Process for producing polypropylene impact block copolymers

USH1722H · kind H · statutory invention registration

Inventors

• Mark G. Goode · Hurricane, US
• Kersten Anne Erickson · South Charleston, US
• James D. McCullough, Jr. · Houston, US

Key dates

• Grant date: Apr 7, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A process for producing a polypropylene impact copolymer by polymerizing propylene and optionally a monomer selected from the group consisting of ethylene, butene-1, pentene-1, and hexene-1 in a first reactor in the presence of a titanium, magnesium, halogen, and a inside electron donor catalyst, an organoaluminum cocatalyst, and an outside electron donor, R.sup.1.sub.2 Si(OR.sup.2).sub.2, to produce a first polymer which enters a second reactor where it is reacted with propylene and another monomer in the absence of additional catalyst and in the presence of a third electron donor, Si(OR.sup.3).sub.4 is provided.