For 40 years, the industrial production of polyolefins has mainly been based on classical
heterogeneous (Ziegler-Natta-and Phillips-type) catalysts. Only during the past decade have …

The achievement of a structure–activity relationship for heterogeneous catalysts is a
desirable step for improving existing catalysts or for predicting new catalytic reactions. This …

It has been just over 40 years since the first pentafluorophenyl substituted boranes were
prepared using transmetallation reactions of C6F5 SnMe3 and BCl3. 1 Although …

The chemistry of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) has taken a tremendous
leap over the past decade. New synthetic approaches have been developed, and new …

Pyridyl-amido catalysts have emerged recently with great promise for olefin polymerization.
Insights into the activation chemistry are presented in an initial attempt to understand the …

Reactions of [{N−, N, Cnaphthyl−} HfMe][MeB (C6F5) 3](2) precatalyst with a series of α-
olefins have been investigated in order to intercept the active polymerization species …

The synthesis and characterization of a new series of Pt (II) complexes bearing the tridentate
bis (phosphino) silyl ligands [κ3-(2-R2 P C6H4) 2 Si Me]−([R-PSiP], R= Ph, Cy) are reported …

A supported, single-site Lewis acid, SiOB (C6F5) 2, was prepared by water-catalyzed
grafting of B (C6F5) 3 onto the surface of amorphous silica, and its subsequent use as a …

The stoichiometric reaction of B (C6F5) 3 and NEt2Ph I, at room temperature, in an aromatic
solvent, has been investigated by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy (1H, 11B, 13C, 15N and …

Owing to their versatile application possibilities, silsesquioxanes (SQs) are of considerable
interest for creating hybrid inorganic–organic materials. In this report, two novel and …