Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 42 (Oct. 17, 2006), pp. 15349-15354 (6 pages) Single-site polymerization catalysts enable exquisite ...

Uncatalyzed radical polymerization of ethylene typically requires high temperature and pressure, and the method isn't efficient for longer simple terminal alkenes, Michl explains. Thus, ...

Owing to the many advantages over step-growth polymerizations, chain-growth polymerization has been utilized in a variety of controlled polymer synthesis, including many important industrial processes ...

Polymerisation is the process in which many small monomer units combine to form one large polymer molecule. The alkenes ethene and propene are two important feedstocks in the petrochemical industry ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE chemistry students studying addition polymerisation, alcohols and reactions of alkenes. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got you!

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a highly efficient cell-free enzyme system that converts ...