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Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 351-354 (2001)

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Vol. 73, Issue 2

Rare earth metal-based catalysts for the polymerization of nonpolar and polar monomers*

Jun Okuda**, Stefan Arndt, Klaus Beckerle, Kai C. Hultzsch, Peter Voth, and Thomas P. Spaniol

Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

Abstract: The synthesis of rare earth metal half-sandwich hydrido complexes [Ln (h5:h1-C5Me 4SiMe2NCMe3) (THF) (µ-H) ] 2 (Ln = Y, Lu) through s-bond metathesis of the easily accessible alkyl complexes [Ln (h5:h1-C5Me 4SiMe2NCMe3) (CH2 SiMe3) (THF) ] was developed. The dimeric yttrium hydrido complexes are highly fluxional, and a monomer-dimer equilibrium is present. They were tested as single-site, single-component catalysts for the polymerization of ethylene and styrene, as well as alkyl acrylate and acrylonitrile. The hydrido complexes polymerize ethylene slowly and form isolable mono (insertion) products with styrene. The yttrium n-alkyl complexes [Y (h5:h1-C5Me 4SiMe2NCMe3) (R) (THF) ] [R = (CH2) nCH3, n = 3-9], prepared by the mono (insertion) of a-olefins, initiate polymerization in a relatively controlled manner. Thus, styrene was polymerized by the n-alkyl complex to give atactic polystyrenes with somewhat enriched syndiotacticities.

* Lecture presented at the XIXth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (XIX ICOMC) , Shanghai, China, 23-28 July 2000. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 205-376.
** Corresponding author


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