New anilinotropone-based titanium complexes: synthesis, characterization and application as catalysts for olefin polymerization

Dalton Trans. 2005 Sep 21:(18):3025-31. doi: 10.1039/b506079f. Epub 2005 Jul 28.

Abstract

New titanium(IV) dichloride complexes containing 2-anilinotropone ligands have been synthesized and characterized. Bis(ligand)titanium dichloride complexes 1 and 2 were synthesized from reaction of TiCl4(THF)2 with 2 equivalents of the corresponding sodium salts of 2-(2,6-diisopropylanilino)tropone (L1) and 2-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluoroanilino)tropone (L2), respectively. The mixed cyclopentadienyl-anilinotropone compound 3 was synthesized by reaction of the lithium salt of with CpTiCl3. The Cp-mixed micro-O bimetallic complex 4 was also isolated as a by-product owing to the adventitious presence of moisture. The molecular structures 1-4 of have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Complexes 1 and 2 are isostructural and exhibit a C2-symmetric octahedral geometry, with a trans(N,N), cis(O,O) arrangement in complex 1, but with a trans(O,O), cis(N,N) arrangement in complex 2. The Cp-mixed complex 3 has a distorted square-pyramidal structure with the Cp ligand in the apical position. Bimetallic complex 4 shows a similar coordination geometry for the five-coordinate titanium atom and a pseudo-tetrahedral coordination for the second metallic centre. All new complexes, when activated with methylaluminoxane, are active in the polymerization of ethylene and propene.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alkenes / chemical synthesis*
  • Alkenes / chemistry
  • Aniline Compounds / chemistry*
  • Catalysis
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Ligands
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemical synthesis
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Stereoisomerism
  • Titanium / chemistry*
  • Tropanes / chemistry*

Substances

  • Alkenes
  • Aniline Compounds
  • Ligands
  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Tropanes
  • Titanium