Preparation of Polar Ethylene-Norbornene Copolymers by Metallocene Terpolymerization with Triisobutylaluminium-Protected But-3-en-1-ol
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A Simple and Efficient Protocol for the Catalytic Insertion Polymerization of Functional Norbornenes
Published on: February 27, 2017
Shaojie Liu1, Zhen Yao, Kun Cao
1State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering (ZJU), Institute of Polymerization and Polymer Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China.
Abstract:
But-3-en-1-ol has been pre-protected by triisobutylaluminium and terpolymerized with ethylene and norbornene by rac-[Et(Ind)(2) ]ZrCl(2) /MAO catalysts. The strong polarity of diisobutyl(but-3-en-1-oxy)aluminum causes a slight reduction in the catalyst activity and yields a small fraction of crystallinity. The but-3-en-1-ol content in the terpolymer is as high as 3.2% and can be readily adjusted by varying the reaction conditions. When the norbornene/ethylene ratio is over 10, the norbornene incorporation efficiency is not affected by the polar monomer and is close to that of the copolymerization. Similar to the ethylene/norbornene copolymers, the thermal properties of the obtained terpolymers are mainly determined by their norbornene contents.
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