Isospecific Polymerization of Olefins

I Kinetics of Olefin Polymerization with Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts.- I-1 Polymerization Kinetics: General Description.- I-2 Phenomenological Kinetic Scheme of Olefin Polymerization.- I-3 Molecular Weight Growth in the Beginning of a Polymerization Reaction and the Estimation of the Propagation Rate Constants.- I-4 Estimation of Propagation Rate Constants from the Kinetics of Consecutive and Statistical Olefin Copolymerization.- I-5 Principal Kinetic Parameters for Olefin Homopolymerization and Copolymerization.- II Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts: Chemistry and Kinetics of the Formation and Functioning of Active Centers.- II-1 Structure of Solid Components of Ziegler-Natta Catalysts.- II-2 Formation of Active Center of Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts.- II-3 Attempts to Study Active Centers Directly.- II-4 Organometallic Compounds and Catalyst Activity.- II-5 Effects of Catalyst Poisons and Modifiers. The Measurement of Active Center Concentration 153.- II-6 Concentration of Active Centers and Their Location in the Heterogeneous Catalysts.- II-7 Origins of Catalyst Instability.- II-8 Monomer Coordination Stage: Its Chemical and Kinetic Manifestations.- III Stereospecificity of Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts.- III-1 Chemistry of Olefin Polymerization.- III-2 Methods of Measurement of polyolefin Stereoregularity.- III-3 Enantiomorphous Statistical Model of Stereospecific Olefin and its Experimental Polymerization Proof.- III-4 Statistics of Olefin Homopolymerization and Copolymerization on Stereospecific Active Centers.- III-5 Parameters Characterizing the Stereo regulative Ability of Active Centers.- III-6 Effect of Transition Metal Compounds on Catalyst Stereo specificity.- III-7 Effect of Organometallic Compounds on Catalyst Stereospecificity.- III-8 Temperature Effect on Catalyst Stereo specificity and the Reaction Pathway of the Propagation Step.- III-9 Role of Catalyst Modification.- III-10 Stereoregularity and Stereoelective Polymerization.- III-11 Stereoregularity of Monomer Sequences in Olefin Copolymers.- IV Inhomogeneity of Active Centers of Heterogeneous Ziegler Natta Catalysts.- IV-1 Distribution of Active Centers with Different Stereospecificity.- IV-2 Molecular Weight Distribution of Polyolefins and the Distribution of Propagation Rate Constants.- IV-3 Compositional Inhomogeneity of Olefin Copolymers and Active Center Distribution with Respect to Reactivity.- V Mechanism of Isospecific Olefin Polymerization.- V-1 Chemical Mechanism of Olefin Polymerization: Olefin Insertion Reaction into the ?-Metal-Bond.- V-2 Intimate Mechanism of the Olefin Insertion Reaction.- V-3 Molecular Orbital Calculations of the Propagation Step.- V-4 Mechanism of Isospecific Chain Growth.- V-5 Concluding Remarks on the Polymerization Mechanism.