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Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering >> 2011, Volume 5, Issue 1 doi: 10.1007/s11705-010-0546-1

Polymerization of methyl methacrylate catalyzed by mono-/bis-salicylaldiminato nickel(II) complexes and methylaluminoxane

1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China; 2. Daqing Petrochemical Research Center of CNPC, Daqing 163714, China

Available online: 2011-03-05

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Abstract

Two types of salicylaldiminato-based nickel complexes, mono-ligated Ni(II) complexes ([O-C H - - C(H)=N-Ar]Ni(PPh )(Ph) ( ), [O-(3,5-Br )C H - -C(H)=N-Ar]Ni(PPh )(Ph) ( ), [O-(3- -Bu)C H - -C(H)=N-Ar]Ni(PPh )(Ph) ( )) and bis-ligated Ni(II) complexes ([O-(3,5-Br )C H - -C(H)=N-Ar] Ni ( ), [O-(3,5-Br )C H - -C(H)=N-2-C H (PhO)] Ni ( ), Ar=2,6-C H ( -Pr) ) were synthesized and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrography (MS) and elemental analysis (EA). In the presence of methylaluminoxane (MAO) as cocatalyst, all the nickel complexes exhibited high activities for the polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and syndiotactic-rich poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) was obtained. The complexes with less bulky substituents on salicylaldiminato framework possessed higher activities, while with the same salicylaldiminato, the mono-ligated nickel complexes showed higher catalytic activity than bis-ligated ones.

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