Pentalene substituted metallocene complexes for olefin polymerization
β Scribed by Walter Kaminsky; Oliver Sperber; Ralf Werner
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Volume
- 250
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-8545
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β¦ Synopsis
Pentalene bridged zirconocene/methylaluminoxane catalysts are described as useful for the polymerization of ethene, propene, and copolymerizations with norbornene. They show a high thermostability up to polymerization temperatures of 105 β’ C. Polyethylenes with molecular masses of 4 million g/mol are obtained at 30 β’ C and 500,000 g/mol at more than 90 β’ C. The molecular mass distribution varies between 2 and 15 because of the steric isomers of the pentalene ligand. Some of the complexes are active for the polymerization of propene. Similar to ansa cyclopentadienyl-fluorenyl complexes, the tacticity of the produced polypropylenes can be changed from syndiotactic to isotactic by substitution of the cyclopentadienyl ring.
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