Patents by Inventor Jo Ann Canich
Jo Ann Canich has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20090186995Abstract: In a process for producing a propylene-based olefin homopolymer or copolymer, a monomer composition comprising propylene is contacted with a polymerization catalyst system under homogeneous polymerization conditions (such as solution, supersolution or supercritical conditions), wherein the polymerization catalyst system includes an activator and a bridged bis-indenyl transition metal (group 4) compound substituted with a carbazole (unsubstituted or substituted) at the 4 position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Jo Ann Canich, Peijun Jiang, Gary L. Casty, Gabor Kiss, Alexander Z. Voskoboynikov
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Publication number: 20090005279Abstract: This invention relates to a polyalpha-olefin (and hydrogenated analogs thereof) comprising more than 50 mole % of one or more C5 to C24 alpha-olefin monomers where the polyalpha-olefin has: a) 40 mole % or more of mm triads, b) a Bromine number of Y or greater, where Y is equal to 89.92*(V)?°5863, where V is the Kinematic Viscosity of the polyalpha-olefin measured at 100° C. in cSt, and c) 1,2 disubstituted olefins present at 7 mole % or more, preferably having Z mole % or more of units represented by the formula: where j, k and m are each, independently, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, or 22, n is an integer from 1 to 350, and where Z=8.420*Log(V)?4.048, where V is the kinematic viscosity of the polyalpha-olefin measured at 1000 C in cSt This invention also relates to process to produce such polyalpha-olefins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2006Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Margaret May-Som Wu, Lisa Saunders Baugh, Jo Ann Canich, Chia Shian Chee, Mark Paul Hagemeister, Andrew Jackson, Peijun Jiang, Gordon H. Lee, Frederick Yip-Kwai Lo, Steven P. Rucker, Shakeel Tirmizi, John F. Walzer, JR., Norman Yang
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Publication number: 20070293640Abstract: This invention relates to a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins, optionally one or more diolefins, and less than 15 mole % of ethylene, where the polymer has: a) a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more; and b) a branching index (g?) of 0.95 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; c) an Mw of 100,000 or less. This invention also relates a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins where the polymer has: a) a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more on Kraft paper; b) a branching index (g?) of 0.95 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; c) a Mw of 10,000 to 100,000; and d) a heat of fusion of 1 to 70 J/g. This invention also relates a polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins where the polymer has: a) a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more on Kraft paper; b) a branching index (g?) of 0.98 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; c) a Mw of 10,000 to 60,000; d) a heat of fusion of 1 to 50 J/g.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Inventors: Peijun Jiang, Armenag Dekmezian, Jo Ann Canich, Charles Sims, Ramin Abhari, Cesar Garcia-Franco, David Johnsrud
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Publication number: 20070135593Abstract: A metallocene compound comprises a transition metal and at least one substituted monocyclic or polycyclic arene ligand bonded to the transition metal, wherein said arene ligand comprises at least one halogen substituent directly bonded to an sp2 carbon atom at a bondable ring position of an aromatic five-membered ring of said arene ligand.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Alexey Ryabov, Mikhail Nikulin, Alexander Lygin, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Andrey Asachenko, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20070135596Abstract: A process for preparing a chelating ligand of the formula (II) from a chelating ligand of the formula (I) via an sp2-sp2 or sp2-sp3 coupling reaction with an organometallic compound of the formula (III).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Mikhail Nikulin, Alexey Ryabov, Alexander Lygin, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20070135595Abstract: A metallocene compound is represented by the formula (1): wherein: M is a Group 3, 4, 5 or 6 transition metal atom, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom, preferably a Group 4 transition metal atom selected from titanium, zirconium or hafnium; E is a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or polycyclic arenyl ligand pi-bonded to M; A is a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic arenyl ligand that is pi-bonded to M and has a different ring structure than the E ligand; at least one of the A and E ligands includes at least one halogen substituent directly bonded to an sp2 carbon at a bondable ring position; Y is a bridging group containing at least one Group 13, 14, 15, or 16 element and any single position of the ring structure of A and to any single position of the ring structure of E; and y is zero or 1, indicating the absence (y=0) or presence (y=1) of Y; and each X is a univalent anionic ligand, or two X are joined and bound to the metal atom to form a metallocycle ring, or two X are joinType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Alexey Ryabov, Mikhail Nikulin, Alexander Lygin, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20070135623Abstract: Halogen substituted metallocene compounds are described and comprise one or more monocyclic or polycyclic ligands that are pi-bonded to the metal atom and include at least one halogen substituent directly bonded to an sp2 carbon atom at a bondable ring position of the ligand, wherein the or at least one ligand has one or more ring heteroatoms in its cyclic structure. When combined with a suitable activator, these compounds show activity in the polymerization of olefins, such as ethylene and propylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Alexey Ryabov, Mikhail Nikulin, Alexander Lygin, Dmitry Uborsky, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20070135597Abstract: This invention relates to a transition metal compound represented by the formula: wherein M is a group 3, 4, 5 or 6 transition metal atom, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom; E is: 1) a substituted or unsubstituted indenyl ligand that is bonded to Y through the four, five, six or seven position of the indenyl ring, or 2) a substituted or unsubstituted heteroindenyl ligand that is bonded to Y through the four, five or six position of the heteroindenyl ring, provided that the bonding position is not the same as the position of the ring heteroatom, or 3) a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl ligand that is bonded to Y through the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight position of the fluorenyl ring, or 4) a substituted or unsubstituted heterofluorenyl ligand that is bonded to Y through the one, two, three, four, five or six position of the heteroindenyl ring, provided that the bonding position is not the same as the position of the ring heteroatom; A is a substituted or unsubstitType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Andrey Asachenko, Mikhail Nikulin, Alexey Ryabov, Artyom Lebedev, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20070135594Abstract: A metallocene compound is represented by the formula (1): AMXn-1 wherein M is a transition metal atom having a coordination number of n selected from Group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom; A is a substituted monocyclic or polycyclic arenyl ligand pi-bonded to M, wherein said arenyl ligand includes at least one halogen substituent directly bonded to any sp2 carbon atom at a bondable ring position of the ligand; and the or each X is a univalent anionic ligand, or two X are joined and bound to the metal atom to form a metallocycle ring, or two X are joined to form a chelating ligand, a diene ligand, or an alkylidene ligand.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Alexey Ryabov, Dmitry Uborsky, Alexander Lygin, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20060183874Abstract: A metallocene compound is represented by the formula (1): A2YyMXn-2 wherein: M is a transition metal atom having a coordination number of n selected from Group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom; each A is independently a substituted polycyclic arenyl ligand pi-bonded to M, each A ligand includes at least one halogen substituent directly bonded to an sp2 carbon at a bondable ring position and, when each A is a substituted indenyl ligand and y is equal to one and the ligand includes at least one chloro, bromo or iodo substituent at the 4, 5, or 6 position of the indenyl ligand, then A also includes at least one other substituent in the indenyl ligand selected from hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, halogen, halocarbyl, substituted halocarbyl, silylcarbyl, substituted silylcarbyl, germylcarbyl, substituted germylcarbyl, or other heteroatom substituents wherein the heteroatom is bonded directly to a ring carbon of the ring structure ligand andType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Alexey Ryabov, Mikhail Nikulin, Alexander Lygin, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Andrey Asachenko, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20060178491Abstract: The invention is a catalyst system including a Group IV B transition metal component and an alumoxane component which may be employed to polymerize olefins to produce a high molecular weight polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventor: Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20060160967Abstract: A metallocene compound comprising a transition metal, a first substituted or unsubstituted indenyl or fluorenyl ligand pi-bonded to the transition metal, a second monoanionic ligand bonded to the transition metal, and a divalent bridging group bonded to the indenyl ligand and said second monoanionic ligand, wherein said bridging group is connected to the four, five, six or seven position of the indenyl ligand or to the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight position of the fluorenyl ligand, and wherein at least one of one of the first and second ligands comprises at least one halogen substituent directly bonded to any sp2 carbon atom at a bondable ring position of the ligand.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Mikhail Nikulin, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Andrey Asachenko, Alexey Ryabov, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20060160968Abstract: A process for producing a substituted metallocene compound comprises reacting a first compound with a transfer-agent, wherein the first compound comprises a complex of a transition metal atom selected from Group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom and at least one monocyclic or polycyclic ligand that is pi-bonded to M and is substituted with at least one halogen or sulfonate substituent and the transfer-agent comprises a hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, halocarbyl, substituted halocarbyl, silylcarbyl, or germylcarbyl radical capable of replacing said at least one halogen or sulfonate substituent of said first compound under reaction conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Alexey Ryabov, Catalina Coker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20060135353Abstract: A metallocene complex is represented by the the formula (CpR5)nMXk where Cp (each occurrence) is a cyclopentadienyl group; each of the five R substituents on the or each cyclopentadienyl group is independently selected from hydrogen, C1 to C30 substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl, halohydrocarbyl, silylhydrocarbyl or silylhalohydrocarbyl, wherein two adjacent R substituents may be joined to form part of a saturated, partially unsaturated or aromatic monocyclic or polycyclic ring structure, and SiR?2NR?2 where each of the two R? substituents is independently selected from hydrogen, C1 to C30 substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl, halohydrocarbyl, silylhydrocarbyl or silylhalohydrocarbyl, wherein two adjacent R? substituents may be joined to form part of a saturated, partially unsaturated or aromatic monocyclic or polycyclic ring structure, and each of the two R? substituents is independently selected from C2 to C30 substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl, halohydrocarbyl, silylhydrocarbyl or silylhaType: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Yanlong Qian, Jiling Huang, Jo Ann Canich, Catalina Coker
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Publication number: 20060047094Abstract: This invention relates to a transition metal compound represented by the formula LMX wherein M is a Group 3 to 11 metal L is a bulky bidentate or tridentate neutral ligand that is bonded to M by two or three heteroatoms and at least one heteroatom is nitrogen; X is a substituted or unsubstituted catecholate ligand provided that the substituted catecholate ligand does not contain a 1,2-diketone functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2003Publication date: March 2, 2006Inventors: Vladimir Cherkasov, Michael Bubnov, Nikolay Druzhkov, Valentina Glushakova, Irina Teplova, Nina Skorodumova, Gleb Abakumov, Cynthia Ballinger, Kevin Squire, Jo Ann Canich, Enock Berluche, Lisa Baugh, Donald Schulz, Baiyi Zhao
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Publication number: 20060036049Abstract: A series of soluble ?-diimine late transition metal catalysts has been invented comprising a substituted or unsubstituted catecholate ligand. The catalysts demonstrate high activity and selectivity for linear ?-olefins. As such, these catalysts conveniently oligomerize ethylene. Typical activators as known to those of ordinary skill in the art are used to activate these transition metal catalysts. These catalysts can be used in a supported or unsupported form.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2006Inventors: Baiyi Zhao, Enock Berluche, Smita Kacker, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20050261449Abstract: This invention relates to compounds represented by formula: wherein M is a group 3, 4, 5 or 6 transition, lanthanide, or actinide metal atom; E is an indenyl ligand substituted in any position with at least one aromatic or pseudoaromatic heterocyclic substituent that is bonded to the indenyl ring through a nitrogen or phosphorous ring heteroatom; A is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl, heterocyclopentadienyl, indenyl, heteroindenyl, fluorenyl, or heterofluorenyl ligand, or other mono-anionic ligand, or A may, independently, be E; Y is an optional bridging group; y is zero or one; X are, independently, univalent anionic ligands, and provided that when A is E, and y is one, and Y is bonded to the one position of each indenyl ligand, and per indenyl ligand there is only one aromatic heterocyclic or pseudoaromatic heterocyclic that is bonded to the indenyl ligand.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Artyom Lebedev, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Alexey Ryabov, Mikhail Nikulin, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20050239981Abstract: This invention relates to metallocene compounds represented by formula: wherein M is a group 3, 4, 5 or 6 transition metal atom, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom; E is a substituted or unsubstituted indenyl ligand that is bonded to Y through the two position of the indenyl ring; A is bonded to Y, and is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclopentadienyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstituted indenyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstituted heteroindenyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstituted heterofluorenyl ligand, or other mono-anionic ligand, or A may, independently, be defined as E; Y is a phosphorus containing group that is bonded to both E and A, and is bonded via the phosphorus atom to E; and X are, independently, univalent anionic ligands, or both X are joined and bound to the metal atom to form a metallocycle ring, or both X join to form a chelating ligand, a diene ligand, orType: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Denis Kazyulkin, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Alexey Ryabov, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20050239980Abstract: This invention relates to a metallocene compounds represented by formula: wherein M is a group 3, 4, 5 or 6 transition metal atom, or a lanthanide metal atom, or actinide metal atom; E is an indenyl ligand that is substituted with a PR2 group in the two position of the indenyl ligand, where each R is, independently a hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, halocarbyl, or substituted halocarbyl substituent, and additionally, E may be substituted with 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 Rn where each Rn is, independently, a hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, halocarbyl, substituted halocarbyl, silylcarbyl, substituted silylcarbyl, germylcarbyl, or substituted germylcarbyl substituent, and optionally, two or more adjacent Rn substituents may join together to form a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated, partially unsaturated, or aromatic cyclic or polycyclic substituent; A is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclopentadienyl ligand, a substituted or unsubstitType: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Alexander Voskoboynikov, Denis Kazyulkin, Vyatcheslav Izmer, Alexey Ryabov, Jo Ann Canich
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Publication number: 20050003955Abstract: A series of novel late transition metal catalysts for olefin oligomerization have been invented. The catalysts demonstrate high activity and selectivity for linear ?-olefins.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2003Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Baiyi Zhao, Smita Kacker, Jo Ann Canich