Abstract:
A composition for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by catalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
Abstract:
A composition for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by catalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
Abstract:
Copolymers, especially multi-block copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, are prepared by polymerizing propylene, 4-methyl-1-pentene, or other C4-8α-olefin and one or more copolymerizable comonomers, especially ethylene in the presence of a composition comprising the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by catalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
Abstract:
A combinatorial method for identifying a catalyst composition for use in the homogeneous addition polymerization of an olefin monomers, said catalyst composition comprising a transition metal compound, a cocatalyst and a polymerization modifier, as well as catalyst compositions and improved olefin polymerization processes resulting therefrom.
Abstract:
Metal complexes comprising a polydentate chelating group, catalysts and polymerization processes using the same for the polymerization of olefins, especially propylene, are disclosed.
Abstract:
A composition useful as an addition polymerization catalyst comprising: A) an inert support; B) a Group 3-10 or Lanthanide metal complex; and C) an activator compound capable of causing the metal complex B) to form an active polymerization catalyst, said compound corresponding to the formula: (A*+a)b(Z*J*j)−cd, (I) wherein: A* is a cation of charge +a, Z* is an anion group of from 1 to 50, preferably 1 to 30 atoms, not counting hydrogen atoms, further containing two or more Lewis base sites; J* independently each occurrence is a Lewis acid coordinated to at least one Lewis base-site of Z*, and optionally two or more such J* groups may be joined together in a moiety having multiple Lewis acidic functionality, j is a number from 2 to 12 and a, b, c, and d are integers from 1 to 3, with the proviso that a×b is equal to c×d.
Abstract:
A catalyst and process of polymerizing olefins using it are described, the catalyst comprising a cocatalyst and a metal complex preferably of the formulas 4-9, wherein M is a group 4 metal, Z is a boron atom, and T is one of
Abstract:
Catalysts for olefin polymeriztion comprising metal complexes corresponding to the formula: ##STR1## or a dimer, solvated adduct, chelated derivative or mixture thereof, wherein:L is a cyclic group or Y*, that is bound to M by means of a delocalized .pi.-bond, said group containing up to 50 nonhydrogen atoms;L' is a cyclic group or Y* that is bound to M by means of a delocalized .pi.-bond, said group containing up to 50 nonhydrogen atoms;M is a metal of Group 4 of the Periodic Table of the Elements;Z is a covalently bound, divalent substituent of up to 50 non-hydrogen atoms having the formula, --(ER.sub.2).sub.m --, wherein E independently each occurrence is carbon, silicon or germanium, R independently each occurrence is selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbyl, hydrocarbyloxy, silyl, and germyl of up to 20 atoms other than hydrogen, and m is an integer from 1 to 3;Y* is an allyl or a hydrocarbyl-, silyl- or germyl-substituted allyl group containing up to 20 nonhydrogen atoms bonded to Z and bonded via an .eta..sup.3 -.pi. bond to M;where Y' is an allyl group or a hydrocarbyl-, silyl-, or germyl-substituted allyl group containing up to 20 nonhydrogen atoms bonded via an .eta..sup.3 -.pi. bond to M;X' is a neutral conjugated diene ligand having up to 20 non-hydrogen atoms;X" independently each occurrence is a monovalent, anionic moiety selected from hydride, halo, hydrocarbyl, silyl, germyl, hydrocarbyloxy, amide, siloxy, halohydrocarbyl, halosilyl, silylhydrocarbyl, and aminohydrocarbyl having up to 20 non-hydrogen atoms, or two X" groups together form a divalent hydrocarbadiyl group;n is a number from 0 to 3; andp is an integer from 0 to 2.
Abstract:
Catalysts for polymerizing olefins, diolefins and/or acetylenically unsaturated monomers comprising biscyclopentadienyl, Group 4 transition metal complexes formed with conjugated dienes wherein the diene is bound to the transition metal either in the form of a .sigma.-complex or a .pi.-complex in combination with a cocatalyst or subjected to bulk electrolysis in the presence of compatible, inert non-coordinating anions.
Abstract:
Biscyclopentadienyl, Group 4 transition metal complexes containing a conjugated diene ligand group wherein the diene is bound to the transition metal either in the form of .sigma.-complex or a .pi.-complex are readily prepared by reacting in any order: a) a Group 4 metal salt corresponding to the formula M'X.sub.3 or M"X.sub.4, or a Lewis base adduct thereof, b) a conjugated diene, D', c) a reducing agent, and d) a compound of the formula: CpM* or (Cp-Cp)M*n.sub.n, wherein, M' is titanium, zirconium or hafnium in the +3 formal oxidation state; M" is titanium, zirconium or hafnium in the +4 formal oxidation state; X is a halide, C.sub.1-6 hydrocarbyloxy or di(C.sub.1-6 hydrocarbyl)amido group; D' is an uncoordinated diene having the same number of carbons as D and the same substitution pattern as D; M* is a Group 1 or 2 metal cation, a Grignard reagent cation or a tri(C.sub.1-4 hydrocarbyl)silyl group; and n is 1 when M* is a Group 2 metal cation and n is 2 when M* is a Group 1 metal cation, a Grignard reagent cation, or a trihydrocarbylsilyl group with the proviso that reagents a), and d) are not contacted with one another in the absence of reagent c).