“…In (co)polymerization of conjugated dienes, a cobalt-based system has unambiguously shown distinguished performances and received the earliest recognition in the academic and commercial production of cis -1,4 and 1,2-polybutadiene due to facile availability, high air and thermal stability of compound. Particularly, the versatility as well as tunable regio and stereoselectivity in polymerization of some substituted butadienes; − for example, the unique 1,2 stereospecificity toward butadiene ,,,,, as well as 3-methyl-1,3-pentadiene, affording semicrystalline to crystalline materials whose properties can be tuned by the catalyst formula as well as polymerization procedures . Nevertheless, cobalt has been less known for catalytic polymerization of isoprene and myrcene, ,, and the reason why subtle monomer difference causes large differences in reactivity and selectivity has not yet been explored.…”