Issue 20, 2020

Pyridylamido hafnium complexes with a silylene bridge: synthesis and olefin polymerization

Abstract

The synthesis and characterisation of six novel Cs-symmetric pyridylamido hafnium complexes with a silylene bridge of the type [ArPy(R2Si)NAr′]HfAlk2 are reported. Four complexes have been structurally characterised using single crystal X-ray diffraction. Appreciable differences between the solid state structures of these complexes and the pyridylamido hafnium complexes with a CRR′ bridge were noted. Reactions with B(C6F5)3, [Ph3C][B(C6F5)4] and [HMe2NPh][B(C6F5)4] yielded active catalysts for the homopolymerisations of propene and 1-hexene and ethene/1-octene copolymerization. In spite of the Cs-symmetry of the precatalysts, isotactically enriched polypropylene and poly(1-hexene) were obtained. The fact that the mechanism of the catalyst activation includes the insertion of alkene into the Hf-CAr bond was demonstrated. It was found that the structures of Ar and the R2Si bridge influence the activity, molecular weight capability and 1-octene affinity of the catalysts.

Graphical abstract: Pyridylamido hafnium complexes with a silylene bridge: synthesis and olefin polymerization

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Mar 2020
Accepted
22 Apr 2020
First published
23 Apr 2020

Dalton Trans., 2020,49, 6693-6702

Pyridylamido hafnium complexes with a silylene bridge: synthesis and olefin polymerization

P. S. Kulyabin, D. V. Uborsky, A. Z. Voskoboynikov, J. A. M. Canich and J. R. Hagadorn, Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 6693 DOI: 10.1039/D0DT01031F

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