Catalyst Nuclearity Effects on Stereo- and Regioinduction in Pyridylamidohafnium-Catalyzed Propylene and 1-Octene Polymerizations

Macromolecules

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 2401-2410

  Gao, Yanshan ^a   Chen, Xia ^a,b   Zhang, Jialong ^a,c   Chen, Jiazhen ^a   Lohr, Tracy L ^a   Marks, Tobin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ETHYLENE; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; NAPHTHALENE; POLYPROPYLENES; PROPYLENE;

2 ,6-DIISOPROPYLANILINE; CHAIN TRANSFER; COMONOMER INCORPORATION; HOMOPOLYMERIZATIONS; ISOTACTICITIES; MONOMETALLIC CATALYSTS; OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYSTS; PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION;

HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85044647177     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00181     Document Type: Article

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