Metal Phenolates as Polymerization Catalysts
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description: Phenolates represent versatile ligand scaffolds capable of stabilizing a large variety of both oxophilic metal centers and late transition elements. Over the past 50 years, they have played a prominent role in the rise of discrete metal complexes employed to promote, initiate and/or catalyze a variety of controlled homogeneous polymerization reactions. This chapter features a selection of the most remarkable metal phenolate complexes used in the polymerization of olefins, styrene and dienes, cyclic esters and (meth)acrylates. Coordination-insertion polymerization reactions are emphasized, but other types of mechanisms are also treated. Specifically highlighted are catalytic systems where the phenolate ligands have proved valuable ancillaries, to provide either exceptional stability to active species and to generate highly productive catalysts, and/or to control the polymerization reactions, imparting a unique capacity to obtain polymers with tailored macromolecular features: molecular weights and their dispersion, (co)monomer distribution and regio/stereoselectivity.
issued: 2026-05-09T02:25:56.064888
language: en
modified: 2026-05-09T02:25:56.064893
contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD
keyword: acrylate-polymerization
keyword: book-sections
keyword: chimcatachemical-sciencescatalysis
keyword: coordination-insertion-polymerization
keyword: cyclic-esters
keyword: homogeneous-polymerization-catalysis
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsbookpart
keyword: metal-phenolate-complexes
keyword: metathesis-polymerization
keyword: olefin-polymerization
keyword: oxophilic-metals
keyword: ring-opening-polymerization
keyword: well-defined-catalytic-systems
landing page: Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups

Metal Phenolates as Polymerization Catalysts
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issued: 2026-05-09T02:25:56.066663
modified: 2026-05-09T02:25:56.044986
access URL: https://hal.science/hal-00881567

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