PCNP diphosphines, in conjunction with Cr(acac)3, are excellent ethylene oligomerisation catalysts high activity and selectivity towards both 1-hexene 1-octene formation.

Aliphatic polyesters constitute an important class of polymers because of their biodegradability1,2 and biocompatability,2,3 which enable their use in drug delivery systems,2 artificial tissues,3 and commodity materials.4 Polyesters such as poly(butylene succinate) are commonly produced through condensation polymerization; however, this method is energy intensive, requiring high temperature and...

A concise synthesis of 3-(1-alkenyl)isoindolin-1-ones and 5-(1-alkenyl)pyrrol-2-ones has been achieved by the coupling reactions of N-acyliminium ions produced from 3-hydroxyisoindol-1-ones or 5-hydroxy-1-pyrrol-2-ones with unactivated olefins in the presence of BF(3)·OEt(2) at room temperature. For most of the olefins, the reactions afforded the C(sp3)-C(sp2) cross-coupling products, but for t...

In the title compound, C(28)H(33)NO(4)·CH(2)Cl(2), the pyrrolidone ring adopts a twisted envelope conformation and the cyclo-hexene has a half-chair conformation. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the components into chains along [100].

In the title compound, C20H18ClN3O3, the five- and six-membered heterocycles fused through a spiro C atom are inclined to each other at an angle of 87.4 (1)°. In the tricyclic ring system, the cyclo-hexene ring adopts an envelope conformation with the spiro atom as the flap. In the crystal, two sets of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into columns containing centrosymmetric R 2 (2)(7) r...

In the title compound, C16H17ClO, the cyclo-hexene ring adopts a half-chair conformation and the best plane through the six ring atoms makes a dihedral angle of 6.69 (7)° with the chlorophenyl ring. In the crystal, pairs of C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric R 2 (2)(20) dimers. The dimers are linked into an infinite chains along the b-axis direction by further C-H⋯O h...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(14)H(16)ClNO, contains two independent mol-ecules, both with the cyclo-hexene ring in a sofa conformation. In the crystal, N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules related by translation along the a axis into two crystallographically independent chains. Weak C-H⋯π inter-actions are also observed.

Reactivity ratios were evaluated for anionic ring-opening copolymerizations of ethylene oxide (EO) with either allyl glycidyl ether (AGE) or ethylene glycol vinyl glycidyl ether (EGVGE) using a benzyl alkoxide initiator. The chemical shift for the benzylic protons of the initiator, as measured by (1)H NMR spectroscopy, were observed to be sensitive to the sequence of the first two monomers adde...