New tantalum ligand-free catalyst system for highly selective trimerization of ethylene affording 1-hexene: New evidence of a metallacycle mechanism

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5370-5371

  Arteaga Müller, Rocío ^a   Tsurugi, Hayato ^a   Saito, Teruhiko ^a   Yanagawa, Masao ^b   Oda, Seiji ^b   Mashima, Kazushi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-HEXENE; CATALYST SYSTEM; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; HEXADIENE; LIGAND-FREE; LOW-VALENT; METALLACYCLE; REDUCING REAGENTS; TRIMERIZATION; TRIMETHYLSILYL;

ETHYLENE; NIOBIUM;

TANTALUM;

1 HEXENE; ETHYLENE; LIGAND; OLIGOMER; TANTALUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; REDUCTION;

EID: 67849121575     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja8100837     Document Type: Article

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