Abstract:
A supported transition metal composition is obtained by suspending a support material in an inert liquid medium, spraying the suspension, collecting a solid material and contacting the sprayed solid with a transition metal compound. The support material may be a metal halide such as magnesium chloride or an inorganic oxide such as silica or alumina. In addition to being contacted with the transition metal compound, the support material may be contacted either before or after the spraying step with other reagents such as organo metallic compounds, halogen compounds, or Lewis Base compounds. The product obtained after contacting with the transition metal compound may be used as a component of a polymerization catalyst system to polymerize an unsaturated monomer such as ethylene or propylene.
Abstract:
A catalyst for polymerizing olefins is the product resulting from a mixture of (A) an organomagnesium material, (B) essentially anhydrous carbon dioxide, (C) a reducing halide source and (D) the reaction product or complex resulting from admixing a transition metal compound and an organozinc compound.
Abstract:
Method of preparing a supported Ziegler-catalyst active in the polymerization of alpha-olefins to polymers particularly suited to working by blow-moulding, by reacting:(A) an organometallic compound of aluminium, and(B) the product of the reaction of titanium and vanadium halides with a solid support obtained by the spray drying of magnesium chloride in a mixed solution of ethanol and methanol, the support containing both ethanolic and methanolic alcoholic hydroxyl groups.
Abstract:
A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization comprising a hydrocarbon-insoluble product (III) obtained by reacting(A) a silicon compound selected from the group consisting of(1) halogen-containing silicon compounds,(2) silicon compounds having a monomeric unit ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different, R.sup.1 represents an alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, or aryloxy group, or a hydrogen atom, and R.sup.2 represents an alkyl, aryl, or cycloalkyl group or a hydrogen or halogen atom) and a polymerization degree of 2 to 10,000,(3) silanols of the general formula R.sub.l.sup.3 Si(OH).sub.4-l (wherein R.sup.3 represents an alkyl, aryl, or cycloalkyl group or a hydrogen atom, and l is 1, 2 or 3) or condensation products thereof,(4) silicon compounds represented by the general formula R.sub.m.sup.4 Si(OR.sup.5).sub.4-m (wherein R.sup.4 represents n alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, or alkenyl group or a hydrogen atom, R.sup.5 represents an alkyl or aryl group or a fatty acid moiety, and m is 1, 2 or 3), and(5) silicon compounds or polymers thereof represented by the general formula [SiO.sub.a (OR.sup.6).sub.b ].sub.n (wherein R.sup.6 represents an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl group or a fatty acid moiety, and a and b are each a number defined by the formula 0.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.1 or 2.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.4, and n is an integer of from 1 to 10,000), with(B) a compound of a transition metal of Groups IVa, Va and VIa of the periodic table to form a reaction mixture (I), further reacting the reaction mixture (I) with(C) an organomagnesium compound selected from organomagnesium compounds or hydrocarbon-soluble complexes thereof with an organometallic compound capable of solubilizing said organomagnesium compounds, to produce an intermediate product (II) and contacting the intermediate product (II) with(D) an organoaluminum halide represented by the general formula R.sub.0.sup.7 AlX.sub.3-c (wherein R.sup.7 represents an organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, X represents a halogen, and c is a number defined by the formula 0
Abstract:
A process for producing a polyolefin, which comprises polymerizing an olefin in the presence of a catalyst system comprising:(a) a solid catalyst component obtained by supporting a titanium compound and/or a vanadium compound on a solid product derived from the reaction of a phenol, an aromatic carboxylate ester, and a solid reaction product of an organomagnesium compound and an aryloxyaluminum compound represented by the general formula Al(OR.sup.1).sub.3, wherein R.sup.1 represents an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and(b) an organoaluminum compound.
Abstract:
A catalyst component is a transition metal composition which is obtained by reacting together an inert particulate material, an organic magnesium compound, a halogen-containing compound such as carbon tetrachloride or silicon tetrachloride and a specified transition metal compound. The catalyst component obtained can be used, together with an organic metal compound, to give an olefin polymerization catalyst. The catalyst can be used to effect the polymerization of olefin monomers, for example, the copolymerization of ethylene with an alpha-olefin monomer such as butene-1 in a fluidized bed reactor.
Abstract:
In accordance with one embodiment of this invention, a zerovalent chromium compound is introduced onto an activated phosphate-containing support and utilized in conjunction with an organometal cocatalyst, such as a trialkylborane. In accordance with another embodiment of this invention, a phosphate-containing xerogel is formed by removing water from an aluminum phosphate-containing hydrogen by means of azeotropic distillation or washing with a volatile, water miscible organic compound, activated and thereafter zerovalent chromium is incorporated therewith. In other embodiments of this invention, a phosphate-containing support is formed by forming aluminum phosphate from an aluminum alkoxide or from a melt, or by phosphating silica or alumina, or by forming an aluminum phosphate/silica combination. A support thus formed is activated and a zerovalent chromium compound added. The resulting catalysts are capable of giving high melt index, broad molecular weight distribution polymer, which polymer also exhibits other deviations from typical olefin polymers including lower flexural modulus. The catalyst is ideally suited for forming olefin polymers such as ethylene and ethylene copolymers in a slurry system.
Abstract:
High activity catalysts for the polymerization of ethylene and other .alpha.-olefins are made by contacting a soluble magnesium compound of the general formula Mg(OSiR.sub.3).sub.2, wherein each R is, independently, alkyl, alkoxy or aryl, with a titanium tetralkoxide (titanate) in a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon solution, followed by chlorination and precipitation by a suitable chlorinating agent. These catalysts show high activity for the polymerization of ethylene under slurry polymerization conditions.
Abstract:
In a process for polymerizing a monomer capable of being formed, upon polymerization, into a solution having an upper cloud point of the corresponding polymer in a reaction medium being liquid under the reaction conditions, the polymerization being carried out under such conditions that the resulting polymer dissolves in the reaction medium; the improvement wherein(i) the polymerization is carried out in a polymerization zone at a temperature above the upper cloud point of said polymer solution and under conditions which enable the polymer solution to be separated into two phases,(ii) the polymerization is carried out under stirring conditions which maintain the two phases under said phase-separating conditions in a dispersed and mixed state, and(iii) the resulting polymer solution is sent to a separating zone located independently of said polymerization zone, thereby separating it into two phases in the separating zone at a temperature above the upper cloud point, and thereafter, the polymer-rich liquid phase as a lower layer is recovered while the polymer-lean liquid phase as an upper layer is recycled to the polymerization zone.
Abstract:
A catalyst system suitable for olefin polymerization comprising a catalyst component made up of chromium on a phosphated silica-containing base and a boron-containing cocatalyst. The resulting catalyst is particularly sensitive to the effects of hydrogen as a molecular weight control agent, thus allowing the production of polymers of having a melt flow varying over a wide spectrum utilizing the same catalyst.