Potentially Practical Catalytic Systems for Olefin-Polar Monomer Coordination Copolymerization

Studies on transition-metal catalyzed olefin-polar monomer coordination copolymerization and their resulting polar-functionalized polyolefin materials have attracted attention from both academia and industry. After decades of research, recent developments in a variety of high-performance catalytic systems have shown that this field is on the brink of industrialization. This review summarizes reprecopolymerization catalyst systems that may be suitable for industrial polyolefin production via homogeneous solution-phase processes or hetero- geneous gas-phase/slurry-phase processes.