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- Title
Aqueous Coordination‐Insertion Copolymerization for Producing High Molecular Weight Polar Polyolefins.
- Authors
Liu, Yu; Wang, Chaoqun; Mu, Hongliang; Jian, Zhongbao
- Abstract
Hydrocarbons, when used as the medium for transition metal catalyzed organic reactions and olefin (co‐)polymerization, are ubiquitous. Environmentally friendly water is highly attractive and long‐sought, but is greatly challenging as coordination‐insertion copolymerization reaction medium of olefin and polar monomers. Unfavorable interactions from both water and polar monomer usually lead to either catalyst deactivation or the formation of low‐molecular‐weight polymers. Herein, we develop well‐behaved neutral phosphinophenolato nickel catalysts, which enable aqueous copolymerization of ethylene and diverse polar monomers to produce significantly high‐molecular‐weight linear polar polyolefins (219–549 kDa, 0.13–1.29 mol %) in a single‐component fashion under mild conditions for the first time. These copolymerization reactions occur better in water than in hydrocarbons such as toluene. The dual characteristics of high molecular weight and the incorporation of a small amount of functional group result in improved surface properties while retain the desirable intrinsic properties of high‐density polyethylene (HDPE).
- Subjects
MOLECULAR weights; COPOLYMERIZATION; HIGH density polyethylene; CATALYST poisoning; NICKEL catalysts; POLYOLEFINS; ORGANIC synthesis
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 23, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202404392