Issue 40, 2007
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Chemical Communications

Cationic scandium aminobenzyl complexes. Synthesis, structure and unprecedented catalysis of copolymerization of 1-hexene and dicyclopentadiene†

Xiaofang Li,a   Masayoshi Nishiura,a   Kyouichi Mori,a   Tomohiro Mashikoa  and  Zhaomin Hou*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama, Japan
E-mail: houz@riken.jp
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Abstract

A structurally well-defined THF-free cationic half-sandwich scandium aminobenzyl complex serves as a novel catalyst for the first copolymerization of 1-hexene with dicyclopentadiene to give the random copolymers with a wide range of 1-hexene contents (32–70 mol%) unavailable previously.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B708534F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Jun 2007
Accepted
13 Jul 2007
First published
02 Aug 2007

Chem. Commun., 2007, 4137-4139

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Cationic scandium aminobenzyl complexes. Synthesis, structure and unprecedented catalysis of copolymerization of 1-hexene and dicyclopentadiene

X. Li, M. Nishiura, K. Mori, T. Mashiko and Z. Hou, Chem. Commun., 2007, 4137 DOI: 10.1039/B708534F

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