The structure of organoaluminum(halide) complexes, used as
cocatalysts in Ziegler−Natta catalysis, is
investigated by experimental far-infrared spectroscopy and by quantum
simulations. Experimental and
calculated far-infrared spectra agree very well, holding promise for
the employed far-infrared/quantum
simulation approach to reveal more detail on the catalytically active
site in Ziegler−Natta catalysis. Whereas
the species preferably form dinuclear aluminum complexes when the
bridge can be formed by chlorine, on
the basis of the calculated total energies and the observed infrared
spectra, alkyl-bridged dimers are found to
be much less stable.
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