Preface ........................................................ ix
Editors ...................................................... xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
I Polypropylene: Catalysts and Mechanism ....................... 1
Chapter 1 Isotactic Polypropylene from C2- and Pseudo-C2-
Symmetric Catalysts .................................. 3
Reko Leino and Shirley Lin
Chapter 2 Fluorenyl-Containing Catalysts for Stereoselective
Propylene Polymerization ............................ 37
Craig J. Price, Levi J. Irwin, David A. Aubry, and
Stephen A. Miller
Chapter 3 Substituted Indenyl and Cyclopentadienyl Catalysts
for Stereoselective Propylene Polymerization ........ 83
John J. Esteb
Chapter 4 Doubly Bridged Metallocenes for Stereoselective
Propylene Polymerization ........................... 101
Deanna L. Zubris
Chapter 5 Metallocenes with Donor/Acceptor and Other
Heteroatom Bridges for Stereoselective Propylene
Polymerization ..................................... 135
Pamela J. Shapiro
Chapter 6 Stereoselective Propylene Polymerization with
Early and Late Transition Metal Catalysts .......... 157
Haruyuki Makio and Terunori Fujita
Chapter 7 Catalyst Structure and Polymer Tacticity: The
Theory Behind Site Control in Propylene
Polymerization ..................................... 169
Anthony K. Rappé, Oleg G. Polyakov, and Lynn M.
Bormann-Rochotte
II Polypropylene: Applications of Tacticity ................... 201
Chapter 8 Stereoblock Polypropylene .......................... 203
Vincenzo Busico
Chapter 9 Elastomeric Homo-Polypropylene: Solid State
Properties and Synthesis via Control of Reaction
Parameters ......................................... 231
Sabine Hild, Cecilia Cobzaru, Carsten Troll, and
Bernhard Rieger
Chapter 10 Control of Molecular Weight and Chain-End Group
in Tactic Polypropylenes Using Chain Transfer
Agents ............................................. 273
Т.C. Chung
Chapter 11 Functionalization of Tactic Polypropylenes ......... 297
Manfred Bochmann
Chapter 12 Influence of Tacticity of Propylene Placement on
Structure and Properties of Ethylene/Propylene
Copolymers ......................................... 313
Maurizio Galimberti and Gaetano Guerra
III Other Monoolefin Monomers ................................. 343
Chapter 13 Stereocontrol in the Polymerization of Higher
α-Olefin Monomers .................................. 345
Moshe Kol, Sharon Segal, and Stanislav Groysman
Chapter 14 Tactic Polystyrene and Styrene Copolymers .......... 363
Haiyan Ma and Jiling Huang
Chapter 15 Cyclopentene Homo- and Copolymers Made with Early
and Late Transition Metal Catalysts ................ 399
Naofumi Naga
Chapter 16 Tactic Norbornene Homo- and Copolymers Made with
Early and Late Transition Metal Catalysts .......... 413
Walter Kaminsky and Michael Arndt-Rosenau
IV Diene Monomers and Olefin-Containing Polymers .............. 445
Chapter 17 The Stereoselective Polymerization of Linear
Conjugated Dienes .................................. 447
Antonio Proto and Carmine Capacchione
Chapter 18 The Stereoselective Polymerization of Cyclic
Conjugated Dienes .................................. 475
Mitsuru Nakano
Chapter 19 Tactic Nonconjugated Diene Cyclopolymerization
and Cyclocopolymerization .......................... 489
Il Kim
Chapter 20 Stereochemistry of Polymers Formed by Metathesis
Polymerization of Bicyclic and Polycyclic
Olefins ............................................ 509
Darragh Breen, Katherine Curran, and Wilhelm
Risse
Chapter 21 Stereoregularity of Polyacetylene and Its
Derivatives ........................................ 553
Toshio Masuda, Masashi Shiotsuki, and Junichi
Tabei
V Functional and Non-Olefinic Monomers ....................... 575
Chapter 22 Tacticity in Ethylene/Carbon Monoxide/Vinyl Co-
and Terpolymerizations ............................. 577
Kyoko Nozaki
Chapter 23 Stereoselective Acrylate Polymerization ............ 593
Edward L., Marshall and Vernon C. Gibson
Chapter 24 Discrete Catalysts for Stereoselective Epoxide
Polymerization ..................................... 627
Hiroharu Ajiro, Scott D. Allen, and Geoffrey
W. Coates
Chapter 25 Stereoselective Polymerization of Lactide .......... 645
Malcolm H. Chisholm and Zhiping Zhou
Glossary ...................................................... 661
Index ......................................................... 667
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