Recently optically active homogeneous catalysts have been used to polymerize propylene to isotactic polymers;1 the synthesized high polymer did not have a detectable optical activity in solution and in the melt as expected.2 However, with the same catalysts optically active isotactic oligomers of propylene with detectable optical rotation should be produced.1 2
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