Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers from polymerization catalysis: Advantages, pitfalls and future challenges

Asymmetrical Strategy Makes Significant Differences in α‐Diimine Nickel and Palladium Catalyzed Ethylene (Co)Polymerizations

(2020) Xiaoqiang Hu et al.   ChemCatChem

A simple and versatile nickel platform for the generation of branched high molecular weight polyolefins

(2020) Tao Liang et al.   Nature Communications

Copolymerization of Propylene with Higher α-Olefins by a Pyridylamidohafnium Catalyst: An Effective Approach to Polypropylene-Based Elastomer

(2020) Fei Yang et al.   Polymers

Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste

(2020) Ina Vollmer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ultrahighly Branched Main‐Chain‐Functionalized Polyethylenes via Inverted Insertion Selectivity

(2020) Yuxing Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Recent advancements in N-ligated group 4 molecular catalysts for the (co)polymerization of ethylene

(2020) Shi-Fang Yuan et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Direct Synthesis of Polar Functionalized Polyethylene Thermoplastic Elastomer

(2020) Shengyu Dai et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1

(2020) Neeltje van Doremalen et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Vitrimers: Permanently crosslinked polymers with dynamic network topology

(2020) Nathan J. Van Zee et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Chemical recycling to monomer for an ideal, circular polymer economy

(2020) Geoffrey W. Coates et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Recent developments in vanadium-catalyzed olefin coordination polymerization

(2020) Ana Maria Faisca Phillips et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Semibatch Terpolymerization of Ethylene, Propylene, and 5-Ethylidene-2-norbornene: Heterogeneous High-Ethylene EPDM Thermoplastic Elastomers

(2020) Giuseppe Leone et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Optically Transparent Functional Polyolefin Elastomer with Excellent Mechanical and Thermal Properties

(2019) Xiangyang Song et al.   ACS Macro Letters

The Hafnium-Pyridyl Amido-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethene and 1-Octene: How Small Amounts of Ethene Impact Catalysis

(2019) Eric S. Cueny et al.   ACS Catalysis

A highly active Ni(II)-triadamantylphosphine catalyst for ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene synthesis

(2019) Andrew L. Kocen et al.   Nature Communications

Syntheses and properties of ABA, CBA, and CBC triblock copolymers based thermoplastic elastomers with glassy (A), elastomeric (B), and crystalline (C) blocks

(2019) Ji-Xing Yang et al.   Journal of Macromolecular Science Part A-Pure and Applied Chemistry

Olefin metathesis in multiblock copolymer synthesis

(2019) Maria L Gringolts et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Emerging Palladium and Nickel Catalysts for Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Monomers

(2019) Chen Tan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Discrete iron-based complexes: Applications in homogeneous coordination-insertion polymerization catalysis

(2019) Yohan Champouret et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Access to polyethylene elastomers via ethylene homo-polymerization using N,N′-nickel(II) catalysts appended with electron withdrawing difluorobenzhydryl group

(2019) Yifan Wang et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Systematic Investigations of Ligand Steric Effects on α-Diimine Nickel Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization and Copolymerization

(2019) Yanfeng Gong et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Recent advances in thermoplastic elastomers from living polymerizations: Macromolecular architectures and supramolecular chemistry

(2019) Weiyu Wang et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Polar-Functionalized, Crosslinkable, Self-Healing, and Photoresponsive Polyolefins

(2019) Chen Zou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Recent Trends in Catalytic Polymerizations

(2019) Dylan J. Walsh et al.   ACS Catalysis

Recent advances in ruthenium-based olefin metathesis

(2018) O. M. Ogba et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Recent Progress in Ethylene Polymerization Catalyzed by Ni and Pd Catalysts

(2018) Jun Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Synthesis and Characterization of Isotactic Poly(1-hexene)/Branched Polyethylene Multiblock Copolymer via Chain Shuttling Polymerization Technique

(2018) Mohammad Hossein Jandaghian et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

High-Melting, Elastic Polypropylene: A One-Pot, One-Catalyst Strategy toward Propylene-Based Thermoplastic Elastomers

(2018) Martin R. Machat et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Peroxide-Mediated Alkyl–Alkyl Coupling of Dialkylzinc: A Useful Tool for Synthesis of ABA-Type Olefin Triblock Copolymers

(2018) Sung Dong Kim et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Chain-Walking Polymerization of α-Olefins by α-Diimine Ni(II) Complexes: Effect of Reducing the Steric Hindrance of Ortho- and Para-Aryl Substituents on the Catalytic Behavior, Monomer Enchainment, and Polymer Properties

(2018) Ivana Pierro et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Synthesis of Various Branched Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylenes Using Sterically Hindered Acenaphthene-Based α-Diimine Ni(II) Catalysts

(2018) Lihua Guo et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis of polyolefin elastomers from unsymmetrical α-diimine nickel catalyzed olefin polymerization

(2018) Jun Fang et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Olefin metathesis polymerization: Some recent developments in the precise polymerizations for synthesis of advanced materials (by ROMP, ADMET)

(2018) Yanjun Chen et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Molecular Kinetic Study of “Chain Shuttling” Olefin Copolymerization

(2018) Antonio Vittoria et al.   ACS Catalysis

Redox-Controlled Polymerization and Copolymerization

(2018) Changle Chen   ACS Catalysis

Heterogeneous single-atom catalysis

(2018) Aiqin Wang et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Highly resilient polyethylene elastomers prepared using α-diimine nickel catalyst with highly conjugated backbone

(2018) Feng He et al.   APPLIED ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY

Finely tuned nickel complexes as highly active catalysts affording branched polyethylene of high molecular weight: 1-(2,6-Dibenzhydryl-4- methoxyphenylimino)-2-(arylimino)acenaphthylenenickel halides

(2018) Ruikai Wu et al.   POLYMER

N,N-chelated nickel catalysts for highly branched polyolefin elastomers: a survey

(2018) Qaiser Mahmood et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Degenerative chain-transfer process: Controlling all chain-growth polymerizations and enabling novel monomer sequences

(2018) Masami Kamigaito et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Preparation of Comb-Shaped Polyolefin Elastomers Having Ethylene/1-Octene Copolymer Backbone and Long Chain Polyethylene Branches via a Tandem Metallocene Catalyst System

(2018) Kailun Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers from 1-octene copolymerization with 1-decene and cyclopentene

(2017) Ivana Pierro et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Synthesis and ethylene polymerization of 8-(fluorenylarylimino)-5,6,7-trihydroquinolylnickel chlorides: Tailoring polyethylenes by adjusting fluorenyl position and adduct Et2 Zn

(2017) Yanning Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

On the Development of Titanium κ1 -Amidinate Complexes, Commercialized as Keltan ACE™ Technology, Enabling the Production of an Unprecedented Large Variety of EPDM Polymer Structures

(2017) Gerard van Doremaele et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Mechanistic Studies of Hafnium-Pyridyl Amido-Catalyzed 1-Octene Polymerization and Chain Transfer Using Quench-Labeling Methods

(2017) Eric S. Cueny et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

New olefin block copolymers of ethylene/1-hexene synthesized by iron and zirconocene catalysts in the presence of ZnEt2

(2017) Mostafa Ahmadi et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY

Biaxial Chain Growth of Polyolefin and Polystyrene from 1,6-Hexanediylzinc Species for Triblock Copolymers

(2017) Seung Soo Park et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Understanding the Insertion Pathways and Chain Walking Mechanisms of α-Diimine Nickel Catalysts for α-Olefin Polymerization: A 13C NMR Spectroscopic Investigation

(2017) Kyle S. O’Connor et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Regulation of the cis-1,4- and trans-1,4-Polybutadiene Multiblock Copolymers via Chain Shuttling Polymerization Using a Ternary Neodymium Organic Sulfonate Catalyst

(2017) Quanquan Dai et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Direct Synthesis of Thermoplastic Polyolefin Elastomers from Nickel-Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization

(2017) Kunbo Lian et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Precision Synthesis of Ethylene and Polar Monomer Copolymers by Palladium-Catalyzed Living Coordination Copolymerization

(2017) Shuhuang Zhong et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Elastomeric polyethylenes accessible via ethylene homo-polymerization using an unsymmetrical α-diimino-nickel catalyst

(2017) Xinxin Wang et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Acyclic diene metathesis polymerization: History, methods and applications

(2017) Lucas Caire da Silva et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Combining polyethylene and polypropylene: Enhanced performance with PE/iPP multiblock polymers

(2017) James M. Eagan et al.   SCIENCE

Preparation of polystyrene–polyolefin multiblock copolymers by sequential coordination and anionic polymerization

(2017) Dong Hyun Kim et al.   RSC Advances

Oxidatively Stable Polyolefin Thermoplastics and Elastomers for Biomedical Applications

(2017) Yanzhao Wang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Polystyrene Chain Growth from Di-End-Functional Polyolefins for Polystyrene-Polyolefin-Polystyrene Block Copolymers

(2017) Chung Kim et al.   Polymers

Catalysis by Design: Well-Defined Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts

(2016) Jérémie D. A. Pelletier et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Spontaneously Healable Thermoplastic Elastomers Achieved through One-Pot Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Copolymerization of Well-Designed Bulky Monomers

(2016) Ji-Xing Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

One-pot synthesis of semicrystalline/amorphous multiblock copolymers via divinyl-terminated telechelic polyolefins

(2016) Nan Hu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Comprehensive Review on Controlled Synthesis of Long-Chain Branched Polyolefins: Part 3, Characterization of Long-Chain Branched Polymers

(2016) Pingwei Liu et al.   Macromolecular Reaction Engineering

Synthesis and Characterization of New Liquid Crystalline Thermoplastic Elastomers Containing Mesogen-Jacketed Liquid Crystalline Polymers

(2016) Zhen-Yu Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Regioselective Chain Shuttling Polymerization of Isoprene: An Approach To Access New Materials from Single Monomer

(2016) Bo Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Tailor-Made Thermoplastic Elastomeric Stereoblock Polypropylenes by Modulation of Monomer Pressure

(2016) Moshe Moshonov et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Controlled Chain Walking for the Synthesis of Thermoplastic Polyolefin Elastomers: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties

(2016) Kyle S. O’Connor et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Influence of Backbone Substituents on the Ethylene (Co)polymerization Properties of α-diimine Pd(II) and Ni(II) Catalysts

(2016) Wenping Zou et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Thermoplastic elastomers from binary blends of syndiotactic polypropylenes with different stereoregularity

(2016) Odda Ruiz de Ballesteros et al.   POLYMER

Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers from 1-octene chain-walking polymerization

(2016) Giuseppe Leone et al.   POLYMER

Amine–imine palladium catalysts for living polymerization of ethylene and copolymerization of ethylene with methyl acrylate: incorporation of acrylate units into the main chain and branch end

(2016) Haibin Hu et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Influence of ligand second coordination sphere effects on the olefin (co)polymerization properties of α-diimine Pd(ii) catalysts

(2016) Ruikun Wang et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Transition metal complexes bearing tridentate ligands for precise olefin polymerization

(2016) Deqian Peng et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Development of Group IV Molecular Catalysts for High Temperature Ethylene-α-Olefin Copolymerization Reactions

(2015) Jerzy Klosin et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

From Multisite Polymerization Catalysis to Sustainable Materials and All-Polyolefin Composites

(2015) Markus Stürzel et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Allyl-Terminated Polypropylene Macromonomers: A Route to Polyolefin Elastomers with Excellent Elastic Behavior

(2015) Hisashi Ohtaki et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ni(II) α-Diimine-Catalyzed α-Olefins Polymerization: Thermoplastic Elastomers of Block Copolymers

(2015) Giuseppe Leone et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Olefin metathesis meets rubber chemistry and technology

(2015) Simon Leimgruber et al.   MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE

Cyclic olefin copolymers of propylene with asymmetric Si-containing α,ω-diolefins: The tailored thermal and mechanical properties

(2015) Bin Wang et al.   POLYMER

Elastomeric properties of ethylene/1-octene random and block copolymers synthesized from living coordination polymerization

(2015) Weifeng Liu et al.   POLYMER

Random hyperbranched linear polyethylene: One step production of thermoplastic elastomer

(2015) Zhiyuan He et al.   POLYMER

Preparation of ultrahigh molecular weight ethylene/1-octene block copolymers using ethylene pressure pulse feeding policies

(2015) Weifeng Liu et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Unexpected reactivities in chain shuttling copolymerizations

(2015) Philippe Zinck   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Shape memory polymers: Past, present and future developments

(2015) Martin D. Hager et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Progression of Diiminopyridines: From Single Application to Catalytic Versatility

(2015) Zygmunt Flisak et al.   ACS Catalysis

De Novo Design of a New Class of “Hard–Soft” Amorphous, Microphase-Separated, Polyolefin Block Copolymer Thermoplastic Elastomers

(2015) Kaitlyn E. Crawford et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Multinuclear Group 4 Catalysis: Olefin Polymerization Pathways Modified by Strong Metal–Metal Cooperative Effects

(2014) Jennifer P. McInnis et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Isoprene-Styrene Chain Shuttling Copolymerization Mediated by a Lanthanide Half-Sandwich Complex and a Lanthanidocene: Straightforward Access to a New Type of Thermoplastic Elastomers

(2014) Andreia Valente et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Post-Metallocenes in the Industrial Production of Polyolefins

(2014) Moritz C. Baier et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Secondary Alkene Insertion and Precision Chain-Walking: A New Route to Semicrystalline “Polyethylene” from α-Olefins by Combining Two Rare Catalytic Events

(2014) Tulaza Vaidya et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Tandem Action of SNS-Cr and CGC-Ti in Preparation of Ethylene-1-Hexene Copolymers from Ethylene Feedstock

(2014) Song Guo et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Polymerization of α-Olefins Using a Camphyl α-Diimine Nickel Catalyst at Elevated Temperature

(2014) Jun Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Advances in Living Anionic Polymerization: From Functional Monomers, Polymerization Systems, to Macromolecular Architectures

(2014) Akira Hirao et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ortho-Phosphinobenzenesulfonate: A Superb Ligand for Palladium-Catalyzed Coordination–Insertion Copolymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers

(2013) Akifumi Nakamura et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Coordinative Chain Transfer Polymerization

(2013) Andreia Valente et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Tandem catalysis: a new approach to polymers

(2013) Carine Robert et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Structural Evolution of Ethylene–Octene Copolymers upon Stretching and Unloading

(2013) Yingying Sun et al.   MACROMOLECULES

MRS volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

(2013)   MRS BULLETIN

Synthesis of Highly Branched Polyethylene Using “Sandwich” (8-p-Tolyl naphthyl α-diimine)nickel(II) Catalysts

(2013) Danfeng Zhang et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Blends of ethylene–octene copolymers with different chain architectures – Morphology, thermal and mechanical behavior

(2013) Stefan Hölzer et al.   POLYMER

Protic compound mediated living cross-chain-transfer polymerization of rac-lactide: synthesis of isotactic (crystalline)–heterotactic (amorphous) stereomultiblock polylactide

(2012) Wei Zhao et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Suppression of β-Hydride Chain Transfer in Nickel(II)-Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization via Weak Fluorocarbon Ligand–Product Interactions

(2012) Michael P. Weberski et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Living copolymerization of ethylene with 4-methyl-1-pentene by an α-diimine Ni(ii)/Et2AlCl catalyst: synthesis of diblock copolymers via sequential monomer addition

(2012) Giuseppe Leone et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Recent advances in shape–memory polymers: Structure, mechanism, functionality, modeling and applications

(2012) Jinlian Hu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Chain-Shuttling Polymerization at Two Different Scandium Sites: Regio- and Stereospecific “One-Pot” Block Copolymerization of Styrene, Isoprene, and Butadiene

(2011) Li Pan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

FI Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization—A Comprehensive Treatment

(2011) Haruyuki Makio et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Highly Selective Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for Ethenolysis

(2011) Renee M. Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Recent advances in polyolefin technology

(2011) Jinliang Qiao et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Hyperbranched polyethylenes by chain walking polymerization: synthesis, properties, functionalization, and applications

(2011) Zhongmin Dong et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Effect of long chain branching on nonisothermal crystallization behavior of polyethylenes synthesized with constrained geometry catalyst

(2011) Bin Yang et al.   POLYMER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

Tuning polyolefins and polydienes microstructure and architecture via coordinative chain transfer polymerization

(2011) Philippe Zinck   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Mechanisms of branch formation in metal-catalyzed ethene polymerization

(2011) Peter H. M. Budzelaar   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science

Self-Healing Materials

(2010) Martin D. Hager et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Acyclic dienemetathesis: a versatile tool for the construction of defined polymer architectures

(2010) Hatice Mutlu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Sustainability Metrics: Life Cycle Assessment and Green Design in Polymers

(2010) Michaelangelo D. Tabone et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Anin SituX-ray Structural Study of Olefin Block and Random Copolymers under Uniaxial Deformation

(2010) Feng Zuo et al.   MACROMOLECULES

The ROMP toolbox upgraded

(2010) Anita Leitgeb et al.   POLYMER

Ex Uno Plures (“Out of One, Many”): New Paradigms for Expanding the Range of Polyolefins through Reversible Group Transfers

(2009) Lawrence R. Sita   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Coordination−Insertion Copolymerization of Fundamental Polar Monomers

(2009) Akifumi Nakamura et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Ruthenium-Based Heterocyclic Carbene-Coordinated Olefin Metathesis Catalysts†

(2009) Georgios C. Vougioukalakis et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Well-defined transition metal complexes with phosphorus and nitrogen ligands for 1,3-dienes polymerization

(2009) Giovanni Ricci et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Comparing elastomeric behavior of block and random ethylene-octene copolymers

(2009) H. P. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE

Polyolefins - Catalyst and Process Innovations and their Impact on Polymer Properties

(2009) John C. Chadwick   Macromolecular Reaction Engineering

High-Temperature Living Copolymerization of Ethylene with Norbornene by Titanium Complexes Bearing Bidentate [O, P] Ligands

(2009) Li-Peng He et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Thermostable α-Diimine Nickel(II) Catalyst for Ethylene Polymerization: Effects of the Substituted Backbone Structure on Catalytic Properties and Branching Structure of Polyethylene

(2009) Feng-Shou Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Living Copolymerization of Ethylene with Dicyclopentadiene Using Titanium Catalyst: Formation of Well-Defined Polyethylene-block-poly(ethylene-co-dicyclopentadiene)s and Their Transformation into Novel Polyolefin-block-(functional polyolefin)s

(2009) Li Pan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Frontiers in Olefin Polymerization: Reinventing the World's Most Common Synthetic Polymers

(2009) P. D. Hustad   SCIENCE

Fluorinated Bis(phenoxyketimine)titanium Complexes for the Living, Isoselective Polymerization of Propylene:  Multiblock Isotactic Polypropylene Copolymers via Sequential Monomer Addition

(2008) Joseph B. Edson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Extremely Narrow-Dispersed High Molecular Weight Polyethylene from Living Polymerization at Elevated Temperatures witho-F Substituted Ti Enolatoimines

(2008) Sze-Man Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Olefin polymer technologies—History and recent progress at The Dow Chemical Company

(2008) P. Steve Chum et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE