Polyolefins are a multibillion dollar a year industry with worldwide production in excess of
160 billion pounds and polyethylene alone in excess of 100 billion pounds. Despite this size …

Many Schiff base complexes of metal ions show high catalytic activity. Chiral Schiff base
complexes are more selective in various reactions such as oxidation, hydroxylation, aldol …

The field of olefin polymerization catalysis has experienced a phenomenal acceleration in
research activity over the past 5 years, with many academic and industrial research …

One of the most exciting developments in the areas of catalysis, organometallic chemistry,
and polymer science in recent years has been the intense exploration and …

Conspectus Polyolefins are produced in vast amounts and are found in so many consumer
products that the two most commonly produced forms, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene …

A series of zinc (II) and magnesium (II) alkoxides based upon a β-diiminate ligand
framework has been prepared.[(BDI-1) ZnO i Pr] 2 [(BDI-1)= 2-((2, 6-diisopropylphenyl) …

▪ Abstract The powerful computational resources available to scientists today, together with
recent improvements in electronic structure calculation algorithms, are providing important …

Staudinger predicted a correlation between the physical properties of a polymer and its main-
chain stereochemistry as early as 1929. 1 However it was not until 1947 that Schildknecht …

The synthesis, characterization, and ethylene polymerization behavior of a series of iron and
cobalt halide complexes, LMX n (M= Fe, X= Cl, n= 2, 3, X= Br, n= 2; M= Co, X= Cl, n= 2) …

It has been almost a decade since sterically demanding bis (arylimino) pyridine ligands,[2, 6-
(ArNdCR) 2C5H3N](1)(Figure 1), were found to impart late transition metals, especially iron …