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Ethylene Polymerization of Nickel Catalysts with α-Diimine Ligands: Factors Controlling the Structure of Active Species and Polymer Properties Full article

Journal

Dalton Transactions
ISSN: 1477-9226 , E-ISSN: 1477-9234

Output data

Year: 2019, Volume: 48, Number: 23, Pages: 7974-7984 Pages count : 11 DOI: 10.1039/c9dt01297d

Tags

thermal stability; polyethylene microstructure; metal catalysts; complexes; precatalysts; behavior; copolymerization; activation; olefins; systems

Authors

Soshnikov Igor E. ^1,2 , Bryliakov Konstantin P. ^1,2 , Antonov Artem A. ^1,2 , Sun Wen-Hua ^3,4 , Talsi Evgenii P. ^1,2

Affiliations

1	Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Pr. Lavrentieva, 5, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
2	Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova street, 2, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
3	Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
4	CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Funding (2)

1	Russian Foundation for Basic Research National Natural Science Foundation of China	18-53-80031 / 51861145303
2	Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations	0303-2016-0009

α-Diimine and related complexes of late transition metals such as palladium and nickel have been attracting continuing interest as single-site catalysts of ethylene homopolymerization to branched polyolefins, having challenging mechanical properties. The state-of-the art catalysts demonstrate promising catalytic activities, and enhanced thermal stabilities, affording polyethylenes with a variable degree of branching and, in addition, are able to incorporate polar co-monomers into polyethylene structures. At the same time, fundamental understanding of the structure–reactivity relationships of such catalysts mostly remains at the phenomenological level, due to the lack of experimental data on the solution structures of intermediates that drive the polymerization process. In this perspective, we discuss recent advances of α-diimine nickel based catalysts of ethylene polymerization, focusing on the relationships between the catalyst structures on the one hand, and their thermal stabilities and properties of the resulting polyethylene, on the other hand. In addition, some intriguing novel mechanistic findings of these catalyst systems are presented.

Soshnikov I.E. , Bryliakov K.P. , Antonov A.A. , Sun W-H. , Talsi E.P.
Ethylene Polymerization of Nickel Catalysts with α-Diimine Ligands: Factors Controlling the Structure of Active Species and Polymer Properties
Dalton Transactions. 2019. V.48. N23. P.7974-7984. DOI: 10.1039/c9dt01297d WOS Scopus РИНЦ OpenAlex ANCAN PMID

Submitted:	Mar 27, 2019
Accepted:	Apr 18, 2019
Published online:	Apr 18, 2019
Published print:	Jun 1, 2019

≡ Web of science:	WOS:000472537600001
≡ Scopus:	2-s2.0-85067199077
≡ Elibrary:	41634174
≡ OpenAlex:	W2939766178
≡ Chemical Abstracts:	2019:768297
≡ Chemical Abstracts (print):	171:26408
≡ PMID:	31070205

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