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Ethylene polymerization initiated by anchored CpIndZrCl 2 on silica with hexamethyltrisiloxane and pentamethylene spacers
Author(s) -
Lee DongHo,
Lee HunBong,
Noh Seok Kyun,
Song Byung Kyu,
Hong Sah Mun
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19990214)71:7<1071::aid-app5>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - anchoring , catalysis , polymerization , metallocene , post metallocene catalyst , ethylene , polymer chemistry , homogeneous , materials science , monomer , chemistry , chemical engineering , polymer , organic chemistry , composite material , physics , structural engineering , engineering , thermodynamics
For ethylene polymerization, the supported metallocene catalyst was prepared by anchoring CpIndZrCl 2 on silica with an appropriate spacer. The three procedures were applied for CpIndZrCl 2 anchoring on silica with a hexamethyltrisiloxane or pentamethylene spacer. The anchoring procedures exerted a strong influence on the catalyst activity since the different anchoring methods gave the formation of different structures of active sites. With the new anchoring route, it was possible to prepare the “heterogeneous single‐site” catalyst which was found to have only one catalyst structure on silica and exhibited a higher catalyst activity than that of the other supported catalysts. At a polymerization temperature of 70°C, the activity of the heterogeneous single‐site catalyst was comparable to that of the unsupported homogeneous zirconocene. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 71: 1071–1080, 1999