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Catalytic properties of the phenoxyimine zirconium complexes, viz., bis[N-(3,5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)anilinato]zirconium(IV) dichloride (1) and its fluorinated analog, bis[N-(3,5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoroanilinato]zirconium(IV) dichloride (2), were studied. Ethylene homopolymerization and copolymerization of ethylene with α-olefins were chosen as catalytic reactions, and various organoaluminum compounds served as activators: commercial polymethylalumoxane (MAO) containing ∼35 mol.% of trimethylaluminum (TMA), MAO purified from TMA (“dry” MAO), and “classical” organoaluminum compounds, namely, TMA and triisobutylaluminum (TIBA). Complex 1 is not activated by “dry” MAO but is efficiently transformed into the catalytically active state by commercial MAO, “conventional” TMA, and TIBA. These processes give low-molecular-weight polyethylenes (PE) characterized by high values of polydispersity indices and by polymodal curves of gel permeation chromatography (GPC). The order of decreasing the efficiency of activation for the cocatalysts is MAO > TIBA > TMA. Fluorinated complex 2 exhibits a high activity after its treatment with MAO and “dry” MAO, the activity is much lower upon mixing with TIBA, and complex 2 is inactive when using TMA. In the copolymerization of ethylene with hex-1-ene and dec-1-ene, complex 1 treated with MAO is highly active but gives a low level of insertion of the comonomer (1–2 mol.% in the copolymer). Complex 2 activated with “dry” MAO is more efficient in the copolymerization of ethylene with propylene or hex-1-ene but, like complex 1, it does not produce copolymers with a high content of the comonomer. The both catalysts provide the insertion of α-olefin as isolated units separated by extended sections of the chain consisting of ethylene units.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1429—1437, July, 2011.
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Bravaya, N.M., Mukhina, E.V., Panin, A.N. et al. Effect of the nature of an organoaluminum activator on catalytic properties of phenoxyimine zirconium complexes in homo- and copolymerization reactions of ethylene. Russ Chem Bull 60, 1452–1460 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-011-0217-5
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