Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Direct copolymerization of ethylene with protic comonomers enabled by multinuclear Ni catalysts

  • Gang Ji,
  • Zhou Chen,
  • Xiao-Yan Wang,
  • Xiao-Shan Ning,
  • Chong-Jie Xu,
  • Xing-Min Zhang,
  • Wen-Jie Tao,
  • Jun-Fang Li,
  • Yanshan Gao,
  • Qi Shen,
  • Xiu-Li Sun,
  • Hao-Yang Wang,
  • Jun-Bo Zhao,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Yin-Long Guo,
  • Yanan Zhao,
  • Jiajie Sun,
  • Yi Luo,
  • Yong Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26470-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The applications of polyolefins are limited by the nonpolar nature of the polymer. Here the authors show a method to copolymerize ethylene with the protic vinyl acetic acid via well defined multinuclear nickel catalysts.