Metallocene-based Polyolefins

by Scheirs, John; Kaminsky, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780471999119
• ISBN10: 0471999113
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-21
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

The manufacture of polyolefins by metallocene catalysts represents a revolution in the polymer industry. The first, patent for a metallocene catalyst was filed in 1980 but it has been the last five years that have seen a dramatic increase in the volume of research into metallocenes and the maturing of metallocene technology. With contributions from leading experts from the US, Canada, Italy, Scandinavia, Germany and Japan, Metallocene-based Polyolefins gives comprehensive coverage of all areas of metallocene technology: catalyst structure, comonomer incorporation, polymerization mechanisms and conditions, reactor configurations, special properties, rheological and processing behaviour, comparison with conventional polyolefins and fields of application. An essential book for plastics engineers, polymer chemists, physicists, materials scientists and all those working in the plastics manufacturing and processing industries.

Author Biography

John Scheirs has worked extensively with poly and related polyesters. His early work involved studying the UV stability of PET and poly- ethylene naphthalate - in France and later he was involved with studying various industrial problems involving polyesters, such as photodegradation, annealing, crystallization behaviour, embrittlement, degradation by aminolysis, differential scanning calorimetry analysis, environmental stress cracking, hydrolysis, nucleating agents, transesterification, injection moulding of recycled PET compounds, solid-state polycondensation, desiccant drying of PET and melt stabilization of PET. More recently in the period 1998-2000, he was the technical manager for Coca-Cola Amatil's world-first PET reforming plant which converts post-consumer PET bottles into high-grade, high IV palletized PET for direct reuse in new bottles and injection and sheet moulding applications. John Scheirs is now the principal consultant with ExcelPlas Polymer Technology where he specializes in polymer recycling chemistry, formulation, processing and testing.

Walter Kaminsky is a professor for technical and macromolecular chemistry at the University of Hamburg. He supervises a group of 20 students and scientists in the field of metallocene/MAO catalysis and a group in the field of recycling of plastics and scrap tires by pyrolysis. He was President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker - GDCh -, Hamburg section, Dean of the faculty of chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Director of the Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, and is a member of the GDCh, DECHEMA, Naturforscher und Årzte, Verein deutscher Ingenieure, and American Chemical Society. He has published more than 200 papers/books and holds 20 patents. He has organized several international symposia in the field of olefin polymerization and pyrolysis of polymer wastes. He is advisor for authorities and companies in the fields of metallocene catalysts, polymerization of olefins, and recycling of plastics and environmental protection.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Series Preface	xv
Preface	xvii
Historical Perspective	xix
About the Editors	xxv
I NATURE OF METALLOCENE CATALYSTS
Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts: Past, Present and Future	3	(30)
John A. Ewen
Alkylalumoxanes: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity	33	(36)
Andrew R. Barron
MAO-free Metallocene Catalysts for Ethylene (Co) Polymerization	69	(34)
Luigi Resconi
Umberto Giannini
Tiziano Dall'Occo
Influence of Metallocene Structures on Molecular and Supermolecular Architectures of Polyolefins	103	(16)
D. Fischer
S. Jungling
M. J. Schneider
J. Suhm
R. Mulhaupt
Olefin Polymerization by Monocyclopentadienyl Compounds of Titanium, Zirconium and Hafnium	119	(24)
Sean W. Ewart
Michael C. Baird
Molecular Architecture: a New Application Design Process Made Possible by Single-site Catalysts	143	(12)
Antonio Torres
Kurt Swogger
Che Kao
Steve Chum
Generation of Cationic Active Species for Olefin Polymerization from ansa-Metallocene Amide Complexes	155	(18)
II Kim
Supported Metallocene Polymerization Catalysis	173	(28)
James C. W. Chien
Supported Metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization	201	(18)
Gregory G. Hlatky
Homogeneous Phosphametallocene-based Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization	219	(14)
Makoto Sone
Nickel-and Palladium-based Catalysts for the Insertion Polymerization of Olefins	233	(28)
Lynda K. Johnson
Christopher M. Killian
II ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION
Structure, Properties and Preparation of Polyolefins Produced by Single-site Catalyst Technology	261	(26)
P. S. Chum
C. I. Kao
G. W. Knight
New Developments in the Production of Metallocene LLDPE by High-pressure Polymerization	287	(22)
Akira Akimoto
Akihiro Yano
Metallocenes as Catalysts for the Copolymerization of Ethene with Propene and Dienes	309	(36)
Maurizio Galimberti
Fabrizio Piemontesi
Ofelia Fusco
Copolymerization of Ethylene with Dienes Using Metallocene/MAO Catalysts	345	(18)
George J. Jiang
Ethylene Polymerization Using a Metallocene Catalyst Anchored on Silica with a Spacer	363	(18)
Dong-ho Lee
Seok Kyun Noh
III PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION
Synthesis of Isotactic Polypropylene by Metallocene and Related Catalysts	381	(21)
Kazuo Soga
Toshiya Uozumi
Eiichi Kaji
Synthesis and Properties of Metallocene Catalysts for Isotactic Polypropylene Production	402	(23)
Walter Spaleck
Properties of Metallocene-catalyzed Isotactic Polypropylene	425	(12)
Walter Spaleck
Metallocene-catalyzed Syndiotactic Polypropylene: Preparation and Properties	437	(30)
Tetsunosuke Shiomura
Nobutaka Uchikawa
Tadashi Asanuma
Ryuichi Sugimoto
Ichiro Fujio
Shigeru Kimura
Shigeru Harima
Masaya Akiyama
Masahiro Kohno
Norihide Inoue
Synthesis of Atactic Polypropylene Using Metallocene Catalysts	467	(18)
Luigi Resconi
Design of Ethylene-bridged ansa-Zirconocene Dichlorides for a Controlled Propene Polymerization Reaction	485	(28)
Johanna Voegele
Ulf Dietrich
Martijn Hackmann
Bernhard Rieger
Index	513