Metallocene nomenclature substituent group names

Metallocene derivatives may be named either by the standard organic suffix (functional) nomenclature or by prefix nomenclature. The organic functional suffix system is described in Section P-33 of Ref. 3. Metallocene substituent group names have endings ocenyl , ocenediyl , ocenetriyl , etc. 

Metallocene derivatives may be named by either standard organic suffix (functional)7 or prefix nomenclature. Substituents are given the lowest numerical locants in the usual manner on the equivalent cyclopentadienyl rings of the ocene entity. The first ring is numbered 1 to 5 and the second ring is numbered V to 5. In metallocenes composed of multiple ocene groupings the cyclopentadienyl rings are further numbered 1" to 5", V" to 5", etc. The radical names -ocenyl, -ocenediyl, -ocenetriyl, etc. are used. For examples see Table 25. 

In this section we present the elements of chirality relevant to the stereospecific polymerization of propene with group 4 metallocenes. First of all, coordination of a prochiral olefin, such as propene, gives rise to nonsuperimposable coordinations. To distinguish between the two propene coordinations, we prefer the nomenclature re, si—defined for specifying heterotopic half-spaces— instead of the nomenclature R,. defined for double or triple bonds jr-bonded to a metal atom—in order to avoid confusion with the symbols R and S used for other chiralities at the same catalytic site, or the nomenclature Re, Si-defined for reflection—variant units—and used by Pino and co-workers in refs 83—86. The use of the si, re nomenclature can be confusing when different monomers are considered, because the name of a fixed enantioface of an 1-olefin depends on the bulkiness of the substituent in position 1. However, since propene is the only monomer considered in this review, this problem does not exist here. We only remark that the re and si coordinations sketched in Scheme 3 correspond to the R and S coordinations, respectively. 

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