Elucidation of the Structure of a Highly Active Catalytic System for CO₂/Epoxide Copolymerization: A salen-Cobaltate Complex of an Unusual Binding Mode

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Abstract

Salen-type ligands comprised of ethylenediamine or 1,2-cyclohexenediamine, along with an salicylaldehyde bearing a methyl substituent on its 3-position and a -[CR(CH(2)CH(2)CH(2)N(+)Bu(3))(2)] (R = H or Me) on its 5-position, unexpectedly afford cobalt(III) complexes with uncoordinated imines. In these complexes, two salen-phenoxys and two 2,4-dinitrophenolates (DNPs), which counter the quaternary ammonium cations, coordinate persistently with cobalt, while two other DNPs are fluxional between a coordinated and an uncoordinated state in THF at room temperature. The complexes of this binding mode show excellent activities in carbon dioxide/propylene oxide copolymerization (TOF, 8300-13,000 h(-1)) but with some fluctuation in induction times (1-10 h), depending on how dry the system is. The induction time is shortened (<1.0 h) and activity is increased approximately 1.5 times upon the replacement of the two fluxional DNPs with 2,4-dinitrophenol-2,4-dinitrophenolate homoconjugation ([DNP...H...DNP](-)). Imposing steric congestion either by replacing the methyl substituent on the salicylaldehyde with tert-butyl or by employing H(2)NCMe(2)CMe(2)NH(2) instead of ethylenediamine or 1,2-cyclohexenediamine results in conventional imine-coordinating complexes, which show lower activities than uncoordinated imine complexes.

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