Patent number: 6730757
Abstract: The inventions disclosed herein are catalyst systems comprising a complex having one of the formulas LMX1X2 and LML′ and an activating cocatalyst, and use of the catalyst system in polymerizing olefinic monomers. In either of the foregoing formulas, L is a chelating ligand containing sulfur donors; M is a transition metal selected from either copper, silver, gold, manganese, iron, cobalt, palladium or nickel; X1 and X2 are independently selected from either halides, hydride, triflate, acetate, borate, alkyl, alkoxyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkoxyl, aryl, thiolate, carbon monoxide, cyanate or olefins; and L′ is a bidentate ligand selected from either dithiolene, dithiolate, diphosphine, bisimine, bispyridine, phenanthroline, oxolate, catecholate, thiolatoamide, thiolatoimine or thiolatophosphine.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 8, 2002
Date of Patent:
May 4, 2004
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Inventors:
Kun Wang, Abhimanyu Onkar Patil, Stephen Zushma, Ernestine Williams Hill, Edward Ira Stiefel
Publication number: 20030171209
Abstract: The inventions disclosed herein are catalyst systems comprising a complex having one of the formulas LMX1X2 and LML′ and an activating cocatalyst, and use of the catalyst system in polymerizing olefinic monomers. In either of the foregoing formulas, L is a chelating ligand containing sulfur donors; M is a transition metal selected from either copper, silver, gold, manganese, iron, cobalt, palladium or nickel; X1 and X2 are independently selected from either halides, hydride, triflate, acetate, borate, alkyl, alkoxyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkoxyl, aryl, thiolate, carbon monoxide, cyanate or olefins; and L′ is a bidentate ligand selected from either dithiolene, dithiolate, diphosphine, bisimine, bispyridine, phenanthroline, oxolate, catecholate, thiolatoamide, thiolatoimine or thiolatophosphine.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 8, 2002
Publication date:
September 11, 2003
Inventors:
Kun Wang, Abhimanyu Onkar Patil, Stephen Zushma, Ernestine Williams Hill, Edward Ira Stiefel