- Biphenyl-Bridged 6-(1-Aryliminoethyl)-2-iminopyridylcobalt complexes: Synthesis, characterization, and ethylene polymerization behavior
-
A series of biphenyl-bridged 6-(1-aryliminoethyl)-2-iminopyridine derivatives reacted with cobalt dichloride in dichloromethane/ethanol to afford the corresponding binuclear cobalt complexes. The cobalt complexes were characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis, and the structure of a representative complex was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Upon activation with either MAO or MMAO, these cobalt complexes performed with high activities of up to 1.2 × 107 g (mol of Co)-1 h-1 in ethylene polymerization, which represents one of the most active cobalt-based catalytic systems in ethylene reactivity. These biphenyl-bridged bis(imino)pyridylcobalt precatalysts exhibited higher activities than did their mononuclear bis(imino)pyridylcobalt precatalyst counterparts, and more importantly, the binuclear precatalysts revealed a better thermal stability and longer lifetimes. The polyethylenes obtained were characterized by GPC, DSC, and high-temperature NMR spectroscopy and mostly possessed unimodal and highly linear features.
- Xing, Qifeng,Zhao, Tong,Du, Shizhen,Yang, Wenhong,Liang, Tongling,Redshaw, Carl,Sun, Wen-Hua
-
p. 1382 - 1388
(2014/04/17)
-