Patents by Inventor Stephan James McLain
Stephan James McLain 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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Patent number: 6495646Abstract: Polyolefins with unique highly branched structures, and which have unusually low Mark-Houwink constants are described. They are useful for instance as elastomers, viscosity index modifiers and lubricating oil bases.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: Samuel David Arthur, Maurice S. Brookhart, III, Patricia Metzger Cotts, Zhibin Guan, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain
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Patent number: 6372869Abstract: The molecular weight of polyolefins produced using selected late transition metal complexes of bidentate ligands may be lowered by carrying out the polymerization in the presence of hydrogen, a selected silane, or CBr4.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1999Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Samuel David Arthur, Stephan James McLain
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Patent number: 6310163Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microstructure which gives some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Samuel David Arthur, Jerald Feldman, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Steven Dale Ittel, Anju Parthasarathy, Daniel Joseph Tempel
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Patent number: 6258908Abstract: Substituted cyclopentenes, such as alkyl cyclopentenes, are polymerized by selected &agr;-imine complexes of nickel and palladium. The polymers are useful as molding resins or elastomers. Also disclosed herein are novel catalysts for the polymerization of cyclopentenes to form novel higher melting homopolycyclopentenes.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Stephan James McLain, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Steven Dale Ittel, Karl Jeffrey Sweetman, Mark F. Teasley
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Patent number: 6140439Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microstructure, which gives some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North CarolinaInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Stephan James McLain
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Patent number: 6103920Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for the polymerization of ethylene, norbornenes and styrenes, by contacting in solution a selected nickel compound and a selected compound which is or can coordinated to the nickel with the olefin(s). The polymers produced are useful for films and molding resins.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1997Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Lynda Kaye Johnson, Jerald Feldman, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Stephan James Mclain, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Dennis Scott Donald, Lissa Taka Jennings Nelson, Anju Parthasarathy, Xing Shen, Wilson Tam, Yueli Wang
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Patent number: 6034259Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microstructure, which gives some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North Carolina Chapel HillInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Samuel David Arthur, Jerald Feldman, Stephan James McLain, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Steven Dale Ittel, Anju Parthasarathy, Daniel Joseph Tempel
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Patent number: 6002034Abstract: Certain olefins such as ethylene, .alpha.-olefins and cyclopentene can be polymerized by using catalyst system containing a nickel or palladium .alpha.-diimine complex, a metal containing hydrocarbylation compound, and a selected Lewis acid, or a catalyst system containing certain nickel[II] or palladium[II] compounds, an .alpha.-diimine, a metal containing hydrocarbylation compound, and optionally a selected Lewis acid. The process advantageously produces polyolefins useful for molding resins, films, elastomers and other uses.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Stephan James McLain, Jerald Feldman
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Patent number: 5916989Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microstructure, which gives some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, III, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain
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Patent number: 5891963Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microsructure, which give some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North CarolinaInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Samuel David Arthur, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain
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Patent number: 5880241Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microstructure, which gives some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1996Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Steven Dale Ittel, Daniel Joseph Tempel
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Patent number: 5866663Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microstructure, which gives some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: February 2, 1999Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North CarolinaInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Samuel David Arthur, Jerald Feldman, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Steven Dale Ittel, Anju Parthasarathy, Lin Wang, Zhen-Yu Yang
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Patent number: 5852145Abstract: Certain olefins such as ethylene, .alpha.-olefins and cyclopentene can be polymerized by using catalyst system containing a nickel or palladium .alpha.-diimine complex, a metal containing hydrocarbylation compound, and a selected Lewis acid, or a catalyst system containing certain nickel ?II! or palladium ?II! compounds, an .alpha.-diimine, a metal containing hydrocarbylation compound, and optionally a selected Lewis acid. The process advantageously produces polyolefins useful for molding resins, films, elastomers and other uses.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Stephan James McLain, Jerald Feldman
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Patent number: 5714556Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for the polymerization of ethylene, norbornenes and styrenes, by contacting in solution a selected nickel compound and a selected compound which is or can coordinated to the nickel with the olefin(s). The polymers produced are useful for films and molding resins.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1996Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: E. I. DuPont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Lynda Kaye Johnson, Jerald Feldman, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Stephan James McLain, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Dennis Scott Donald, Lissa Taka Jennings Nelson, Anju Parthasarathy, Xing Shen, Wilson Tam, Yueli Wang