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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Organometallics. 2012 Jul 23;31(14):5143–5149. doi: 10.1021/om300492r

Table 2.

Possible combinations of ethylene (C2), 1-hexene (C6), and 1-heptene (C7) dimers and trimers that make up the observed product distributionsa

Ethylene Ethylene/1-Hexene Ethylene/1-Hepteneb
C2 + C2 + C2 = C6 C2 + C2 + C2 = C6 C2 + C2 + C2 = C6
C2 + C2 + C6 = C10 C2 + C2 + C6 = C10 C2 + C2 + C6 = C10
C6 + C6 = C12 C2 + C2 + C7 = C11
C2 + C2 + C10 = C14 C6 + C7 = C13
C2 + C6 + C6 = C14 C7 + C7 = C14
C2 + C2 + C14 = C18 C2 + C2 + C10 = C14
C6 + C6 + C6 = C18 C2 + C6 + C6 = C14
C2 + C6 + C7 = C15
C2 + C7 + C7 = C16
a

Each combination must satisfy the following criteria: 1) homo-oligomerization of ethylene form trimers, 2) co-oligomerization of ethylene/LAO forms trimers, 3) homo-oligomerization of LAO forms dimers and trimers, 4) dimers do not form between LAO and ethylene, and 5) tetramers of alkenes do not form.

b

Use of 1-heptene allowed the determination of trimers formed from two molecules of LAOs and one molecule of ethylene.