Chain transfer to aluminium in MAO-activated metallocene-catalyzed polymerization reactions.

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ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland.

Published: November 2006

Chemical trapping of metal-bound oligomeric chains during the MAO-activated, metallocene-catalyzed polymerization of ethylene identify the two observed chain-bearing species to be alkylzirconocenium species and higher alkyl aluminiums, consistent with a proposed mechanism.

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