Isolation of a single-insertion intermediate in the catalytic polymerization of propene by a cationic tris(hydrocarbyl) zirconium complex
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 11,p. 947-949
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39930000947
Abstract
Propene reacts smoothly with the alkene polymerization catalyst [Zr(CH2Ph)3{(η6-PhCH2)B(C6F5)3}]1 to give initially the single-insertion adduct [Zr(ηnCH2Ph)2(CH2CHMeCH2Ph)]+[B(CH2Ph)(C6F5)3]–2, which has been isolated and characterized.Keywords
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