Selectivity of Metallocene-Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization: A Combined Experimental and Quantum Mechanical Study. The ansa-Me2Si(Ind) 2Zr and ansa-Me2C(Cp)(Flu)Zr Systems

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 8171-8177

  Borrelli, Manuela ^a   Busico, Vincenzo ^a   Cipullo, Roberta ^a   Ronca, Sara ^a   Budzelaar, Peter H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MONOMERS; POSITIVE IONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

STEREOREGULATION;

PROPYLENE;

EID: 0142247057     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034990v     Document Type: Article

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