Direct synthesis of ethylene-acrylic acid copolymers by insertion polymerization.
Neutral palladium(II) phosphinesulfonato polymerization catalysts were found to be stable toward carboxylic acid moieties and to enable direct linear copolymerization of ethylene with acrylic acid.
Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstrasse 10, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.
Thomas
T
Rünzi
Dominik
D
Fröhlich
Stefan
S
Mecking