Emerging palladium and nickel catalysts for copolymerization of olefins with polar monomers

C Tan, C Chen - Angewandte Chemie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Transition‐metal‐catalyzed copolymerization of olefins with polar monomers represents a
challenge because of the large variety of substrate‐induced side reactions. However, this …

Toward the copolymerization of propylene with polar comonomers

SLJ Luckham, K Nozaki - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

Robust bulky [P, O] neutral nickel catalysts for copolymerization of ethylene with polar vinyl monomers

Y Zhang, H Mu, L Pan, X Wang, Y Li - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Several nickel complexes bearing sterically bulky phosphino-phenolate ([P, O]) ligands were
synthesized and explored as catalysts for olefin (co) polymerization. In the absence of an …

Advance on nickel‐and palladium‐catalyzed insertion copolymerization of ethylene and acrylate monomers

H Zheng, Z Qiu, D Li, L Pei… - Journal of Polymer Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nickel‐and palladium‐catalyzed insertion copolymerization of ethylene and acrylate
comonomers for synthesis of ethylene‐acrylates copolymers have attracted much academic …

Efficient copolymerization of acrylate and ethylene with neutral P, O-chelated nickel catalysts: mechanistic investigations of monomer insertion and chelate formation

S Xiong, MM Shoshani, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The efficient copolymerization of acrylates with ethylene using Ni catalysts remains a
challenge. Herein, we report two neutral Ni (II) catalysts (POP-Ni-py (1) and PONap-Ni-py …

Precision synthesis of ethylene and polar monomer copolymers by palladium-catalyzed living coordination copolymerization

S Zhong, Y Tan, L Zhong, J Gao, H Liao, L Jiang… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Coordination insertion polymerization is unsurpassed as a straightforward method for
synthesis of high-value polyolefins by the copolymerization of ethylene and polar …

Electron-rich metal cations enable synthesis of high molecular weight, linear functional polyethylenes

W Zhang, PM Waddell, MA Tiedemann… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Group 10 metal catalysts have shown much promise for the copolymerization of nonpolar
with polar alkenes to directly generate functional materials, but access to high copolymer …

Acrylate-induced β-H elimination in coordination insertion copolymerizaton catalyzed by nickel

S Xiong, A Hong, P Ghana, BC Bailey… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polar monomer-induced β-H elimination is a key elementary step in polar polyolefin
synthesis by coordination polymerization but remains underexplored. Herein, we show that …

Impact of labile ligands on catalyst initiation and chain propagation in Ni-catalyzed ethylene/acrylate copolymerization

S Xiong, P Ghana, BC Bailey, HA Spinney… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polar polyolefin synthesis by coordination polymerization is of high interest, but the catalysts'
low activity limits industrial implementation. Herein, we demonstrate how the nature of the …

Copolymerization of ethylene and polar monomers by using Ni/IzQO catalysts

W Tao, R Nakano, S Ito, K Nozaki - Angewandte Chemie, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The replacement of precious metals in catalysis by earth‐abundant metals is currently one of
the urgent challenges for chemists. Whereas palladium‐catalyzed copolymerization of …