Ethylene and 1-hexene polymerization using zirconium iminophosphonamide complexes

Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 214-224

  Tomaszewski, Robert ^a   Vollmerhaus, Rainer ^a   Al Humydi, Abdulaziz ^b   Wang, Qinyan ^c   Taylor, Nicholas J ^a   Collins, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

^c NOVA CHEMICALS CORPORATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early metal olefin polymerization catalysis; Single site

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITIVE IONS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

CATIONIC ALKYLS; EARLY METAL OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYSIS; SINGLE SITE;

POLYMERIZATION;

1 HEXENE; ALKYL GROUP; AMIDE; CARBON; CATION; CHLORIDE; CHLOROBENZENE; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLENE; HYDROGEN; METHYL GROUP; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; PRECURSOR; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33744901468     PISSN: 00084042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/V05-246     Document Type: Article

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