Nickel Complexes with Oxazoline-Based <i>P</i>,<i>N</i>-Chelate Ligands: Synthesis, Structures, and Catalytic Ethylene Oligomerization Behavior
作者:Fredy Speiser、Pierre Braunstein、Lucien Saussine、Richard Welter
DOI:10.1021/om034197q
日期:2004.5.1
The phosphinooxazoline ligands 9-12 have been prepared and used to examine and compare the catalytic properties of their corresponding Ni(II) complexes in ethylene oligomerization. The molecular structure of rac-2-[1'-(diphenylphosphanyl)ethyl]-4,4-dimethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole (10) has been determined by X-ray diffraction. The paramagnetic Ni(II) complexes [NiX(mu-X)(P,N)](2) (19, X = Br, P,N = 2-[(diphenylphosphanyl)methyl]-4,4-dimethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole (9)); 20, X = Cl, P,N = 9; 21, X = Cl, P,N = 10; 22, X Cl; P,N = 2-[(diphenylphosphanyl)methyl]-4-(R)-phenyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole (12); 23, X = Br, P,N = 12) and [NiCl2(P,N)] (24; P,N = 2-[1'-(diphenylphosphanyl)-1'-methylethyl]-4,4-dimethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole (11) were prepared in yields of 79-90%, and 19 and 24 have been characterized by X-ray diffraction. The former is a dinuclear complex with distorted-trigonal-bipyramidal geometry around the Ni(II) centers, whereas 24 is a mononuclear, tetrahedral complex, which underlines the strong influence of a substituent on the carbon atom a to P. The metal coordination sphere in complexes 19-24 was determined in solution by the Evans method to be trigonal bipyramidal for 19-23 and tetrahedral for 24. Whereas complexes 19-23 and [NiCl2(PCy3)(2)] were inactive for ethylene polymerization in the presence of methylaluminoxane (MAO), the mononuclear complex 24 gave a TOF of 7900 mol of C2H4/((mol of Ni) h) with a selectivity for 1-butene of 38%. Complexes 19, 20, and 22 were inactive for the oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of NaBH4, but 19, 21, and 24 were active with AlEtCl2 as a cocatalyst. Activities and selectivities were compared to those of [NiCl2-(PCy3)(2)], a typical precatalyst used in the dimerization of alpha-olefins. Complex 19 yielded a turnover frequency of 36 300 mol of C2H4/((mol of Ni) h) in the presence of 14 equiv of AlEtCl2. In the presence of only 6 equiv of cocatalyst, the Ni complexes 21 and 24 showed TOF values of 38 100 and 45 900 mol of C2H4/((mol of Ni) h), respectively, higher than that of 27 200 mol of C2H4/((mol of Ni) h) obtained with [NiCl2(PCy3)(2)].