Dinuclear zinc salen catalysts for the ring opening copolymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide or anhydrides
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Author(s)
Williams, CK
Thevenon, A
Garden, J
White, AJP
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A series of four dizinc complexes coordinated by salen or salan ligands, derived from ortho-vanillin and bearing (±)-trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane (L₁) or 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine (L₂) backbones, is reported. The complexes are characterized using a combination of X-ray crystallography, multinuclear NMR, DOSY, and MALDI-TOF spectroscopies, and elemental analysis. The stability of the dinuclear complexes depends on the ligand structure, with the most stable complexes having imine substituents. The complexes are tested as catalysts for the ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of CO₂/cyclohexene oxide (CHO) and phthalic anhydride (PA)/CHO. All complexes are active, and the structure/activity relationships reveal that the complex having both L₂ and imine substituents displays the highest activity. In the ROCOP of CO2/CHO its activity is equivalent to other metal salen catalysts (TOF = 44 h⁻¹ at a catalyst loading of 0.1 mol %, 30 bar of CO₂, and 80 °C), while for the ROCOP of PA/CHO, its activity is slightly higher than other metal salen catalysts (TOF = 198 h⁻¹ at a catalyst loading of 1 mol % and 100 °C). Poly(ester-block-carbonate) polymers are also afforded using the most active catalyst by the one-pot terpolymerization of PA/CHO/CO₂.
Date Issued
2015-11-25
Date Acceptance
2015-11-10
Citation
Inorganic Chemistry, 2015, 54 (24), pp.11906-11915
ISSN
1520-510X
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
11906
End Page
11915
Journal / Book Title
Inorganic Chemistry
Volume
54
Issue
24
Copyright Statement
© 2015 American Chemical Society.This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited.
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Technology Strategy Board
Grant Number
EP/K035274/1
EP/K014668/1
EP/K014676/1
EP/L017393/1
101688
Subjects
Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
0302 Inorganic Chemistry
0904 Chemical Engineering
0399 Other Chemical Sciences
Publication Status
Published