Copolymerization of ethylene with tert-butylethylene using nonbridged half-titanocene-cocatalyst systems

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3767-3773

  Khan, Fareha Zafar ^a   Kakinuki, Kenichi ^a   Nomura, Kotohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-BUTENE; 1-HEXENE; CATALYST SYSTEM; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; COCATALYST; CONSTRAINED GEOMETRY CATALYSTS; CYCLOPENTADIENYL; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; KETIMIDE; TITANOCENE; TITANOCENES; TRIMETHYL; VINYLTRIMETHYLSILANE; ZIRCONOCENE;

BUTENES; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 66749137606     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900510d     Document Type: Article

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