Group 4 metallocenes: Supported and unsupported

Journal of Macromolecular Science - Reviews in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 519-554

  Olabisi, Olagoke ^a,c   Atiqullah, Muhammad ^a   Kaminsky, Walter ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

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