Activities of Transition Metal Chlorides in Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid Mixtures. I. Nickel(II) Chloride and Cobalt(II) Chloride1

Mononuclear Aluminum Hydroxide for the Design of Well-Defined Homogeneous Catalysts

An unprecedented aluminum hydroxide LAlMe(OH) (5; L = HC[(CMe)(2,6-iPr2C6H3N)]2) has been prepared by the hydrolysis of LAlMeCl (4). For the preparation of 5, the reagents of KOH, water, and KH, as well as the two-phase ammonia/toluene system, were used. Further reactions of 5 with Cp2ZrMe2 (8) and Cp2ZrHCl in toluene lead to the intermolecular elimination of CH4 and H2 and the formation of mu-O-bridged dinuclear aluminum and zirconium complexes [LAlMe(mu-O)ZrMeCp2] (6) and [LAlMe(mu-O)ZrClCp2] (7), respectively, in high yields. The crystal structure reveals that 5 is a monomer with terminal OH and Me groups. The X-ray structure analysis shows that 6 and 7 contain a bent Al-(mu-O)-Zr core with terminal Al-Me and Zr-Me or Zr-Cl arrangements. The methylalumoxane (MAO)-activated compounds 6 and 7 exhibit high catalytic activity for the polymerization of ethylene. Under comparable polymerization conditions, the MAO/6 and MAO/7 catalyst systems show considerably higher activity and much lower MAO:catalyst ratios than that of MAO/8.

SOME EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS OF TRANSITION METAL HALIDES

Measurements are reported on the formation of complex ions in solutions containing cupric and chloride or bromide ions, and solutions of nickel or cobalt with chloride. In each case the halide was present in very low amount. With copper a spectrophotometric method was used, and a cell voltage method with nickel and cobalt. The ionic strength was kept constant, but the temperature was varied. The data show difficulties of interpretation if it is assumed that only MX+ ions (M is the metal, X is the halogen) are formed, the difficulties arising from the anomalous variation of the equilibrium constant with temperature, and from the general drift of the calculated constants from the e.m.f. measurements. Various explanations are considered and it is shown that postulation of M2X+3 ions is at least a possible explanation.