Abstract:
Catalyst systems useful in addition polymerisation reactions comprising a Group 4 metal complex and a silylium salt activating cocatalyst are prepared by contacting the metal complex with a silylium salt of a compatible, non-coordinating anion, optionally the silylium salt is prepared by electrochemical oxidation and splitting of the corresponding disilane compound.
Abstract:
Group 4 metal complexes useful as addition polymerization catalysts are prepared by electrolysis of cyclopentadienyl metal complexes under inert electrolysis conditions.
Abstract:
A process for preparing an electronically-conductive thermoplastic composition having at least two phases, which includes (I) combining an amorphous or semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymer or miscible blend of polymers with an electronically-conductive carbon under conditions sufficient to disperse the conductive carbon, thereby forming a mixture having at least one phase, with at least 60 percent of the carbon dispersed in a first phase which comprises at least 90 percent by weight of the mixture; and (II) combining the mixture obtained from step (I) with an amorphous or semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymer or miscible blend of polymers, at least a portion of which is immiscible in the first phase, thereby forming a composition having at least two phases. Compositions prepared by this process are sufficiently conductive to be useful for a variety of applications, such as structural materials for applications requiring electromotively-paintable substrates.
Abstract:
An electrochemical fuel cell having a membrane electrode assembly (1) and a flow field (4) adjacent thereto wherein the flow field comprises an electrically conductive porous material having a porosity of at least 50 percent and a mean pore size of at least 35 microns. This fuel cell is able to operate at relatively high current densities and relatively high voltages at reduced gas flow rates.
Abstract:
Novel titanium or zirconium complexes containing one and only one cyclic delocalized, anionic, pi -bonded, group, said complexes corresponding to formula (I), wherein: M is titanium or zirconium in the +2 formal oxidation state; L is a group containing a cyclic, delocalized, anionic, pi -system through which the group is bound to M, and which group is also bound to Z; Z is a moiety bound to M via a sigma -bond, comprising boron, or a member of Group 14 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, and also comprising nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur or oxygen, said moiety having up to 60 non-hydrogen atoms; and X is a neutral, conjugated or nonconjugated diene, optionally substituted with one or more hydrocarbyl groups, said X having up to 40 carbon atoms and forming a pi -complex with M; are catalytically activated for use as addition polymerization catalysts. Preferably, L is an optionally substituted cyclopentadienyl or fused ring cyclopentadienyl group.
Abstract:
Addition polymerization catalysts comprising a derivative of a titanium or zirconium in the +4 oxidation state prepared by metal center oxidation and cation complex formation of a reduced metal precursor complex via electron transfer in a single step by use of a neutral organic oxidant, optionally in the presence of a Lewis acid mitigator.