摘要:
The metallocenes (C6F5C5H4)CpZrMe2 (1, Cp = C5H5) and (C6F5C5H4)(2)MMe2 (2a, M = Zr; 2b, M = Hf) were treated with B(C6F5)(3) and, separately, with commercial methylalumoxane (MAO, depleted of excess Me3Al). The ensuing methide transfer reactions were followed by F-19 NMR. Spectra of the "activated" species obtained using MAO and excess B(C6F5)3 were strikingly similar, suggesting that similar "cation-like" species are formed using either organo-Lewis acid, and the MAO-activated species were tentatively formulated as (C6F5C5H4)CpZrMe+ Me[AlMeO](n)(-) and as (C6F5C5H4)(2)MMe+ Me[AlMeO](n)(-) (M = Zr, Hf). The relative amount of L2MMe2 and [L2MMe](+) species observed in solution was measured as a function of [MAO] and as a function of [M] at constant [MAO]. Results are interpreted in terms of a canonical model in which MAO contains relatively few highly active Lewis acidic sites.