Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 42 (Oct. 17, 2006), pp. 15349-15354 (6 pages) Single-site polymerization catalysts enable exquisite ...

Uncatalyzed radical polymerization of ethylene typically requires high temperature and pressure, and the method isn't efficient for longer simple terminal alkenes, Michl explains. Thus, ...

As chain-growth polymerization generally forms aliphatic main chains containing units such as alkylene and alkenylene, the method has rarely been applied to the construction of arylene units. Thus, ...

The development of methods for efficiently using carbon dioxide in synthesis would enable chemists to tap into this abundant resource. Now, an indirect route to the copolymerization of alkenes with ...

Chemical groups containing oxygen, nitrogen, silicon, and other heteroatoms often react during alkene coupling reactions, generating undesirable product mixtures. But a new, iron-catalyzed radical ...