Coordination Copolymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers H2CCHX

Coordination Copolymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers H2C[double bond]CHX

Of all polymerization methods, catalytic polymerization offers the broadest scope of microstructure control. Stereoregularity, comonomer incorporation and sequences, molecular weights, and molecular weight distributions can be controlled by the catalyst structure. Polyolefins are produced on a vast scale of nearly 100 million tons annually, predominantly by catalytic polymerization. High-densit...

Copolymerization of polar monomers with olefins using transition-metal complexes.

Transition-metal catalysts long ago made it from the laboratory bench to the polymerization reactor. Indeed, they are being used around the world to make more than 70 million tons of polyethylene and polypropylene a year. Transition-metal catalysts give polyolefin producers unprecedented flexibility in process and polymer design. However, there are still new worlds for catalysts to conquer. One...

Bimetallic coordination insertion polymerization of unprotected polar monomers: copolymerization of amino olefins and ethylene by dinickel bisphenoxyiminato catalysts.

Dinickel bisphenoxyiminato complexes based on highly substituted p- and m-terphenyl backbones were synthesized, and the corresponding atropisomers were isolated. In the presence of a phosphine scavenger, Ni(COD)2, the phosphine-ligated syn-dinickel complexes copolymerized α-olefins and ethylene in the presence of amines to afford 0.2-1.3% α-olefin incorporation and copolymerized amino olefins a...

Relative Reactivities in Vinyl Copolymerization

Synopsis. From data in the literature on relatine rates of copolymerization it has been possible to evaluute two constants, Q and e , cheracteristic of a n individual monomer, which appear to account satisfactorily .for its behavior in copolymerization. The constant Q describes the “general monomer reactivity” and is apparently related to possibilities for stabilization in a radical adduct. The...

Generation of novel polymeric materials and catalyst deactivation pathways in polar vinyl monomer insertion copolymerization