Metal Catalysts in Olefin Polymerization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guan, Zhibin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, 26
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Inorganic chemistry.; Organometallic chemistry.; Polymers.; Medicinal chemistry.; Catalysis.; Organometallic Chemistry.; Polymer Sciences.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Medicinal Chemistry.

Polyolefin is a major industry that is important for our economy and impacts every aspect of our lives. The discovery of new transition metal-based catalysts is one of the driving forces for the further advancement of this field. Whereas the classical heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysts and homoge...

Table of Contents:

• Early Transition Metal Catalysis
• Discovery and Development of FI Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization: Unique Catalysis and Distinctive Polymer Formation
• Hafnocene-Based Olefin Polymerizations
• Chain Shuttling Catalysis and Olefin Block Copolymers (OBCs)
• Late Transition Metal Catalysis
• Iron-Based and Cobalt-Based Olefin Polymerisation Catalysts
• Late Transition Metal Catalysts for the Copolymerization of Olefins and Polar Monomers
• Recent Progress in Late Transition Metal ?-Diimine Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization
• Structural and Mechanistic Aspects of Copper Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization.