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Novel Cr-PNP complexes as catalysts for the trimerisation of ethylene

David S. McGuinness, Peter Wasserscheid, Wilhelm Keim, Chunhua Hu, Ulli Englert, John T. Dixon, Cronjé Grové

Chemical Communications · 2003 · 204 citations · 5 references

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Cr(III) complexes of tridentate PNP ligands have been prepared and evaluated as catalysts for ethylene trimerisation, with several giving high activity and excellent selectivity towards 1-hexene when activated with methylaluminoxane.

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