Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization Enabled by Cation Exchange in a Metal-Organic Framework

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 138; no. 32; pp. 10232 - 10237
• Main Authors: Comito, Robert J, Fritzsching, Keith J, Sundell, Benjamin J, Schmidt-Rohr, Klaus, Dincă, Mircea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 17.08.2016
• Subjects: catalysts; catalytic activity; cation exchange; coordination polymers; dioxins; ethylene; ions; molecular weight; olefin; polyethylene; polymerization; propylene; surface area; weight control; zinc

The manufacture of advanced polyolefins has been critically enabled by the development of single-site heterogeneous catalysts. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) show great potential as heterogeneous catalysts that may be designed and tuned on the molecular level. In this work, exchange of zinc ions in...