catalysts display superior efficiencies and produced polymers with higher M-w values than for the anti and mono-Ti congeners, thus indicating the possibility of favourable enchainment interactions and cooperative reactivity.
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