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 …

'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 …

Material properties of functional polyethylenes from transition-metal-catalyzed ethylene–polar monomer copolymerization

C Tan, C Zou, C Chen - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polyethylenes enjoy wide applications due to their many superior properties. The
incorporation of some polar functional groups into the otherwise nonpolar polyethylene …

Synthesis of self-healing polymers by scandium-catalyzed copolymerization of ethylene and anisylpropylenes

H Wang, Y Yang, M Nishiura, Y Higaki… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Self-healing materials are of fundamental interest and practical importance. Herein we
report the synthesis of a new class of self-healing materials, formed by the copolymerization …

Early transition metal catalysis for olefin–polar monomer copolymerization

J Chen, Y Gao, TJ Marks - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introducing polar functional groups into widely used polyolefins can enhance polymer
surface, rheological, mixing, and other properties, potentially upgrading polyolefins for …

The Role of Alkali Metal in α‐MnO2 Catalyzed Ammonia‐Selective Catalysis

Z Hao, Z Shen, Y Li, H Wang, L Zheng… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The unexpected phenomenon and mechanism of the alkali metal involved NH3 selective
catalysis are reported. Incorporation of K+ (4.22 wt%) in the tunnels of α‐MnO2 greatly …

Direct copolymerization of ethylene with protic comonomers enabled by multinuclear Ni catalysts

G Ji, Z Chen, XY Wang, XS Ning, CJ Xu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ethylene/polar monomer coordination copolymerization offers an attractive way of making
functionalized polyolefins. However, ethylene copolymerization with industrially relevant …

Facile access to polar-functionalized ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene at ambient conditions

X Hu, X Kang, Y Zhang, Z Jian - CCS Chemistry, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
The most straightforward and potentially ideal route to produce polar-functionalized
polyethylene is direct copolymerization of ethylene with polar monomers. However, access …

Terpolymerization of Ethylene and Two Different Methoxyaryl‐Substituted Propylenes by Scandium Catalyst Makes Tough and Fast Self‐Healing Elastomers

Y Yang, H Wang, L Huang, M Nishiura… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The terpolymerization of a non‐polar olefin (such as ethylene) and two different polar
functional olefins in a controlled fashion is of great interest and importance but has hardly …

Development of group 3 catalysts for alternating copolymerization of ethylene and styrene derivatives

S Li, D Liu, Z Wang, D Cui - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Alternating copolymers have the clearest and most defined microstructures among
manmade polymers, having been promising building blocks to access synthetic polymers …