Experimental and theoretical investigations of the structure of methylaluminoxane (MAO) cocatalysts for olefin polymerization

Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 3106-3127

  Ystenes, Martin ^a   Eilertsen, Jan L ^a   Liu, Jianke ^a   Ott, Matthias ^a   Rytter, Erling ^a,b   Støvneng, Jon A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL BONDS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLICS; POLYMERIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

COCATALYSTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT); METHYLALUMINOXANE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TRIMETHYLALUMINUM;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0034269375     PISSN: 0887624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-0518(20000901)38:17<3106::AID-POLA120>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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