Dalton Transactions (Print Edition) 2008-12-28

Awakening a dormant catalyst: salicylaldimine systems for ethene/tert-butylstyrene copolymerization.

Giles W Theaker, Colin Morton, Peter Scott

Index: Dalton Trans. (48) , 6883-5, (2008)

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Abstract

A group of readily available zirconium catalysts incapable of ethene-co-styrene polymerization are remarkably active and selective for the production of the new polymer ethene-co-tert-butylstyrene via a single site mechanism.