Control of stereoerror formation with high-activity 'dual-side' zirconocene catalysts: A novel strategy to design the properties of thermoplastic elastic polypropenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 4348-4355

  Dietrich, Ulf ^a   Hackmann, Martijn ^a   Rieger, Bernhard ^a   Klinga, Martti ^b   Leskelä, Markku ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE; ZIRCONOCENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033549090     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9833220     Document Type: Article

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