Abstract
When silica is employed as a bidentate ligand to bis(alkyl) complexes of the early first-row transition metals, rare terminal alkylidene fragments are readily formed and stabilized. These materials have the empirical formula (SiO) 2MCHEMe 3, where M is Ti, V, or Cr and E is C or Si, incorporating two covalent interactions with oxygens of the silica surface which serve to immobilize the grafted complexes. The silica-supported alkylidene complexes undergo several typical reactions, including electrophilic cleavage with H + and Br 2, metathetical exchange with acetone and styrene, and addition of a silane. Reaction with ethylene leads to oligomerization/polymerization, for which the material with M=Cr is particularly effective. The mechanism of initiation of polymerization, as well as the influence of the silica support (fumed versus precipitated) on the composition of the active sites, is discussed.
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