LSP - Laboratory of Stereoselective Polymerizations -

Selected Publications

Some notable recent scientific achievements of LSP are:

• the implementation and application of high-field ¹³C NMR tools and methods for the microstructure analysis of vinyl polymers, including the first full assignment and statistical analysis of the 150 MHz ¹³C NMR spectra of regioregular polypropylene [1] and propene/ethene copolymers [2]
• the use of polyolefin microstructure analysis for active site ‘fingerprinting’, with special emphasis on complex cases like heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysts in general [3], ‘oscillating’ metallocenes [4], novel non-metallocene catalysts discovered via High Throughput Experimentation [5]
• the implementation and application of methods for the precise determination of catalyst regioselectivity and ‘dormancy’, based on the synthesis and NMR analysis of olefin hydro-oligomers and isotopically labeled polymers [6]
• the discovery of growing-chain epimerization in metallocene-catalyzed propene polymerization [7];
• the modification of methylalumoxane (MAO) to improve its performance as an activator and/or scavenger in molecular olefin polymerization catalysis [8]
• the first synthesis of block copolymers of highly isotactic polypropylene with novel nonmetallocene ‘living’ catalysts [9]
• the benchmarking and application of periodic-DFT(-D) methods for modeling MgCl₂-supported industrial catalysts for isotactic polypropylene [10].

[1] a) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Monaco, G.; Vacatello, M.; Segre, A.L. Macromolecules 1997, 30, 6251-6263. b) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Monaco, G.; Vacatello, M.; Bella, J.; Segre, A.L. Macromolecules 1998, 31, 8713-8719. c) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R. Progr. Polym. Sci. 2001, 26, 443-533.

[2] Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Segre, A.L. Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2002, 203, 1403-1412.

[3] Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Monaco, G.; Talarico, G.; Vacatello, M.; Chadwick, J.C.; Segre, A.L.; Sudmeijer, O. Macromolecules 1999, 32, 4173-4182.

[4] a) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Kretschmer, W.P.; Talarico, G.; Vacatello, M.; Van Axel Castelli, V. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 505-508. b) Busico, V.; Van Axel Castelli, V.; Aprea, P.; Cipullo, R.; Segre, A.L.; Talarico, G.; Vacatello, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 5451-5460.

[5] Boussie, T.R.; Diamond, G.M.; Goh, C.; Hall, K.A.; LaPointe, A.M.; Leclerc, M.K.; Murphy, V.; Shoemaker, J.A.W.; Turner, H.; Rosen, R.K.; Stevens, J.C.; Alfano, F.; Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Talarico, G. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 3278-3283.

[6] a) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Ronca, S. Macromolecules 2002, 35, 1537-1542. b) Busico, V.; Chadwick, J.C.; Cipullo, R.; Ronca, S.; Talarico, G. Macromolecules 2004, 37, 7437-7443.

[7] a) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116, 9329-9330. b) Busico, V.; Caporaso, L.; Cipullo, R.; Landriani, L.; Angelini, G.; Margonelli, A.; Segre, A.L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 2105-2106.

[8] a) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Cutillo, F.; Friederichs, N.; Ronca, S.; Wang, B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 12402-12403. b) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Pellecchia, R.; Talarico, G.; Razavi, A. Macromolecules 2009, 42, 1789-1791.

[9] a) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Friederichs, N.; Ronca, S.; Talarico, G.; Togrou, M.; Wang, B. Macromolecules 2004, 37, 8201-8203. b) Busico, V.; Cipullo, R.; Pellecchia, R.; Ronca, S.; Roviello, G.; Talarico, G. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2006, 103, 15321-15326.

[10] a) Busico, V.; Causà, M.; Cipullo, R.; Credendino, R.; Cutillo, F.; Friederichs, N.; Lamanna, R.; Segre, A.; Van Axel Castelli, V. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 1081-1089. b) D’Amore, M.; Credendino, R.; Budzelaar, P.H.M.; Causá, M.; Busico, V. J. Catal. 2012, 286, 103-110.