Polymer Bulletin, Vol.35, No.1-2, 87-94, 1995
Ethylene-Bridged Ansa-Zirconocene Dichlorides for Syndiospecific Propene Polymerization
Three ethylene-bridged unsymmetric zirconocene dichlorides bearing a cyclopentadienyl unit together with either a tetraphenylcyclopentadienyl- (8), a 7,9-diphenylcyclopent[a]acenaphtha-dienyl- (9) or a fluorenyl group (10) were used for propene polymerization after activation with methylalumoxane (MAO) at 30, 50, 70 and 80 degrees C. Whereas 8 is inactive at all, 9 produces atactic polypropene waxes with high activity. The polypropene products of 10 are syndiotactic with stereoregularities depending on the polymerization temperature as well as on monomer and on MAO concentration.
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