

β-二亚胺配体支持的铝胺化合物的制备及其催化ε-己内酯开环聚合的高效性能
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Aluminum Amine Compound Protected by β-Diketiminate Ligand: Preparation and Enhanced Performance as Catalyst for Ring-Opening Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone
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The amount of plastic waste has been increasing drastically over the past decades which caused serious environmental pollution and ecological disaster. Waste plastic is usually disposed of by incineration or landfill and the treatment of plastic pollution has become a common consensus of the international community. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find environmentally friendly, reasonably priced plastics and related alternative products[1]. Aliphatic polyester, polycarbonate and polylactic acid have attracted much attention in recent years due to their good biocompatibility and biodegradability. For example, poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) and poly lactide (PLA) are widely used in pharmaceutical and plastics fields due to their good permeability[2-3]. Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cycloesters is considered as one of the most promising methods for preparing polyester materials. Different from traditional polycondensation catalytic reactions, the ROP has great advantages in controlling molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of the polymers[4].
Metal - organic compounds can efficiently initiate the ROP of cycloesters. The design and synthesis of metal - organic catalysts with appropriate substitutes become an important research direction for the preparation of polyester materials[5]. The metal center acts as a Lewis acid to increase the positive charge of carbonyl groups of cyclic esters molecule to initiate the ROP. Previous studies showed that metal organic compounds containing different metal centers, such as Zn[6-7], Ca[8], Mg[9-10], Ti[11-12], Sn[13-15] and Yb[16], exhibited high performance on the ROP of lactones (or lactide). However, the trace metals are often present in the polymer products and difficult to remove completely. Organoaluminum compounds have attracted much attention due to their low toxicity, easy preparation and low cost[17-18]. In the past decades, many kinds of aluminum alkoxides or alkyl complexes protected with different ligands, including salen, enolic salen, Schiff base, ketiminate, amidinate, and aminophenolate ligands, have been synthesized and used as catalysts in the ROP reactions[19-24]. And most of the polymer molecular weight are lower than 105 g·mol-1. According to the results of Huang[25-28], Wang[29-32], Ma[33-37] and our group[38-39], the steric effect and electronic properties of metal-organic compounds played dominant roles in their catalytic activities for the ROP of ε-caprolactone. Further studies indicated that proper Lewis acidity of the aluminum center could improve the catalytic performance. Thus, many efforts have been devoted to the steric ligand design of the aluminum alkoxides or alkyl complexes to increase the catalyst activity, and the effect of the substituents at the metal center is usually ignored.
In the past twenty years, β-diketimines were employed as ideal ligands to protect mental centers, and numbers of multifunctional aluminum derivatives were synthesized successfully owing to its steric feature and flexible electric properties. So, we synthesized the organoaluminum hydrogen compound supported by β - diketiminate ligand with -NMe2 substitute at the Al center. The catalytic properties of the resultant organoaluminum hydrogen compound for the ROP of ε-caprolactone were studied in detail.
1. Experimental
1.1 General procedures
All the preparations were carried out under dry N2 atmosphere using glovebox techniques and standard Schlenk lines. The related solvents such as toluene, THF and hexane were treated at least 6 h under Na/K alloy before distillation to use. Deuterated solvent CDCl3 was purified over CaH2 for 24 h and distilled under reduced pressure. ε-caprolactone was dried by 4A molecular sieves. 1H NMR spectra was recorded on Bruker Avance 400 MHz eter. The melting point of compound 1 was measured in sealed capillaries using XT4A melting point apparatus. Elemental analysis was carried out using Vario EL Ⅲ analyser in the Analytical Instrumentation Center of the Tsinghua University. The IR spectra were recorded using Nicolet 6700 eter from 4 000 to 650 cm-1. Gel penetration chromatography (GPC) measurements were performed by Shimadzu CTO - 20A system equipped with polystyrene gel columns using THF (HPLC grade) as an eluent (flow rate: 1.0 mL·min-1, 25 ℃). (L)AlH2 was synthesized as described previously[38].
1.2 Synthesis of (L)AlH(NMe2)
n-BuLi (1 mmol,0.4 mL) was mixed with one equivalent of HNMe2 (1 mmol, 2 mL) in toluene at -78 ℃, and the mixture was allowed to warm up to room temperature and kept on stirring for 12 h to generate LiNMe2. The above mixture was transferred to the flask with (L)AlH2 (1 mmol, 0.446 g) in toluene at -78 ℃. The reaction temperature was kept at -78 ℃ for 1 h, then the mixture was allowed to warm up to room temperature and stirred for 24 h. All the solvents were removed under vacuum, and the residue was extracted with n-hexane. Colorless crystals of compound 1 suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis were produced from a concentrated solution at 0 ℃ after three days (0.392 g, 85%). m.p. 170 ℃. IR (KBr, cm-1): 1 873 cm-1 (m, Al - H). Elemental analysis Calcd. for C31H48AlN3(%): C 76.03, H 9.88, N 8.58; Found(%): C 75.36, H 9.72, N 8.32. 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3, 298K): δ 7.20~7.11 (m, 6 H, Ar—H), 5.13 (s, 1 H, γ- H), 3.25 (m, 4 H, CH(CH3)2), 1.73 (s, 6 H, C(CH3)), 1.26 (d, 12 H, CH(CH3)2), 1.13 (d, 12 H, CH(CH3)2).
1.3 X-ray single crystal diffraction study
Single - crystal diffraction analysis was conducted by Bruker APEX Ⅱ DUO instrument under low temperature by utilizing graphite monochromated Mo Kα (λ =0.071 073 nm) as the incident light source. The data were integrated and corrected by SAINT[40]. Semiempirical absorption corrections were applied with SADABS program[41]. The crystal structure was directly resolved by SHELXL and OLEX 2[42-43], all nonhydrogen atoms were refined by full-matrix leastsquares refinement based on F2, hydrogen atoms connected to carbon and aluminum atoms were included at geometrically calculated positions and refined by using a riding model. The crystal and structure refinement parameters for compound 1 are shown in Table 1.
表 1
Empirical formula C31H48AlN3 Formula weight 488.7 Crystal system Triclinic Space group P1 a / nm 1.047 9(2) b / nm 1.199 7(2) c / nm 1.322 8(3) α / (°) 68.92(3) β / (°) 77.53(3) γ / (°) 72.96(3) Volume / nm3 1.472 3(5) Z 2 Dc / (Mg·m-3) 1.105 Absorption coefficient / mm-1 0.092 F(000) 536 Crystal size / mm 0.21×0.2×0.03 θ range for data collection / (°) 2.07~27.52 Index ranges -13 ≤ h ≤ 13, -15 ≤ k ≤ 15, -17 ≤ l ≤ 17 Reflection collected 19 491 Independent reflection 4 386 (Rint=0.072 3) Completeness / % 100 Refinement method Full-matrix least-squares on F2 Data, restraints, parameter 6 725, 0, 332 Goodness-of-fit on F2 1.159 Final R indices [I>2σ(I)] R1=0.080 4, wR2=0.193 6 R indices (all data) R1=0.097 6, wR2=0.215 1 CCDC: 1542786.
1.4 ROP of ε-caprolactone catalyzed by compound 1
Typically, the initiator 1 (0.023 g, 0.05 mmol) and ε-caprolactone (3.42 g, 30 mmol) were dissolved in toluene (30 mL) in separate flasks. Then the monomer solution was transfered to the initiator flask at 100 ℃ and kept stirring for 2 h. The reaction was terminated with acetic acid (1 mL). All solvents were removed un- der vacuum, and the residue was dissolved with THF (30 mL). The white solid appeared immediately after n- hexane (20 mL) was added. White polymer solid was obtained in high yield (95%) after filtration, washing with hexane and removal of volatiles.
2. Results and discussion
2.1 Description of compound 1
The synthesis of aluminum amine compound 1 is shown in Scheme 1. Reaction of n-BuLi with one equivalent of HNMe2 in toluene at -78 ℃ generated LiNMe2. It is worth noting that the ratio control is crucial for this reaction. The lithium was transferred to the flash with one equivalent of HNMe2 in toluene at -78 ℃ and kept for 0.5 h. Then the mixture was allowed to warm up to room temperature and kept stirring for 12 h. Compound 1 was obtained in 85% yield. Compound 1 was characterized by 1H NMR. The spectrum showed a new resonance at δ =2.38, and the ratio to the γ-H proton (CCHC) was 6:1, which confirmed the formation of desired AlH(NMe2) framework. The resonance for the Al-H could not be observed in the 1H NMR because of the quadrupolar broadening by the Al nucleus. The presence of Al—H bonds in 1 was evident from the IR spectra. The broad IR bands around 1 873 cm-1 is owing to the Al—H stretching frequency, which matches well with the value of 1 860 cm-1 reported[44].
Scheme1
Compound 1 suitable for X-ray crystal diffraction crystallizes in the triclinic space group P1 (Fig. 1). The structure was determined by X - ray single crystal diffraction. The aluminum atom is stabilized by —NMe2 and —H substituents. The sum of angles around the Al center is 317.87°, which exhibits a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The Al—N bond distances (Al1—N1 0.191 9(2) nm, Al1—N2 0.191 4(2) nm) agree well with the relative coordinated bond distances (0.190 1(3) ~0.199 6(4) nm) reported in previous studies[29-31]. The bond distance of Al1—N3 (0.180 0(2) nm) is much shorter than the coordinated Al—N distance, which is in good agreement with the single bond nature.
图 1
Figure 1. Molecular structure of 1Anisotropic displacement parameters are depicted at the 30% probability level; Hydrogen atoms are omitted for clarity except for the hydrogen bonded to Al; Selected bond lengths (nm) and an⁃ gles (°): Al1—N1 0.191 9(2), Al1—N2 0.191 4(2), Al1—N3 0.180 0(2), Al1—H 0.147(3); N2—Al1—N1 95.72(9), N3— Al1—N1 110.72(10), N3—Al1—N2 111.43(11)
2.2 Catalytic performance on the ROP of ε-caprolactone
Many organoaluminum compounds were evaluated as initiators of the ROP of ε-caprolactone. Huang et al. reported that aluminum hydrides were catalytically active in the ROP of ε-caprolactone[45]. However, compared with those aluminum monohydrides, the polydispersity index (PDI) values of PCL initiated by aluminum dihydride were relatively broad because of the side reactions or multiple reacting sites (Al—H or Al— N). Besides, the catalytic performance of aluminum alkoxides or alkyl protected by β-diketiminate ligand were studied systematically by many groups. Generally, the polymer molecular weight is mostly in a range of 103~ 105 g·mol-1 [36-39]. The steric effect was proposed as the main factor for the polymerization activity.
The catalytic activity of compound 1 to the ROP of ε-caprolactone was studied systematically (Table 2). According to the catalytic results, the conversion of monomer increased with the increasing polymerization temperature. Meanwhile, the PDI (PDI=Mw/Mn) values of PCL also ranged from 1.21 to 2.07. (Entry 1~4 in Table 2). The molecular weight and PDI was also influenced by the ratio of the monomer to initiator (Entry 3, 5~7 in Table 2) and the reaction time (Entry 3, 8~10 in Table 2). Organoaluminum compound 1 containing —NMe2 and —H substituents at the atom center showed excellent catalytic activity in the ROP of ε-caprolactone. Besides, we also evaluated the catalytic performance of starting material ((L)AlH2). Similarly, the PDI values of PCL were relatively broad as the results reported by Huang's group[45]. We estimated that the excellent catalytic activity of 1 might be attributed to the proper Lewis acid property of the Al center, which allowed the carbonyl to coordinate with the metal center and initiated the ROP reactions.
Scheme2
表 2
Entry Initiator nCL:n1 T / ℃ t / h Conv.b / % Mwc / (g·mol-1) Mnc / (g·mol-1) PDIc 1 1 300:1 60 2 55 10 219 8 455 1.21 2 1 300:1 80 2 85 61 292 36 924 1.66 3 1 300:1 100 2 96 244 595 167 582 1.46 4 1 300:1 120 2 95 301 878 145 263 2.07 5 1 100:1 100 2 95 91 292 73 980 1.23 6 1 400:1 100 2 96 284 603 141 125 2.01 7 1 500:1 100 2 96 117 262 82 046 1.43 8 1 300:1 100 0.5 52 52 288 35 720 1.46 9 1 300:1 100 1.5 85 206 983 129 833 1.59 10 1 300:1 100 4 97 266 983 93 875 2.84 11 (L)AlH2 300:1 100 1.5 99 258 843 82 754 3.13 a Solvent: 30 mL toluene, mCL=3.42 g, temperature=60~100 ℃, reaction time=0.5~4 h, N2 atmosphere; b Conversion based on the isolated amount of solid; c Determined by GPC in THF, calibrated with standard polystyrene samples, and multiplied by the cor⁃ rection value of 0.56. 3. Conclusions
In summary, aluminum amine compound supported by β - diketiminate ligand was synthesized successfully via salt elimination reaction. The lithium LiNMe2 was synthesized using HNMe2 and n-BuLi as precursors, and the reactant ratio and reaction temperature were strict for the formation of the aluminum amine compound. Compound 1 containing Al—NMe2 and Al—H groups is an excellent initiator for the ROP of ε-caprolactone. Proper Lewis acid of 1 exerts important effect on the polymerization of ε-caprolactone. The above findings would enable the rational design of aluminum amine compound with proper substituents at the metal center to prepare polymer with high molecular weight and narrow molecular weight distribution.
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Figure 1 Molecular structure of 1
Anisotropic displacement parameters are depicted at the 30% probability level; Hydrogen atoms are omitted for clarity except for the hydrogen bonded to Al; Selected bond lengths (nm) and an⁃ gles (°): Al1—N1 0.191 9(2), Al1—N2 0.191 4(2), Al1—N3 0.180 0(2), Al1—H 0.147(3); N2—Al1—N1 95.72(9), N3— Al1—N1 110.72(10), N3—Al1—N2 111.43(11)
Table 1. Crystal and structure refinement parameters for compound 1
Empirical formula C31H48AlN3 Formula weight 488.7 Crystal system Triclinic Space group P1 a / nm 1.047 9(2) b / nm 1.199 7(2) c / nm 1.322 8(3) α / (°) 68.92(3) β / (°) 77.53(3) γ / (°) 72.96(3) Volume / nm3 1.472 3(5) Z 2 Dc / (Mg·m-3) 1.105 Absorption coefficient / mm-1 0.092 F(000) 536 Crystal size / mm 0.21×0.2×0.03 θ range for data collection / (°) 2.07~27.52 Index ranges -13 ≤ h ≤ 13, -15 ≤ k ≤ 15, -17 ≤ l ≤ 17 Reflection collected 19 491 Independent reflection 4 386 (Rint=0.072 3) Completeness / % 100 Refinement method Full-matrix least-squares on F2 Data, restraints, parameter 6 725, 0, 332 Goodness-of-fit on F2 1.159 Final R indices [I>2σ(I)] R1=0.080 4, wR2=0.193 6 R indices (all data) R1=0.097 6, wR2=0.215 1 Table 2. ROP of ε-caprolactone (CL) catalyzed by aluminum amine compounda
Entry Initiator nCL:n1 T / ℃ t / h Conv.b / % Mwc / (g·mol-1) Mnc / (g·mol-1) PDIc 1 1 300:1 60 2 55 10 219 8 455 1.21 2 1 300:1 80 2 85 61 292 36 924 1.66 3 1 300:1 100 2 96 244 595 167 582 1.46 4 1 300:1 120 2 95 301 878 145 263 2.07 5 1 100:1 100 2 95 91 292 73 980 1.23 6 1 400:1 100 2 96 284 603 141 125 2.01 7 1 500:1 100 2 96 117 262 82 046 1.43 8 1 300:1 100 0.5 52 52 288 35 720 1.46 9 1 300:1 100 1.5 85 206 983 129 833 1.59 10 1 300:1 100 4 97 266 983 93 875 2.84 11 (L)AlH2 300:1 100 1.5 99 258 843 82 754 3.13 a Solvent: 30 mL toluene, mCL=3.42 g, temperature=60~100 ℃, reaction time=0.5~4 h, N2 atmosphere; b Conversion based on the isolated amount of solid; c Determined by GPC in THF, calibrated with standard polystyrene samples, and multiplied by the cor⁃ rection value of 0.56. -

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