Process for producing ethylene polymers and copolymers by means of a supported catalyst of a chromium-hydrocarbon complex on an inorganic oxide carrier
US4359562A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 17, 1981 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 17, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC08F10/00
- WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for the preparation of ethylene homopolymers, and ethylene copolymers with minor amounts of higher .alpha.-monoolefins, by polymerizing the monomer or monomers by means of a supported catalyst (1) containing a chromium-hydrocarbon complex (1.2) on an inorganic oxide carrier (1.1), wherein (1) a supported catalyst is employed which contains (1.2) a chromium-hydrocarbon complex of the formula RCrACrR, where R is a cyclic and/or open-chain hydrocarbon, or hydrocarbon radical, of 2n and 2n+1 carbon atoms respectively and having from 1 to n non-cumulated double bonds, n being from 2 to 10, Cr is chromium and A is cyclooctatetraene, a divalent n-octatetraene radical or alkyl-substituted homologs thereof, on (1.1) a particular inorganic oxide carrier, with or without (2) a co-catalyst chosen from a particular group of alkyl-aluminum compounds. The process gives polymers having a particularly broad molecular weight distribution.
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