Synthesis, characterization and polymerisation studies of cadmium(II) complexes containing N,N′,X-tridentate X-substituted (X = N, O) 2-iminomethylpyridines
作者:Jaegyeong Lee、Hyosun Lee、Saira Nayab、Keun Byoung Yoon
DOI:10.1016/j.poly.2018.11.033
日期:2019.1
The reaction of [CdBr(2)4H(2)O] with N-1,N-1-dimethyl-N-2-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)ethane-1,2-diamine) (L-A), 2-methoxy-N-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)ethanamine (L-B), 2-(piperidin-1-yl)-N-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)ethanamine (L-C), 2-morpholino-N-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)ethanamine (L-D), N-1,N-1-dimethyl-N-3-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)propane-1,3-diamine (L-E) and 3-methoxy-N-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)propan-1-amine (L-F) in methanol produced the tridentate [(NN'X)CdBr2] complexes, namely [LACdBr2], [LBCdBr2], [LCCdBr2], [LDCdBr2], [LECdBr2] and [LFCdBr2], respectively. The molecular structures of the Cd(II) complexes revealed that the cadmium atom in [LnCdBr2] (L-n=L-A, L-C-L-E) has a distorted square pyramidal geometry involving two nitrogen atoms and one nitrogen or oxygen atom of the N,N',X-tridentate ligands and two bromo ligands. The dimethyl derivatives, generated in situ, [LnCdMe2] (L-A-L-F) initiated the polymerisation of rac-Lactide (rac-LA) and yielded heterotactic PLA. Notably, the substituent attached to ligand architecture affects the activities towards the rac-LA polymerisation, whereas the stereoselectivities remained unchanged. Moderate activities towards the polymerisation of methylmethacrylate (MMA) polymerisation in the presence of modified methylaluminoxane (MMAO) at 60C were observed for [LnCdBr2] (L-A-L-F). The preliminary results showed that these complexes yielded syndio-rich poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) ([rr]=0.66). (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.