Abstract: The present invention relates to butene-1 copolymers containing up to 40% by mol of ethylene and/or propylene derived units characterized by the following properties: d) Product of the reactivity ratios r1·r2?2; e) Content of butene-1 units in form of isotactic pentads (mmmm)>98%; and f) absence of 4,1 insertions of butene units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to butene-1 copolymers containing up to 40% by mol of ethylene and/or propylene derived characterized by the following properties: d) Product of the reactivity ratios r1·r2?2; e) Content of butene-1 units in form of isotactic pentads (mmmm)>98%; and f) absence of 4,1 insertions of butene units.

Abstract: Solid Lewis adducts comprising MgCl2, a Lewis base (LB) belonging to ethers, esters, ketones, silanes or amines and an alcohol ROH, in which R is a C1-C15 hydrocarbon group optionally substituted with heteroatoms containing groups, which compounds are in molar ratios to each other defined by the following formula MgCl2(ROH)m(LB)n in which m ranges from 0.05 to 6, n ranges from 0.08 to 6. The solid Lewis adducts herein can be used to prepare catalysts having good morphological stability, and high polymerization activity.

Abstract: Polypropylene pipes (parts by weight): 1) 100 parts of a crystalline random copolymer of propylene with 1-15% by weight of a C4-C10 ?-olefin or a crystalline random copolymer of propylene with 1-15% by weight of C4-C10 ?-olefin and with 1-7% by weight of ethylene 2) 0 to 70 parts of an elastomeric polyolefin selected from the group consisting of: (a) a copolymer of ethylene with propylene and, optionally a diene, having an ethylene content of from 17 to 45 wt % and an propylene content from 55 to 83 wt %; (b) a copolymer of ethylene with a C3-C10 ?-olefin having an ethylene/C3-C10 ?-olefin weight ratio of from 29 to 86 wt % (13C-NMR analysis) and having an Mw/ Mn ratio of less than 3.5; and 3) 0-30 parts of a polymer of ethylene having a melting temperature over 120° C.

Abstract: A catalyst component for the polymerization of olefins comprising a titanium compound, a Mg-dihalide, a difunctional electron donor compound (ED) selected from diesters, diketones, diamines or diethers, and a monofunctional electron donor compound (MD) selected from ethers, esters, amines or ketones, wherein a molar ratio ED/MD is higher than 10.

Abstract: Propylene polymer compositions comprising (by weight): A) from 15% to 60% with C4-C8 alpha-olefin(s), containing more than 10%, but less than 14%, of said C4-C8 alpha-olefins (s); B) from 40% to 85% of a copolymer of propylene with C4-C8 alpha-olefin(s), preferably butene, containing from 14% to 30% of said C4-C8 alpha-olefin(s), and optionally from 0.5% to 3% of ethylene; provided that the total content of C4-C8 alpha-olefin(s) in the propylene polymer composition be higher than 10%.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition comprising (A) 99.8 to 80 weight parts of a polypropylene resin having a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 50 g/10 min and (B) 0.2 to 20 weight parts of an olefin copolymer rubber having an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.5 to 4.0 dl/g and/or a polyethylene resin having a density of 0.895 to 0.945 g/cc and a melt flow rate of 0.05 to 15 g/10 min, which have undergone an ionization ray-irradiation treatment and/or a treatment of adding 0.05 to 5 weight parts of an organic peroxide to 100 weight parts of the aforesaid polypropylene resin composition comprising (A) and (B) and then melting.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an monoalkylidene substituted 1,4-dions derivatives of formula (Ia) or (Ib) or a mixture of (Ia) and (Ib): wherein: R1, R2 and R3, equal to or different from each other, are hydrogen atoms or C1-C20 hydrocarbon groups: T1 and T2, equal to or different from each other, are OR4. R4, NR42, SR4 or PR42; or T1 and T2 can be fused in an oxygen atom or a NR4 group; said process comprises the step of reacting a compound of formula (II), with a compound of formula (IIIa) or (IIIb), in the presence of at least one equivalent with respect to the compound of formula (IIIa) or (IIIb) of a salts of a base or a neutral base at a temperature higher than 70° C.

Abstract: A MgCl2.mEtOH.nH2O adducts, where 3.4<m?4.4, 0?n?0.7, characterized by an X-ray diffraction spectrum, taken under the condition set forth above, in which, in the range of 2? diffraction angles between 5° and 10°, at least two diffraction lines are present at diffraction angles 2? of 9.3±0.2°, and 9.9±0.2°, the most intense diffraction lines being the one at 2? of 9.3±0.2°, the intensity of the other diffraction line being less than 0.4 times the intensity of the most intense diffraction line. Catalyst components obtained from the adducts of the present invention are capable to give catalysts for the polymerization of olefins characterized by enhanced activity and/or porosity with respect to the catalysts prepared from the adducts of the prior art.

Abstract: A catalyst component for olefin (co)polymerization, and in particular for the preparation of LLDPE, comprising Mg, Ti, halogen and an electron donor compound (ED) belonging to ethers, esters, amines, ketones, or nitriles, characterized in that the molar ratio Mg/Ti is higher than 5, and the molar ratio ED/Ti is higher than 3.5. The said catalyst components display a homogeneous distribution of the comonomer in and among the copolymer chains.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a monoalkylidene substituted 1,4-dions derivatives of formula (Ia) or (Ib) or a mixture of (Ia) and (Ib): wherein: R1, R2 and R3, equal to or different from each other, are hydrogen atoms or C1–C20 hydrocarbon groups: T1 and T2, equal to or different from each other, are OR4, R4, NR42, SR4 or PR42; or T1 and T2 can be fused in an oxygen atom or a NR4 group; said process comprises the step of reacting a compound of formula (II) with a compound of formula (IIIa) or (IIIb) in the presence of at least one equivalent with respect to the compound of formula (IIIa) or (IIIb) of a carbonate of metal M or of a compound of formula MTj such as K2CO3 or KHCO3

Abstract: A catalyst component for the polymerization of olefins comprising a titanium compound, a Mg-dihalide, a difunctional electron donor compound (ED) selected from diesters, diketones, diamines or diethers, and a monofunctional electron donor compound (MD) selected from ethers, esters, amines or ketones, wherein a molar ratio ED/MD is higher than 10.

Abstract: A propylene polymer composition having a melt flow rate (MFR) value from 3 to 30 g/10 min, comprising (percent by weight): A) 50-90% of one or more propylene copolymer(s) having a content of xylene-insoluble mojety at room temperature of not less than 85%, selected from the group consisting of propylene-ethylene random copolymers containing from 1 to 7%, of ethylene; propylene-C4-C8 ?-olefin copolymers containing 2-10% of the C4-C8 alpha-olefins; and propylene-ethylene-C4-C8 ?-olefin copolymers containing 0.5-5% of ethylene and 2-6% Of C4-C8 ?-olefins; and B) 10-50% of a copolymer of propylene containing from 8 to 40% of ethylene and optionally 1-10% of a C4-C8 alpha-olefin; the said MFR value (MFR (2)) being obtained by subjecting to degradation a precursor composition comprising the same components A) and B) in the above said proportions, but having the MFR value (MER (1)) from 0.1 to 5 g/10 min with a ratio MFR (2) to MFR (1) of from 1.5 to 20.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of ethylene copolymers comprising the copolymerization of ethylene with olefins CH2?CHR, in which R is a hydrocarbyl radical with 1-12 carbon atoms carried out in the presence of a catalyst comprising (i) a solid catalyst component comprising Mg, Ti, halogen and specific 1,3-diethers of formula (I) in which R is a C1-C10 hydrocarbon group, R1 is methyl or ethyl, optionally containing a heteroatom, and R2 is a C4-C12 linear alkyl optionally containing a heteroatom, and (ii) an organo-Al compound. The obtained copolymers are endowed with good comonomer distribution.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition containing (A) a polypropylene resin treatment product obtained by adding from (0.05) to (5) weight parts of an organic peroxide to (100) weight parts of a polypropylene resin with a melt flow rate of from (0.1) to (50) g/10 min and carrying out a melt treatment and (B) from (0.01) to (2) weight parts of an oxide of the group (2) or (12) metal of the periodic table or a metal alkoxide of defined formula to (100) weight parts of a resin content of the above polypropylene resin treatment product.

Abstract: Catalyst component for the polymerization of olefins obtainable by contacting: (i) a magnesium halide, or a suitable precursor; (ii) a monofunctional electron donor compound (MD) selected from ethers, esters, amines or ketones, used in such amounts to have Mg/MD molar ratios of at least 50; (iii) a titanium compound of formula Ti(ORI)n-yXy, where n is the valence of titanium, y is a number between 1 and n, X is halogen, and RI is a C1-C15 hydrocarbon group and, optionally, (iv) an electron donor compound (ED). The said catalyst component shows improved activity in the polymerization of olefins.

Abstract: Polypropylene pipes (parts by weight): 1) 100 parts of a crystalline random copolymer of propylene with 1-15% by weight of a C4-C10 ?-olefin or a crystalline random copolymer of propylene with 1-15% by weight of C4-C10 ?-olefin and with 1-7% by weight of ethylene 2) 0 to 70 parts of an elastomeric polyolefin selected from the group consisting of: (a) a copolymer of ethylene with propylene and, optionally a diene, having an ethylene content of from 17 to 45 wt % and an propylene content from 55 to 83 wt %; (b) a copolymer of ethylene with a C3-C10C ?-olefin having an ethylene/C3-C10 ?-olefin weight ratio of from 29 to 86 wt % (13C-NMR analysis) and having an Mw/ Mn ratio of less than 3.5; and 3) 0-30 parts of a polymer of ethylene having a melting temperature over 120° C.

Abstract: A polyolefin composition suitable for preparing films and sheets, comprising: (A) from 15 to 40% by weight of a crystalline copolymer of propylene with at least one alpha-olefin of formula H2C?CHR1, where R1 is H or a C2-8 linear or branched alkyl, containing at least 90% by weight of propylene, having solubility in xylene at room temperature lower than 15% by weight; (B) from 60 to 85% by weight of an elastomeric fraction comprising: (1) a copolymer of propylene with ethylene, optionally containing 0.5 to 5% by weight of a diene, containing from 20 to 35% by weight ethylene, and having solubility in xylene at room temperature greater than 45% by weight, the intrinsic viscosity of the xylene soluble fraction ranging from 1.0 to 3.0 dl/g; and (2) a copolymer of ethylene with at least one alpha-olefin of formula H2C?CHR2, where R2 is a C2-8 linear or branched alkyl, optionally containing 0.

Abstract: A MgCl2.mEtOH.nH2O adducts, where 3.4<m?4.4, 0?n?0.7, characterized by an X-ray diffraction spectrum, under the condition set forth above, in which, in the range of 2? diffraction angles between 5° and 10°, at least two diffraction lines are present at diffraction angles 2? of 9.3±0.2°, and 9.9±0.2°, the most intense diffraction lines being the one at 2? of 9.3±0.2°, the intensity of the other diffraction line being less than 0.4 times the intensity of the most intense diffraction line. Catalyst components obtained from the adducts of the present invention are capable to give catalysts for the polymerization of olefins characterized by enhanced activity and/or porosity with respect to the catalysts prepared from the adducts of the prior art.

Abstract: A composition comprising: (I) 55 to 95% by weight of an heterophasic polyolefin composition comprising 8 to 50% by weight of a crystalline propylene polymer fraction and 50 to 92% by weight of an elastomeric propylene fraction; (II) 2 to 20% by weight of an oxidized polyethylene wax having an acid number of 5 to 35 mg KOHIg, a molecular weight Mn of 1,000 to 100,000, and a melting point comprised between 92° C. and 140° C.; and (III) 3 to 25% by weight of a styrene block copolymer.