Handbook of Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts

Introduction. About the Authors. 1 Commercially Available Metal Alkyls and Their Use in Polyolefin Catalysts (Dennis B. Malpass). 2 Porous Silica in Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts (Thomas J. Pullukat and Robert E. Patterson). 3 Computational Modeling of Polymerization Catalysts (Monika Srebro and Artur Michalak). 4 Scale-Up of Catalyst Recipes to Commercial Production (C.P. Cheng). 5 Commercialization of Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: Model for Success (C. E. Capshew). 6 Supported Magnesium/Titanium-Based Ziegler Catalysts for Production of Polyethylene (Thomas E. Nowlin, Robert I. Mink, and Yury V. Kissin). 7 Stereospecific -Olefin Polymerization with Heterogeneous Catalysts (John Severn and Robert L. Jones, Jr.). 8 MgCl2-Supported TiCl4 Catalysts for Production of Morphology-Controlled Polyethylene (Long Wu and Sieghard E. Wanke). 9 Product Morphology in Olefin Polymerization with Polymer Supported Metallocene Catalysts (Long Wu and Sieghard E. Wanke). 10 Review of Phillips Chromium Catalyst for Ethylene Polymerization (Max P. McDaniel). 11 Silica-Supported Silyl Chromate-Based Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts (Kevin Cann). 12 Ethylene Polymerization and -Olefin Oligomerization Using Catalysts Derived from Phosphoranes and Ni(II) and Ni(0) Precursors (Scott Collins). 13 Late Transition Metal-Catalyzed Co- and Terpolymerization of -Olefins with Carbon Monoxide-Polyketones: Synthesis and Modification (Timo M. J. Anselment, Manuela Zintl, Maria Leute, Rudiger Nowack and Bernhard Rieger). 14 Copper Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization (Anna Maria Raspolli Galletti). 15 Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerizations and Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerizations with Homogeneous Ruthenium and Molybdenum Catalysts and Initiators (Robert T. Mathers). 16 Cobalt Ziegler-Natta Catalysts for the Synthesis of Poly-cis-1,4-Butadiene (Ray Hoff). Appendix A Pyrophoricty of Metal Alkyls (Dennis B. Malpass). Appendix B Rheological Terms for Polymerization Catalyst Chemists (Gregory W. Kamykowski). Index.