Chromium-catalysed ethene trimerisation and tetramerisation—breaking the rules in olefin oligomerisation
- 10 January 2007
- journal article
- frontier
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Dalton Transactions
- No. 8,p. 816-819
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b616291f
Abstract
The discovery of a new generation of highly active and selective ethene trimerisation and tetramerisation catalysts has radically changed the field of olefin oligomerisation. This Frontiers article gives an overview of these recent advances.Keywords
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