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Title: Living olefin polymerization processes

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1174464
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Processes for the living polymerization of olefin monomers with terminal carbon-carbon double bonds are disclosed. The processes employ initiators that include a metal atom and a ligand having two group 15 atoms and a group 16 atom or three group 15 atoms. The ligand is bonded to the metal atom through two anionic or covalent bonds and a dative bond. The initiators are particularly stable under reaction conditions in the absence of olefin monomer. The processes provide polymers having low polydispersities, especially block copolymers having low polydispersities. It is an additional advantage of these processes that, during block copolymer synthesis, a relatively small amount of homopolymer is formed.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-86ER13564
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Patent Number(s):
6,610,806
Application Number:
09/935,775
OSTI ID:
1174464
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Cationic Alkylzirconium Complexes Based on a Tridentate Diamide Ligand:  New Alkene Polymerization Catalysts journal January 1996
Influence of rotation between agostic structures on ethene interaction with a zirconocene polymerization site journal July 1996

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