Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (11): 2089.

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Synthesis and Application in Ethylene Polymerization of p-Biphenylene-bridged Dinuclear Zirconocenes

DENG Xiao-Bin1, XU Shan-Sheng1, WANG Bai-Quan1,2, ZHOU Xiu-Zhong1, YANG Ling3, LI Yu-Fei3, HU You-Liang3   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032;
    3. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
  • Received:2001-09-11 Online:2002-11-24 Published:2002-11-24

Abstract: ?Dibromobiphenyl reacted with n-BuLi to form 4,4′-dilithiobiphenyl, which further reacted with 2,3,4,5-tetramethylcyclopent-2-enone following the elimination of water to give the ligand 4-(C5Me4H)C6H4—C6H4(C5Me4H)-4(1). Ligand 1 reacted with n-BuLi and ZrCl4 to form the p-biphenylene-bridged dinuclear tetramethylcyclopentadienyl zirconium trichlorides 4-(C5Me4ZrCl3)·C6H4—C6H4(C5Me4ZrCl3)-4, which reacted in situ with cyclopentadienyl lithium(CpLi) or indenyl lithium(IndLi) to give the corresponding p-biphenylene-bridged dinuclear zirconocenes 4-(C5Me4ZrCl2Cp′)C6H4-C6H4(C5Me4ZrCl2Cp′)-4 [Cp′= Cp(2), Ind(3)]. The zirconocenes 2 and 3 were characterized by 1H NMR, MS spectra and elemental analysis, and were studied for ethylene polymerization with methyl aluminoxane(MAO) as cocatalyst. Both 3 and 4 show very high activities and reach the maximum at a higher temperature, indicating that the introduction of the p-biphenylene-bridge increased the catalytic activity and thermal stability of the dinuclear zirconocene catalysts.

Key words: Metallocene, Dinuclear, Zirconium, Indenyl

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