A series of salicylaldimines,synthesized in high yield via microwave-assisted condensation of salicylaldehyde and 2-alkoxyaniline were allowed to react with nickel chloride to form six-coordinated nickel complexes.These nickel complexes were carefully characterized,and the solid structure of la was elucidated by X-Ray diffraction.Activated with MAO,the nickel complexes showed good activity for homopolymerization of norbornene.Reaction parameters,such as the ratio of nickel precursor to MAO,monomer concentration,reaction time and the reaction temperature,as well as the nature of the ligands were found to have significant effects on the catalytic activity and some properties of the resulting polynorbornene.
