Copolymerization of Hydrocarbon Monomers In the Presence of Cpticl(3)-mao - Some Information On the Reaction-mechanism From Kinetic Data and Model Compounds

The title half-metallocene catalyst is active in the polymerization of olefins, styrenes, and conjugated dienes. An insight into the polymerization mechanism emerges from kinetic data concerning homo- and copolymerization of some of the above monomers, as well as from the structure of some novel cationic zirconium complexes