title: Chain transfer to aluminium in MAO-activated metallocene-catalyzed polymerization reactions.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland. chen@org.chem.ethz.ch
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Quintanilla
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: di Lena
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen