Reactor blending with early/late transition metal catalyst combinations in ethylene polymerization

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 139-143

  Mecking, Stefan ^a,b,c  

^a SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^b Hoechst Corporate Research and Technology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 22444454199     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3927(19990301)20:3<139::aid-marc139>3.0.co;2-r     Document Type: Article

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