Polyolefins have dominated materials technology over the last century and remain among
the most used materials, despite environmental problems have emerged and their public …

Coordinative chain transfer polymerization, CCTP, is a degenerative chain transfer
polymerization process that has a wide range of applications. It allows a highly controlled …

Precise synthesis of the complex polymer structure has been long-sought. In the late
transition-metal catalyzed olefin polymerization, chain walking and chain transfer are two …

Since the pioneering advances of Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta during the early 1950s, a
continuing series of breakthroughs in research and industrial innovations have greatly …

Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

The interest in the late transition metal catalyst based design of new architectures of
polyethylene (PE) has continuously been increasing over the last few years. The structure of …

1.1. Inspired by Nature In many enzymes, such as ureases (Figure 1), two or more metal
centers are poised in close proximity to activate both electrophilic and nucleophilic …

The development of single-site catalysts has led to great potentialities for fine-tuning the
microstructure of polyolefins and polydienes. Both regioselectivity and stereoselectivity of …

One catalyst, many materials: The chemistry of polyolefins has been thoroughly explored,
and it sometimes seems as if any given polymer structure can be obtained by derivatization …

A number of transition metal catalysts including early and late transition metals have been
investigated for olefin polymerization and copolymerization. Progress of the field in this …