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Designed from Recycled: Turning Polyethylene Waste to Covalently Attached Polylactide Plasticizers

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Regioselective C−H Xanthylation as a Platform for Polyolefin Functionalization

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Zirconium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carboalumination of Unactivated Terminal Alkenes

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β-Alkyl Elimination: Fundamental Principles and Some Applications

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Computational and experimental investigations of one-step conversion of poly(carbonate)s into value-added poly(aryl ether sulfone)s

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Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions

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Well-defined silica supported aluminum hydride: another step towards the utopian single site dream?

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Recent Developments in the Chemical Recycling of Postconsumer Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Waste

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Metal-Catalyzed C–C Bond Cleavage in Alkanes: Effects of Methyl Substitution on Transition-State Structures and Stability

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Controlled Chain-Scission of Polybutadiene by the Schwartz Hydrozirconation

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Zirconium-Catalyzed Carboalumination of α-Olefins and Chain Growth of Aluminum Alkyls: Kinetics and Mechanism

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Synergic Sedation of Sensitive Anions: Alkali-Mediated Zincation of Cyclic Ethers and Ethene

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Highly Efficient, Living Coordinative Chain-Transfer Polymerization of Propene with ZnEt2:  Practical Production of Ultrahigh to Very Low Molecular Weight Amorphous Atactic Polypropenes of Extremely Narrow Polydispersity

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