Olefin polymerization : emerging frontiers / Palanisamy Arjunan, editor, James E. McGrath, editor, Thomas L. Hanlon, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arjunan, Palanisamy.

McGrath, James E.

Hanlon, Thomas L.

American Chemical Society. Meeting 1998 : Dallas, Tex.)

Series:

ACS symposium series ; 749.

ACS symposium series ; 749

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polyolefins--Congresses.

Polyolefins.

Polymerization--Congresses.

Polymerization.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, [2000]

Summary:

A dozen papers from a symposium held in Dallas, Texas in March and April 1998. Researchers from academic and industrial sectors look at diverse aspects of a polymer that was one of the last types to be commercialized but is now the most widely used worldwide. Covering both scientific and technological areas, they report on recent developments in catalysis, polymerization, polymer design, and characterization. The specific topics include siloxy-substituted group IV metallocene catalysts, random copolymerization of propylene and styrene with homogeneous monocyclopentadienyltitanium- methylaluminoxanes catalyst, advantaged polyethylene product design, and determining trimethylaluminum and characterizing methylaluminoxanes using proton nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

Contents:

Progress in Catalysis

1. Reactivity and Mechanistic Studies of Stereocontrol for Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Utilizing Doubly-Silylene Bridged Group 3 and Group 4 Metallocenes / D. L. Zubris, D. Veghini, T. A. Herzog, J. E. Bercaw 2

2. Recent Developments in Lanthanide Catalysts for 1,3-Diene Polymerization / L. Porri, G. Ricci, A. Giarrusso, N. Shubin, Z. Lu 15

3. Siloxy-Substituted Group IV Metallocene Catalysts / Reko Leino, Hendrik J. G. Luttikhedde 31

Progress in Polymerization

4. Advances in Propene Polymerization Using Magnesium Chloride-Supported Catalysts / J. C. Chadwick, G. Morini, G. Balbontin, V. Busico, G. Talarico, O. Sudmeijer 50

5. Homo- and Copolymerization of Styrene by Bridged Zirconocene Complex with Benz Indenyl Ligand / Toru Arai, Shigeru Suzuki, Toshiaki Ohtsu 66

6. Random Copolymerization of Propylene and Styrene with Homogeneous Monocyclopentadienyltitanium-Methylaluminoxanes Catalyst / Qing Wu, Qinghai Gao, Zhong Ye, Shangan Lin 81

Progress in Polymer Design

7. Advantaged Polyethylene Product Design / J. LaMonte Adams, George N. Foster, Scott H. Wasserman 94

8. Polyolefin Copolymers Containing p-Methylstyrene Units: Preparation by Metallocene Catalysts and Application in the Functionalization of Polyolefins / T. C. Chung 104

Progress in Characterization

9. The Distribution of Asymmetric and Symmetric Chains in Highly Isotactic Polypropylenes / J. C. Randall, C. J. Ruff, Masatoshi Ohkura 130

10. Short Chain Branching Distribution of Amorphous Ethylene Copolymers / Lecon Woo, Michael T. K. Ling, Atul R. Khare, Stanley P. Westphal 151

11. Variable Temperature, Solid-State [superscript 13]C NMR Study of Linear Low-Density Polyethylene / Mingming Guo, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Roderic P. Quirk 163

12. Determination of Trimethylaluminum and Characterization of Methylaluminoxanes Using Proton NMR / Donald W. Imhoff, Larry S. Simeral, Don R. Blevins, William R. Beard 177.

Notes:

"Distributed by Oxford University Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0841236143

OCLC:

42462820