Thanks to a new breed of catalysts called metallocenes, the plastics business is facing one of its most significant periods of innovation in decades, ushering in an age of custom-made commodity ...

Each cyclooctatetraene carried two bulky triisopropylsilyl groups that forced the metallocenes to bend as they stacked (Nature 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06192-4). “The discovery of the ...