A silica-supported double-decker silsesquioxane provides a second skin for the selective generation of bipodal surface organometallic complexes

Jeff Espinas, Jeremie Pelletier, Edy Abou-Hamad, Lyndon Emsley, Jean-Marie Basset

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Abstract

A well-defined silica-based material with a homogeneous nanolayer presenting identical pairs of vicinal silanols has been prepared by reaction of the surface organometallic species [≡SiOZr(CH 2CMe 3) 3], obtained on a silica dehydroxylated at 900 °C, with the double-decker-shaped silsesquioxane (OH) 2DD(OH) 2. The surface structure has been established using extensive NMR characterization ( 1H, 13C, 29Si, HETCOR, double-quantum, triple-quantum). Treatment with Zr(CH 2CMe 3) 4 leads to the first well-defined single-site bipodal grafted bis-neopentyl zirconium complex. © 2012 American Chemical Society.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7610-7617
Number of pages8
JournalOrganometallics
Volume31
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 23 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry

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