1.1 Background A prolific coupling of polymer science with organometallic chemistry has
recently yielded phenomenal scientific and commercial successes in the production of …

This contribution reports the first chemoselective, stereospecific, and living polymerization of
polar divinyl monomers, enabled by chiral ansa-zirconocenium catalysts through an …

This contribution reports a combined synthetic, kinetic, mechanistic, and theoretical/
computational study of the recently discovered catalyst-site-controlled coordination …

The Ag+ adducts of polystyrene (PS) oligomers with different sizes (6− 19 repeat units) and
initiating (α) or terminating (ω) end groups mainly decompose via free radical chemistry …

The successful synthesis of highly syndiotactic polar vinyl polymers bearing the reactive
pendant vinyl group on each repeat unit, which is enabled by perfectly chemoselective and …

Four neutral zirconocene bis (ester enolate) and non-zirconocene bis (alkoxy) complexes
have been employed for ring-opening polymerizations and chain transfer polymerizations of …

This contribution reports the first examples of stereoregular (isotactic, it-, and syndiotactic, st-
) methacrylate-POSS (polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) hybrid polymers and their …

This contribution reports the first study of coordination-addition polymerization of renewable
butyrolactone-based vinyl monomers, MBL (α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone) and MMBL (γ …

The first series of lanthanide amido complexes incorporating a neutral pyrrole ligand in a
constrained geometry architecture were synthesized, and their bonding, reactions, and …

This contribution reports the first successful coordination− addition polymerization of N, N-
dialkylmethacrylamides and the first example of kinetic resolution of a racemic …