First members of a novel family of constrained geometry complexes of titanium and zirconium containing a short bridge between the amide and inden-4-yl fragments were obtained. When activated with methylaluminoxane, these complexes can be used as highly active catalysts for ethene polymerization producing high-molecular-weight polymers.

A new procedure was developed for the synthesis of a broad range of ansa -zirconocenes containing bis(2-methyl-4-arylindenyl)dimethylsilane ligands. The method is based on the palladium-catalyzed reaction of halogen-substituted bis(indenyl)dimethylsilanes with various organozinc compounds. The aryl-substituted bridging ligands thus prepared serve as the starting compounds for the synthesis of ansa -zirconocenes, which can be used as components of promising catalysts for propylene polymerization.

Substituted 4-/7-halo-1H-indenes and 5-methyl-3-bromo-4-/6H-cyclopenta[b]thiophenes were shown to be convenient starting materials for Suzuki−Miyaura, Negishi, and Murahashi protocols to give the corresponding aryl-subsituted indenes and cyclopenta[b]thiophenes of importance for further synthesis of ansa-metallocenes. Alternatively, (2-methyl-1H-inden-4-yl)boronic acid and (1-methoxy-2-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-4-yl)boronic acid as well as the respective organozinc and -magnesium reagents can be used for synthesizing aryl-subsituted indenes via the Pd-catalyzed reactions with aryl halides. These synthetic methods were shown to have a very broad scope to afford libraries of aryl-substituted indenes. Finally, synthesis and structure characterization of several representative chiral ansa-zirconocenes, potentially useful as components of highly active and stereoselective olefin polymerization catalysts, have been performed.

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