A Chiral Salen-type Schiff Base Cu2+ Complex for the Vinylic-type Polymerization of Norbornene

作者:Chu, Zeng; Ding, Li Qin; Long, Yong; Chen, Lei Lei; Lue, Xing Qiang; Song, Ji Rong; Fan, Dai Di; Bao, Feng; Ma, Rui
来源:Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, 2010, 20(2): 235-241.
DOI:10.1007/s10904-010-9335-z

摘要

The chiral Salen-type Schiff base ligand H2L (H2L = (s)-(+)2,2'-bis(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylideneamino)-1,1'-binaphthyl), was selected to obtain the new chiral Cu2+ complex CuL (1), which was found to catalyze the polymerization of norbornene (NBE). The complex shows the distinctively distorted geometry from a square-planar reactive center, this feature being suggested to account for the efficient catalysis on the vinylic-type polymerization of NBE, with moderate molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions.