Exxon Research and Engineering Company

The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company

Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Exxon Chemical Patents, Inc.

Donald N Schulz

Abhimanyu Onkar Patil

Jan Bock

Ilan Duvdevani

Enock Berluche

Kissho Kitano

Michael Gerard Matturro

Lisa Saunders Baugh

Jung W Kang

John J Maurer

Robert Timothy Stibrany

Jeffrey J Kaladas

Adel Farhan Halasa

James E Hall

Richard Henry Schlosberg

Gary R Hamed

Binnur Gunesin

Dennis G Peiffer

Stephen Zushma

Ralph Martin Kowalik

Christine A Costello

Raymond A Cook

Delmar F Lohr, Jr

Joseph Anthony Sissano

Prakash D Trivedi

Francis Charles Rix

David John Lohse

Kenneth Boone Wagener

Stephen Edward Lehman, Jr

Smita Kacker

Manika Varma-Nair

Paul Veinbergs Hinkle

John A Eckert

Warren A Thaler

Russell W Koch

John W Spiewak

Thomas A Antkowiak

Trazollah Ouhadi

Arthur W Langer, Jr

Jo Ann Marie Canich

Darrell W Brownawell

Pawan K Agarwal

John C Newlove

Kevin Richard Squire

Timothy D Shaffer

Pamela Jean Wright

Victor DeFlorio

John B Gardiner

Arnold Lustiger

Huaxing Zhou

Wai Y Chow

Baiyi Zhao

Jacques Horrion

Robert C Portnoy

Jay D Audett

Tai C Cheng

Salvatore James Pace

Srinivasan Rajagopalan

Angelo A Montagna

Richard G Austin

Terry J Burkhardt

Kenneth O McElrath, Jr

John N Anderson

Jeff J Kaladas

Allen C Werner

Vladimir Kuzunich Cherkasov

Michael Paviovich Bubnov

Nikolay Olegovich Druzhkov

Valentina Nikolavena Glushakova

Irina Alexandrovna Teplova

Nina Aleksandrovna Skorodumova

Joseph Wegensommer

Gleb Arsent′evich Abakumov

Cynthia A Ballinger

Y Fujita

Lisa Saunders Boffa

The present disclosure relates to methods for preparing materials from heavy feedstocks. In particular, the disclosure provides a chemical process to convert heavy feedstocks with predominant polyaromatic hydrocarbon molecules or species, including the residues of petrochemical refining or extraction, into thermoset or thermoplastic materials that can be used alone or as a component in a composite material.

Methods for preparing materials from polyaromatic heavy feedstocks

The present invention is related to a linear functional polymer having repeating units A, B and D. Unit A represents &#x2014;CH&#x2014;, unit B represents and unit D represents where Rrepresents a polar functional group. There are at least four A units separating each B unit, each D unit, and each B and D unit. The value y represents the total number of B units and is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The total number of D units is represented by h and is an integer greater than or equal to 0. And x represents the total number of A units and is an integer sufficient that the molar fraction of the B and D units in the linear functional polymer is represented by a value j defined by the equation:  The present invention is also directed to a method for preparing such linear functional polymers by copolymerizing a first polar substituted monomer and a second non-polar unsubstituted monomer.

Linear functional copolymers of ethylene with precise and minimum run length distributions and methods of making thereof

This invention relates to copolymers produced by a polymerization method comprising contacting at least one olefin monomer, at least one polar monomer, an optional activator, and a catalyst compound represented by the formula: wherein M is selected from groups 3-11 of the periodic table; 

Olefin polymerization catalyst system useful for polar monomers

The present invention is related to a linear functional polymer having repeating units A, B and D. Unit A represents &#x2014;CH&#x2014;, unit B represents and unit D represents where Rrepresents a polar functional group. There are at least four A units separating each B unit, each D unit, and each B and D unit. The value y represents the total number of B units and is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The total number of D units is represented by h and is an integer greater than or equal to 0. And x represents the total number of A units and is an integer sufficient that the molar fraction of the B and D units in the linear functional polymer is represented by a value j defined by the equation: The present invention is also directed to a method for preparing such linear functional polymers by copolymerizing a first polar substituted monomer and a second non-polar unsubstituted monomer.

Linear functional copolymers of ethylene with precise and minimum run length distributions and method of making thereof

This invention relates to a polymerization method comprising contacting at least one olefin monomer, at least one polar monomer, an optional activator, and a catalyst compound represented by the formula: wherein M is selected from groups 3-11 of the periodic table; Lrepresents a formal anionic ligand, Lrepresents a formal neutral ligand, a is an integer greater than or equal to 1; b is greater than or equal to 0; c is greater than or equal to 1,E is nitrogen or phosphorus, Aris arene, R-Rare, each independently, selected from hydrogen, hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl or functional group, provided however that Rand Rdo not form a naphthyl ring, N is nitrogen and O is oxygen.

This invention relates to a transition metal compound represented by the formula LMX wherein M is a Group 3 to 11 metal L is a bulky bidentate or tridentate neutral ligand that is bonded to M by two or three heteroatoms and at least one heteroatom is nitrogen; X is a substituted or unsubstituted catecholate ligand provided that the substituted catecholate ligand does not contain a 1,2-diketone functionality.

Late transition metal catalysts for olefin polymerization and oligomerization

The invention is directed towards a PVC resin composition comprising polyvinyl chloride and a liquid plasticizer selected from the group consisting of: (i) a non-linear, paraffin-soluble olefin-CO copolymer; ii) a non-linear olefin-CO copolymer derived from non-pure feeds; iii) an olefin-CO&#x2014;X terpolymer derived from non-pure feeds; and iv) a non-linear olefin-CO&#x2014;X terpolymer. A method of preparing the resins is also described.

Polyvinyl chloride resins

The instant invention provides a late transition metal complex which can be used with an activating cocatalyst to produce polymers and copolymers. The invention also provides methods for polymerizing olefins, as well as copolymers having polar monomers incorporated therein. More specifically, the invention provides a composition having the formula LMXZ, wherein M is selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ag and Au; X is selected from the group consisting of halide, hydride, triflate, acetate, borate, Cthrough Calkyl, Cthrough Calkoxy, Cthrough Ccycloalkyl, Cthrough Ccycloalkoxy, aryl, thiolate, nitrate, sulfate, nitrile, hydroxide and any other moiety into which a monomer can insert; Z is selected from the group consisting of halide, hydride, triflate, acetate, borate, Cthrough Calkyl, Cthrough Calkoxy, Cthrough Ccycloalkyl, Cthrough Ccycloalkoxy, aryl, thiolate, carbon monoxide, nitrate, nitrile, hydroxide, sulfate, olefins, water, any other neutral coordinating ligand and any other moiety into which a monomer can insert; n equals 0, 1 or 2; and L is a multi-dentate nitrogen-containing ligand.

Multi-dentate late transition metal catalyst complexes and polymerization methods using those complexes

The instant invention provides a late transition metal complex which can be used with an activating cocatalyst to produce polymers and copolymers. The invention also provides methods for polymerizing olefins, as well as copolymers having polar monomers incorporated therein. More specifically, the invention provides a composition having the formula LMXZ , wherein M is selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ag and Au; X is selected from the group consisting of halide, hydride, triflate, acetate, borate, C through C alkyl, C through C alkoxy, C through C cycloalkyl, C through C cycloalkoxy, aryl, thiolate, nitrate, sulfate, nitrile, hydroxide and any other moiety into which a monomer can insert; Z is selected from the group consisting of halide, hydride, triflate, acetate, borate, C through C alkyl, C through C alkoxy, C through C cycloalkyl, C through C cycloalkoxy, aryl, thiolate, carbon monoxide, nitrate, nitrile, hydroxide, sulfate, olefins, water, any other neutral coordinating ligand and any other moiety into which a monomer can insert; n equals 0, 1 or 2; and L is a multi-dentate nitrogen-containing ligand.

The invention is directed towards a PVC resin composition comprising polyvinyl chloride and a plasticizer selected from the group consisting of: i) a non-linear, paraffin-soluble olefin-CO copolymer; ii) an olefin-CO-X terpolymer derived from non-pure feeds; iii) a non-linear olefin-CO copolymer derived from non-pure feeds; and iv) a non-linear CO-X copolymer; wherein X is selected from the group consisting of alpha-olefin, vinyl acetate, neo vinyl ester and mixtures thereof. The invention also provides a method for a preparing the PVC resin composition as well as a product formed using the PVC resin.

The invention relates to a method of forming carbon monoxide-containing polymers from multi-component syngas feeds and at least one vinyl comonomer. Feeds useful in the practice of the invention comprise ethylene in an amount ranging from about 5 to about 40 mole %, carbon monoxide is an amount ranging from about 1 to about 40 mole %, hydrogen in an amount ranging from about 4 to about 55 mole %, carbon dioxide in an amount ranging from about 3 to about 10 mole %, and methane in an amount ranging from about 4 to about 85 mole %. The feed may also include acetylene in an amount ranging up to about 10 mole %. The feed may contain at least one free radical-polymerizable vinyl comonomer, or a cofeed containing such a comonomer can be used.

Non-linear polymer product derived from dilute multi-component feeds

The invention relates to a variety of uses for novel carbon monoxide containing polymers. More specifically, the invention employs the use of low molecular weight polymers containing carbon monoxide for use as adhesive additives and as fluids (e.g., solvents and synthetic base stocks).

Use of carbon monoxide containing polymers as, adhesive additives, and fluids

Polymerization processes for using dilute multicomponent feeds (LAW624)

The invention is directed towards the formation of polymers and copolymers using late transition metal polymerization catalyst complexes which are formed in situ. In the first process step of the instant invention, a composition having the formula MXZ is simultaneously contacted with a ligand and an activating cocatalyst. Referring to the formula, M is selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ag, and Au; X is selected from the group consisting of halides, hydride, triflate, acetates, borates, C through C alkyl, C through C alkoxy, C through C cycloalkyl, C through C cycloalkoxy, aryl, thiolates, carbon monoxide, cyanate, olefins, and any other moiety into which a monomer can insert; Z is selected from the group consisting of halides, hydride, triflate, acetates, borates, C through C alkyl, C through C alkoxy, C through C cycloalkyl, C through C cycloalkoxy, aryl, thiolates, carbon monoxide, cyanate, olefins, a neutral coordinating ligand, and any other moiety into which a monomer can insert; n equals 0, 1 or 2. In the second process step of the instant invention, olefinic monomers are contacted with the activated catalyst composition under polymerization conditions.

Polymerization using late transition metal catalyst complexes formed in situ

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