Ethylene Polymerization by a Novel Dinuclear Heteroligated Titanium Complex with the Ligand of (Sali

The condensation of acetylacetone (CH3COCH2COCH3) with benzdine(H2N-C6H4-C6H4-NH2) yielded diimine ligand 1 [HOC(Me)C(H)(Me)C=N(p-C6H4)(C6H4-p)N=C(Me)C(H)C(Me)OH)],which was converted into sodium salts.And then the sodium salts reacted with monosalicylaldiminato titanium complex 2{[3,5-di-Bu'-240)C6H2CHN(PH)]TiCl3(THF)} in dried dichloromethane to give a new benzdine-bridged binuclear complex 3{[3,5-di-Bu'-2-(O)C6H2CHN(PH)]2[OC(Me)C(H)(Me)C=N(p-C6H4)-(C6H4-p)N=C(Me)C(H)C(Me)]Ti2Cl4}.The complex 3 was characterized by 1HNMR and elemental analysis.In the presence of MAO(methylaluminoxane),the complex 3 in toluene was effective to catalyze polymerization,affording moderately high catalytic high temperature gel permeation chromatography (GPC) curve of polyethylene obtained revealed a single peak,but the molecular weight distribution (MWD=3.21) is obviously broader than that of the similar mononuclear titanium complex.The melting points of the obtained polyethylene reaches 138 ℃,indicating that the polyethylene is of high crystallinity.