Palladium catalysed copolymerisation of ethene with alkylacrylates: polar comonomer built into the linear polymer chain†
Eite Drent,Rudmer van Dijk,Roel van Ginkel,Bart van Oort,Robert. I. Pugh
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 03/08/2002 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B111252J
Abstract
Copolymerisation of ethene and alkylacrylates is catalysed by palladium modified with di(2-methoxyphenyl)phosphinobenzene-2-sulfonic acid (DOPPBS); a linear polymer is produced in which acrylate units are incorporated into the polyethylene backbone.
