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Catalysts. Silver and silver compounds are widely used in research and industry as catalysts for oxidation, reduction, and polymerization reactions. Silver nitrate has been reported as a catalyst for the preparation of propylene oxide (qv) from propylene (qv) (58), and silver acetate has been reported as being a suitable catalyst for the production of ethylene oxide (qv) from ethylene (qv) (59). The solubiUty of silver perchlorate in organic solvents makes it a possible catalyst for polymerization reactions, such as the production of butyl acrylate polymers in dimethylformamide (60) or the polymerization of methacrylamide (61). Similarly, the solubiUty of silver tetrafiuoroborate in organic solvents has enhanced its use in the synthesis of 3-pyrrolines by the cyclization of aHenic amines (62). 

Besides direct hydrolysis, heterometaHic oxoalkoxides may be produced by ester elimination from a mixture of a metal alkoxide and the acetate of another metal. In addition to their use in the preparation of ceramic materials, bimetallic oxoalkoxides having the general formula (RO) MOM OM(OR) where M is Ti or Al, is a bivalent metal (such as Mn, Co, Ni, and Zn), is 3 or 4, and R is Pr or Bu, are being evaluated as catalysts for polymerization of heterocychc monomers, such as lactones, oxiranes, and epoxides. An excellent review of metal oxoalkoxides has been pubUshed (571). 

Titanium bromide [7789-68-6] TiBr, is claimed as a catalyst for olefin polymerizations (18). Chromous bromide [10049-25-9] CrBr2, is used in chromizing. Chromic bromide [10031-25-1], CrBr, and tungsten bromide [13701 -86-5], are catalysts for polymerizing olefins (19). Manganese... 

These siUca-supported catalysts demonstrate the close connections between catalysis in solutions and catalysis on surfaces, but they are not industrial catalysts. However, siUca is used as a support for chromium complexes, formed either from chromocene or chromium salts, that are industrial catalysts for polymerization of a-olefins (64,65). Supported chromium complex catalysts are used on an enormous scale in the manufacture of linear polyethylene in the Unipol and Phillips processes (see Olefin polymers). The exact stmctures of the surface species are still not known, but it is evident that there is a close analogy linking soluble and supported metal complex catalysts for olefin polymerization. 

This conceptual link extends to surfaces that are not so obviously similar in stmcture to molecular species. For example, the early Ziegler catalysts for polymerization of propylene were a-TiCl. Today, supported Ti complexes are used instead (26,57). These catalysts are selective for stereospecific polymerization, giving high yields of isotactic polypropylene from propylene. The catalytic sites are beheved to be located at the edges of TiCl crystals. The surface stmctures have been inferred to incorporate anion vacancies that is, sites where CL ions are not present and where TL" ions are exposed (66). These cations exist in octahedral surroundings, The polymerization has been explained by a mechanism whereby the growing polymer chain and an adsorbed propylene bonded cis to it on the surface undergo an insertion reaction (67). In this respect, there is no essential difference between the explanation of the surface catalyzed polymerization and that catalyzed in solution. 

In essence the active centers for catalytic polymerization of olefins are organometallic complexes of transition metals. For this reason a search for individual organometallic compounds that would possess catalytic activity in olefin polymerization is of great interest. The first attempts to use organometallic compounds of transition metals as catalysts for olefin polymerization were made long ago [e.g. CH3TiCl3 as a catalyst for polymerization of ethylene 116). However, only in recent years as a result of the application of relatively stable organometallic compounds of transition... 

The behavior of kinetic systems with even a few interacting species can become very complex. L. Ber nek treats a few key principles and accompanies them with experimental observations in Kinetics of Coupled Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions. In One-Component Catalysts for Polymerization of Olefins, Yu. Yermakov and V. Zakharov review results... 

Nickel complexes (156-159) used as ATRP catalysts for polymerization of (meth)acrylates are shown in Table 9.8. 

VI. Uses. During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the present century, PA was widely used as the main expl charge of projectiles and bombs. This is no longer true, Indeed PA per se is hardly used as an expl. Its current limited expl-related use is primarily in the preparation of Explosive D (Ammonium Picrate) and Lead Picrate. It also finds some use as an intermediate in the manuf of dyes. There is some patent literature on the use of PA as a catalyst for polymerizations. For example, PA is claimed as catalyst in polybutadiene polymerizations (Ref 40), and for the prepn of an isobutylene-5-methyl-1,3,6 hepta-trieie copolymer (Ref 38)... 

Ziegler-Natta catalyst A stereospecific catalyst for polymerization reactions, consisting of titanium tetrachloride and triethylaluminum. zinc-blende structure A crystal structure in which the cations occupy half the tetrahedral holes in a nearly close packed cubic lattice of anions also known as sphalerite structure. 

In quest of new single-site catalysts for polymerizations of cyclic esters, a series of mononuclear yttrium(lll) complexes have been synthesized which are depicted in Scheme 221. ... 

The chromium catalyst for polymerization differs from catalysts in other chemical reactions in the sense that it is eventually consumed. During the reaction, the polymer molecules fill up the pores, and exert considerable pressure upon the support. Consequently the catalyst breaks up and remains in a finely dispersed form in the end product. 

Ziegler-Natta catalyst for polymerization of alkenes. Considerable attention has been directed to double-bonded Fischer carbenes of Cr and W, the Schrock carbenes of Ta and Ti, and cyclic polyene ligands of Fe, Co, Cr, and U. Carbonyls of transition metals from groups 6 to 10 of the periodic table include both the monomeric compounds such as Cr(CO)g, Fe(CO)5, Ni(CO)4 and those with two metal groups such as Mn2(CO)io and Co2(CO)s, which is used industrially for hydroformylation. Although their source has not been identified, it has been shown that volatile compounds from landfills contain carbonyls of Mo and W (Feldmann and Cullen 1997). 

Some transition metal ir-allyl compounds are not catalysts for polymerization. For example, Zr (allyl) 4 will not polymerize methyl methacrylate. Spectroscopic and other studies have shown that this allyl compound, unlike those of chromium, react with the carbonyl group of the monomer giving compounds of the type... 

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