Abstract: New ethylene polymers having broad molecular weight distribution and long-chain branching, above all at high molecular weight fractions; the polymers have strain hardening equal or higher than 1.4 (at constant elongational rate of 0.5 s?1, at 150° C.), branching index g? equal or lower than 0.9 (at Mw of 2·106 g/mol). The polymers are prepared by using a mixed catalyst system comprising a polymerization catalyst based on a late transition metal component having a tridentate ligand, and a Ziegler polymerization catalyst annealed at a temperature higher than 100° C., for a time of at least 10 minutes.

Abstract: A process for producing a copolymer of ethylene containing from 0.1 to 99% by mol of one or more derived units of alpha-olefins of formula CH2?CHA, wherein A is a C2-C20 alkyl radical, comprising contacting, under polymerization conditions, ethylene and one or more alpha-olefins in the presence of a catalyst system obtainable by contacting: a) a metallocene compound of formula (I): wherein M is zirconium, titanium or hafnium; X, same or different, is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an hydrocarbon group; R1, is a hydrocarbon group; R2 R3, R4, R5 and R6, are hydrogen atoms or hydrocarbon groups; Q is a radical of formula (II), being bonded to the indenyl at the position marked by the symbol *; (II) wherein: T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5, are carbon atoms (C) or nitrogen atoms (N); m1, m2, m3, m4 and m5 are 0 or 1; R7, R8, R9, R10 and R11 are hydrogen atoms or hydrocarbon groups; and b) an alumoxane or a compound capable of forming an alkyl metallocene cation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to organometallic transition metal compounds of formula (I) where M1 is an element of group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of the Elements or the lanthanides, X are identical or different and are each halogen, hydrogen, C1-C20-alkyl , C2-C20-alkenyl, C6-C22-aryl, alkylaryl or arylalkyl each having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl part and from 6 to 22 carbon atoms in the aryl part, —OR6 or —NR6R7, where two radicals X may also be joined to one another, n is a natural number from 1 to 4 which corresponds to the oxidation number of M1 minus 2, R1 is hydrogen or a C1-C40 radical, R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted C6-C40-aryl radical or C2-C40-heteroaromatic radical containing at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S and P, R3 is hydrogen or a C1-C40 radical, or the radicals R2 and R3 together form a ring system, R4 is hydrogen or a C1-C40 radical, R5 is a C1-C40 radical, and Z is a divalent group CR8R9—CR10R11, where R8, R9, R10 and R11 are

Abstract: The invention relates to a polyethylene composition with multimodal molecular mass distribution, which is particularly suitable for the blow molding of L-ring drums having a volume in the range of from 50 to 250 dm3 (I). The composition has a density in the range of from 0.950 to 0.956 g/cm3 at 23° C. and a MFR1gp/21.6 in the range from 1.5 to 3.5 dg/min. It comprises from 35 to 45% by weight of a low-molecular-mass ethylene homopolymer A, from 34 to 44% by weight of a high-molecular-mass copolymer B made from ethylene and from another 1-olefin having from 4 to 8 carbon atoms, and from 18 to 26 % by weight of an ultrahigh-molecular-mass ethylene copolymer C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing monoaryloxy-metallocenes of the formula (II), which comprises reacting a ligand starting compound of the formula (III) with a transition metal compound of the formula (I), where the symbols are as defined in the claims.