Living polymerization of ethylene using Pd(II) α-diimine catalysts

Macromolecules

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1140-1142

  Gottfried, Amy C ^a   Brookhart, Maurice ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYSTS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANOMETALLICS; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PALLADIUM DIIMINE;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0035250085     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma001595l     Document Type: Article

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