Recently, Nd-based catalyst systems have been developed for the polymerization of butadiene, and have already been widely used in industrial applications. However, the 1, 4-
cis selectivity and molecular weight distribution of the produced polybutadiene (BR) cannot be well controlled, since these catalyst systems are Ziegler-Natta based “
multisite” catalysts. On the other hand “
single-site” catalyst system, lanthanide-metallocene/cocatalyst system, has attracted recent interest as the next generation catalyst system, which can induce ultimately specific 1, 4-
cis polymerization (>99.99%) and
cis-specific living polymerization (sharp MWD). This article is a brief introduction of recent topics, including strategies aiming at these new elastomers based on tailor-made lanthanide-metallocene catalysts.
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