Synthesis and Ethylene Polymerization Activity of a Series of 2-Anilinotropone-Based Neutral Nickel(II) Catalysts
作者:Frederick A. Hicks、Jason C. Jenkins、Maurice Brookhart
DOI:10.1021/om030142c
日期:2003.8.1
A method for the synthesis of bulky 2-anilinotropones has been developed, utilizing palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling techniques. Deprotonation of these anilinotropones followed by reaction with (PPh(3))(2)Ni(Ph)Cl produces ethylene polymerization catalysts of the general formula [[(2-R-6-R'C(6)H(3))NC(7)H(5)O]Ni(Ph)(PPh(3))] (3a-j: R, R'= Me, Me (a), (i)Pr, (i)Pr (b), (t)Bu, H (c), (t)Bu, Me (d), Ph, Ph (e), Cl, Cl (f), Br, Br (g), 2,3,4,5,6-F(5) (h), Me, H (j), Me, CF(3) (k)). Ethylene polymerizations with 3a-j have been explored under a variety of reaction conditions. The complex [[(2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3))NC(7)H(4)O(7-aryl)]Ni(Ph)(PPh(3))] (14: aryl = phenyl (a), 1-naphthyl (b)), possessing steric bulk at the 7-position, have been prepared and are both long-lived and active ethylene polymerization catalysts. At low temperatures 14a,b produce polyethylene with narrow molecular weight distributions (MWD ca. 1.2). The polymerization results suggest that chain transfer occurs via beta-hydride elimination pathway and that catalyst decomposition proceeds through reductive elimination of the free ligand from a nickel-hydride intermediate.