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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1996
Meng-Sheng Ao, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Hassan Y Elnagar, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Arcelio J Malcolm, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Jamie R Strickler, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Albemarle Corporation, Richmond, VA (US);
Abstract
Bridged metallocene compounds are produced by a process of promising commercial utility for plant-sized operations. The overall process involves the direct conversion of benzoindanones to benzoindanols which, without isolation, are converted to benzoindenes. Thereupon the benzoindenes are bridged by deprotonating the benzoindenes with a strong base such as butyllithium and reacting the resultant deprotonated product with a suitable silicon-, germanium- or tin-containing bridging reactant such as dichlorodimethylsilane. The resultant bridged product is deprotonated with a strong base such as butyllithium and reacted with a suitable Group IV, V, or VI metal-containing reactant such as ZrCl.sub.4 to provide a silicon-, germanium- or tin-bridged Group IV, V, or VI metal complex, such as a dihydrocarbylsilyl-bridged zirconocene complex. The initial benzoindenones used in such sequence can be formed readily and in high yield by reaction of a 2-haloacyl halide with naphthalenes unsubstituted in at least the 1- and 2-positions.