催化学报 ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 657-666.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(14)60271-0

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水杨醛亚胺钒(Ⅲ)化合物催化乙烯聚合反应机理

王永霞a, 左明辉b, 李悦生a,c   

  1. a 中国科学院长春应用化学研究所高分子物理与化学国家重点实验室, 吉林长春 130022;
    b 牡丹江师范学院化学化工学院, 黑龙江牡丹江 157012;
    c 天津大学材料科学与工程学院, 天津 300072
  • 收稿日期:2014-11-07 修回日期:2014-12-12 出版日期:2015-03-23 发布日期:2015-03-23
  • 通讯作者: Yuesheng Li
  • 基金资助:

    国家自然科学基金(21104081, 21234006).

Theoretical investigation of the mechanism of ethylene polymerization with salicylaldiminato vanadium(Ⅲ) complexes

Yongxia Wanga, Minghui Zuob, Yuesheng Lia,c   

  1. a State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China;
    b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Mudanjiang Normal University, Mudanjiang 157012, Heilongjiang, China;
    c School of Material Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • Received:2014-11-07 Revised:2014-12-12 Online:2015-03-23 Published:2015-03-23
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21104081 and 21234006).

摘要:

钒系烯烃聚合催化剂在工业上有着不可替代的位置, 它可用于制备高活性窄分布的聚合物、乙烯与α-烯烃共聚物和间规聚丙烯等. 但由于实验手段难以确定钒催化剂活性物种的结构, 进一步对催化机理的确认及催化剂结构的改进十分困难. 本文运用密度泛函方法对水杨醛亚胺钒配合物催化乙烯聚合的活性物种结构进行了理论研究. 对多种活性物种模型的比较研究结果表明, 对此催化反应最有利的活性物种为中性双金属物种a1, a1结构中包含两个连接铝原子与钒中心的氯桥结构. 研究同时表明, 助催化剂AlEt2Cl的存在不仅加速了钒配合物前体的烷基化反应, 同时其对活性物种a1结构中氯桥的形成至关重要. 最后还研究了该催化体系的链终止反应机理.

关键词: 量子化学计算, 密度泛函理论, 烯烃聚合, 钒, 催化机理

Abstract:

The use of vanadium-based catalysts allows the preparation of high molecular mass polymers with uniform molecular mass distributions, polypropylene and ethylene/α-olefin copolymers with high α-olefin incorporation. However, the design of ligand systems with vanadium catalysts would face difficulties, because it is difficult to experimentally determine the structures of the active species of vanadium catalysts. In this paper, possible structural candidates for the active species in ethylene polymerization catalyzed by the salicylaldiminato vanadium complex combined with AlEt2Cl were investigated using density functional theory. By comparing theoretical simulation results with previous experimental investigations, especially regarding the crucial role of the diethyaluminum chloride (AlEt2Cl) cocatalyst, it was concluded that a neutral bimetallic species containing two Al-Cl-V bridging bonds is the most favorable structure model for the active vanadium species. A notable effect of Al co-catalysts was clarified in the theoretical investigation. During the formation of the active species, AlEt2Cl act as an assistant for the alkylation and alkyl abstract processes of precursors. More importantly, AlEt2Cl is necessary for the formation of the bis(chlorine-bridged) structure in the active species, which showed a notable effect on the structural stability of the active species and its catalytic activity. Additionally, we investigated the chain termination mechanism in this system.

Key words: Quantum chemistry calculation, Density functional theory, Olefin polymerization, Vanadium, Catalytic mechanism