Issue 13, 2001
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Chemical Communications

Ionic liquids: polar, but weakly coordinating solvents for the first biphasic oligomerisation of ethene to higher α-olefins with cationic Ni complexes

Peter Wasserscheid,*a   Charles M. Gordon,*b   Claus Hilgers,a   Mark J. Muldoonb  and  Ian R. Dunkinb  

* Corresponding authors

a Institut für Technische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie der RWTH Aachen, Worringer Weg 1, Aachen, Germany.
E-mail: wasserscheidp@itmc.rwth-aachen.de

b Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Scotland, Glasgow, UK
E-mail: c.m.gordon@strath.ac.uk

Abstract

Ethylene oligomerisation in ionic liquids gives predominately alk-1-ene products with better reactivity and selectivity than in conventional solvents; turnover frequencies are correlated with polarity data obtained using solvatochromic dyes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B101400P
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Feb 2001
Accepted
09 May 2001
First published
13 Jun 2001

Chem. Commun., 2001, 1186-1187

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Ionic liquids: polar, but weakly coordinating solvents for the first biphasic oligomerisation of ethene to higher α-olefins with cationic Ni complexes

P. Wasserscheid, C. M. Gordon, C. Hilgers, M. J. Muldoon and I. R. Dunkin, Chem. Commun., 2001, 1186 DOI: 10.1039/B101400P

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