Indene → HCID 178506815, compound

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All reactions involving air and or moisture sensitive compounds were conducted under nitrogen using standard Schlenk and cannula techniques, or in a glovebox. Reaction solvents were purified either using the system described by Pangborn et. al. in Organometallics 1996, v15, p. 1518 or used directly after being stored over activated 4 Å molecular sieves. The aluminoxane used was a 10% MAO solution in toluene supplied by Albemarle which was used as received. The support used was silica Sylopol 2408 obtained from W.R. Grace. & Co. The support was calcined by fluidizing with air at 200° C. for 2 hours followed by nitrogen at 600° C. for 6 hours and stored under nitrogen. The phosphinimine catalyst compound (1,2-(n-propyl)(C6F5)Cp)Ti(N═P(t-Bu)3)Cl2 was made in a manner similar to the procedure given in U.S. Pat. No. 7,531,602 (see Example 2). The phosphinimine compound (1-C6F5CH2-Indenyl)((t-Bu)3P═N)TiCl2 was made as follows. To distilled indene (15.0 g, 129 mmol) in heptane (200 mL) was added BuLi (82 mL, 131 mmol, 1.6 M in hexanes) at room temperature. The resulting reaction mixture was stirred overnight. The mixture was filtered and the filter cake washed with heptane (3×30 mL) to give indenyllithium (15.62 g, 99% yield). Indenyllithium (6.387 g, 52.4 mmol) was added as a solid over 5 minutes to a stirred solution of C6F5CH2—Br (13.65 g, 52.3 mmol) in toluene (100 mL) at room temperature. The reaction mixture was heated to 50° C. and stirred for 4 h. The product mixture was filtered and washed with toluene (3×20 mL). The combined filtrates were evaporated to dryness to afford 1-C6F5CH2-indene (13.58 g, 88%). To a stirred slurry of TiCl4.2THF (1.72 g, 5.15 mmol) in toluene (15 mL) was added solid (t-Bu)3P═N—Li (1.12 g, 5 mmol) at room temperature. The resulting reaction mixture was heated at 100° C. for 30 min and then allowed to cool to room temperature. This mixture containing ((t-Bu)3P═N)TiCl3 (1.85 g, 5 mmol) was used in the next reaction. To a THF solution (10 mL) of 1-C6F5CH2-indene (1.48 g, 5 mmol) cooled at −78° C. was added n-butyllithium (3.28 mL, 5 mmol, 1.6 M in hexanes) over 10 minutes. The resulting dark orange solution was stirred for 20 minutes and then transferred via a double-ended needle to a toluene slurry of ((t-Bu)3P═N)TiCl3 (1.85 g, 5 mmol). The cooling was removed from the reaction mixture which was stirred for a further 30 minutes. The solvents were evaporated to afford a yellow pasty residue. The solid was re-dissolved in toluene (70 mL) at 80° C. and filtered hot. The toluene was evaporated to afford pure (1-C6F5CH2-Indenyl)((t-Bu)3P═N)TiCl2 (2.35 g, 74%).

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