Improving 1-hexene incorporation of highly active Cp-chromium-based ethylene polymerization catalysts

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 35-43

  Ronellenfitsch, Mathias ^a   Gehrmann, Thorsten ^a   Wadepohl, Hubert ^a   Enders, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYST SUPPORTS; CHROMIUM; ETHYLENE; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; SILICA; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

CHROMIUM CATALYSTS; CYCLOPENTADIENYLS; ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION CATALYSTS; HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTIONS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TRIMETHYLSILYL SUBSTITUENTS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 85016258016     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01891     Document Type: Article

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