The first example of palladium catalysed non-perfectly alternating copolymerisation of ethene and carbon monoxide.

Non-alternating ethene-CO copolymerisation is catalysed by a new series of [P-O]Pd catalysts based on o-alkoxy derivatives of diphenylphosphinobenzene sulfonic acid.

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