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Ethylene Polymerizations Using Parallel Pressure Reactors and a Kinetic Analysis of Chain Transfer Polymerization
Published on: November 27, 2015
Propylene polymerization to high molecular weight atactic polypropylene and copolymerization with 1-hexene using
1State Key Laboratory for Supramolecular Structure and Materials, School of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun, 130012, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A number of cyclopentadienyltitanium aryloxide complexes, 1-Ar-2,3,4,5-Me(4)-Cp(2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3)O)TiCl(2) (Ar = 4-Me(3)SiPhenyl (5), 4-(i)PrPhenyl (6), 4-MePhenyl (7), 3,5-(CF(3))(2)Phenyl (8)) and (1-Ar-2,3,4,5-Me(4)CpTiCl(2))(2)(OAr'O) (Ar' = 4,4'-(3,3',5,5'-(i)Pr(4)C(6)H(2)-C(6)H(2)), Ar = 4-SiMe(3)Phenyl (9), 4-MePhenyl (10)) were synthesized from the reaction of a corresponding cyclopentadienyl titanium trichloride derivative with the lithium salt of a relevant phenol. The molecular structures of complexes 6, 7 and 8 were determined by X-ray crystallography. Upon activation with (i)Bu(3)Al and Ph(3)CB(C(6)F(5))(4), all mononuclear complexes 5-8 exhibit good catalytic activities for propylene polymerization, whereas the binuclear complexes 9 and 10 show lower catalytic activities under the same polymerization conditions. (13)C NMR, DSC and GPC analysis indicates the produced polymers are atactic polypropylene with relatively high molecular weight. It was found that the substituents on both the cyclopentadienyl and aryloxy ligands of these complexes show obvious influence on the molecular weight of the resultant polymers with complex 5 producing the highest molecular weight atactic polypropylene. Complexes 5, 6 and 7 were also tested as catalysts for copolymerization of propylene with 1-hexene and copolymers with 1.2-10.1% comonomer incorporation were obtained in reasonable catalytic activity.
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