IP Library Granted Patent US 8,455,386
Granted Patent B2
US 8,455,386 · App. 13/433,025 · Granted Jun 4, 2013

Polyolefins prepared from a metallocene and a new single site catalyst components in a single reactor

Inventor: Abbas Razavi (Mons, BE)
Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
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Patent No.
US 8,455,386
App. No.
13/433,025
Granted
Jun 4, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention discloses a catalyst system based on a metallocene catalyst component and a new single site catalyst component for the production in a single reactor of improved polyolefins having a bimodal molecular weight distribution.

Claims (22)

1. A catalyst composition comprising:

a) at least one metallocene catalyst component of formula (I):

R″(CpR m )(C′pR′ n )MQ 2   (I)

wherein Cp is a cyclopentadienyl ring; C′p is a fluorenyl ring; R″ is a structural bridge between Cp and C′p; each R or R′ is the same or different and is selected from a hydrocarbyl group having from 1-20 carbon atoms, a halogen, an alkoxy group, an alkoxyalkyl group, an alkylamino group or an alkylsilyl group or two neighbouring substituents can be linked to form a cycle; M is a metal atom from group 4 of the Periodic Table; and each Q is a hydrocarbon having from 1-20 carbon atoms or is a halogen; m is an integer from 1 to 4 and n is an integer from 1 to 8 or

of formula (I′)

R″(IndR q ) 2 MQ 2   (I′)

wherein R″, M, Q and R are as described above, Ind is an indenyl group and q is an integer from 1 to 6, or

of formula (I″)

R″(CpR m )XMQ 2   (I″)

wherein R″, Cp, M, Q, R and m are as defined previously and X is an heteroatom, substituted or unsubstituted selected from P or O,

wherein the metal is hafnium in the metallocene catalyst components of formula I or I′;

b) a single site polymerisation catalyst component of formula (II):

(L) n Me(Q′) p   (II)

wherein L is an heteroatom-containing ligand; n is an integer of 1, 2, or 3; Me is Fe; each Q′ is independently a hydrocarbon having 1-20 carbon atoms or a halogen; and p is the valence of Fe minus the sum of the coordination numbers of all L;

c) an activating agent comprising methylaluminoxane combined with a sterically hindered Lewis base, wherein for Formulas (I) and (I′), the methylaluminoxane is MMAO.

2. The catalyst composition of claim 1 , wherein the metallocene component is of formula I and the fluorenyl ring is substituted in positions 3 and 6.

3. The catalyst composition of claim 2 , wherein the substituents on the fluorenyl are the same and are tert-butyl.

4. The catalyst composition of claim 1 , wherein the metallocene component is a bisindenyl and the indenyl is substituted at positions 2 and/or 4 and the cyclopentadienyl is optionally substituted at the distal and/or proximal positions relative to R″.

5. The catalyst composition of claim 1 , wherein the metal is titanium in I′.

6. The catalyst composition of claim 1 , wherein the single site catalyst component is represented by formula

wherein R are the same and are alkyl groups having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R′ and R″ are different and comprise substituted phenyls.

7. The catalyst composition of claim 1 , wherein the sterically hindered Lewis base is a bulky phenol.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 4, 2013
From: TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS RESEARCH FELUY
To: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY
Reel/Frame 029912/0144 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 04105218 · Oct 21, 2004 · regional
Continuity (2)
Continuation 11665716
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