Brought to life more than half a century ago and successfully applied for high-value
petrochemical intermediates production, nickel-catalyzed olefin oligomerization is still a very …

Hydroformylation is the addition of synthesis gas (“syngas”), a mixture of CO and H2, to
olefins in the presence of a catalyst under the formation of aldehydes. Hydrogen (“hydro”) …

The present review highlights advances in the copolymerization of carbon dioxide (CO2)
and epoxides (oxiranes) to produce polycarbonates. Specifically, focus has been given to …

Many industrial catalysts contain isolated metal sites on the surface of oxide supports.
Although such catalysts have been used in a broad range of processes for more than 40 …

2. BACKGROUND Metallacycles of the transition metals were well-known and extensively
studied in the 1970s and 1980s8, 13, 14 and have been reviewed recently. 15, 16 …

The oligomerization of the light olefins ethene, propene, and butenes into fuels and
chemicals has been investigated and commercially practiced for many years. While the area …

Selective production of linear α-olefins is of significant commercial interest. Recently
discovered catalytic systems based on titanium, tantalum, and chromium show remarkable …

Interest in green chemistry and clean processes has grown so much in recent years that
topics such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process …

Ethylene oligomerization to produce 1-alkenes is a cornerstone of organometallic research.
The original α-olefin commercial catalyst system, triethylaluminum, has grown to become …

Catalytic ethylene oligomerization represents a topic of considerable current academic and
industrial interest, in particular for the production of linear α-olefins in the C4− C10 range …