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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 40, Issue 47, Pages 12705-12712Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1dt11565k
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- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Research and Tools Instrumentation Grant
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Ontario Research Fund
- York University
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The synthesis of the bulky 1-(1-arylimino-2,2-dimethylpropyl)-3-(aryl) imidazolium salt from the corresponding imidazole and the activated imidoyl chloride is presented. The absence of acidic protons adjacent to the iminic carbon allowed for the first isolation of an imino-N-heterocyclic carbene of this ligand class. The free carbene was isolated, structurally characterised, and coordinated to titanium, zirconium, hafnium and chromium. The resulting metal halide complexes were fully characterised and were tested at room temperature and atmospheric pressure for their activity as ethylene polymerisation catalysts. The Zr(IV) complex was found to be the most active with a productivity of 140 kg PE mol M-1 h(-1).
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