Copolymerization of Ethylene and Methyl Acrylate by Dibenzocycloheptyl-Substituted Aryliminopyridyl Ni(II) Catalysts
Ilaria D’Auria,
Zeinab Saki,
Ming Liu,
Wen-Hua Sun,
Claudio Pellecchia
Affiliations
Ilaria D’Auria
Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia “A. Zambelli”, Università di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Zeinab Saki
Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia “A. Zambelli”, Università di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Ming Liu
Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Wen-Hua Sun
Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Claudio Pellecchia
Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia “A. Zambelli”, Università di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Copolymerization of ethylene with polar vinyl monomers to yield functionalized and possibly easier recyclable polyolefins is challenging and it is currently being pursued mainly using expensive Pd-based catalysts. Herein, the copolymerization of ethylene and methyl acrylate (MA) is achieved by the dibenzocycloheptyl-substituted aryliminopyridyl Ni(II) complexes, affording copolymers with selectively in-chain incorporated MA units as well as both in-chain and end-of-chain inserted MA units depending on the catalyst structure and the reaction conditions
