A chromium ethylidene complex as a potent catalyst for selective ethylene trimerization

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2346-2349

  Licciulli, Sebastiano ^a   Albahily, Khalid ^a   Fomitcheva, Valeria ^a   Korobkov, Ilia ^a   Gambarotta, Sandro ^a   Duchateau, Robbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

1 Hexene; Carbene ligands; Chromium; Ethylene trimerization; Homogeneous catalysis

Indexed keywords

1-HEXENE; CARBENE LIGANDS; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; DINUCLEAR SPECIES; ETHYLIDENE COMPLEX; HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS; MONONUCLEAR COMPLEXES; TRIMERIZATION; TRIMERIZATION CATALYSTS;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHLORINE; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; ETHYLENE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS;

LIGANDS;

EID: 79952050658     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201006953     Document Type: Article

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