Selective coupling of terminal olefins with ethylene to manufacture linear &agr;-olefins
A process for producing a linear &agr;-olefin which comprises: reacting a stoichiometric excess of a terminal Cn olefin with ethylene in the presence of an organometallic catalyst to produce a Cn+2 linear &agr;-olefin, wherein the catalyst is capable of producing a Schulz-Flory distribution of the linear &agr;-olefin with a Schulz-Flory constant of less than about 0.8 and wherein n is an integer between about 3 to 20.
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Stephen Timothy Daniel Abhimanyu Onkar
Zushma Shaffer Patil