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New titanium complexes bearing two indolide-imine chelate ligands for the polymerization of ethylene
Matsugi, Tomoaki,Matsui, Shigekazu,Kojoh, Shin-Ichi,Takagi, Yukihiro,Inoue, Yoshihisa,Nakano, Takashi,Fujita, Terunori,Kashiwa, Norio
, p. 4880 - 4887 (2007/10/03)
New titanium complexes 5-8 with two indolide-imine chelate ligands [7-(RN=CH)C8H5N]2TiCl2 (R: 5, phenyl; 6, 2,6-difluorophenyl; 7, 2,4,6-trifluorophenyl; 8, pentafluorophenyl) were synthesized and investigated as ethylene polymerization catalysts. On activation with methylalumoxane (MAO), all of the complexes were active ethylene polymerization catalysts at 25 °C to produce linear polyethylenes. The catalytic activity (TOF) increased sharply with the number of fluorine atom in the ligand. In addition, complexes 5-8 potentially exhibit the characteristics of a living ethylene polymerization. Complexes 6 and 7 promoted room temperature living ethylene polymerization to produce polyethylenes having extremely narrow molecular weight distributions (6, Mw/Mn 1.09-1.14; 7, Mw/Mn 1.05-1.23). On the other hand, at -10 °C complex 8 afforded monodisperse polyethylenes (MwMn 1.12-1.25), with exceptionally high activities for a living ethylene polymerization (TOF: maximum 1155 min-1 atm-1). Using complex 7/MAO catalyst system, a polyethylene-b-poly(ethylene-co-propylene) block copolymer was successfully synthesized.