Yue Tang, Haonan Chen, Yanjun Chen, Jue Chen, Yunjie Luo
To systematically investigate the dependence of the initiating group and metal size on polymerization performance, a family of rare-earth metal bis(alkyl)/bis(benzyl)/bis(amide) complexes supported by a monoanionic tridentate amidinate ligand [(2,6- i Pr2 C6 H3 )NC(Ph)N(C6 H4 -2-OMe]- ( HL ) were synthesized and well-characterized. Treatment of rare-earth metal tris(alkyl)/tris(benzyl)/tris(amide) complexes Y(CH2 C6 H4 NMe2 - o )3 or Y(CH2 SiMe3 )3 (THF)2 or Ln[N(SiHMe2 )2 ]3 (THF) x (Ln = Sc, x = 1; Ln = Y, La, Sm, Lu, x = 2) with 1 equiv of HL gave the corresponding mono(amidinate) rare-earth metal bis(alkyl)/bis(benzyl)/bis(amide) complexes [(2,6- i Pr2 C6 H4 )NC(Ph)N(C6 H4 -2-OMe)]Y(CH2 C6 H4 NMe2 - o )2 ( 1 ), [(2,6- i Pr2 C6 H4 )NC(Ph)N(C6 H4 -2-OMe)]Y(CH2 SiMe3 )2 (THF) ( 2 ), and [(2,6- i Pr2 C6 H4 )NC(Ph)N(C6 H4 -2-OMe)]Ln[N(SiHMe2 )2 ]2 (THF) n (Ln = Y, n = 1 ( 3 ); Ln = La, n = 1 ( 4 ); Ln = Sc, n = 0 ( 5 ); Ln = Lu, n = 0 ( 6 ); Ln = Sm, n = 0 ( 7 )) in good isolated yields...
April 18, 2024: Inorganic Chemistry