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Application patents

• Calcined petroleum refining catalysts with small dispersed metal particles prepared from metal silsesquioxane catalyst precursors. H.C.L. Abbenhuis et al. ; PCT Int. Appl. (2003), WO 2003082465; assigned to Avantium Technologies B.V
• Catalysts based on polymers bearing silsesquioxane metal complexes. H.C.L. Abbenhuis et al. ; Eur. Pat. Appl. (2002), EP 1213053; assigned to Degussa GmbH
• Metal complex containing one or more silsesquioxane ligands, silsesquioxane compound, and catalyst preparation for olefin polymerization. H.C.L. Abbenhuis et al. ; Eur. Pat. Appl. (1999), EP 967229; assigned to DSM.

Scientific articles

• Polypropylene metal functionalized POSS nanocomposites: A study by thermogravimetric analysis; Polym. Degrad. Stab. (2006), 91(5), 1064-1070.
• Synthesis and applications of chiral phosphite ligands derived from incompletely condensed silsesquioxane backbones; Tetrahedron: Asymmetry (2005), 16(24), 3970-3975.
• The dynamic status quo of polyhedral silsesquioxane coordination chemistry; Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2004), (4), 675-683.
• Versatile phosphite ligands based on silsesquioxane backbones; Adv. Syn. Catal. (2004), 346(4), 399-412.
• POSSphites-monophosphites derived from incompletely condensed silsesquioxanes; Tetrahedron Lett. (2003), 44(45), 8301-8305.
• Synthesis and characterisation of microporous bimetallic Fe-Cr-Si-O materials derived from silsesquioxane precursors; J. Mater. Chem. (2002), 12(12), 3792-3798.
• Titanium silsesquioxanes grafted on three-dimensionally netted polysiloxanes: catalytic ensembles for epoxidation of alkenes with aqueous hydrogen peroxide; Angew. Chem. (2002), 41(4), 637-639.
• Advances in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis with metal-containing silsesquioxanes; Chem. Eur. J. (2000), 6(1), 25-32.

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