The acid-base reac
tion of
te
trabenzylzirconium wi
th 1,4,8,11-
te
traazabicyclo[6.6.2]hexadecane (H
2(CBC),
1) produces (CBC)Zr(CH
2Ph)
2,
2. Similarly, reac
tion of
2 wi
th phenolsyields (CBC)Zr(CH
2Ph)(O-2,6-C
6H
3Bu
t2),
3, and (CBC)Zr(O-2,6-C
6H
3Me
2)
2,
5. Prolongedhea
ting of
3 leads
to
the me
tala
ted produc
t (CBC)Zr[
2(C,O)-OC
6H
3(6-Bu
t)(2-CMe
2CH
2)],
4.Reac
tion of ZrCl
2[N(SiMe
3)
2]
2 wi
th H
2(CBC) leads
to (CBC)ZrCl
2,
6, which subsequen
tlyaffords (CBC)Zr(X)(Y) by sal
t me
ta
thesis (
7, X = Cl, Y = N(SiMe
3)
2;
8, X = Y = CH
3;
9, X =Y = CH
2Si(CH
3)
3). Compounds
3 and
7 show res
tric
ted ro
ta
tion abou
t the Zr-O and Zr-Nbonds, respec
tively, on
the NMR
time scale. For
3,
the energy of ac
tiva
tion for
this processwas de
termined
to be 69 ± 1 kJ/mol. Nei
ther
6 nor
8 shows e
thylene polymeriza
tion ac
tivi
tywhen
trea
ted wi
th 500 equiv of MAO. Reac
tion of
6 wi
th 2 equiv of n-BuLi in
the presenceof excess diphenylace
tylene leads
to
the zirconacyclopen
tadiene
10, (CBC)Zr(C
4Ph
4). Thes
truc
tures of
5,
9, and
10 have been de
termined by X-ray crys
tallography, and all
threedisplay dis
tor
ted oc
tahedral geome
try.