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Polymethylaluminoxane organic frameworks (sMAOF) – highly active supports for slurry phase ethylene polymerisation

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A series of modified solid polymethylaluminoxane (sMAO) catalyst supports have been developed for slurry phase ethylene polymerisation, using aryl di-ol modifier groups. Characterisation using ICP-MS analysis, X-ray total scattering, SEM–EDX, diffuse FT-IR and solid state NMR spectroscopy shows that the organic linker groups are uniformly distributed in a proposed organic framework stucture we call a “sMAOF”. When used as a support for rac-ethylene{bis(1-indenyl)} zirconium dichloride, (EBI)ZrCl2, these linker modified sMAOF materials provide a 40% enhancement in polymerisation activity with respect to unmodified sMAO: activities of 163 × 103 and 116 × 103 kgPE molZr−1 h−1 at 80 °C for (EBI)ZrCl2 supported on sMAOF(1,4-HO(C6F4)OH) and sMAO, respectively. The observed activity increase is correlated with the higher BET surface area and increased porosity in the linker modified sMAOF activating support.
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10.1039/d1cy00767j

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Inorganic Chemistry
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Inorganic Chemistry
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Author
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0000-0001-7296-3672
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
CHEMISTRY
Sub department:
Inorganic Chemistry
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ORCID:
0000-0003-2044-9203
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
CHEMISTRY
Sub department:
Inorganic Chemistry
Oxford college:
St Anne's College
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ORCID:
0000-0001-9231-3749


Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal:
Catalysis Science and Technology More from this journal
Volume:
11
Issue:
16
Pages:
5472-5483
Publication date:
2021-07-14
Acceptance date:
2021-07-09
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EISSN:
2044-4761
ISSN:
2044-4753


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1186467
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pubs:1186467
Deposit date:
2021-07-15

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