TESTING DFT ABILITY TO PREDICT THE STEREOSELECTIVITY OF GROUP 4 METALLOCENES IN PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION

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BAHRI LALEH NAEIMEH; FALIVENE LAURA; CAVALLO LUIGI

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Journal: POLYOLEFINS JOURNALS Year:2014 | Volume:1 | Issue:2 Page(s): 139-146

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TESTING DFT ABILITY TO PREDICT THE STEREOSELECTIVITY OF GROUP 4 METALLOCENES IN PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION

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BAHRI LALEH NAEIMEH | FALIVENE LAURA | CAVALLO LUIGI | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

METALLOCENE CATALYSTS

DFT

MOLECULAR SIMULATION

SETEREOSELECTIVE POLYMERIZATION

ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE

Abstract

In this study we have tested the ability of a standard DFT computational protocol to reproduce the experimentally obtained stereoselectivity of 26 different C2-symmetric zirconocene catalysts active in propylene polymerization. The catalysts were chosen for their relevance in metallocene catalyzed polymerization of propylene. To this end, primary insertion of both si - and re -propylene enantiofaces into the Zr-CH2-CH (CH3) 2 bond was considered to simulate the growing chains step. The energy difference between these two transition states, DE re-si, was taken as a measure of the stereoselectivity (pentad: mmmm%) of different catalysts. The results clearly indicated that there was a good agreement between DE re-si and the mmmm% values, so that greater DE re-si could correspond to higher mmmm%. A model was fitted to the experimentally obtained mmmm% against theoretical DE re-si. The coefficient of determination (R2) of the resultant plot was 0.9793, which indicated a good accuracy of the model. Finally, to quantify the steric role of the studied ligands in the observed stereoselectivity, the analysis of the buried volume (VBur) and of the steric maps was performed for two representative complexes. The images revealed that a greater asymmetric localization of the %VBur around the metal center led to a higher mmmm% in the resultant polymer.

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BAHRI LALEH, NAEIMEH, FALIVENE, LAURA, & CAVALLO, LUIGI. (2014). TESTING DFT ABILITY TO PREDICT THE STEREOSELECTIVITY OF GROUP 4 METALLOCENES IN PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION. POLYOLEFINS JOURNALS, 1(2), 139-146. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/347227/en

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BAHRI LALEH NAEIMEH, FALIVENE LAURA, CAVALLO LUIGI. TESTING DFT ABILITY TO PREDICT THE STEREOSELECTIVITY OF GROUP 4 METALLOCENES IN PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION. POLYOLEFINS JOURNALS[Internet]. 2014;1(2):139-146. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/347227/en

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NAEIMEH BAHRI LALEH, LAURA FALIVENE, and LUIGI CAVALLO, “TESTING DFT ABILITY TO PREDICT THE STEREOSELECTIVITY OF GROUP 4 METALLOCENES IN PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION,” POLYOLEFINS JOURNALS, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 139–146, 2014, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/347227/en

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