Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

Jae-Yoon Kim

Young-Hoon Ko

Jung-Goo Lee

This invention relates to a process for hydrogenating selectively the unsaturated double bonds of copolymer having the double bonds of conjugated diene unit, which has been widely used as a modifier of transparent impact-resistant resin or polyolefin, and polystyrene resin. According to this invention, the copolymer is saturated via hydrogenation in the presence of a novel homogeneous system organotitanium catalyst without a separate reducing agent, thus representing an extremely high hydrogenation yield with remarkable hydrogenation reproducibility. Hence, a compound represented by the following formula I is employed as an appropriate catalyst. Formula I ##STR1## Wherein Cp is a cyclopentadienyl (C.sub.5 H.sub.5) group; R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are hydrogen atom or alkyl group of 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and

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Taejeon, South Korea

Jae-Yoon Kim