Ligand Coordination Driven by Monomer and Polymer Chain: The Intriguing Case of Salalen-Ti Catalyst for Propene Polymerization

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2017, Pages 5332-5336

  Talarico, Giovanni ^a   Budzelaar, Peter H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGANDS; MONOMERS; POLYPROPYLENES; PROPYLENE;

ACTIVE SPECIES; DFT CALCULATION; ISOTACTICITIES; LIGAND COORDINATION; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMERIZATION BEHAVIOR; PROPENE POLYMERIZATION; X-RAY STRUCTURE;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 85026392746     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00846     Document Type: Article

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