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Preparation of Pyridylamido Hafnium Complexes for Olefin Polymerization

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The pyridylamido hafnium complex (I) discovered at Dow is a flagship catalyst among postmetallocenes, which are used in the polyolefin industry for PO-chain growth from a chain transfer agent, dialkylzinc. In the present work, with the aim to block a possible deactivation process in prototype compound I, the corresponding derivatives were prepared. A series of pyridylamido Hf complexes were prepared by replacing the 2,6-diisopropylphenylamido part in I with various 2,6-R2C6H3N- moieties (R = cycloheptyl, cyclohexyl, cyclopentyl, 3-pentyl, ethyl, or Ph) or by replacing 2-iPrC6H4C(H)- in I with the simple PhC(H)- moiety. The isopropyl substituent in the 2-iPrC6H4C(H)- moiety influences not only the geometry of the structures (revealed by X-ray crystallography) but also catalytic performance. In the complexes bearing the 2-iPrC6H4C(H)- moiety, the chelation framework forms a plane; however, this framework is distorted in the complexes containing the PhC(H)- moiety. The ability to incorporate a-olefin decreased upon replacing 2-iPrC6H4C(H)- with the PhC(H)- moiety. The complexes carrying the 2,6-di(cycloheptyl)phenylamido or 2,6-di(cyclohexyl)phenylamido moiety (replacing the 2,6-diisopropylphenylamido part in I) showed somewhat higher activity with greater longevity than did prototype catalyst I.

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1. Introduction 1
2. Results and Discussion 4
2.1 Preparation of Hf complexes 4
2.2 X-ray crystallographic analyses 8
2.3 Polymerization experiments 12
3. Conclusions 14
4. Experimental Section 16
4.1 General remarks 16
4.2 A typical CCTP 27
4.3 Ethylene polymerization with flowmeter 28
4.4 High-temperature GPC studies 29
4.5 X-ray crystallography 29
4.6 Crystallographic data on compound 30
5. Acknowledgements 31
6. Reference 31
7. Supporting information 40

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