Stereospecific styrene enchainment at a titanium site within a helical ligand framework: Evidence for the formation of homochiral polystyrene

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 4790-4793

  Beckerle, Klaus ^a   Manivannan, Ramanujachary ^a   Lian, Bing ^a   Meppelder, Geert Jan M ^a   Raabe, Gerhard ^a   Spaniol, Thomas P ^a   Ebeling, Henner ^b   Pelascini, Frederic ^b   Mülhaupt, Rolf ^b   Okuda, Jun ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Chirality; Polymerization; Tacticity; Titanium

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; LIGANDS; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; TITANIUM;

ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; STEREOSPECIFIC STYRENE; TACTICITY;

STYRENE;

LIGAND; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOISOMERISM;

LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYSTYRENES; STEREOISOMERISM; TITANIUM;

EID: 34347248045     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200700783     Document Type: Article

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