Patent ID: 7973116

Claim:
A pyridyldiamido transition metal complex having the general formula: (I) wherein: M is a Group 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 metal; Z is where R 14 and R 15 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydrocarbyls, and substituted hydrocarbyls, and wherein adjacent R 14 and R 15 groups may be joined to form an aromatic or saturated, substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl ring, where the ring has 5, 6, 7, or 8 ring carbon atoms and where substitutions on the ring can join to form additional rings, p is 1 or 2, and q is 1 or 2; R 1 and R 11 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbyls, and substituted hydrocarbyls, or silyl groups; R 2 and R 10 are each, independently, -E(R 12 )(R 13 )— with E being carbon, silicon, or germanium, and each R 12 and R 13 being independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydrocarbyls, and substituted hydrocarbyls, alkoxy, silyl, amino, aryloxy, halogen, and phosphino, R 12 and R 13 may be joined to form a saturated, substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl ring, where the ring has 4, 5, 6, or 7 ring carbon atoms and where substitutions on the ring can join to form additional rings, or R 12 and R 13 may be joined to form a saturated heterocyclic ring, or a saturated substituted heterocyclic ring where substitutions on the ring can join to form additional rings; R 3 , R 4 , and R 5 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydrocarbyls, substituted hydrocarbyls, alkoxy, aryloxy, halogen, amino, and silyl, and wherein adjacent R groups R 3 and R 4 and/or adjacent R groups R 4 and R 5 may be joined to form a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl or heterocyclic ring, where the ring has 5, 6, 7, or 8 ring atoms and where substitutions on the ring can join to form additional rings; L is an anionic leaving group, where the L groups may be the same or different and any two L groups may be linked to form a dianionic leaving group; n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4; L′ is neutral Lewis base; and w is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.