The stoichiometric reactions of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrocycloheptapyridin-9-one (cycloheptapyridin-9-one) with various anilines lead to corresponding mixtures of 9-aryliminocycloheptapyridine and the isomeric 9-arylamino-5,6,7-trihydrocycloheptapyridine derivatives; these compounds further reacted with nickel dichloride to form 9-aryliminocycloheptapyridyl nickel chlorides, respectively. The new organic compounds were analyzed by the NMR measurements, and all the organic and complex compounds were characterized by the FT-IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. In addition, the molecular structures of representative nickel complexes and , determined by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction, were found to be binuclear dimers with distorted square-pyramidal geometry around the nickel centers. On activation with either ethylaluminium sesquichloride (Et3Al2Cl3) or methylaluminoxane (MAO), all nickel complex pre-catalysts exhibited high activities of up to 7.80 × 10(6) g PE mol(-1) (Ni) h(-1) toward ethylene polymerization and produced highly branched polyethylenes in narrow polydispersity. The title nickel complexes showed comparable activities with 8-arylimino-5,6,7-trihydroquinolyl nickel analogues; whilst both exhibited higher activities than did the 2-iminopyridyl nickel analogues due to the enhancement of the ring-tension of cyclic-fused pyridine derivatives.
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