Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Brent Peebles
  • Patent number: 6423793
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer is provided comprising a branched olefin polymer having crystalline sidechains and an amorphous backbone wherein at least 90 mole percent of the sidechains are isotactic or syndiotactic polypropylene and at least 80 mole percent of the backbone is atactic polypropylene. Additionally, a process is provided for producing a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising: a) contacting, in solution, at a temperature from about 90° C. to about 120° C., propylene monomers with a catalyst composition comprising a chiral, stereorigid transition metal catalyst compound capable of producing isotactic or syndiotactic polypropylene; b) copolymerizing the product of a) with propylene and, optionally, one or more copolymerizable monomers, in a polymerization reactor using an achiral transition metal catalyst capable of producing atactic polypropylene; and c) recovering a branched olefin polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Weiqing Weng, Armen H. Dekmezian, Eric J. Markel, David L. Peters