End-Group-Confined Chain Walking within a Group 4 Living Polyolefin and Well-Defined Cationic Zirconium Alkyl Complexes for Modeling This Behavior

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4536-4537

  Harney, Matthew B ^a   Keaton, Richard J ^a   Sita, Lawrence R ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; CATION; POLYOLEFIN; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; EPIMERIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 1842738622     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0496975     Document Type: Article

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