Solid-Phase Synthesis and Encoding Strategies for Olefin Polymerization Catalyst Libraries

Thomas R. Boussie, Carla Coutard, H. S. Turner, Vince Murphy, Timothy S. Powers

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 1998 · 80 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Active polymerization catalysts, novel resin-bound diimine complexes of nickel(II) and palladium(II) are obtained by combinatorial synthesis and combined in a catalyst library. By tagging with fluorescent markers, the catalysts can be coded. Therefore, after cleavage of the tag from the polymer-coated resin, HPLC can be used to determine the pathway along which the products were formed.