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Commercially available metal alkyls and their use in polyolefin catalysts / Dennis B. Malpass -- Porous silica in transition metal polymerization catalysts / Thomas J. Pullukat and Robert E. Patterson -- Computational modeling of polymerization catalysts / Monika Srebro and Artur Michalak -- Scale-up of catalyst recipes to commercial production / C. P. Cheng -- Commercialization of olefin polymerization catalysts: model for success / C. E. Capshew -- Supported magnesium/titanium-based ziegler catalysts for production of polyethylene / Thomas E. Nowlin, Robert I. Mink and Yury V. Kissin -- Stereospecific [alpha]-olefin polymerization with heterogeneous catalysts / John Severn and Robert L. Jones -- MgCl2-supported TiCl4 catalysts for production of morphology-controlled polyethylene / Long Wu and Sieghard E. Wanke -- Product morphology in olefin polymerization with polymer supported metallocene catalysts / Long Wu and Sieghard E. Wanke -- Review of Phillips chromium catalyst for ethylene polymerization / Max P. McDaniel -- Silica-supported silyl chromate-based ethylene polymerization catalysts / Kevin Cann -- Ethylene polymerization and [alpha]-olefin oligomerization using catalysts derived from phosphoranes and Ni(II) and Ni(0) precursors / Scott Collins -- Late transition metal-catalyzed co- and terpolymerization of [alpha]-olefins with carbon monoxide-polyketones: synthesis and modification / Timo M. J. ... [et al.] -- Copper catalysts for olefin polymerization / Anna Maria Raspolli Galletti -- Ring-opening metathesis polymerizations and acyclic diene metathesis polymerizations with homogeneous ruthenium and molybdenum catalysts and initiators / Robert T. Mathers -- Cobalt ziegler-natta catalysts for synthesis of poly-cis-1,4-butadiene / Ray Hoff -- Appendix A: Pyrophoricity of metal alkyls -- Appendix B: Rheological terms for polymerization catalyst chemists.

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