BHT-Modified MAO: Cage Size Estimation, Chemical Counting of Strongly Acidic Al Sites, and Activation of a Ti-Phosphinimide Precatalyst

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 2996-3010

  Zaccaria, Francesco ^a,b   Zuccaccia, Cristiano ^b   Cipullo, Roberta ^a   Budzelaar, Peter H M ^a   Macchioni, Alceo ^b   Busico, Vincenzo ^a   Ehm, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

activation; chemical shift predictions; DFT; DOSY NMR; methylaluminoxane; modified MAO; olefin polymerization catalysis; post metallocene

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL SHIFT; DYES; IONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLEFINS; ORGANOMETALLICS; POLYMERIZATION; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

DOSY NMR; METHYLALUMINOXANE; MODIFIED MAO; OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYSIS; POST-METALLOCENE;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 85062884025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21555435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00076     Document Type: Article

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