Nonconventional catalysts for isotactic propene polymerization in solution developed by using high-throughput-screening technologies.
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Mössbauer spectroscopy and dc magnetization measurements have been used to characterize the low temperature magnetism of a rigorously linear, two-coordinate complex of high-spin Fe(II), Fe[(C(Si(CH3)3]2 (1). The local C-Fe-C chromophore of 1 exhibits novel slow, single-ion paramagnetic relaxation and fully resolved magnetic hyperfine splitting of its zero field Mössbauer spectrum over the range approximately 100 to approximately 50K. The hyperfine field at 4.2 K is 152 T! This is the largest magnetic hyperfine field observed for iron to date regardless of spin, oxidation state, or coordination environment. This observation is attributable to the large unquenched orbital angular momentum corresponding to the degenerate ground (dxy, dx2-y2) orbital pair of 1 in local Dinfinityh symmetry. Maintenance of the ground-state degeneracy is required by the Jahn-Teller theorem leading to the unprecedented result that the magnitude of the magnetic moment of 1's 5Deltag ground state is essentially that of the parent free ion (5D4) ground term.
For the first time, new catalysts for olefin polymerization have been discovered through the application of fully integrated high-throughput primary and secondary screening techniques supported by rapid polymer characterization methods. Microscale 1-octene primary screening polymerization experiments combining arrays of ligands with reactive metal complexes M(CH(2)Ph)(4) (M = Zr, Hf) and multiple activation conditions represent a new high-throughput technique for discovering novel group (IV) polymerization catalysts. The primary screening methods described here have been validated using a commercially relevant polyolefin catalyst, and implemented rapidly to discover the new amide-ether based hafnium catalyst [eta(2)-(N,O)[bond](2-MeO[bond]C(6)H(4))(2,4,6-Me(3)C(6)H(2))N]Hf(CH(2)Ph)(3) (1), which is capable of polymerizing 1-octene to high conversion. The molecular structure of 1 has been determined by X-ray diffraction. Larger scale secondary screening experiments performed on a focused 96-member amine-ether library demonstrated the versatile high temperature ethylene-1-octene copolymerization capabilities of this catalyst class, and led to significant performance improvements over the initial primary screening discovery. Conventional one gallon batch reactor copolymerizations performed using selected amide-ether hafnium compounds confirmed the performance features of this new catalyst class, serving to fully validate the experimental results from the high-throughput approaches described herein.