A Tailor‐Made Metallocene for the Copolymerization of Ethene with Bulky Cycloalkenes

Abstract

Zirconocene/methylaluminoxane catalysts made-to-measure (with zirconocenes such as 1) facilitate statistical incorporation of bulky cycloolefins such as dimethanooctahydronapthalene into a polyethylene chain. The new cycloolefin copolymers are extremely thermally stable and show very promising properties for optoelectronic and technical applications.