New sterically hindered unbridged zirconocene complexes with 1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl ligands: synthesis, structure and properties as olefin polymerization catalysts. Zhang, F., Mu, Y., Zhao, L., Zhang, Y., Bu, W., Chen, C., Zhai, H., & Hong, H. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 613(1):68–76, 2000.
New sterically hindered unbridged zirconocene complexes with 1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl ligands: synthesis, structure and properties as olefin polymerization catalysts [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
New unbridged zirconocene complexes, bis(1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl)zirconium dichloride (3) and bis(4-methy-1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl)zirconium dichloride (4) have been synthesized in high yield by reaction of ZrCl4 with the lithium salt of 1,2-diphenylcyclopentadiene (1) or 4-methyl-1,2-diphenylcyclopentadiene (2), respectively. X-ray crystallographic analysis reveals both complexes are in racemic-like conformation with near C2 symmetry in solid state. When activated with methylaluminoxane (MAO), 3 and 4 exhibit moderate catalytic activities for ethylene polymerization at relatively low Al:Zr ratios, producing high molecular weight (\textgreater106) polyethylenes with high melting transition temperatures. Atactic propylene oligomers with average molecular weight of ∼103 g mol−1 were produced by both 3 and 4 at relatively high catalytic activities upon activation with MAO.
@article{zhang_new_2000,
	title = {New sterically hindered unbridged zirconocene complexes with 1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl ligands: synthesis, structure and properties as olefin polymerization catalysts},
	volume = {613},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-328X(00)00498-8},
	doi = {10.1016/S0022-328X(00)00498-8},
	abstract = {New unbridged zirconocene complexes, bis(1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl)zirconium dichloride (3) and bis(4-methy-1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl)zirconium dichloride (4) have been synthesized in high yield by reaction of ZrCl4 with the lithium salt of 1,2-diphenylcyclopentadiene (1) or 4-methyl-1,2-diphenylcyclopentadiene (2), respectively. X-ray crystallographic analysis reveals both complexes are in racemic-like conformation with near C2 symmetry in solid state. When activated with methylaluminoxane (MAO), 3 and 4 exhibit moderate catalytic activities for ethylene polymerization at relatively low Al:Zr ratios, producing high molecular weight ({\textgreater}106) polyethylenes with high melting transition temperatures. Atactic propylene oligomers with average molecular weight of ∼103 g mol−1 were produced by both 3 and 4 at relatively high catalytic activities upon activation with MAO.},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Journal of Organometallic Chemistry},
	author = {Zhang, Fan and Mu, Ying and Zhao, Ligang and Zhang, Yuetao and Bu, Weiming and Chen, Congxi and Zhai, Huimin and Hong, Han},
	year = {2000},
	keywords = {catalyst, ligand, modification, olefin, polymerization, zirconocene},
	pages = {68--76},
}

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