Stereocontrol in the polymerization of higher α-olefin monomers

Stereoselective Polymerization with Single-Site Catalysts

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 345-362

  Kol, Moshe ^a   Segal, Sharon ^a   Groysman, Stanislav ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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