Highly Active Di- and Trimetallic Cobalt Catalysts for the Copolymerization of CHO and CO2 at Atmospheric Pressure
Highly Active Di- and Trimetallic Cobalt Catalysts for the Copolymerization of CHO and CO2 at Atmospheric Pressure
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DOI:
10.1021/ma902582m
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发表时间:
2010-03-09
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5.5
通讯作者:
Williams, Charlotte K.
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作者:
Kember, Michael R.;White, Andrew J. P.;Williams, Charlotte K.
The synthesis and characterization of three new cobalt catalysts for the copolymerization of carbon dioxide and cyclohexene oxide are reported. All the complexes are extremely active at just 1 atm pressure of carbon dioxide, with very high selectivity for copolymerization and carbonate formation. The catalysts are dicobalt(II/II and II/III) and tricobalt(II/II/II) complexes coordinated by a macrocyclic, reduced "Robson" type ancillary ligand and by acetate groups. The complexes are significantly more active than their direct zinc analogues, which we attribute to the increased nucleophilicity of the cobalt-oxygen bond in the cobalt-carbonate propagating species. All three complexes are characterized using mass spectrometry, infrared and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopies, elemental analysis, and, for the tricobalt complex and mixed valence dicobalt species, single-crystal X-ray crystallography.