Abstract
AbstractStereocontrol energy (ΔE0) is investigated as a measure of enantioselectivity of ansa‐zircoocenium catalyst in propylene polymerization; it was calculated with MM2 (molecular mechanics) force field using π complex (°C) and transition state (TS) geometries obtained by ab initio molecular orbital methods. Both rac‐ethylenebis (1‐η5‐indenyl) ‐ (1) and rac‐ethylenebis (1‐η5‐4,5,7,8‐tetrahydroindenyl) (2) zirconocenium species are isospecific in either the π‐complexes or the transition states. The stereoselectivity is greater if there is α‐agostic interaction; it is lowered in the cases of β and γ agostic interactions. The 13C‐NMR steric pentad distribution indicates the poly(propylene) to be much less stereoregular than that predicted by ΔE0. Following the occurrence of a regiochemical insertion error, the addition of another monomer via any mode is prohibitively unfavorable. The catalyst suffers loss of stereospecificity as temperature of polymerization increases. Insertion via transition states involving different agostic interactions could be one explanation for the observed loss. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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