Volume 1.

Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

This volume is exclusively devoted to tetramethyllead. Owing to the recent large-scale use as an antiknock agent, its application, toxicological, biological, and environmental aspects are given much attention besides its chemical and physical properties. - Literature coverage up to 1986.

Including recent advances and historically important catalysts, this book overviews methods for developing and applying polymerization catalysts – dealing with polymerization catalysts that afford commercially acceptable high yields of polymer with respect to catalyst mass or productivity. • Contains the valuable data needed to reproduce syntheses or use the catalyst for new applications • Offers a guide to the design and synthesis of catalysts, and their applications in synthesis of polymers • Includes the information essential for choosing the appropriate reactions to maximize yield of polymer synthesized • Presents new chapters on vanadium catalysts, Ziegler catalysts, laboratory homopolymerization, and copolymerization