Selective Quench-Labeling of the Hafnium-Pyridyl Amido-Catalyzed Polymerization of 1-Octene in the Presence of Trialkyl-Aluminum Chain-Transfer Reagents

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 11605-11614

  Cueny, Eric S ^a   Johnson, Heather C ^a   Landis, Clark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

active site counting; catalysis; chain transfer; kinetics; mechanism; polymerization; quench labeling

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CATALYSIS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HAFNIUM; MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

ACTIVE SITE; CATALYZED POLYMERIZATION; CHAIN TRANSFER; CHAIN TRANSFER AGENTS; EXCHANGE COEFFICIENTS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY (GPC); POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TRIALKYL ALUMINUM;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 85058238376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21555435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03615     Document Type: Article

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