Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080269412 | Catalytic Olefin Block Copolymers with Controlled Block Sequence Distribution - A process for the polymerization of one or more addition polymerizable monomers and the resulting polymer products, said process comprising: 1) contacting an addition polymerizable monomer or mixture of monomers under addition polymerization conditions in a reactor or reactor zone with a composition comprising at least one olefin polymerization catalyst and a cocatalyst and characterized by the formation of polymer chains from said monomer or monomers; 2) transferring the reaction mixture to a second reactor or reactor zone and optionally adding one or more additional reactants, catalysts, monomers or other compounds prior to, commensurate with, or after said transfer; and 3) causing polymerization to occur in said second reactor or reactor zone to form polymer chains that are differentiated from the polymer chains formed in step 1); said process being characterized by addition of a chain shuttling agent to the reaction mixture prior to, during, or subsequent to step 1) such that at least some of the resulting polymer molecules from step 3) comprise two or more chemically or physically distinguishable blocks or segments. | 10-30-2008 |
20080275189 | Control of Polymer Architecture and Molecular Weight Distribution Via Multi-Centered Shuttling Agent - A process for the polymerization of one or more addition polymerizable monomers and the resulting polymer composition, said process comprising contacting an addition polymerizable monomer or mixture of monomers in a reactor or reactor zone with a composition comprising at least one polymerization catalyst and a cocatalyst under polymerization conditions, characterized in that at least a portion of said polymerization is conducted in the presence of a multi-centered shuttling agent thereby causing the composition to have a bimodal molecular weight distribution. | 11-06-2008 |
20080311812 | Catalyst Composition Comprising Shuttling Agent for Higher Olefin Multi-Block Copolymer Formation - Copolymers, especially multi-block copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, are prepared by polymerizing propylene, 4-methyl-1-pentene, or other C | 12-18-2008 |
20090111944 | PSEUDO-BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND PROCESS EMPLOYING CHAIN SHUTTLING AGENT - A process for the polymerization of one or more addition polymerizable monomers to form a copolymer comprising multiple regions or segments of differentiated polymer composition or properties comprising contacting an addition polymerizable monomer or mixture of monomers under addition polymerization conditions with a composition comprising at least one olefin polymerization catalyst, a cocatalyst and a chain shuttling agent, said process being characterized by formation of at least some of the growing polymer chains under differentiated process conditions such that two or more blocks or segments formed within at least some of the resulting polymer are chemically or physically distinguishable. | 04-30-2009 |
20090163667 | CATALYTIC OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS VIA POLYMERIZABLE SHUTTLING AGENT - A polymerization process and the resulting polymer composition, said process comprising polymerizing one or more addition polymerizable monomers and a polymerizable shuttling agent in the presence of at least one addition polymerization catalyst comprising a metal compound or complex and a cocatalyst under conditions characterized by the formation of a branched polymer, preferably comprising pseudo-block molecular architecture. | 06-25-2009 |
20090186985 | Functionalized elastomer compositions - The present invention relates to olefinic compositions comprising a functionalized branched olefin copolymer containing functionalized sidechains derived from olefin and at least one chain end nucleophilic heteroatom containing functional group with at least one protic hydrogen, optionally with one or more copolymerizable monomers, the copolymer characterized by having A) a T | 07-23-2009 |
20100016527 | TETHERED SUPPORTED TRANSITION METAL COMPLEX - A supported metal complex comprising the reaction product of a transition metal complex of a polyvalent heteroaryl donor ligand containing at least one ortho-metallated aromatic ligand group and an ethylenically or poly(ethylenically) functionalized particulated organic or inorganic solid, a method for preparing the same and the use thereof as an addition polymerization catalyst. | 01-21-2010 |
20100069574 | ETHYLENE/ALPHA-OLEFINS BLOCK INTERPOLYMERS - Embodiments of the invention provide a class of ethylene/α-olefin block interpolymers. The ethylene/α-olefin interpolymers are characterized by an average block index, ABI, which is greater than zero and up to about 1.0 and a molecular weight distribution, M | 03-18-2010 |
20110092651 | Catalytic Olefin Block Copolymers Via Polymerizable Shuttling Agent - A polymerization process and the resulting polymer composition, said process comprising polymerizing one or more addition polymerizable monomers and a polymerizable shuttling agent in the presence of at least one addition polymerization catalyst comprising a metal compound or complex and a cocatalyst under conditions characterized by the formation of a branched polymer, preferably comprising pseudo-block molecular architecture. | 04-21-2011 |
20110118416 | Catalyst Composition Comprising Shuttling Agent for Ethylene Multi-Block Copolymer Formation - A composition for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining:
| 05-19-2011 |
20110124818 | Catalyst Composition Comprising Shuttling Agent for Ethylene Multi-Block Copolymer Formation - A composition for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining:
| 05-26-2011 |
20130030092 | Catalyst Composition Comprising Shuttling Agent for Ethylene Multi-Block Copolymer Formation - A composition for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining:
| 01-31-2013 |
20140249286 | Catalyst Composition Comprising Shuttling Agent for Ethylene Multi-Block Copolymer Formation - A composition for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining:
| 09-04-2014 |