摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to article comprising a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins, optionally one or more diolefins, and less than 5 mole % of ethylene having a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more, a branching index (g′) of 0.95 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; and an Mw of 100,000 or less. This invention further relates to a process to produce an olefin polymer comprising: 1) selecting a first catalyst component capable of producing a polymer having an Mw of 100,000 or less and a crystallinity of 20% or less; 2) selecting a second catalyst component capable of producing polymer having an Mw of 100,000 or less and a crystallinity of 40% or more; 3) contacting the catalyst components in the presence of one or more activators with one or more C3 to C40 olefins, in a reaction zone.
摘要:
This invention relates to late transition metal catalyst precursors and catalysts for olefin dimerizations and oligomerizations, and to methods for making and using these catalysts.
摘要:
Substantially random ethylene and/or α-olefin copolymers containing units derived from vicinally disubstituted olefin monomers are described. The vicinally disubstituted olefin monomers may be represented by the generic formula (R1)CH═CH(R2), where R1 and R2 independently comprise hydrocarbyl or silyl-hydrocarbyl groups containing 1 or more carbon atoms, or may be linear, branched or cyclic substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups having from 1-100 carbon atoms, or they may contain 30 or less carbon atoms. The copolymers may be prepared by coordination polymerization by means of contacting at least one vicinally disubstituted olefin monomer and ethylene and/or α-olefin, optionally with one or more other coordination polymerizable monomers, with a catalyst system comprising a monocyclopentadienyl heteroatom-containing Group 4 transition metal catalyst component.
摘要:
The invention encompasses a mixed transition metal olefin polymerization catalyst system suitable for the polymerization of olefin monomers comprising one late transition metal catalyst system and at least one different catalyst system selected from the group consisting of late transition metal catalyst systems, transition metal metallocene catalyst systems or Ziegler-Natta catalyst systems. Preferred embodiments include at least one late transition metal catalyst system comprising a Group 9, 10, or 11 metal complex stabilized by a bidentate ligand structure and at least one transition metal metallocene catalyst system comprising a Group 4 metal complex stabilized by at least one ancillary cyclopentadienyl ligand. The polymerization process for olefin monomers comprises contacting one or more olefins with these catalyst systems under polymerization conditions.
摘要:
Described are certain tetramethylcyclopentadienyl titanium compounds, catalyst systems comprising such compounds and an activator, and to a process using such catalyst systems for the production of polyolefins, particularly ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymers having a high molecular weight and high level of &agr;-olefin incorporation.
摘要:
Substantially random ethylene copolymers containing at least 3.0 mole percent of geminally disubstituted olefin monomers are described. The geminally disubstituted olefin monomers can be represented by the generic formula R.sub.1 =R.sub.2 (R.sub.3)(R.sub.4), where R.sub.1 is CH.sub.2, R.sub.2 is C, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are, independently, essentially linear hydrocarbyl groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, or more, and containing one carbon atom bound directly to R.sub.2. The copolymers can be prepared by coordination polymerization by means of contacting at least one geminally disubstituted olefin monomer and ethylene, optionally with one or more other coordination polymerizable monomers, with a catalyst system comprising a monocyclopentadienyl, heteroatom-containing Group 4 transition metal catalyst component.
摘要:
Provided are amorphous ethylene propylene copolymer, compositions thereof, and methods for making same, whereby the copolymer can include of from about 40 wt. % to about 60 wt. % ethylene derived units; and of from about 60 wt. % to about 40 wt. % propylene derived units. The copolymer can be characterized by having no discernable melting point as measured by DSC, an MFRR (MI (2.16 kg; 230° C.)/MI 21.6 kg; 230° C.) of about 38 or more, a molecular weight distribution (MWD) of from about 1.5 to about 2.5, and a shear viscosity η* at 0.01 rad/sec measured at 70° C. that satisfies the relation |η*|(70° C.; 0.01 rad/sec)>1.2*106*|MFR|−0.77, wherein MFR is the melt flow rate and η* is the complex viscosity at 0.01 rad/sec measured at 70° C.
摘要:
This invention relates to a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins, optionally one or more diolefins, and less than 15 mole % of ethylene, where the polymer has: a) a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more; and b) a branching index (g′) of 0.95 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; c) an Mw of 100,000 or less. This invention also relates a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins where the polymer has: a) a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more on Kraft paper; b) a branching index (g′) of 0.95 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; c) a Mw of 10,000 to 100,000; and d) a heat of fusion of 1 to 70 J/g. This invention also relates a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins where the polymer has: a) a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more on Kraft paper; b) a branching index (g′) of 0.98 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; c) a Mw of 10,000 to 60,000; d) a heat of fusion of 1 to 50 J/g. This invention also relates to a homopolypropylene or a copolymer of propylene and up to 5 mole % ethylene having: a) an isotactic run length of 1 to 30 (isotactic run length “IRL” is defined to be the percent of mmmm pentad divided by 0.5×percent of mmmr pentad) as determined by Carbon 13 NMR, preferably 3 to 25, more preferably 4 to 20, b) a percent of r dyad of greater than 20%, preferably from 20 to 70% as determined by Carbon 13 NMR, and c) a heat of fusion of 70 J/g or less, preferably 60 J/g or less, more preferably between 1 and 55 J/g, more preferably between 4 and 50 J/g. This invention further relates to a process to produce an olefin polymer comprising: 1) selecting a first catalyst component capable of producing a polymer having an Mw of 100,000 or less and a crystallinity of 5% or less at selected polymerization conditions; 2) selecting a second catalyst component capable of producing polymer having an Mw of 100,000 or less and a crystallinity of 20% or more at the selected polymerization conditions; 3) contacting the catalyst components in the presence of one or more activators with one or more C3 to C40 olefins, at the selected polymerization conditions in a reaction zone; 4) obtaining the polymer. This invention further relates to a continuous process to produce a branched olefin polymer comprising: 1) selecting a first catalyst component capable of producing a polymer having an Mw of 100,000 or less and a crystallinity of 5% or less under selected polymerization conditions; 2) selecting a second catalyst component capable of producing polymer having an Mw of 100,000 or less and a crystallinity of 20% or more at the selected polymerization conditions; 3) contacting the catalyst components in the presence of one or more activators with one or more C3 to C40 olefins, and, optionally one or more diolefins; 4) at a temperature of greater than 100° C.; 5) at a residence time of 120 minutes or less; 6) wherein the ratio of the first catalyst to the second catalyst is from 1:1 to 50:1; 7) wherein the activity of the catalyst components is at least 100 kilograms of polymer per gram of the catalyst components; and wherein at least 20% of the olefins are converted to polymer.
摘要:
A This invention relates to a composition comprising a catecholate ligand, palladium or nickel, and an ancillary ligand with the following structure: where Pn is a Group-15 element; H is hydrogen; R7 and R8 are independently hydrogen or C1-C30 hydrocarbyl radicals, or both are C1-C30 hydrocarbyl radicals that form a ring structure comprising one or more aromatic or non-aromatic rings; and R13-R18 are, independently, hydrogen or C1-C30 hydrocarbyl radicals. The composition can be used to oligomerize ethylene.
摘要翻译:本发明涉及包含儿茶酚酸配体,钯或镍的组合物和具有以下结构的辅助配体:其中Pn是15族元素; H是氢; R 7和R 8独立地是氢或C 1 -C 30烃基,或两者都是C 1 -C 6烷基, 形成包含一个或多个芳族或非芳族环的环结构的亚烷基-C 30亚烷基; R 13和R 12独立地是氢或C 1 -C 30烃基。 该组合物可用于使乙烯低聚。
摘要:
This invention relates to a transition metal compound represented by the formula LMX wherein M is a Group 3 to 11 metal L is a bulky bidentate or tridentate neutral ligand that is bonded to M by two or three heteroatoms and at least one heteroatom is nitrogen; X is a substituted or unsubstituted catecholate ligand provided that the substituted catecholate ligand does not contain a 1,2-diketone functionality.