Book of John

In the early days of Ziegler catalysis (the 1960s) there was considerable effort expended, and a flurry of patents and papers on the copolymerization of ethylene with countless polar monomers. It is generally accepted that none of these attempts was successful, and at least some of the erroneous claims must be attributed to lack of sophisticated analytical methods in those pioneering days. For interested parties this work is best surveyed in the book of John Boor [14],... 

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