Ethylene/dicyclopentadiene copolymers and functionalized derivatives thereof
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    发明申请
    Ethylene/dicyclopentadiene copolymers and functionalized derivatives thereof 有权
    乙烯/二环戊二烯共聚物及其官能化衍生物

    公开(公告)号:US20080015314A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-01-17

    申请号:US11801633

    申请日:2007-05-10

    IPC分类号: C08L45/00

    摘要: Disclosed is a selected type of copolymer composition comprising copolymers having units derived from ethylene and dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) co-monomers. Such copolymer compositions: a) have a DCPD-derived comonomer unit content of from about 25 mole % to about 45 mole %; b) have a Weight Average Molecular Weight, Mw, of greater than about 170,000; c) comprise amorphous material and have glass transition temperatures, Tg, of from about 8° C. to about 129° C., which also fit the equation Tg (in ° C.)≧[(mole % DCPD×3.142)−4.67]; and d) comprise no significant amount of crystalline polyethylene homopolymer or crystallizable polyethylene segments within the ethylene-dicylopentadiene copolymers. Such copolymers can be readily derivatized by hydrogention and/or epoxidation to provide polymeric materials suitable for use as engineering thermoplastics.Also disclosed are processes for preparing and optionally further derivatizing ethylene/dicyclopentadiene copolymers having the characteristics hereinbefore described. Such processes comprise: a) contacting ethylene with a polymerization mixture comprising greater than about 4.0 molar dicyclopentadiene, in the presence of a selected activated cyclopentadienyl-fluorenyl metallocene catalyst bearing a substituent, preferably a methyl substituent, at the 3-position of the cyclopentadienyl ring, under specific polymerization conditions including relatively high ethylene pressures to thereby form the desired ethylene-dicyclopentadiene copolymers within the polymerization mixture. Such copolymers are then recovered and/or further hydrogenated or functionalized.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种选择类型的共聚物组合物,其包含具有衍生自乙烯和二环戊二烯(DCPD)共聚单体的单元的共聚物。 这种共聚物组合物:a)具有约25摩尔%至约45摩尔%的DCPD衍生的共聚单体单元含量; b)具有大于约170,000的重均分子量,M < c)包含非晶材料,并且具有约8℃至约129℃的玻璃化转变温度,其也适合方程式T(g) (℃)] = [(摩尔%DCPDx 3.142)-4.67]; 和d)在乙烯 - 二茂二烯共聚物内不含有显着量的结晶聚乙烯均聚物或可结晶的聚乙烯链段。 这样的共聚物可以通过水合和/或环氧化来容易地衍生,以提供适合用作工程热塑性塑料的聚合材料。 还公开了制备和任选地进一步衍生具有上述特征的乙烯/二环戊二烯共聚物的方法。 这样的方法包括:a)在选择的活化的环戊二烯基 - 芴基茂金属催化剂存在下,在含有大于约4.0摩尔二环戊二烯的聚合混合物的存在下,使乙烯与环戊二烯基环的3位具有取代基,优选甲基取代基接触 在包括相对较高的乙烯压力的特定聚合条件下,从而在聚合混合物内形成所需的乙烯 - 二环戊二烯共聚物。 然后回收和/或进一步氢化或官能化此类共聚物。