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"A general one-pot synthesis for elusive 2-substituted indenes: does bis[2-(tert-butyl)indenyl]zirconium(IV) dichloride/MAO polymerise ethene?"


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  • moeller2006
  • Ausgabe
  • 2006 (17) 
  • Seiten
  • 2098-2105 
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  • Abstract
  • Among the 2-substituted indenes, 2-trifluoroindene and 2-tert-butylindene are poorly or incompletely described in the open literature. We herein describe an efficient one-pot synthesis of these compounds as a variation of the Perkin reaction which allows us to refute an earlier claim that bis(2-tert-butylindenyl)zirconium(IV) dichloride (2a) will not polymerise ethene. In fact, 2a/MAO polymerises ethene to extremely high molecular weights. Extensive DFT calculations on the polymerisation mechanism revealed an unprecedented suppression of the otherwise predominant chain termination by -hydride transfer due to steric congestion of the active site. 
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