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 …

In this review, recent developments on late transition metal catalyzed α-olefin polymerization
and copolymerization with polar comonomers are described. First, the polymerization …

Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

Coordination–insertion polymerization systems have long been superior to their anionic,
cationic, and radical polymerization counterparts with regard to stereochemical control …

As a promising alternative to thermoset elastomers, thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have
attracted much attention because of their unique properties, including processability …

Due to a unique chain walking process, α-diimine nickel catalysts produce variously
branched polyolefins using only ethylene as the feedstock. Ligand structures and …

α-Diimine ligands, in particular 1, 4-diazabutadiene (dad) and bis (iminoacenaphthene)(
bian) derivatives, have been widely used for coordination with various metals, including …

Previously, it was demonstrated that nickel complexes bearing unsymmetrical α-diimine
ligands generated polymers with a broad molecular weight distribution in ethylene …

The tuning of branching density and branch-type distribution of the polyolefin through the
ligand modification in “chain-walking”-type late transition metal catalysts is highly desired …

Oxidative addition of phenylacetylene through CH bond cleavage to form the MgII-dpp-bian
complex: molecular structure of [Mg[dpp-bian(H)](C[triplebond]CPh)(thf)2] and its diphenylketone …