Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) belongs to an emerging class of high-
performance specialty polymers with a unique set of properties and applications. The field …

The preparation of well-defined functionalized polyolefins via coordination-insertion
polymerization method is a hot topic in polymer science. Late transition organometallic …

Abstract α-Diimine Ni and Pd complexes are one of the most examined late-transition
organometallics in the application of catalyzed ethylene (co) polymerization. These …

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 …

The development of high-performance transition metal catalysts has long been a major
driving force in academic and industrial polyolefin research. Late transition metal-based …

The fascination of the well-defined metal catalysts for olefin polymerization is their capability
to control the properties of the polymer such as topology (linear to highly branched), range of …

In this study, several α-diimine nickel complexes were prepared by merging a bulky
dibenzobarrelene backbone and bulky dibenzhydrylanilines. The single-crystal X-ray …

This review summarizes the progress of transition metal catalyzed ethylene polymerization
to ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), focusing on the catalytic activities of …

α-Diimine catalysts with rigid steric hindrance groups demonstrated great potential in the
field of olefin polymerization. We have recently focused on developing bulky yet flexible alkyl …

Recently, α-diimine nickel-catalyzed ethylene chain walking polymerization has enabled the
direct preparation of polyethylene thermoplastic elastomers using ethylene as a single …