Heteroatom-assisted olefin polymerization by rare-earth metal catalysts

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Chunxiang ^a   Luo, Gen ^a   Nishiura, Masayoshi ^a   Song, Guoyong ^a   Yamamoto, Atsushi ^a   Luo, Yi ^b   Hou, Zhaomin ^a,b  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ETHYLENE; MONOMERS; OLEFINS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYOLEFINS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL POLYOLEFINS; FUNCTIONALIZED POLYOLEFINS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; RARE-EARTH METAL CATALYSTS; SYNDIOSPECIFIC POLYMERIZATION;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 85033203666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701011     Document Type: Article

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