Highly active and isospecific styrene polymerization catalyzed by zirconium complexes bearing aryl-substituted [OSSO]-type bis(phenolate) ligands

Polymers

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Nakata, Norio ^a   Toda, Tomoyuki ^a   Saito, Yusuke ^a   Watanabe, Takanori ^a   Ishii, Akihiko ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isotactic; Post metallocene; Styrene polymerization; Zirconium; OSSO type ligand

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; LIGANDS; ORGANOMETALLICS; POLYMERIZATION; STYRENE; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZIRCONIUM;

ARYL SUBSTITUENTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ISOTACTICS; METHYLALUMINOXANE; POST-METALLOCENE; PRECATALYSTS; STYRENE POLYMERIZATION; ZIRCONIUM COMPLEXES;

ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84960080283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym8020031     Document Type: Article

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