Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.132, No.50, 17690-17691, 2010
Direct Synthesis of Ethylene-Acrylic Acid Copolymers by Insertion Polymerization
Neutral palladium(II) phosphinesulfonato polymerization catalysts were found to be stable toward carboxylic acid moieties and to enable direct linear copolymerization of ethylene with acrylic acid.