Beyond Metallocenes: Next-Generation Polymerization Catalysts

by Abhimanyu O. Patil, Gregory G. Hlatky

Overview

The past 15 years have witnessed tremendous advances in the design and use of organometallic complexes as precatalysts for olefin polymerization. Most recently, an intense search has been started in next-generation single-site catalysts. New approaches have been taken to ligand design.

This research has yielded extraordinary results such as catalysts with activities as high or higher than those of conventional metallocenes, stereospecific and living polymerizations, and amazing new polymer structures such as highly-branched ethylene homopolymers.

This volume presents some of the recent disclosures in this exciting and rapidly expanding field, featuring papers by some of the leading investigators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780841238381
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Publication date:	06/27/2003
Series:	ACS Symposium Series , #857
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Fundamentals
1. Beyond Metallocenes: Next-Generation Polymerization Catalysts, Abhimanyu O. Patil and Gregory G. Hlatky
Catalysts from Group 4 Metal Complexes
2. Syntheses of New Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Based on Zirconium Complexes of Organoboron Compounds, Arthur J. Ashe, III, et al.
3. FI Catalysts for Highly Controlled Living Polymerization of Ethylene and Propylene: Creation of Precisely Controlled Polymers, Makoto Mitani and Terunori Fujita
4. Group 4 Octahedral Complexes Catalyzed the Stereoregular and Elastomeric Polymerization of Propylene, Victoria Volkis et al.
5. Complexes of Amine Phenolate Ligands as Catalysts for Polymerization of *a-Olefins, Moshe Kol, Edit Y. Tshuva, and Zeev Goldschmidt
6. Modeling and Catalytic Performance of Group 4 Metal Complexes with Anionic Heteroatomic Ligands, Sandor M. Nagy, Mark P. Mack, and Gregory G. Hlatky
Catalysts from Groups 5 and 6 Metal Complexes
7. 1,3,5-Triazacyclohexane Complexes of Chromium as Homogeneous Model Systems for the Phillips Catalyst
8. Olefin Copolymerization and Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Catalyzed by Tantalum(V)-Based Complexes, Wesley R. Mariott, Lauren M. Hayden, and Eugene Y.-X. Chen
Catalysts from Groups 8-10 Metal Complexes
9. The Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Monoxide: A Novel Way to Polyesters, Markus Allmendinger et al.
10. Copolymerization of Ethylene and Acrylates by Nickel Catalysts, Lynda Johnson et al.
11. Trends in Alkene Insertion in Late- and Early- Transition Metal Compounds: Relevance to Transition Metal-Catalyzed Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers, Myeongsoon Kang et al.
12. Theoretical Studies on the Polymerization and Copolymerization Processes Catalyzed by the Late-Transition Metal Complexes, Artur Michalak and Tom Ziegler
13. Vinyl-Type Polymerization of Norbornene by Nickel(II) bis-Benzimidazole Catalysts, Abhimanyu O. Patil et al.
Catalysts Based on Copper Complexes
14. Copper-Based Olefin Polymerization Catalysts, Robert T. Stibrany, Abhimanyu O. Patil, and Stephen Zushma
15. Copper-Based Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: High-Pressure ¹]9F NMR Catalyst Probe, Robert T. Stribrany
16. Cu Catalysts for Homo- and Copolymerization of Olefins and Acrylates, R. T. Stibrany
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

"This ACS Symposium book provides a good coverage of recent advances in nonmetallocene catalystsIn addition to a good mix of academic and industrial presentations showing significant basic and application-oriented results, the editors did a good job to systematically arrange this book along the transition metals group, which provides readers with a clear view of the scope and focus in each group of metal complex systems. Most importantly, it also shows the major differences and similarities between early and late transition metal complexes in olefin polymerization."—Polymer News

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