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Sánchez-Barba, Luis F., Hughes, David L., Humphrey, Simon M. and Bochmann, Manfred 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7736-5428
(2006)
Ligand transfer reactions of mixed-metal lanthanide/magnesium allyl complexes with β-diketimines: Synthesis, structures, and ring-opening polymerization catalysis.
Organometallics, 25 (4).
pp. 1012-1020.
Abstract
The reaction of the mixed-metal lanthanide/magnesium allyl complexes [Ln(?3-C3H5)3(µ-C4H8O2)·Mg(?1-C3H5)2(µ-C4H8O2)1.5]n (Ln = La, 1 ; Y, 2 ) with the diketimine 2-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)amino-4-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imino-2-pentene (BDI-H) in THF at 60 °C leads to the isolation of the magnesium ß-diketiminato complex Mg{HC(MeCNC6H3Pri2-2,6)2}(?1-C3H5)(THF) ( 3 ). The same product was obtained in the reaction of BDI-H with the ionic allyl lanthanate compounds [Mg(THF)6][Nd(?3-C3H5)4]2·2THF ( 4 ) and [Mg(THF)6][Sm(?3-C3H5)4]2·2THF ( 5 ). No lanthanide-containing product could be isolated. The X-ray structure of 3 shows that the complex is a monomeric neutral species with the magnesium center in a distorted tetrahedral arrangement. Complex 3 was found to hydrolyze after repeated crystallization attempts at -26 °C to give the hydroxy complex [Mg{HC(MeCNC6H3Pri2-2,6)2}(µ-OH)(THF)]2·4THF ( 6 ). The X-ray structure of 6 consists of a hydroxide-bridged dimer with the magnesium center in a distorted square pyramid. Lanthanide BDI compounds were, however, obtained by reacting LnCl3(THF)x (Ln = La, x = 4; Ln = Y, x = 3) with the lithium salt [Li(BDI)(THF)]2 to give the dimeric complexes [LnCl2{HC(MeCNC6H3Pri2-2,6)2}]2(THF)·2toluene (Ln = La, 7 ; Y, 8 ). According to its X-ray structure, 8 possesses distorted octahedral yttrium centers, one terminal chloride, and three bridging chloride ligands. The reaction of 7 or 8 using 4 equiv of allylMgCl did not give the expected mixed-ligand allyl lanthanide complex but led again to the magnesium complex 3 via BDI ligand exchange. Complexes 1 - 5 are highly effective single-component catalysts for the ring-opening polymerization of e-caprolactone. Complex 3 also polymerizes rac-lactide efficiently and under mild conditions but with low stereospecificity. e-Caprolactone is polymerized in minutes to high molecular weight materials by an allyl end-group transfer mechanism. The catalysts are active over a wide temperature range.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Materials and Catalysis Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Synthetic Chemistry (former - to 2017) |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Smith |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2010 17:48 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2022 16:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10521 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/om050892h |
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