Catalytic ethylene dimerization and oligomerization: recent developments with nickel complexes containing P,N-chelating ligands

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 784-793

  Speiser, Fredy ^a   Braunstein, Pierre ^a   Saussine, Lucien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELATING AGENT; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; NICKEL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIMERIZATION;

CATALYSIS; CHELATING AGENTS; DIMERIZATION; ETHYLENES; LIGANDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NICKEL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

EID: 27744451822     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar050040d     Document Type: Article

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