Switchable Synthesis of Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymers by a Dinickel Catalyst: Evidence for Chain Growth on Both Nickel Centers and Concepts of Cation Exchange Polymerization
Abstract
A dinickel complex, X-Ni2, was developed and demonstrated to have a high performance in ethylene/acrylate copolymerization. Further mechanistic studies revealed that X-Ni2 performs acrylate insertion at both Ni centers at distinct rates. Addition of NaBArF24 to X-Ni2 leads to 1:1 binding and serves as a switch for tuning catalytic activity, copolymer MW and acrylate incorporation. NMR studies of cation binding, when present in substoichiometric amounts, suggest a dynamic process involving cation exchange. This phenomenon provides an alternative strategy for controlling chain growth in polar polyolefin synthesis and was probed herein.
Copyright and License
© 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This publication is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
Acknowledgement
We are grateful to Dow (TA) for funding. We thank Alex J. Nett and Todd D. Senecal for insightful discussions. We thank Manar M. Shoshani for assistance with X-ray crystallography and David VanderVelde for assistance with NMR spectroscopy. We thank Hannah Bailey and Heidi Clements for assistance in collecting polymer characterization data (GPC, DSC, FT-IR). Support has been provided for the X-ray diffraction and NMR instrumentation via the Dow Next Generation Educator Fund.
Data Availability
-
Experimental section; synthetic procedures, characterization data, cation binding studies, and polymerization studies (PDF)
-
X-ray data (CIF)
CCDC 2302334 contains the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
Files
Name | Size | Download all |
---|---|---|
md5:4c159708a181ad92fa71bdced038daca
|
19.3 kB | Download |
md5:35a84c088cfcb6387cbc9505969b96af
|
7.1 MB | Download |
md5:fa6a7f1e35e983e3c509fd507750ad9b
|
2.8 MB | Preview Download |
Additional details
- ISSN
- 2155-5435
- Dow Chemical (United States)
- Dow Next Generation Educator Fund