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Johann Dietrich

Albert Frese

Walter Dittmann

Fritz Baxmann

Wolfgang Kilian

For preparing crystalline, thermoplastic, low-pressure terpolymers of ethene with 0.1-5 mol % butene-1 and 0.1-3 mol % butene-2 having a density of 0.94-0.96 g./cm.sup.3, a liquid phase monomer mixture consisting essentially of ethene, 0.05-10 mol % butene-1 and 20-98.9 mol % butene-2 is polymerized with a mixed polymerization catalyst comprising (a) TiCl.sub.3 . nAlCl.sub.3 wherein n is 0.2-0.6, and (b) isoprenylaluminum in a molar ratio Al : Ti of about 2-20 to form said terpolymer.

Process for the production of crystalline terpolymers of ethene,

Polypropylene can be polymerized with Ziegler-Natta TiCl.sub.3 or TiCl.sub.3 . (AlCl.sub.3).sub.0.2.sub.-0.6 plus chlorine containing organoaluminum compound mixed catalyst using butene-2 or a C.sub.4 -cut comprising butene-2 as the polymerization solvent without the formation of propylene-butene copolymers.

Process for the production of isotactic polypropylene

In a low pressure process for the production of crystalline propene-ethene-butene-1 terpolymers with 0.2 to 10% by weight of ethene and 0.2 to 5% by weight of butene-1 with the aid of mixed catalysts of TiCl.sub.3 or TiCl.sub.3 .sup.. n AlCl.sub.3 (n = 0.2 to 0.6), and chlorine-containing organoaluminum compounds, the improvement comprising conducting the polymerization in butene-2 or in a C.sub.4 -cut containing 20-99% butene-2, containing 0.1 - 2.5% of butene-1, with the addition of 0.2 to 10% of ethene, based on the amount of propene employed.

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Johann Dietrich