Abstract: A process for producing terpolymers of propylene (as a main monomer), ethylene and another .alpha.-olefin having superior and well-balanced physical properties, almost without forming soluble polymer is provided.This process is characterized by preliminarily activating a catalyst consisting of a titanium trichloride composition and a specified organoaluminum halide, with a small amount of an .alpha.-olefin of 2 to 12 carbon atoms, a trialkylaluminum and an aromatic ester, and copolymerizing specified amounts of propylene, ethylene and an .alpha.-olefin of 4 to 12 carbon atoms in the presence of the preliminarily activated catalyst obtained above.

Abstract: A class of new oxygen-activated free-radical polymerization catalysts, comprising specifically-defined autoxidizable cyclic hydrocarbons together with cobalt(II) compounds, is disclosed. A method of catalyzing an oxygen-initiated free-radical polymerization reaction using these catalysts is also disclosed.

Abstract: Ethylene is polymerized by a catalyst system comprised of a transition metal complex consisting of at least one binucleating ligand attached to at least one transition metal containing nucleus; and an organometallic cocatalyst containing at least one element of Group IA, IIA or Group IIIA.

Abstract: A process for the stereospecific polymerization of an alpha olefin with at least three carbon atoms, with a catalyst system comprising (a) a titanium halide, and (b,i) a reaction product of an organoaluminum halide and an aromatic compound or (b,ii) a reaction product of an organoaluminum halide, an aromatic compound and a halogen-free organoaluminum compound, the aromatic compound being a hydroxy aromatic compound which comprises a sec. or tert. alkyl group in both ortho-positions in respect of the hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the productivity of an olefin polymerization catalyst. The catalyst contains an aluminum chloride co-crystallized titanium halide modified with an electron donor containing an ester group. The catalyst component is washed with an olefin, thereby greatly increasing its productivity without significantly adversely affecting the crystallinity of the polymer produced.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the productivity of an olefin polymerization catalyst. The catalyst contains an aluminum chloride co-crystallized titanium halide modified with an electron donor containing an ester group. The catalyst component is washed with an olefin and then electron donor is added back to the washed catalyst component, thereby greatly increasing its productivity without significantly adversely affecting the crystallinity of the polymer produced.

Abstract: A catalyst useful for polymerizing olefins which comprises a solid catalyst component [A] and an organometallic component [B], the solid catalyst component [A] being obtained by reacting (1) an organometallic compound with (2) a transition metal compound selected from the group consisting of a titanium compound, a vanadium compound, a mixture of a titanium compound and a vanadium compound and a mixture of a titanium compound and a zirconium compound, in the presence of (3) a solid reaction product of (a) an organomagnesium compound of the formulaM.sub..alpha. MgR.sub.p X.sub.q.D.sub.rwherein.alpha., p, q and r each independently is 0 or a number greater than 0,p+q=m.alpha.+20.ltoreq.q/(.alpha.

Abstract: A rubber composition having excellent fracture properties and cut growth resistance is disclosed, which consists of 10-95 parts by weight of polybutadiene having a content of cis-1,4 bond of at least 70% and an average chain length of 1,4-sequence of 110-450 and 90-5 parts by weight of at least one diene rubber.

Abstract: A supported transition metal composition is obtained by suspending a support material in an inert liquid medium, spraying the suspension, collecting a solid material and contacting the sprayed solid with a transition metal compound. The support material may be a metal halide such as magnesium chloride or an inorganic oxide such as silica or alumina. In addition to being contacted with the transition metal compound, the support material may be contacted either before or after the spraying step with other reagents such as organo metallic compounds, halogen compounds, or Lewis Base compounds. The product obtained after contacting with the transition metal compound may be used as a component of a polymerization catalyst system to polymerize an unsaturated monomer such as ethylene or propylene.

Abstract: A solid material which is a transition metal composition, or a support for a transition metal compound, is suspended in a liquid medium, the mixture is subjected to mechanical action and the treated mixture is spray-dried. If the solid is a support material, it is subsequently contacted with a transition metal compound. The mechanical action can be a grinding process or a process providing simultaneous vigorous agitation and a shearing action. The transition metal composition may be used with an organic metal compound to polymerize an unsaturated monomer to give a polymer of good particle form.

Abstract: A catalyst and a process for the preparation of homopolymers and copolymers of alpha monoolefins by means of a catalyst system comprising (1) a titanium halide of the formulaTiCl.sub.3 m AlCl.sub.3where m is a number from 0 to 0.5, (2) a coordination complexing agent, the use of which is optional, and (3) an appropriate conventional aluminum-alkyl, the titanium halide (1) and the complexing agent (2), if used, having been milled together before use, wherein the catalyst system employed contains, as a further component (4), a sterically unhindered phenolic compound.

Abstract: This invention reveals a very useful process for producing polybutadiene composed essentially of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene in tetrahydrofuran comprising polymerizing 1,3-butadiene in said tetrahydrofuran in the presence of (1) a catalyst composition microencapsulated in a polyene product which contains (a) at least one cobalt compound selected from the group consisting of (i) .beta.-diketone complexes of cobalt, (ii) .beta.-keto acid ester complexes of cobalt, (iii) cobalt salts of organic carboxylic acids having 6 to 15 carbon atoms, and (iv) complexes of halogenated cobalt compounds of the formula CoX.sub.n, wherein X represents a halogen atom and n represents 2 or 3, with an organic compound selected from the group consisting of tertiary amines, alcohols, tertiary phosphines, ketones and N,N-dialkylamides, and (b) at least one organoaluminum compound of the formula AlR.sub.3, wherein R represents a hydrocarbon radical of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and (2) carbon disulfide.

Abstract: A titanium trichloride catalytic component and a method for homo- or co-polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin. In separating a titanium trichloride catalytic component from a solution prepared by dissolving titanium tetrachloride, an organic ether compound and an organo-aluminum compound in a solvent, the above stated solvent is a mixed solvent prepared by allowing 20.about.70% by volume of an aromatic hydrocarbon halide to be concomitant with a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon and/or an alicyclic hydrocarbon in the presence of an olefin; the organo-aluminum compound, the titanium tetrachloride and the organic ether compound are added to the mixed solvent at a solvent temperature not exceeding 55.degree. C.; then, the solvent temperature is raised to a temperature between 45.degree. and 150.degree. C.

Abstract: In a process for producing a homopolymer or a copolymer of propylene comprising polymerizing propylene or copolymerizing propylene and at least one other unsaturated hydrocarbon monomer in liquid propylene using a catalyst system containing activated titanium trichloride (a) and an organoaluminum compound (b), the activated titanium trichloride (a) being prepared by reducing titanium tetrachloride with an organoaluminum compound followed by activation, to produce a polymer slurry; introducing the polymer slurry produced into the top of a counter-current washing tower; and washing the polymer slurry by counter-currently contacting the polymer slurry with liquid propylene introduced into the bottom of the washing tower, the improvement which comprises purifying the homopolymer or copolymer of propylene by feeding an epoxide in a molar amount of about 1 to about 15 times the molar amount of the total of activated titanium trichloride (a) and organoaluminum compound (b), to a part of said washing tower, thereby d

Abstract: A process for producing a conjugated diene polymer, characterized by polymerizing at least one conjugated diene with a catalyst consisting of (A) a reaction product of a Lewis base and a carboxylate of a rare earth element of the lanthanum series represented by Ln(R.sup.1 CO.sub.2).sub.3 wherein Ln is a rare earth element of the lanthanum series having an atomic number of 57 to 71 and R.sup.1 is a hydrocarbon substituent having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, (B) an organic aluminum compound represented by AlR.sup.2 R.sup.3 R.sup.4 wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be identical or different, represent hydrogen atoms or hydrocarbon substituents having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, excluding the case where all of R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are hydrogen atoms at the same time, and (C) an (alkyl)aluminum halide represented by AlX.sub.n R.sup.5.sub.3-n wherein X is Cl, Br, F or I; R.sup.5 is a hydrocarbon substituent having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; and n has a value of 1, 1.

Abstract: A process for producing highly crystalline .alpha.-olefin polymers of good particle form with high yield is provided, which comprises polymerizing .alpha.-olefin in the presence of a preactivated catalyst obtained by reacting a reaction product (I) of organoaluminum compound (A.sub.1) with electron donor (B.sub.1), with TiCl.sub.4 to obtain a solid product (II); further reacting (II) with electron donor (B.sub.2) and electron acceptor to obtain a solid product (III); during or/and after the reaction step for obtaining (II) or/and during or/and after the reaction step for obtaining (III), subjecting (II) or (III), to polymerization treatment with .alpha.-olefin; and combining the resulting final solid product with organo-aluminum compound (A.sub.2) and a reaction product (G) of organo-aluminum compound (A.sub.3) with electron donor (B.sub.3) to obtain a preactivated catalyst; and preferably, in this combination, further subjecting a part or the total of the catalyst to polymerization treatment with .alpha.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved method of making a cellular crosslinked polymer with a metathesis-catalyst system where a metathesis-catalyst is activated with an alkylaluminum iodide compound.In a preferred embodiment, two parts of the metathesis-catalyst system form the basis for two solutions, a catalyst/monomer solution and an alkylaluminum iodide activator/monomer solution. At least one solution also contains a blowing agent. The solutions are combined in one place, such as the mixing head of a reaction injection molding machine, and then injected into another place, such as a mold, where the monomer reacts to form a cellular crosslinked polymer.

Abstract: A catalyst, a method of preparing a catalyst and method of polymerizing olefins with the catalyst in which the catalyst is prepared by reacting a support with a Group IIA organometallic compound essentially free of aluminum alkyls and reacting this product with water or a hydrocarbyl alcohol, then reacting this product with, for example, titanium tetrachloride, followed if necessary by removing unreacted ingredients and finally activating by contacting with a cocatalyst in the absence of oxygen and moisture.

Abstract: A catalyst for polymerizing olefins is the product resulting from mixing in an inert hydrocarbon diluent a mixture of (A) an organomagnesium material, (B) an organic hydroxyl-containing material, (C) a reducing halide source and (D) the reaction product or complex formed from the admixture of a transition metal compound and an organozinc compound.

Abstract: Novel titanium compounds or complexes are prepared by reacting a titanium compound such as titanium tetraisopropoxide with a compound containing at least one aromatic hydroxyl group. These compounds and/or complexes are useful as the transition metal component in Ziegler-Natta catalysts.

Abstract: Alpha olefins are polymerized in the presence of catalyst compositions which are the catalytic reaction products of (A) the reaction product or complex resulting from the mixing of (1) a mixture of a transition metal compound such as a tetraalkoxy titanium compound, a non-metallic oxygen-containing compound such as an alcohol and (2) a reducing alkylating agent such as a dialkyl magnesium compound and (B) a magnesium halide.

Abstract: Process for preparing and treating a chromium-containing catalyst so that when the catalyst is activated the risk of explosion is substantially reduced. The catalyst comprises a complex of chromium and optionally other transition metal complexes reacted with one or more organometallic compounds of a metal of group II or III of the periodic table, which metal contains hydrocarbyl groups of 1-20 carbon atoms. The reaction product is applied to an inert inorganic support to form the catalyst component which is deactivated by treatment with oxygen or an alcohol to modify or replace residual hydrocarbyl groups. The catalyst component may be activated to form the catalyst by heating in the range 200.degree.-1200.degree. C. The catalyst is used to catalyze a polymerization of alpha-olefins.

Abstract: An olefin polymerization and copolymerization catalyst active in the presence of an alkyl aluminum cocatalyst is prepared by mixing, in the presence of a solvent, particles of a silica or alumina material having reactive surface groups, and a magnesium alkyl or a magnesium alkyl-aluminum alkyl complex of the general formula (MgR.sub.2).sub.m (AlR'.sub.3).sub.n where R and R' are alkyl groups and m/n is between about 0.5 and 10, inclusive, to form a hydrocarbon insoluble reaction product which is then mixed, in the presence of a solvent, with an electron-donating alcohol and a titanium, vanadium or zirconium halide, oxyhalide or alkoxyhalide, followed by removal, such as by evaporation, of the solvent to give a dry, granular, solid catalyst.

Abstract: A novel process is disclosed for polymerizing and copolymerizing alpha olefins (ethylene included) also in the presence of conjugated diolephins, and more particularly for copolymerizing ethylene with 1,3-butadiene, based on the use of a plural-component catalyst system, one of said components being a novel complex which contains titanium and magnesium. The process gives, in yields higher than 200,000 grams of polymer per g of elemental Ti, ethylene-butadiene copolymers having a distribution of monomeric units characterized by a particular novel .sup.13 C-NMR spectrum, a high apparent specific gravity and such a grit size as to impart flowability to the dry product, and a distribution in the presence of sulphur and accelerators such as to acquire a gel content (fraction insoluble in boiling xylenes) over 50%.

Abstract: A substantially agglomeration-free, finely divided catalyst component which is suitable for use as a cocatalyst with organoaluminum compounds in the polymerization of alpha olefins, which is formed by grinding a titanium trichloride material, an effective amount of an electron pair donor compound to enhance the performance of said catalyst component, and an effective amount for agglomeration control of an agglomeration control agent. The agglomeration control agent is effective in either reducing the attractive forces between the finely divided particles in the catalyst component or by preventing the close approach of these particles which would result in agglomeration.

Abstract: An .alpha.-olefin polymerizing catalytic component is obtained by treating, with alcohol and/or phenol, a solid product obtained by allowing an organo-magnesium compound expressed by a generic formula of R'MgX' (wherein R' represents a hydro-carbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and X' a halogen atom selected from the group consisting of chlorine, bromine and iodine or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms) to react with a halogenating agent in the presence of an electron donor; by treating the treated matter with a halogen-containing titanium compound, either after heating under reduced pressure or without such heating; and by treating the product further with a mixture or a complex consisting of an organo-aluminum compound, an organic acid ester and a poly-siloxane. Homo- or co-polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is carried out in the presence of a catalyst system comprising the catalytic component and an organo-aluminum compound.

Abstract: A catalytic component for polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is prepared through a process wherein a solid product obtained by allowing an organo-magnesium compound or a mixture of an organo-magnesium compound and an organo-aluminum compound or their reaction product to react, in the presence of an electron donor and an .alpha.-olefin, with a mixture of a halogenating agent other than a halogenated titanium compound and a titanium compound or their reaction product is treated with an alcohol and/or a phenol. The treated product may be further treated with a halogenated titanium compound. Homo- or co-polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is carried out in the presence of a catalyst composition consisting of the catalytic component and an organo-aluminum compound or with a concomitant electron donor used together with the catalyst composition.

Abstract: A catalytic component for polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is prepared by allowing an organo-magnesium compound expressed by the generic formula of RMgX (wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and X a halogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms) to react with carbon tetrahalide in the presence of an electron donor compound to obtain a solid product; by treating the solid product with phenols at 90.degree. to 180.degree. C.; and by further treating the phenol treated solid with a halogenated titanium compound. Homo- or co-polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is carried out in the presence of a catalyst composition consisting of the catalytic component thus prepared and an organo-aluminum compound.

Abstract: A Ziegler type supported catalytic component for polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is prepared by allowing an organo-magnesium compound expressed by a generic formula of R'MgX' (wherein R' represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and X' either a halogen atom chosen out of chlorine, bromine and iodine or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms) to react wtih carbon tetrahalide in the presence of an electron donor compound to obtain a solid product through a solid-liquid separation process; by heat treating the separated solid product with a carbon halide; by treating the heat treated solid product with phenols at 90.degree. to 180.degree. C.; and by treating this phenol treated product further with a halogenated titanium compound. Homo- or co-polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin is carried out in the presence or a catalyst composition consisting of the above catalytic component and an organo-aluminum compound. With this catalytic component, stereospecific polymerization of an .alpha.

Abstract: Incorporation of an ester plasticizer having a solubility parameter from about 7.8 to about 10.2 (cal/cc).sup.1/2 increases the flexibility and impact strength of poly(dicyclopentadiene). In a preferred embodiment of the method for poly(dicyclopentadiene) synthesis, the plasticizer is incorporated into at least one or two parts of a metathesis-catalyst system: a catalyst/monomer solution or an activator/monomer solution. The two parts are then combined in the mixing head of a reaction injection molding machine and injected into a mold where the reaction mixture rapidly sets up into a thermoset polymer with greater flexibility and impact strength than is found in the corresponding unplasticized poly(dicyclopentadiene).

Abstract: Vanadium compound/organometallic compound/inorganic oxide catalyst compositions useful for the polymerization of ethylene to polymers having a molecular weight distribution that can be controlled by selection of the appropriate member of a particular family of vanadium compounds are obtained by using, as the vanadium component, at least one vanadium compound prepared by reacting one molar proportion of VOCl.sub.3 and/or VOBr.sub.3 with about 0.5 to 1 molar proportion of a diol corresponding to the formula HO-R-OH, wherein R is a divalent hydrocarbon radical having a chain length of 2 to 16 carbon atoms. The molecular weight distributions of polymers formed in the presence of the catalyst compositions are narrowed as the chain length of R is increased. The preferred vanadium compounds are those prepared by reacting VOCl.sub.3 with a diol wherein R is a straight- or branched-chain alkylene group containing 2 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Catalyst compositions which are particularly useful for the preparation of ethylene polymers having a narrow molecular weight distribution are obtained by (1) drying an inorganic oxide having surface hydroxyl groups, e.g., silica, alumina, magnesia, etc., to remove adsorbed water, (2) reacting the surface hydroxyl groups with at least a stoichiometric amount of an organometallic compound having at least one alkyl group attached to a Group III metal, e.g., a trialkylaluminum, (3) reacting the thus-treated inorganic oxide with a vanadium halide, such as (a) VOCl.sub.3, VOBr.sub.3, and/or mono-, di-, and/or trihydrocarbyloxy derivatives thereof and/or (b) VCl.sub.4, VBr.sub.4, and/or mono-, di-, tri-, and/or tetrahydrocarbyloxy derivatives thereof, and (4) reacting that reaction product with at least about 0.1 mol, per mol of organometallic compound, of an alcohol containing 1 to 18 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Catalyst compositions which are particularly useful for the preparation of ethylene polymers having a narrow molecular weight distribution are obtained by (1) drying an inorganic oxide having surface hydroxyl groups, e.g., silica, alumina, magnesia, etc., to remove adsorbed water (2) reacting the surface hydroxyl groups with at least a stoichiometric amount of an organometallic compound having at least one alkyl group attached to a Group III metal, e.g., a trialkylaluminum, (3) reacting the thus-treated inorganic oxide with a vanadium halide, such as (a) VOCl.sub.3, VOBr.sub.3, and/or mono-, di-, and/or trihydrocarbyloxy derivatives thereof and/or (b) VCl.sub.4, VBr.sub.4, and/or mono-, di-, tri-, and/or tetrahydrocarbyloxy derivatives thereof, and (4) reacting that reaction product with at least about 0.1 mol, per mol of organometallic compound, of an ether-alcohol corresponding to the formula R"[OCHR'(CH.sub.2).sub.n CHR].sub.

Abstract: Olefins are polymerized in the presence of (I) solid supported catalysts which are prepared by (A) reacting in the presence of a diluent such as n-hexane a mixture of (1) the reaction product of (a) an organomagnesium compound such as dibutyl magnesium and (b) a diol such as 1,8-octanediol and (2) a transition metal halide such as titanium tetrachloride and (B) recovering the solid precipitate such as by decanting and (C) washing the solid with a solvent such as n-hexane and (II) a suitable activating agent. The resultant polymers have a relatively broad molecular weight distribution.

Abstract: Titanium trichloride catalytic component and homo- or co-polymerization of .alpha.-olefin by employing the titanium trichloride catalytic component combined with organic aluminium compound, wherein the titanium trichloride catalytic component is prepared by a process comprising the following steps:first step: reducing titanium tetrachloride with an organoaluminum compoundsecond step: treating the resultant reduced solid, which is obtained by the first step, with an organic ether compoundthird step: reacting the treated solid, which is obtained by the second step, with titanium tetrachlorideand whose objects lie in producing polymer of high stereo-regularity advantageously by carrying out reaction of the first step in a single solvent of aromatic compound or a mixed solvent of aliphatic hydrocarbon and aromatic compound.

Abstract: A catalyst for polymerizing olefins is the product resulting from heating in an inert hydrocarbon diluent a mixture of (A) an organomagnesium material, (B) an organic hydroxyl-containing material, (C) a reducing halide source and (D) a transition metal compound.

Abstract: A process for producing .alpha.-olefin polymers with a controlled stereoregularity and with a higher yield is provided, which process comprises: combining a TiCl.sub.3 -containing composition obtained by reducing TiCl.sub.4, with an organoaluminum compound; thereafter subjecting the composition to a polymerization treatment with an .alpha.-olefin; before, during or after the polymerization treatment, adding an electron donor or/and an electron acceptor or a reaction product of these two; as well as adding a reaction product of a trialkylaluminum with an electron donor having a specified molar ratio of the electron donor to the trialkylaluminum selected in the range of 0.01 to 5; and polymerizing an .alpha.-olefin in the presence of the resulting preactivated catalyst.

Abstract: An .alpha.-olefin polymerizing catalytic component which has a support capable of supporting a large amount of titanium and has the titanium work efficiently for polymerizing the .alpha.-olefin; and a method for carrying out homo- or co-polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin by using a catalyst system which consists of the catalytic component and an organo-aluminium compound. The catalytic component is obtained basically by allowing an organo-magnesium compound and a carbon tetrahalide to react with each other in the presence of an organic acid ester; by treating a solid product formed through this reaction with an organic compound of phenol; and then by further treating the product with a halogen-containing titanium compound.

Abstract: A method is provided for the production of ultrahigh molecular weight drag reducing substances and the like comprising:(a) preparing under an inert atmosphere a catalyst comprising:(1) titanium halide of the general formula TiXm wherein m=2.5 to 4.0 and X is a halogen;(2) a co-catalyst such as an organo-aluminum or organo-aluminum halide of the formula AlR.sub.n X.sub.3-n where R is a hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, X is a halogen and n is 2 or 3;(3) a monoether compound of the formula R.sub.1 OR.sub.2 where R.sub.1, and R.sub.2 are, independently, aryl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, or alkaryl, each having up to 20 carbon atoms, and placing the catalyst in contact with;(b) alpha-monoolefinic hydrocarbons having from 2 to 30 carbon atoms under suitable temperature conditions to provide an ultrahigh molecular weight hydrocarbon soluble polymer, then(c) ceasing polymerization at a polymer content of 20% by weight or less, based on the total reaction mixture.

Abstract: Using a catalyst comprising (1) a solid substance which contains magnesium and titanium, (2) an organometallic compound and (3) an electron donor, there are polymerized ethylene, propylene and 1-butene to obtain a soft or semi-hard terpolymer of low crystallinity containing 75.2 to 91.5 mol % propylene, 7.5 to 14.9 mol % ethylene and 1.0 to 9.9 mol % 1-butene.

Abstract: A catalyst for the ring-opening copolymerization of a hexachlorocyclopentadiene-1,5-cyclooctadiene adduct and a cycloolefin, other than cyclohexene, having 4 to 12 carbon atoms and containing at least one non-conjugated vinylene double bond. Owing to modification by oxy bidentate-type ligands, the chlorotungsten catalyst system affords a more favorable comonomer reactivity ratio and is thus utilized.

Abstract: Polyolefin granules having an average particle size diameter greater than 600 microns, preferably about 1000 microns or greater are obtained by polymerizing monoolefins in the presence of a titanium catalyst having an average particle size diameter of greater than about 35 microns and preferably 40 to 65 microns. The titanium catalysts are obtained by reducing titanium tetrahalide in the presence of a suitable organometallic reducing compound such as diethylaluminum chloride under controlled conditions of temperature, reduction rate and concentrations to obtain a titanium halide reduced solids product seeds having an average particle size diameter of about 20 microns or greater and thereafter simultaneously and without interruption adding to the seeds containing system titanium tetrahalide and organometallic reducing compound such as diethylaluminum halide at a rate such that the reduction of titanium tetrahalide to titanium trihalide is about 6.times.10.sup.-4 to about 0.

Abstract: In a process for producing polypropylene comprising polymerizing propylene in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst system comprising (A) titanium trichloride obtained by reducing titanium tetrachloride with an organoaluminum compound and reacting the reduced solid with an ether represented by the formula:R.sup.1 --O--R.sup.2wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are defined hereinbefore, and a halogen compound selected from the group consisting of (i) halogen or interhalogen compounds of the formula, X.sup.1 X.sup.2.sub.a (wherein X.sup.1, X.sup.2 and a are defined hereinbefore), (ii) titanium halides, and (iii) organic halogen compounds, simultaneously or successively and (B) an organoaluminum compound, the improvement which comprises supplying ethylene together with propylene to the polymerization system such that the ethylene concentration in the vapor phase of the system based on the total amount of propylene, ethylene and hydrogen in the vapor phase of the system is 0.15 to 1.

Abstract: A process for producing highly stereoregular .alpha.-olefin polymers which comprises polymerizing .alpha.-olefins in the presence of a catalyst system comprising:(A) a solid catalyst obtained by contact reaction between(a) a solid product prepared by reacting an organo-magnesium compound with at least one of halogenated silicon compound (I) and halogenated aluminum compound (II) in a solvent and(b) a titanium compound having both titanium-aryloxy and titanium-halogen linkages, and(B) an organo-aluminum compound as an activating agent.

Abstract: Polymers consisting essentially of the units (A) and (B) with an intrinsic viscosity in the range of 0.3 to 4.0, a content of the unit (A) of 10 to 90 mol % of the total structural units and a content of double bonds of trans-configuration of 40% or more are disclosed. The units (A) and (B) are represented by the structural formulas: ##STR1## wherein R' is hydrogen atom, an alkyl or phenyl, R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an alkyl, R.sup.3 is an alkyl. The polymers are preferably prepared by partial hydrolysis of the polymers consisting essentially of the unit (B).

Abstract: A process for the production of ethylenic polymers, characterized in that ethylene is homopolymerized or ethylene with .alpha.-olefin is copolymerized by the use of a catalyst system comprising:(A) a solid catalyst component prepared by treating (1) a solid ingredient containing at least a magnesium atom, a halogen atom and a transition metal element with (2) at least a cyclic organic compound; and(B) an organoaluminum compound; or(A) the solid catalyst component;(B) the organoaluminum compound; and(C) an electron donor compound; and the catalyst systewm as obtained in the above-described manner.Ethylenic polymers having a narrow distribution of molecular weight, having suitability for use in injection molding and having excellent powder characteristics can be produced, and by using this polymer, film having excellent optical characteristics can be produced.

Abstract: Process for producing a porous acetylene high polymer by lyophilizing a gel-like composition composed of 1 part by weight of an acetylene high polymer having a fibril structure and 1 to 1,000 parts by weight of an organic solvent.

Abstract: A process is provided for transforming a polyolefin powder into a suitable substrate for the preparation of transition metal catalysts. A powder polyolefin such as polyethylene or polypropylene is treated with a solution of a magnesium alkyl. The solvent is removed by any suitable procedure such as vacuum drying. The powder is then treated with gaseous HCl or other agent suitable for decomposition of the magnesium alkyl. The powder thus prepared is an effective support for preparing high efficiency catalysts such as taught in U.S. Pat. No. 4,136,058. These catalysts give polymers of increased particle size. Polyolefin powder in the absence of such treatment is not effective as a catalyst support and will not give polymers of increased particle size.

Abstract: A novel method of polymerizing and copolymerizing 1-olefins utilizing a catalyst active in the presence of an organometallic co-catalyst is disclosed. The catalyst is prepared by mixing an alkyl aluminum halide, a dialkyl magnesium compound and a reducible titanium compound of the formula Ti(OR).sub.n X.sub.4-n where R is an alkyl group, preferably of 1-6 carbon atoms, X is a halogen atom, and n is an integer between 0 and 4, inclusive, in the presence of a solvent and a particulate organic polymer whereby a reaction product is formed on the particles, and evaporating the solvent.

Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided a process for preparing a low-crystalline soft or semi-hard copolymer, characterized in that 90 to 98 mole % of propylene, 0.2 to 9 mole % of ethylene and 0.2 to 9 mole % of a straight-chained (.alpha.-olefin having not less than four carbon atoms are copolymerized using a catalyst, said catalyst comprising (1) a solid substance containing magnesium and titanium, (2) an organometallic compound and (3) an electron donor.