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Mark A Wallace1, Lawrence R Sita1

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|July 1, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
coordinative chain transferliving polymerizationmolecular weight distributionpolyolefins

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