More than half a century after the discovery of ferrocene structure in 1951, it remains as suitable building block many research areas, including catalysis with development key chiral catalysts. On other hand, gold-mediated has been raised recent years, allowing creation great variety C−C bonds and C-heteroatom bonds. In this context, review covers advances made combination these two iconic fig...

Highly active metallocenes and other single site catalysts have opened up the possibility of polymerizing cycloolefins such as norbornene (N) or of copolymerizing them with ethene (E) or propene (P). The polymers obtained show exciting structures and properties. E-N copolymers are industrially produced materials, with variable and high glass transitions depending on the wide range of their micr...

Title of Document: KINETICS AND MORPHOLOGY OF METALLOCENE CATALYZED SYNDIOSPECIFIC POLYMERIZATION OF STYRENE IN HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS REACTION SYSTEMS Joong Jin Han, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Kyu Yong Choi Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) is a semicrystalline thermoplastic polymer with many advantageous properties...

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...