• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.236-242
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• 2014

Isospecific propylene polymerization behavior of meta- and para-Lewis base (E) functionalized unbridged zirconocenes ($[1-(E_n-Ph)-3,4-Me_2C_5H_2]_2ZrCl_2$, E = $NMe_2$, OMe; n = 1 or 2) was investigated under bulk conditions. Catalytic activity of the zirconocenes, and molecular weight and isotacticity of polypropylenes are found to be dependent on the position and number of the Lewis base functional groups in the zirconocenes. All the crude polypropylenes possess a broad molecular weight distribution and multi-melting transitions, indicating an involvement of multi-catalytic active species in the polymerization. The highest [mmmm] value of an isotactic portion of the polypropylenes reached 89%, which is higher than that (85%) from the well-known $C_2$-symmetric EBIZr (rac-$Et(Ind)_2ZrCl_2$) catalyst. These results support that the in situ generated, rigid rac-like cation-anion pair through the Lewis acid-base interactions between the functional groups of zirconocenes and methylaluminoxane anion is effective in the formation of isotactic polypropylene under bulk propylene polymerization conditions.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.306-311
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• 2006

New unsymmetrical ($\alpha$-Diimine)nickel(II) catalysts having different pendent groups at the ortho positions on aromatic rings were synthesized and subjected to propylene polymerizations with MAO (methylaluminoxane). Structural analyses of the resulting polypropylenes by $^1H\;and\;^{13}C\;NMR$ showed that the ortho substituents on aromatic rings of ($\alpha$-diimine)nickel(II) catalyst affected significantly the polypropylene microstructure. While $C_s$ symmetric catalyst afforded a syndiotactic polypropylene (rr triad content=66%) due to the syndiospecific chain end control, $C_1$ symmetric catalysts produced much less stereoregular polypropylenes (rr triads content <50%), presumably because of collision of the isospecific site control with the syndiospecific chain end control.

• 폴리머
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.646-655
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• 2000

이소특이성 촉매인 rac-(EBI)M($NMe_2$)$_2$ [EBI=1,2-ethylenebis-(1-indenyl); M=Zr (rac-1), M=Hf(rac-2)와 공촉매계로서 Al(iBu)$_3$/[Ph$_3$C][B($C_{6}F_{5}$)$_4$]를 이용하여 고차 $\alpha$-올레핀의 중합특성을 조사하였다. 고차 $\alpha$-올레핀의 중합은 높은 활성을 나타냈으며, rac-1과 rac-2의 두 촉매계는 유사한 중합거동을 나타냈다. 중합 활성은 단량체의 크기와 중합된 고분자 가지의 길이에 의해 영향을 받았다. 단량체의 전환율은 1-pentene>1-hexene>1-octene>1-decene의 순서로 감소하였다. 또한 합성된 폴리($\alpha$-올레핀)의 고유점도값과 시차주사열분석기에 의한 용융거동도 유사한 경향을 나타냈다. 폴리 ($\alpha$-올레핀)은 매우 높은 이소탁틱도 트리에드를 나타냈으며 poly(1-pentene)$^1H$ NMR과 Raman 스펙트럼을 이용한 고분자 사슬의 말단기 분석 결과로부터, 주로 일어나는 사슬정지반응은 말단에 포화된 메틸기를 생성하는 공촉매로의 전이이며, 소수 반응으로 비닐리덴, 삼차치환 및 비닐렌 이중결합을 생성하는 $\beta$-수소제거 반응이 일어남을 알 수 있었다.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.316-321
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• 2004

We have performed copolymerizations of ethylene with 1-hexene using various ansa-metallocene compounds in the presence of the non-coordinative [CPh$_3$][B(C$\_$6/F$\_$5/)$_4$ion pair as a cocatalyst. The metallocenes chosen for this study are isospecific metallocene diamide compounds, rac-(EBI)Zr(NMe$_2$)$_2$ [1, EBI = ethylene-l ,2-bis(1-indenyl)], rac-(EBI)Hf(NMe$_2$)$_2$ (2), rac-(EBI)Zr(NC$_4$H$\_$8/)$_2$ (3), and rac-(CH$_3$)$_3$Si(1-C$\_$5/H$_2$-2-CH$_3$-4-$\^$t/C$_4$H$\_$9/)2 Zr(NMe$_2$)$_2$ (4), and syndiospecific metallocene dimethyl compounds, ethylidene(cyclopentadienyl)(9-fluorenyl) ZrMe$_2$ [5, Et(Flu)(Cp )ZrMe$_2$] and isopropylidence (cyclopentadienyl)(9-fluorenyl)ZrMe$_2$ [6, iPr(Flu)(Cp)ZrMe$_2$]. The copolymerization rate decreased in the order 4 ＞1-3＞2 ＞5＞6. The reactivity of I -hexene decreased in the order 2 ＞6＞1- 3-5＞ 4. We characterized the microstructure of the resulting poly(ethylene-co-l-hexene) by $\^$l3/C NMR spectroscopy and investigated various other properties of the copolymers in detail.