Designing catalysts for olefin polymerization and copolymerization: beyond electronic and steric tuning

C Chen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
More than 50 years have passed since Ziegler and Natta shared the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for their discovery of olefin polymerization catalysts. The field of metal-catalysed …

Light-controlled radical polymerization: mechanisms, methods, and applications

M Chen, M Zhong, JA Johnson - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The use of light to mediate controlled radical polymerization has emerged as a powerful
strategy for rational polymer synthesis and advanced materials fabrication. This review …

Sequence control from mixtures: switchable polymerization catalysis and future materials applications

AC Deacy, GL Gregory, GS Sulley… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
There is an ever-increasing demand for higher-performing polymeric materials
counterbalanced by the need for sustainability throughout the life cycle. Copolymers …

Forever young: the first seventy years of ferrocene

P Štěpnička - Dalton Transactions, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of ferrocene,[Fe (η5-C5H5) 2], seventy years ago has significantly influenced
chemical research and provided a key impetus for establishing and rapidly expanding …

Recent trends in catalytic polymerizations

DJ Walsh, MG Hyatt, SA Miller, D Guironnet - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Artificial switchable catalysts

V Blanco, DA Leigh, V Marcos - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalysis is key to the effective and efficient transformation of readily available building
blocks into high value functional molecules and materials. For many years research in this …

Redox-active ligands in catalysis

OR Luca, RH Crabtree - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Redox-active ligands in catalysis - Chemical Society Reviews (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C2CS35228A
Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF VersionPrevious ArticleNext Article DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35228A …

Role of external field in polymerization: mechanism and kinetics

YN Zhou, JJ Li, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past decades have witnessed an increasing interest in developing advanced
polymerization techniques subjected to external fields. Various physical modulations, such …

Electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization

AJD Magenau, NC Strandwitz, A Gennaro… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Atom transfer radical polymerization is a versatile technique for exerting precise control over
polymer molecular weights, molecular weight distributions, and complex architectures. Here …

Olefins and vinyl polar monomers: bridging the gap for next generation materials

A Keyes, HE Basbug Alhan, E Ordonez… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The inherent differences in reactivity between activated and non‐activated alkenes prevents
copolymerization using established polymer synthesis techniques. Research over the past …