摘要:
A process for the preparation of polyolefins having a bi- or multimodal molecular weight distribution which comprises: (i) contacting olefin monomer and a first co-reactant with a catalyst system in a first reaction zone under first polymerisation conditions to produce a product comprising a first polyolefin having a first molecular weight and distribution; and (ii) contacting olefin monomer and a second co-reactant with a catalyst system in a second reaction zone under second polymerisation conditions to produce a second polyolefin having a second molecular weight distribution different from the first molecular weight distribution; wherein the first and second polyolefins are mixed together, wherein one of the co-reactants is hydrogen and the other is a comonomer selected from butene, methylpentene, hexene or octene, and wherein each catalyst system comprises (a) a metallocene catalyst component comprising a bis tetrahydroindenyl compound of the general formula (IndH4)2R''MQ2 in which each Ind is the same or different and is indenyl or substituted indenyl, R'' is a bridge which comprises a C1-C4 alkylene radical, a dialkyl germanium or silicon or siloxane, or an alkyl phosphine or amine radical, which bridge is substituted or unsubstituted, M is a Group IV metal or vanadium and each Q is hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or halogen; and (b) a cocatalyst which activates the catalyst component.
摘要:
A process for the preparation of supported metallocene-alumonaxe catalysts comprising the steps of: a) reacting a metallocene with an alumoxane at a temperature comprised between 15 and 50 °C, b) recovering a mixture comprising an alkylmetallocenium cation and an anionic alumoxane oligomer, c) reacting said mixture with a support, and d) recovering a supported metallocene-alumoxane catalyst as a dry solid, the reaction with the support being carried out at a temperature comprised between 85 °C and 110 °C, preferably between 90 and 130 °C, and their use for the polymerization or copolymerization of olefins.
摘要:
Bridged metallocenes of group IVb metals provide improved results when the bridge comprises a neutral electron-donor substituent of general formula: R''' Z R''''j wherein: R''' is a rigid unsaturated hydrocarbon radical between Z and the bridge, such that Z is separated from the bridge by 2 to 5 carbon atoms; Z is nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen or sulphur; R'''' is H or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl or arylalkyl having a maximum of 15 carbon atoms, each R'''' being the same or different; j is 1 when Z = O or S and 2 when Z = N or P.
摘要:
Use of a metallocene compound of the general formula: Ind2R''MQ2 as a component of a catalyst system for the production of a polyethylene copolymer substantially in the absence of comonomer, wherein each Ind is the same or different and is indenyl or substituted indenyl; R'' is a bridge which comprises a C1 to C4 alkylene radical, a dialkyl germanium or silicon or siloxane, alkyl phosphine or amine, which bridge is substituted or unsubstituted, M is Group IV metal or vanadium and each Q is hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or halogen; and the ratio of meso to racemic forms of the metallocene in the catalyst system is at least 1:3.
摘要:
Metallocene catalysts useful for the preparation of syndiotactic/atactic block polyolefins have the general formula: R'(C4R'mC5C4R'n) XMeQ wherein X is a hetero-atom ligand with one or two lone pair electrons selected from the elements of Group VA or VIA which can be substituted or non-substituted; (C4Rm'C5C4R'n') is a fluorenyl or a symmetrically substituted fluorenyl or cyclopentadienyl ring; R' is hydrogen or hydrocarbyl radical having from 1-20 carbon atoms, a halogen, an alkoxy, and alkoxy alkyl or an alkylamino or alkylsilylo radical, each R' may be the same or different and m and n independently are 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, with the proviso that the bilateraly symmetry is maintained; R' is a structural bridge between X and the (C4R'mC5C4R'n) ring to impart stereorigidity; Q is a hydrocarbyl radical having 1-20 carbon atoms or is a halogen; Me is a Group IIIB, IVB, VB, or VIB metal as positioned in the Periodic Table of Elements; and Me can be in any of its theoretically possible oxidation states. Olefin monomers (particularly propylene) polymerised using those catalysts to form syndiotactic/atactic block polymers of high molecular weight and comprising at least 70 % of syndiotactic triads.
摘要:
Provided is a metallocene catalyst component for use in preparing isotactic polyolefins, which component has the general formula (I): R'' (CpR1R2R3) (Cp'R'n) MQ2 wherein Cp is a substituted cyclopentadienyl ring; Cp' is a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl ring; R'' is a structural bridge imparting stereorigidity to the component; R1 is a substituent on the cyclopentadienyl ring which is distal to the bridge, which distal substituent comprises a bulky group of the formula XR*3 in which X is chosen from Group IVA, and each R* is the same or different and chosen from hydrogen or hydrocarbyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 is a substituent on the cyclopentadienyl ring which is proximal to the bridge and positioned non-vicinal to the distal substituent, and is of the formula YR#3, in which Y is chosen from Group IVA, and each R# is the same or different and chosen from hydrogen or hydrocarbyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms, R3 is a substituent on the cyclopentadienyl ring which is proximal to the bridge and is a hydrogen atom or is of the formula ZR$3, in which Z is chosen from Group IVA, and each R$ is the same or different and chosen from hydrogen or hydrocarbyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms, each R'n is the same or different and is hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms in which 0≤n≤8; M is a Group IVB transition metal or vanadium; and each Q is hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or is a halogen.
摘要:
A process for the preparation of polyethylene resins having a multimodal molecular weight distribution which comprises: (i) contacting ethylene monomer and a comonomer comprising an alpha-olefin having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms with a first catalyst system in a first reactor under first polymerisation conditions to produce a first polyethylene having a first molecular weight, an HLMI of not more than 0.5 g/10 min and a first density of not more than 0.925 g/ml and the first catalyst system comprising: (a) a metallocene catalyst comprising a bis tetrahydroindenyl compound of the general formula: (IndH4)2R'MQ2 in which each Ind is the same or different and is indenyl or substituted indenyl, R' is a bridge which comprises a C1-C20 alkylene radical, a dialkyl germanium or silicon or siloxane, or an alkyl phosphine or amine radical, which bridge is substituted or unsubstituted; M is a Group IVB transition metal or vanadium and each Q is hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or halogen; and (b) a cocatalyst which activates the catalyst component; (ii) providing a second polyethylene having a second lower molecular weight and second higher density than the first polyethylene, the second polyethylene having been produced using a catalyst other than the bis tetrahydroindenyl compound; and (iii) mixing together the first and second polyethylenes to form a polyethylene resin having a multimodal molecular weight distribution.