Bis(2-N,N-dimethylamino-indenyJ) zirconium dichloride, (2-(CH 3)2 N-C 9 H 6)2 ZrC1 2 • and dimethylsilyl-bridged bis(2-N,N-dimethylamino-indenyl) zirconium dichloride. (CH3)2Si(2-(CH3)2N-C9Hs)2ZrCI2' were prepared by reaction of the corresponding ligand lithium salts with ZrCl" in toluene. Diffractometric structure determinations reveal C 2-symmetrlc complex geometries for both complexes. An increased electron density at the Zr center of the dimethylamino-substituted complexes is indicated by reduction potentials which are 0.3-0.4 V morr negative than those of their unsubstituted analogs. When activated with methyl aluminoxane in toluene solution. (CH3)2Si(2-(CH3)2N-C9Hs)2ZrCI2 catalyzes the polymerization of propene to polymers with a microstructure comparable with that of polymers produced with other Mel Si-bridged bis(indenyJ)ZrCl 2 complexes. but with a substantially increased fraction of i-propyl end groups derived from alkyl exchange between Zr-polymer and AI-Me species.

Chiral, biphenyl-bridged metallocene complexes of general type biph(3,4-R2CsH2)2MCI2 (biph = 1,1'-biphenyldiyI) were synthesized and characterized. For the dimethyl-substituted titanocenes and zirconocenes (R CH 3 ; M Ti, Zr). preparations with increafed overall yields and an optical resolution method were developed. The bis(2-tetrahydroindenyI) complexes (R,R = (CH 2)4; M = Ti, Zr) were obtained by an alternative synthetic route and characterized with regard to their crystal structures. Syntheses of the phenyl-substituted derivatives (R C 6 H 5; M Ti, Zr) and of a chiral, methyl-substituted vanadocene complex (R CH 3; M V) are also reported.

ansa-Metallocene derivatives xxv *. Synthesis, crystal structure and reactions of a tetramethylethano-bridged vanadocene dichloride, (CH3)4C2(CsH4)zVClz

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Tetramethylethano-bridged vanadocene dichlorides (CH3)4C2(3-R-C5H3)2VCl2 with R = H, Me, t-Bu are obtained by reacting the corresponding ligand MgCl salts with vanadium(III) acetylacetonato compounds, followed by oxidation with PCl3 or AgCl. Smooth ligand exchange reactions of these ansa-vanadocene dichlorides afford acetylacetonato cations and binaphtholate complexes; from these, the dichlorides are regenerated by exposure to MgCl2 in THF solution. Separation of meso and rac isomers (as well as enantiomer separation) is achieved via corresponding binaphtholate complexes; conversion to the vanadium(III) diisonitrile cations (CH3)4C2(3-R-C5H3)2V(CNt-Bu)2+ allows an assessment of diastereoisomer ratios by 1H NMR. Lewis-acidic bistriflate derivatives of these ansa-vanadocene complexes are obtained from the dichlorides by reaction with silver triflate.