Discovery of a new family of chromium ethylene polymerisation catalysts using high throughput screening methodology.
Following a discovery that salicylaldimines bearing bulky ortho-phenoxy substituents and small imine substituents give very active chromium catalysts for ethylene polymerisation, High Throughput Screening (HTS) methodology has been employed to facilitate a further discovery of exceptionally active catalysts based on tridentate salicylaldimine ligands with bulky triptycenyl groups.
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, London, UK SW7 2AY.
David J
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Jones
Vernon C
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Gibson
Simon M
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Green
Peter J
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Maddox