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

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 6283 - 9
• Main Authors: Ji, Gang, Chen, Zhou, Wang, Xiao-Yan, Ning, Xiao-Shan, Xu, Chong-Jie, Zhang, Xing-Min, Tao, Wen-Jie, Li, Jun-Fang, Gao, Yanshan, Shen, Qi, Sun, Xiu-Li, Wang, Hao-Yang, Zhao, Jun-Bo, Zhang, Bo, Guo, Yin-Long, Zhao, Yanan, Sun, Jiajie, Luo, Yi, Tang, Yong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.11.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 140/131; 140/58; 639/638/455; 704/172/169; Acetic acid; Acids; Acrylic acid; Allyl alcohol; Catalysts; Copolymerization; Density functional theory; Ethylene; Humanities and Social Sciences; Intermediates; Ionization; Ions; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Monomers; multidisciplinary; Nickel; Polymers; Polyolefins; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Synergistic effect; X ray analysis

Ethylene/polar monomer coordination copolymerization offers an attractive way of making functionalized polyolefins. However, ethylene copolymerization with industrially relevant short chain length alkenoic acid remain a big challenge. Here we report the efficient direct copolymerization of ethylene...