Kk. Kang et al., The synthesis and polymerization behavior of bimetallic pyridine diamide complexes containing transition metal (Ti, Zr), J POL SC PC, 37(20), 1999, pp. 3756-3762
Citations number
49
Categorie Soggetti
Organic Chemistry/Polymer Science
Journal title
JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Titanium and zirconium complexes with a pyridine diamide ligand, [2,6-(RNCH
2)(2)NC5H3](2-) (PDMP; R = 2,6-dimethylphenyl) have been synthesized and th
eir catalytic behaviors investigated for ethylene polymerization. It was fo
und that the zirconium complexes, [PDMP]ZrCl2 (7) and [PDMP][ZrCl3 x THF](2
) (8), gave higher activities than the titanium complexes, [PDMP]TiCl2 (5)
and [PDMP][TiCl3](2) (6). The bimetallic complexes (6, 8) gave higher activ
ities than the corresponding monometallic complexes (5, 7). The titanium co
mplexes gave polymers with higher molecular weight (M-w) than the zirconium
complexes. The molecular weight distribution (M-w/M-n) of the polymers obt
ained from the pyridine diamide complexes were much broader than that of th
e normal metallocene catalysts. (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.