“…On the other hand, the excellent tolerance of late metal catalysts toward polar functional groups also attracted attention from both academic and industrial communities. 13,14 In this respect, nickel catalysts have become a promising candidate after experiencing the resurgence due to the work of Brookhart et al [15][16][17] and Grubbs et al 18,19 In combination with MAO or MMAO, nickel halides bearing various [N,N], [N,P] or [N,N,X] (X = N, O, P, S) ligands 8,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] were reported to be active for norbornene polymerization. Neutral nickel catalysts supported by fluorinated β-diketiminato, 33,34 pyrrole-iminato 5 and salicylaldiminato ligands 9,[35][36][37][38] also showed high activities (10 6 to 10 7 g PNB mol Ni −1 h −1 ) for norbornene polymerization when activated by MAO or MMAO.…”