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Dashti A, Ahmadi M. Recent Advances in Controlled Production of Long-Chain Branched Polyolefins. Macromol Rapid Commun 2024; 45:e2300746. [PMID: 38488683 DOI: 10.1002/marc.202300746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
Abstract
Polyolefins, composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms, dominate global polymer production. This stems from the wide range of physical and mechanical properties that various polyolefins can cover. Their versatile properties are largely tuned by chain microstructure, including molar mass distribution, comonomer content, and long-chain branching (LCB). Specifically, LCB imparts unique characteristics, notably enhances processability crucial for downstream applications. Tailoring LCB structural features has encouraged academic and industrial efforts, chronicle in this review from a chemistry standpoint. While encompassing post-reaction modification based traditional methods like peroxide grafting, ionizing beam irradiation, and coupling reactions, the main focus is given to catalyst-centric strategies and innovative polymerization schemes. The advent of single-site catalysts-metallocenes and late transition metals catalysts-amplifies interest in tailored chemical methods, but the progress in LCB formation flourishes via tandem catalytic systems and bimetallic catalysts under controlled reaction conditions. Specifically, the breakthrough in coordinative chain transfer polymerization unveils a novel avenue for controlled LCB synthesis by sequential chain propagation, transfer, liberation, and enchainment. This short review highlights recent approaches for the production of LCB polyolefins that can provide a roadmap crucial for researchers in academia and industry, steering their efforts toward further advancements in the production of tailored polyolefin.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arezoo Dashti
- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 159163-4311, Iran
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- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 159163-4311, Iran
- Department of Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55128, Mainz, Germany
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Dashti A, Ahmadi M, Haddadi-Asl V, Ahmadjo S, Mortazavi SMM. Tandem coordinative chain transfer polymerization for long chain branched Polyethylene: The role of chain displacement. Eur Polym J 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2023.112008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Hassanian-Moghaddam D, Mortazavi SMM, Ahmadjo S, Doveirjavi M, Rahmati A, Ahmadi M. Resolving long-chain branch formation in tandem catalytic coordinative chain transfer polymerization of ethylene via thermal analysis. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-021-02860-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Mechanistic study on the metallocene-based tandem catalytic coordinative chain transfer polymerization for the synthesis of highly branched polyolefins. Eur Polym J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2021.110454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hashmi OH, Visseaux M, Champouret Y. Evidence of coordinative chain transfer polymerization of isoprene using iron iminopyridine/ZnEt 2 catalytic systems. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1py00433f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Herein, the first example of a reversible iron-mediated chain transfer polymerisation of isoprene with ZnEt2 as the chain transfer agent is reported.
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- Obaid H. Hashmi
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181 – UCCS – Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181 – UCCS – Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181 – UCCS – Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, F-59000 Lille, France
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Maddah Y, Ahmadjo S, Mortazavi SMM, Sharif F, Hassanian-Moghaddam D, Ahmadi M. Control over Branching Topology by Introducing a Dual Catalytic System in Coordinative Chain Transfer Polymerization of Olefins. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yasaman Maddah
- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 1591634311 Iran
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- Engineering Department, Catalyst Group, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, Tehran, 1497713115 Iran
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- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 1591634311 Iran
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- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 1591634311 Iran
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- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 1591634311 Iran
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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Jiang WT, Yang S, Xu MY, Xie XY, Xiao B. Zn-mediated decarboxylative carbagermatranation of aliphatic N-hydroxyphthalimide esters: evidence for an alkylzinc intermediate. Chem Sci 2020; 11:488-493. [PMID: 32874490 PMCID: PMC7439774 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04288a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Alkyl nucleophiles synthesized by decarboxylation of the corresponding N-hydroxyphthalimide esters (NHP esters) would inherit the complex structure of natural carboxylic acids and result in useful cross-coupling fragments. Herein, we report the synthesis of alkyl carbagermatranes via Zn-mediated decarboxylation of NHP esters without Ni catalysis or photocatalysis. Mechanistic studies indicate that an alkyl zinc intermediate was involved; however, the generation of alkyl zinc will be inhibited in the presence of Ni. Hence, this study provides valuable resolution to the perplexing problem about whether organozinc was involved in recently emerging catalytic systems of NHP ester-Zn. Meanwhile, alkyl zinc reagents from NHP esters are compatible with aryl/alkyl bromides and iodides; therefore the scope of carbagermatranation in this work precedes that of in situ-generated organozinc from alkyl halides.
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- Wei-Tao Jiang
- Department of Chemistry , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026 , China .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026 , China .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026 , China .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026 , China .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026 , China .
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Champouret Y, Hashmi OH, Visseaux M. Discrete iron-based complexes: Applications in homogeneous coordination-insertion polymerization catalysis. Coord Chem Rev 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2019.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Affiliation(s)
- Orson L. Sydora
- Research & Technology, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, Kingwood, Texas 77339, United States
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Cueny ES, Landis CR. Zinc-Mediated Chain Transfer from Hafnium to Aluminum in the Hafnium-Pyridyl Amido-Catalyzed Polymerization of 1-Octene Revealed by Job Plot Analysis. Organometallics 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Eric S. Cueny
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Gollwitzer A, Kretschmer WP, Kempe R. Synthesis of Linear α-Olefin Distributions with Flexible Mean Molecular Weight by a Ti-Al-Ni Catalyst System. Organometallics 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Andreas Gollwitzer
- Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie II−Katalysatordesign, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie II−Katalysatordesign, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie II−Katalysatordesign, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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The catalytic synthesis of linear α-olefins from ethylene is a technologically highly important reaction. A synthesis concept allowing the formation of selective products and various linear α-olefin product distributions with one catalyst system is highly desirable. Here, we describe a trimetallic catalyst system (Y–Al–Ni) consisting of a rare earth metal polymerization catalyst which can mediate coordinative chain transfer to triethylaluminum combined with a simultaneously operating nickel β-hydride elimination/transfer catalyst. This nickel catalyst displaces the grown alkyl chains forming linear α-olefins and recycles the aluminum-based chain transfer agent. With one catalyst system, we can synthesize product spectra ranging from selective 1-butene formation to α-olefin distributions centered at 850 gmol−1 with a low polydispersity. The key to this highly flexible linear α-olefin synthesis is the easy tuning of the rates of the Y and Ni catalysis independently of each other. The reaction is substoichiometric or formally catalytic regarding the chain transfer agent. Linear α-olefins are important bulk chemicals annually produced in megaton scale. Here, the authors report a trimetallic catalyst system for the synthesis of 1-butene and a broad range of α-olefins and achieve control over chain length by tuning the reaction rates of the nickel and yttrium catalysts.
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Zhu Z, Tang X, Li J, Li X, Wu W, Deng G, Jiang H. Iron-Catalyzed Synthesis of 2H-Imidazoles from Oxime Acetates and Vinyl Azides under Redox-Neutral Conditions. Org Lett 2017; 19:1370-1373. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b00203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Zhongzhi Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional
Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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Damavandi S, Zohuri GH, Sandaroos R, Ahmadjo S. Bis(imino)pyridine–iron(II) complexes for ethylene polymerization. POLYMER SCIENCE SERIES B 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s1560090417010031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Martínez A, Moreno-Blázquez S, Rodríguez-Diéguez A, Ramos A, Fernández-Galán R, Antiñolo A, Carrillo-Hermosilla F. Simple ZnEt2as a catalyst in carbodiimide hydroalkynylation: structural and mechanistic studies. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:12923-12934. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt02700a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Simple ZnEt2is an efficient catalyst for the addition of terminal alkynes to carbodiimides, through amidinate complexes, and consecutive isocyanate addition and intramolecular cyclohydroamination.
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- Antonio Martínez
- Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA)
- Dpto. de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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- Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA)
- Dpto. de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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- Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA)
- Dpto. de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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- Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA)
- Dpto. de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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- Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA)
- Dpto. de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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- Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA)
- Dpto. de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologías Químicas
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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