Functionalized Syndiotactic Polystyrene Polymers Prepared by the Combination of Metallocene Catalyst and Borane Comonomer

Properties and Structures of Sulfonated Syndiotactic Polystyrene Aerogel and Syndiotactic Polystyrene/silica Hybrid Aerogel

Melt-Processable Syndiotactic Polystyrene/Montmorillonite Nanocomposites

Monoalkyland dialkyl-imidazolium surfactants were used to prepare organically modified montmorillonites with markedly improved thermal stability in comparison with their alkyl-ammonium equivalents (the decomposition temperatures increased by ca. 100 °C). Such an increase in the thermal stability affords the opportunity to form syndiotactic polystyrene (s-PS)/imidazolium-montmorillonite nanocomp...

Stereoselective Copolymerization of Styrene with Terpenes Catalyzed by an Ansa-Lanthanidocene Catalyst: Access to New Syndiotactic Polystyrene-Based Materials

The copolymerization of bio-renewable β-myrcene or β-farnesene with styrene was examined using an ansa-neodymocene catalyst, affording two series of copolymers with high styrene content and unprecedented syndioregularity of the polystyrene sequences. The incorporation of terpene in the copolymers ranged from 5.6 to 30.8 mol % (β-myrcene) and from 2.5 to 9.8 mol % (β-farnesene), respectively. NM...

Study of the thermal behavior of syndiotactic and atactic polystyrene by Raman spectroscopy

The glass properties and semi crystalline properties of polymers are observable by X-ray diffraction. Some previous works 1, 2, 3 were about determination of degree of crystallinity of sPS by various technologies, like for example DSC, XRD and Raman spectroscopy. The purpose of this paper is to show importance of Raman spectroscopy as analytical tool for the study of amorphous and semi-crystall...

Group 4 metallocene catalysed full dehydrogenation of hydrazine borane.

A study of the full dehydrogenation of hydrazine borane (H2N-NH2·BH3) to give H2 and N2 as gaseous products catalysed by a variety of group 4 metallocene alkyne complexes of the type CpM(L)(η(2)-Me3SiC2SiMe3) (Cp' = substituted or unsubstituted η(5)-cyclopentadienyl; M = Ti, no L; M = Zr, L = pyridine) and group 4 metallocene hydrides is presented. Volumetric data show that the amount of hydrog...