Recent advances in nickel mediated copolymerization of olefin with polar monomers

H Mu, G Zhou, X Hu, Z Jian - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The preparation of well-defined functionalized polyolefins via coordination-insertion
polymerization method is a hot topic in polymer science. Late transition organometallic …

'Catalyst+ X'strategies for transition metal-catalyzed olefin-polar monomer copolymerization

C Tan, M Chen, C Chen - Trends in Chemistry, 2023 - cell.com
Transition metal-catalyzed olefin-polar monomer copolymerization holds great potential for
the synthesis of polar group-functionalized polyolefin materials. The dominant approach to …

Advances in polymerizations modulated by external stimuli

AM Doerr, JM Burroughs, SR Gitter, X Yang… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Synthetic polymer chemistry endeavors to imitate the spatial and temporal control exhibited
within biological systems to obtain well-defined polymeric materials with unique structures …

Spatiotemporal control for integrated catalysis

S Deng, BJ Jolly, JR Wilkes, Y Mu, JA Byers… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated catalysis is an emerging methodology that can streamline the multi-step synthesis
of complicated products in a single reaction vessel, achieving a high degree of control and …

Noncovalent interactions in late transition metal-catalyzed polymerization of olefins

H Zheng, H Gao - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transition metal-catalyzed olefin polymerization dominates in the polyolefin field, and we
still have limited control over a catalyst's behavior. In addition to traditional steric and …

Customizing polymers by controlling cation switching dynamics in non-living polymerization

TV Tran, E Lee, YH Nguyen, HD Nguyen… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Controlling the chain growth process in non-living polymerization reactions is difficult
because chain termination typically occurs faster than the time it takes to apply an external …

Nickel-based heterometallic catalysts for ethylene-acrylate copolymerization: Interrogating effects of secondary metal additives

S Xiong, MM Shoshani, AJ Nett, HA Spinney… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A class of in situ-generated Ni-based multimetallic complexes based on a bisphosphine
phenoxide ligand (POP) was studied for ethylene-acrylate copolymerization. Starting from a …

Elucidating secondary metal cation effects on nickel olefin polymerization catalysts

TV Tran, LJ Karas, JI Wu, LH Do - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Secondary metal cations, such as alkali and transition metal ions, have been shown to
enhance the catalytic performance of nickel and palladium olefin polymerization catalysts …

Tunable modalities in polyolefin synthesis via coordination insertion catalysis

TV Tran, LH Do - European Polymer Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Metal-catalyzed coordination insertion polymerization is one of the most widely used
methods to prepare polyolefins, a broad class of polymers comprising a vast majority of the …

Tunable branching and living character in ethylene polymerization using “polyethylene glycol sandwich” α-diimine nickel catalysts

X Ma, Y Zhang, Z Jian - Polymer Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The secondary coordination interaction that differs from ligand steric and electronic
modification is an important tool to modulate the olefin polymerization process. In this …