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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 43, Issue 24, Pages 9098-9110Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt00353e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC) [20604009, 21074032]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-06-0413]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WD1113011, WK1214048]
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A series of mononuclear aluminum dimethyl complexes bearing bidentate N-[2-(1-piperidinyl)benzyl]anilino or N-(2-morpholinobenzyl)anilino ligands were synthesized via reactions of the corresponding proligands with trimethylaluminum upon heating, while at ambient temperature two trimethylaluminum adducts with neutral N-[2-(1-piperidinyl)benzyl]aniline proligands were obtained. These complexes were well characterized by NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis and occasionally by EI-HRMS. The molecular structures of the typical trimethylaluminum adduct 2b and aluminum dimethyl complex 3b were further confirmed by X-ray diffraction studies. All the aluminum dimethyl complexes could effectively initiate the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of rac-lactide in a well-controlled manner to afford PLAs with narrow molecular weight distributions (PDI = 1.06-1.18). The polymer samples obtained are systematically end-capped with the bidentate ancillary ligands as characterized by H-1 NMR and ESI-TOF mass spectroscopy. Moreover, the introduction of substituent(s) at the ortho-position(s) of the anilino moiety in the ligand results in an obvious decrease in the catalytic activity of the corresponding aluminum complex, and complexes with meta-chloro substituted anilino units show higher activities likely due to the enhanced electrophilicity of the metal centers induced by the anilino groups.
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