Abstract
The coupling of mechanistically distinct reactions, ethylene polymerization, cyclic olefin polymerization via metathesis - ROMP and radical atom transfer polymerization - ATRP, will be mediated by new heterobimetallic complexes of RuII/PdII and RuII/NiII. The proposal is to systematically evaluate different combinations of ancillary ligands in the coordination sphere of the heterobimetall…