Gerard van Koten and colleagues test a synthetic method for the synthesis of NCN-pincer complexes of early and middle transition metals, in cases where their synthesis via the corresponding lithium reagents fails. The paper also describes the results of tests using these new NCN-pincer metal complexes as olefin polymerisation precatalysts. Read more in their article below – free to read until the 30th June.
Mono N,C,N-pincer complexes of titanium, vanadium and niobium. Synthesis, structure and catalytic activity in olefin polymerisation
Alexey V. Chuchuryukin, Rubin Huang, Ernst E. van Faassen, Gerard P. M. van Klink, Martin Lutz, John C. Chadwick, Anthony L. Spek and Gerard van Koten, Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10482A
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This Hot Article will feature in the forthcoming Pincers themed issue appearing soon – indeed Professor van Koten is a guest editor of this issue, along with Professor Bert Klein Gebbink. Look out for the issue when it is published later this summer!
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