A Theoretical Outlook on the Stereoselectivity Origins of Isoselective Zirconocene Propylene Polymerization Catalysts

Ludovic Castro 1 Gabriel Theurkauff 2 Aurelien Vantomme 3 Alexandre Welle 3 Luc Haspeslagh 4 Jean-Michel Brusson 4 Laurent Maron 1 Jean-Francois Carpentier 2 Evgueni Kirillov 2
1 LPCNO - Laboratoire de physique et chimie des nano-objets
2 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes
3 Total Research & Technology Center Feluy
4 TOTAL France S.A.
Abstract : The first three insertion steps of propylene for isoselective metallocenes from the one-carbon-bridged cyclopentadienyl-fluorenyl {Cp/Flu} and silicon-bridged ansa-bis(indenyl) {SBI} families were computed by using a theoretical method implementing the B3PW91 functional in combination with solvent corrections incorporated with the Solvation Model based on Density (SMD) continuum model. For C -symmetric {Cp/Flu}-type metallocenes, two mechanisms of stereocontrol were validated theoretically: more facile and more stereoselective chain "stationary" insertion (or site epimerization backskip) and less stereoselective alternating mechanisms. For the C -symmetric {SBI}-type system, the computation results were in complete agreement with the sole operating chain migratory insertion mechanism. The thermochemical data obtained through the study were used to predict microstructures of polypropylenes by using three-parameter and one-parameter statistical models for the two metallocene systems, respectively. The calculated meso/rac pentad distributions were found to be in good agreement with those determined experimentally for isotactic polypropylene samples obtained at different polymerization temperatures.
Keywords : polymerization stereoselectivity polypropylene metallocene catalysts DFT study
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Ludovic Castro, Gabriel Theurkauff, Aurelien Vantomme, Alexandre Welle, Luc Haspeslagh, et al.. A Theoretical Outlook on the Stereoselectivity Origins of Isoselective Zirconocene Propylene Polymerization Catalysts. Chemistry - A European Journal, Wiley-VCH Verlag, In press, 24 (42), pp.10784-10792. ⟨10.1002/chem.201801438⟩. ⟨hal-01807879⟩

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