Designing catalysts for olefin polymerization and copolymerization: beyond electronic and steric tuning

Earth-abundant transition metal catalysts for alkene hydrosilylation and hydroboration

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Remote control grubbs catalysts that modulate ring-opening metathesis polymerizations

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Synergetic Effect of Monomer Functional Group Coordination in Catalytic Insertion Polymerization

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Remote carboxylation of halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons with carbon dioxide

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Ligand-Promoted Direct C–H Arylation of Simple Arenes: Evidence for a Cooperative Bimetallic Mechanism

(2017) Jaewoon Kim et al.   ACS Catalysis

Accessing Multiple Catalytically Active States in Redox-Controlled Olefin Polymerization

(2017) Minhui Zhao et al.   ACS Catalysis

Polyolefins, a Success Story

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Block Copolymerization of Lactide and an Epoxide Facilitated by a Redox Switchable Iron-Based Catalyst

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Direct Synthesis of Functionalized High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene by Copolymerization of Ethylene with Polar Monomers

(2016) Shengyu Dai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Aluminum alkyl complexes: synthesis, structure, and application in ROP of cyclic esters

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Redox-Active Ligands: An Advanced Tool To Modulate Polyethylene Microstructure

(2016) W. Curtis Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Studies of Pd(II)-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethylene and Vinylalkoxysilanes: Evidence for a β-Silyl Elimination Chain Transfer Mechanism

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

(2016) Shengyu Dai et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Remote functionalization through alkene isomerization

(2016) Alexandre Vasseur et al.   Nature Chemistry

Organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization driven by visible light

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Highly Isoselective Coordination Polymerization ofortho-Methoxystyrene with β-Diketiminato Rare-Earth-Metal Precursors

(2015) Dongtao Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Redox-Controlled Olefin (Co)Polymerization Catalyzed by Ferrocene-Bridged Phosphine-Sulfonate Palladium Complexes

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Highly Robust Palladium(II) α-Diimine Catalysts for Slow-Chain-Walking Polymerization of Ethylene and Copolymerization with Methyl Acrylate

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Neutral Nickel Catalysts for Olefin Homo- and Copolymerization: Relationships between Catalyst Structures and Catalytic Properties

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Switchable Polymerization Catalysts

(2015) Aaron J. Teator et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Activation of Single-Component Nickel(II) Polyethylene Catalysts via Phase Transfer of Fluorous Phosphine Ligands

(2015) Zhenxing Xi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Iron-catalyzed intermolecular [2+2] cycloadditions of unactivated alkenes

(2015) J. M. Hoyt et al.   SCIENCE

(α-Diimine)palladium catalyzed ethylene polymerization and (co)polymerization with polar comonomers

(2015) Lihua Guo et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Palladium and Nickel Catalyzed Chain Walking Olefin Polymerization and Copolymerization

(2015) Lihua Guo et al.   ACS Catalysis

Progression of Diiminopyridines: From Single Application to Catalytic Versatility

(2015) Zygmunt Flisak et al.   ACS Catalysis

Dipalladium Catalyst for Olefin Polymerization: Introduction of Acrylate Units into the Main Chain of Branched Polyethylene

(2014) Shigenaga Takano et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Redox Control of Group 4 Metal Ring-Opening Polymerization Activity toward l-Lactide and ε-Caprolactone

(2014) Xinke Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ni(II) Phenoxyiminato Olefin Polymerization Catalysis: Striking Coordinative Modulation of Hyperbranched Polymer Microstructure and Stability by a Proximate Sulfonyl Group

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

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Double-Decker-Type Dinuclear Nickel Catalyst for Olefin Polymerization: Efficient Incorporation of Functional Co-monomers

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Synthesis of functional ‘polyolefins’: state of the art and remaining challenges

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Oxidation-Triggered Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

(2013) Roman Savka et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis and study of olefin metathesis catalysts supported by redox-switchable diaminocarbene[3]ferrocenophanes

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Bimetallic Coordination Insertion Polymerization of Unprotected Polar Monomers: Copolymerization of Amino Olefins and Ethylene by Dinickel Bisphenoxyiminato Catalysts

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Attractive interactions in olefin polymerization mediated by post-metallocene catalysts with fluorine-containing ancillary ligands

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External Regulation of Controlled Polymerizations

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

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Iron Catalysts for Selective Anti-Markovnikov Alkene Hydrosilylation Using Tertiary Silanes

(2012) A. M. Tondreau et al.   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

Multinuclear Olefin Polymerization Catalysts

(2011) Massimiliano Delferro et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

FI Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization—A Comprehensive Treatment

(2011) Haruyuki Makio et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

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

(2011) Zhongmin Dong et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Electrochemically Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2011) A. J. D. Magenau et al.   SCIENCE

Designing late-transition metal catalysts for olefin insertion polymerization and copolymerization

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Palladium-Catalyzed Dimerization of Vinyl Ethers to Acetals

(2010) Changle Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cationic Polymerization and Insertion Chemistry in the Reactions of Vinyl Ethers with (α-Diimine)PdMe+Species

(2010) Changle Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of Narrowly Distributed ω-Telechelic Hyperbranched Polyethylenes by Efficient End-Capping of Pd-Diimine-Catalyzed Ethylene “Living” Polymerization with Styrene Derivatives

(2010) Shiyun Li et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Noncovalent Interactions ino-Fluorinated Post-titanocene Living Ethylene Polymerization Catalyst

(2010) Konstantin P. Bryliakov et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Allosteric Supramolecular Triple-Layer Catalysts

(2010) H. J. Yoon et al.   SCIENCE

Coordination Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers by Single-Site Metal Catalysts

(2009) Eugene Y.-X. Chen   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Coordination−Insertion Copolymerization of Fundamental Polar Monomers

(2009) Akifumi Nakamura et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Nickel(II) and Palladium(II) Polymerization Catalysts Bearing a Fluorinated Cyclophane Ligand: Stabilization of the Reactive Intermediate(1)

(2009) Chris S. Popeney et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

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

(2009) P. D. Hustad   SCIENCE

Multiple Insertion of a Silyl Vinyl Ether by (α-Diimine)PdMe+Species

(2008) Changle Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY