A Versatile Ligand Platform for Palladium‐ and Nickel‐Catalyzed Ethylene Copolymerization with Polar Monomers |
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Authors: | Min Chen Prof Changle Chen |
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Institution: | CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China |
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Abstract: | The ability to carry out transition‐metal‐catalyzed copolymerizations of olefins with polar monomers is a great challenge in the field of olefin polymerization. Palladium has been the dominant player in this field, while its low‐cost nickel counterpart has only achieved very limited success. We report the synthesis and evaluation of a highly versatile platform based on diphosphazane monoxide ligands. Both palladium and nickel catalysts bearing these ligands mediate the copolymerization of ethylene with a number of fundamental polar monomers. |
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Keywords: | copolymers olefins nickel palladium polymerization |
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