The past 15 years have witnessed tremendous advances in the design and use of organometallic complexes as precatalysts for olefin polymerization. Most recently, an intense search has been started in next-generation single-site catalysts. New approaches have been taken to ligand design.

This research has yielded extraordinary results such as catalysts with activities as high or higher than those of conventional metallocenes, stereospecific and living polymerizations, and amazing new polymer structures such as highly-branched ethylene homopolymers. A symposium was organized to review the scope of progress in this rapidly expanding field.

Beyond Metallocenes: Next-Generation Polymerization Catalysts is a result of presentations made at this symposium. This volume provides some of the recent disclosures in this exciting and rapidly expanding field, featuring papers by some of the leading investigators.

Beyond Metallocenes: Next-Generation Polymerization Catalysts contains the broad sweep in the metal complexes (from titanium to copper) used. New ligand synthesis, new metal compounds, new polymer structures, and new combinations of monomers are all featured.

Contents

Fundamentals

1. Beyond Metallocenes: Next-Generation Polymerization Catalysts

Catalysts from Group 4 Metal Complexes

2. Syntheses of New Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Based on Zirconium Complexes of Organoboron Compounds
3. FI Catalysts for Highly Controlled Living Polymerization of Ethylene and Propylene: Creation of Precisely Controlled Polymers
4. Group 4 Octahedral Complexes Catalyzed the Stereoregular and Elastomeric Polymerization of Propylene
5. Complexes of Amine Phenolate Ligands as Catalysts for Polymerization of alpha-Olefins
6. Modeling and Catalytic Performance of Group 4 Metal Complexes with Anionic Heteroatomic Ligands

Catalysts from Groups 5 and 6 Metal Complexes

7. 1,3,5-Triazacyclohexane Complexes of Chromium as Homogeneous Model Systems for the Phillips Catalyst
8. Olefin Copolymerization and Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Catalyzed by Tantalum(V)-Based Complexes

Catalysts from Groups 8-10 Metal Complexes

9. The Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Monoxide: A Novel Way to Polyesters
10. Copolymerization of Ethylene and Acrylates by Nickel Catalysts
11. Trends in Alkene Insertion in Late- and Early- Transition Metal Compounds: Relevance to Transition Metal-Catalyzed Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers
12. Theoretical Studies on the Polymerization and Copolymerization Processes Catalyzed by the Late-Transition Metal Complexes
13. Vinyl-Type Polymerization of Norbornene by Nickel(II) bis-Benzimidazole Catalysts

Catalysts Based on Copper Complexes

14. Copper-Based Olefin Polymerization Catalysts
15. Copper-Based Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: High-Pressure 19F NMR Catalyst Probe
16. Cu Catalysts for Homo- and Copolymerization of Olefins and Acrylates

Index

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