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Chromium N-phosphinoamidine ethylene tri-/tetramerization catalysts: Designing a step change in 1-octene selectivity

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Abstract Steric reduction principles were applied in N-phosphinoamidine ligand (PN) design to significantly improve 1-octene selectivity in ethylene tri-/tetramerization chromium catalysis. Novel phosphole- and phospholane-based PN-ligands were prepared and used… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Steric reduction principles were applied in N-phosphinoamidine ligand (PN) design to significantly improve 1-octene selectivity in ethylene tri-/tetramerization chromium catalysis. Novel phosphole- and phospholane-based PN-ligands were prepared and used to synthesize discrete chromium complexes which were fully characterized. The highest 1-octene producing Cr/PN/MMAO catalyst system compares favorably with the benchmark Cr/PNP/MMAO system generating a higher overall product selectivity at equivalent yields. Characterization of the structurally related cyclic phosphine-based Cr/PN pre-catalysts revealed that 1-octene selectivity varied inversely with the ligand bite angle, albeit over a small range. In contrast, the acyclic phosphine-based catalyst produces significantly less 1-octene than expected based on its small bite angle. This disparity signals a breakdown of bite angle as the main 1-octene selectivity geometric descriptor and suggests that the key selectivity driver occurs further away from the metal center requiring more sophisticated modeling efforts to properly account for the differences.

Keywords: tri tetramerization; ethylene tri; octene selectivity; selectivity; chromium

Journal Title: Journal of Catalysis
Year Published: 2020

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