"Highly reactive" poly(isobutene)s via room temperature polymerization with a new zinc-based initiator system

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4124-4126

  Guerrero, Antonio ^a   Kulbaba, Kevin ^b   Bochmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Lanxess Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ALKYL HALIDES; POLYISOBUTENES (PIB); TRITYL CHLORIDE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 34347361552     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma070430a     Document Type: Article

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