DFT study of ethylene polymerization by zirconocene-boron catalytic systems. Effect of counterion on the kinetics and mechanism of the process

Organometallics

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 5375-5393

  Nifant'ev, Ilya E ^a   Ustynyuk, Leila Yu ^a   Laikov, Dmitri N ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTERMICITY; NONAGOSTIC ISOMER; NUCLEOPHILICITY; ZIRCONOCENE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BORON; CATALYSIS; ETHYLENE; ISOMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REACTION KINETICS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ORGANOMETALLICS;

EID: 0035843060     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om010067a     Document Type: Article

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