Research on “post‐metallocene” polymerization catalysis ranges methodologically from
fundamental mechanistic studies of polymerization reactions over catalyst design to material …

This Review gives an overview on recent progress in the synthesis and chemistry of rare-
earth metal dialkyl complexes bearing monoanionic ancillary ligands, with an emphasis on …

Organometallic chemistry has provided the foundation for the development of a wide range
of new olefin polymerization catalysts over the last two to three decades. The unraveling of …

Transition metal complexes bearing linked cyclopentadienyl amido ligands, regularly
referred to as constrained geometry complexes (CGCs), have found wide interest both in …

Metathesis polycondensation chemistry has been employed to control the crystalline
morphology of a series of 11 precision-branched polyethylene structures, the branch being …

Since the discovery of titanium-and zirconium complexes with linked cyclopentadienyl
amido ligands, this new polymerization catalyst class (constrained geometry catalysts …

Ion pairing is known to play a key role in stoichiometric and catalytic reactions mediated by
charged transition metal complexes, especially when they are conducted in low-polar …

The polymerization of ethylene with titanium complexes bearing one bulky imidazolin-2-
iminato ligand (L) in the presence of MAO and/or TTPB as cocatalysts have been explored …

Using a highly active permethylindenyl-phenoxy (PHENI*) titanium catalyst, high to ultra-
high molecular weight ethylene–linear-α-olefin (E/LAO) copolymers are prepared in high …

The mechanism for isotactic polypropylene formation by the C 1-symmetric catalyst system
[Me2C (3-tert-butyl-C5H3)(C13H8)] ZrCl2/MAO (MAO= methylaluminoxane, C13H8 …