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

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

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) (2008-12-04)
Giles W Theaker, Colin Morton, Peter Scott
PMID19050773
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.