1. Silica‐Grafted Tris(neopentyl)aluminum: A Monomeric Aluminum Solid Co‐catalyst for Efficient Nickel‐Catalyzed Ethene Dimerization
- Author
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Christopher P. Gordon, Jasmine Viger-Gravel, Pierre Florian, Ilia B. Moroz, Christophe Copéret, and Anne Lesage
- Subjects
Tris ,010405 organic chemistry ,Cationic polymerization ,chemistry.chemical_element ,General Chemistry ,Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ,General Medicine ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Chloride ,Catalysis ,0104 chemical sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Nickel ,Monomer ,chemistry ,Polymer chemistry ,medicine ,Organometallic chemistry ,medicine.drug - Abstract
A silica-supported monomeric alkylaluminum co-catalyst was prepared via surface organometallic chemistry by contacting tris(neopentyl)aluminum and partially dehydroxylated silica. This system, fully characterized by solid-state 27 Al NMR spectroscopy augmented by computational studies, efficiently activates (n Bu3 P)2 NiCl2 towards dimerization of ethene, demonstrating comparable activity to previously reported dimeric diethylaluminum chloride supported on silica. Three types of aluminum surface species have been identified: monografted tetracoordinated Al species as well as two types of bisgrafted Al species-tetra- and pentacoordinated. Of them, only the monografted Al species is proposed to be able to activate the (n Bu3 P)2 NiCl2 complex and generate the active cationic species.
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- 2020