Abstract: Hydrocarbon-soluble compositions useful as the transition metal component in the Ziegler polymerization of .alpha.-olefins are provided by reacting molecular nitrogen or hydrogen with a transition metal compound such as titanium trichloride to form a dinitrogen or dihydrogen complex of the transition metal compound.
Abstract: Gas-phase polymerization of an .alpha.-olefin, especially propylene, in a stirred or fluidized bed of substantially uniform and approximately spherical carrier particles of an .alpha.-olefin polymer of diameter 100-500 .mu.m, using a catalyst comprising an organo-metallic compound and a solid transition metal compound which has a particle size of less than 5 .mu.m, produces a propylene polymer having unexpectedly good powder flow characteristics. The transition metal compound is conveniently a titanium trichloride-containing material which has been treated with a dialkyl ether solution.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 1977
Date of Patent:
August 28, 1979
Assignee:
Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
Inventors:
Ashley D. Bye, John E. Priddle, Victor A. Wilson
Abstract: A high molecular weight copolymer of ethylene and a C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 .alpha.-olefin which, after being molded at room temperature and pressure-free tempered at 120 to 250.degree. C. and thereafter cooled, provides molded articles having an ultimate tensile strength of more than 200 kg per square centimeter measured at 120.degree. C. and an impact strength of more than 200 kg cm/cm.sup.2 measured at 23.degree. C.; a process for the preparation of such a copolymer by a Ziegler catalysis which process is characterized in that the catalyst which is employed is one obtained by reducing a titanium-(IV)-halide with an organo-aluminum compound in an inert solvent such that the concentration of titanium-(III)-halide so formed amounts to 30 to 200 m mol/liter solvent, the C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 .alpha.-olefin is employed in an amount of 0.05 to 5 weight percent based upon the weight of the ethylene and the catalyst is either initially contacted with C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 .alpha.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 28, 1977
Date of Patent:
February 6, 1979
Assignee:
Ruhrchemie Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Siegfried Lutze, Peter Schneller, Hans-Walter Birnkraut, Josef Berzen, Gunter Hetkamp
Abstract: A 1,3-cyclodiene comonomer and a linear conjugated diene comonomer are copolymerized employing a catalyst formed from a mixture comprising a triorganoaluminum compound, a nickel (II) compound and a Friedel-Crafts type cocatalyst. Also, a catalyst and a method for the production thereof which is useful in the copolymerization is provided.
Abstract: The particle size of as formed polyethylene or ethylene copolymer containing up to about fifteen percent of a C.sub.3 to C.sub.8 olefin, which is made using a promoted solid catalyst component prepared from a magnesium alkoxide, a titanium (IV) alkoxide and an alkylaluminum dichloride, is increased by adding the dichloride in at least two stages and allowing the preparation mixture to age between stages during the preparation of said catalyst component. The particle size of polymer can be increased substantially using the so treated catalyst component, compared to the particle size of polymer made using untreated catalyst component, when either catalyst component is employed together with an alkylaluminum compound promoter in a slurry or vapor phase process at moderate polymerization temperature and pressure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 25, 1977
Date of Patent:
August 8, 1978
Assignee:
Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
Inventors:
Glen R. Hoff, Peter Fotis, Jr., David E. Boone
Abstract: The polymerization of olefins to form polymers having a molecular weight greater than 50,000 wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of a catalyst component formed of a compound of a transition metal of the sub-groups IVa, Va and VIa, and a co-catalyst component of at least one organo-metallic compound of a metal from groups II and III of the periodic table, in which the co-catalyst is in the form of a liquid which is separately introduced into the reaction vessel on a carrier formed of an inert porous powder which is impregnated with the co-catalyst.