Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing manganese complex compounds of the general formula (1), wherein M, X, L, z, Y and q are defined as in claim 1. The method is characterized by the following steps: a) reacting one or more bivalent metal salts with the ligand L in water as the solvent to form a coordination compound from the one or more bivalent metal salt and the ligand L, the one or more bivalent metal salts being selected from bivalent manganese salts and iron salts and at least one bivalent metal salt being a bivalent manganese salt, b) oxidizing the coordination compound of step a) with an oxidant while at the same time maintaining a pH of 11 to 14, to transform the metal M from the bivalent to the trivalent and/or tetravalent form, c) reducing the pH of the reaction mixture to a pH of 4 to 9 and removing any metal oxides or metal hydroxides of the metal M formed and d) adding, at a pH of 4 to 9, a salt of the formula MezYq, wherein Me represents an alkali metal ion, ammonium ion or an alkanol ammonium ion, and Y, z and q are defined as in formula (1).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for recycling cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I) and (I′), a process for preparing metallocenes of the formula (III) from cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I) and (I′) or from bridged biscyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formula (II), in which the cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I), (I′) or (II) which are used have been at least partly recovered and purified by means of liquid-solid chromatography, and the use of liquid-solid chromatography for purifying substituted, recovered cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I), (I′) or (II).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the meso-selective preparation of ansa-metallocene complexes of the formula (I), which comprises reacting a ligand starting compound of the formula (II) with a transition metal compound of the formula III, where R1, R1 are identical or different and are each hydrogen or an organic radical having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, R2, R2 are identical or different and are each hydrogen or an organic radical having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, R3 is a bulky organic radical which has at least 3 carbon atoms, is bound to the oxygen atom via a nonaromatic carbon or silicon atom and may be substituted by halogen atoms or further organic radicals having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms and may also contain heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of Si, N, P, O and S, T, T′ are identical or different and are each a divalent organic group which has from 1 to 40 carbon atoms and together with the cyclopentadienyl ring forms at least one further saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted ring system having a ring size of from 5 to 12 atoms, where T and T′ may contain the heteroatoms Si, Ge, N, P, As, Sb, O, S, Se or Te within the ring system fused to the cyclopentadienyl ring, A is a bridge consisting of a divalent atom or a divalent group, M1 is an element of group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of the Elements or the lanthanides, the radicals X are identical or different and are each an organic or inorganic radical which is able to be replaced by a cyclopentadienyl anion, x is a natural number from 1 to 4, M2 is an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or a magnesium monohalide fragment, p is 1 in the case of doubly positively charged metal ions or 2 in the case of singly positively charged metal ions or metal ion fragments, LB is an uncharged Lewis base ligand, and y is a natural number from 0 to 6, and also the subsequent reaction of these complexes to form ansa-metallocenes of the formula (IV), the use of transition metal compounds of the formula (III) for preparing metallocenes and also transition metal compounds of the formula (III), ansa-metallocene complexes of the formula (I) and the use of these as constituents of catalyst systems for the polymerization of olefines.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated, racemic ansa-metallocene complexes by reacting bridged or unbridged transition metal complexes with alkali metal compounds or alkaline earth metal compounds, heating the resulting reaction mixture to a temperature in the range from −78 to 250° C. and at least partially hydrogenating the reaction products in the presence of a suitable catalyst, to the corresponding hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated metallocenes and to their use as catalysts or as a constituent of catalysts for the polymerization of olefinically unsaturated compounds or as reagents or catalysts in stereoselective synthesis.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing metal complexes of formula (2) [MaLxXn]Ym (2), where M is a metal from the group consisting of Mn(II), Mn(III), Mn(IV), Fe(II), Fe(III) or Fe(IV), X is a coordinating compound selected from mono-, bi- or tri-charged anions or neutral molecules which can coordinate to a metal in mono-, bi- or tri-dentate form, Y represents a non-coordinating counter-ion which ensures charge equalization of the complex, L represents a ligand of formula (1) or the protonized or de-protonized form thereof, and a, x, n, m, R, R1, R2, R3 and z have the meanings described in claim 1. Said method is characterized in that the reaction of one or more ligands of formula (1) with an iron salt or manganese salt is carried out in an acetone/water mixture in a temperature range from 0 to 50° C. and for this purpose a solution or a suspension of the one or more ligands of formula (1) in acetone is brought in contact with an aqueous metal salt solution of the iron salt or manganese salt in the temperature range in which the reaction takes place.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing manganese complex compounds of the general formula (1), wherein M, X, L, z, Y and q are defined as in claim 1. The method is characterized by the following steps: a) reacting one or more bivalent metal salts with the ligand L in water as the solvent to form a coordination compound from the one or more bivalent metal salt and the ligand L, the one or more bivalent metal salts being selected from bivalent manganese salts and iron salts and at least one bivalent metal salt being a bivalent manganese salt, b) oxidizing the coordination compound of step a) with an oxidant while at the same time maintaining a pH of 11 to 14, to transform the metal M from the bivalent to the trivalent and/or tetravalent form, c) reducing the pH of the reaction mixture to a pH of 4 to 9 and removing any metal oxides or metal hydroxides of the metal M formed and d) adding, at a pH of 4 to 9, a salt of the formula MezYq, wherein Me represents an alkali metal ion, ammonium ion or an alkanol ammonium ion, and Y, z and q are defined as in formula (1).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a specific process for the diastereoselective synthesis of rac-diorganosilylbis(2-methylbenzo[e]indenyl)zirconium compounds of the formula I, by reacting the silyl-bridged bisindenyl ligand with a dihalozirconium bis(3,5-di-tert-butylphenoxide)-base adduct to form the diorganosilylbis(2-methylbenzo[e]indenyl)zirconium bis(3,5-di-tert-butylphenoxide) and subsequently replacing the phenoxide groups by X using suitable replacement reagents to give the compound of the formula I; where the substituents X can be identical or different and are each F, Cl, Br, I or linear, cyclic or branched C1-10-alkyl; and the substituents R can be identical or different and are each linear, cyclic or branched C1-10-alkyl or C6-10-aryl; and also to the use of these compounds as catalysts.
Abstract:
In an industrial process for the manufacture of sodium orthohydroxymandelate by condensation of phenol in an inert atmosphere with glyoxylic acid in aqueous solution, in the presence of a tertiary amine and of catalytic quantities of a trivalent metal cation at a temperature below 100.degree. C., carried out continuously in at least two reactors (R1 . . . Rn) installed in series, the first being supplied by a first tank C1 containing the glyoxylic acid and the trivalent metal cations, and a second tank C2 containing the phenol and the tertiary amine, the reaction medium obtained at the outlet of the last of the at least two reactors and consisting of an aqueous phase and an organic phase is transferred into the first of two mixer-decanters (MD1 and MD2) installed in series, the aqueous phase of the first mixer-decanter MD1 is recovered in order to extract the expected sodium orthohydroxymandelate from it, while the organic phase that has come from MD1 is transferred into the second mixer-decanter MD2 and washed with water, and the organic phase of the second mixer-decanter MD2 is transferred to the second tank (C2).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for recycling cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I) and (I′), a process for preparing metallocenes of the formula (III) from cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I) and (I′) or from bridged biscyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formula (II), in which the cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I), (I′) or (II) which are used have been at least partly recovered and purified by means of liquid-solid chromatography, and the use of liquid-solid chromatography for purifying substituted, recovered cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the formulae (I), (I′) or (II).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the racemoselective preparation of ansa-metallocene complexes of the formula (I) which comprises reacting a ligand starting compound of the formula (II) with a transition metal compound of the formula (III) (LB)yM1(NR3R4)Xx-1 (III) where R1, R1′ are identical or different and are each hydrogen or an organic radical having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, R2, R2′ are identical or different and are each hydrogen or an organic radical having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, R3 is an organic radical having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, R4 is hydrogen or an organic radical having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, T, T′ are identical or different and are each a divalent organic group which has from 1 to 40 carbon atoms and together with the cyclopentadienyl ring forms at least one further saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted ring system which has a ring size of from 5 to 12 atoms, where T and T′ may contain the heteroatoms Si, Ge, N, P, As, Sb, O, S, Se or Te within the ring system fused to the cyclopentadienyl ring, A is a bridge consisting of a divalent atom or a divalent group, M1 is an element of group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of the Elements or the lanthanides, the radicals X are identical or different and are each an organic or inorganic radical which can be substituted by a cyclopentadienyl anion, x is a natural number from 3 to 6, M2 is an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or a magnesium monohalide fragment, p is 1 in the case of doubly positively charged metal ions or is 2 in the case of singly positively charged metal ions or metal ion fragments, LB is an uncharged Lewis-base ligand and y is a natural number from 0 to 6, and also a further process for the racemoselective preparation of ansa-metallocene complexes of the formula (IV) starting from the metallocene complexes of the formula (I) prepared by the first process, the use of transition metal compounds of the formula (III) for preparing metallocenes and also specific transition metal compounds of the formula (III).