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Jurgen Kerth

Franz Langhauser

Gunther Schweier

David Fischer

Hans-Herbert Brintzinger

Meinolf Kersting

Patrik Muller

Rainer Alexander Werner

Martin Schneider

Rolf Muelhaupt

Werner Roell

Peter Kolle

Stefan Mansel

Katrin Schmidt

Roland Hingmann

John Lynch

Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg

Rainer Hemmerich

Ulrich Moll

Stefan Seelert

Ian D McKenzie

Elke Barsties

Robin Kirsten

Stephan Seelert

In catalyst systems of the Ziegler-Natta type modified during their preparation and comprising as active constituents

Ziegler-Natta catalyst systems modified during their preparation

Supported catalyst systems are obtainable by a) application of a mixture of

Supported metallocene catalyst systems

Catalyst systems of the type comprising the Ziegler-Natta catalysts contain, as active components,

Catalyst systems of the type comprising the Ziegler-Natta catalysts

A process for preparing random propylene copolymers containing copolymerized C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes by polymerization of propylene and C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system comprising a titanium-containing solid component a) comprising a compound of magnesium, a halogen, silica gel as support and a carboxylic ester as electron donor compound, and also, as cocatalysts, an aluminum compound b) and a further electron donor compound c), where propylene and the C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes are polymerized with one another at from 50 to 100.degree. C. at pressures in the range from 15 to 40 bar and mean residence times of from 0.5 to 5 hours and the support used in the titanium-containing solid component is a silica gel which has a mean particle diameter of from 5 to 200 .mu.m, a mean particle diameter of the primary particles of from 1 to 10 .mu.m and voids or channels having a mean diameter of from 1 to 10 .mu.m, which voids or channels have a macroscopic proportion by volume based on the total particle in the range from 5 to 20%.

Process for producing improved random propylene copolymers

Process for converting the achiral meso form of an ansa-metallocene

Process for converting the achiral meso form or the racemate of an

Propylene polymers which comprise from 25 to 97% by weight of a propylene polymer (I) containing from 0 to 15% by weight of copolymerized C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes and also comprise from 3 to 75% by weight of a further propylene polymer (II) containing from 15 to 80% by weight of copolymerized C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes, are obtainable by two-stage polymerization of propylene and C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system which comprises a titanium-containing solid component a) comprising a compound of magnesium, a halogen, silica gel as support and a carboxylic ester as electron donor compound, and also as cocatalysts an aluminum compound b) and a further electron donor compound c), where, in a first polymerization stage, propylene is polymerized in the presence or absence of further C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes at from 50.degree. to 100.degree. C., pressures in the range from 15 to 40 bar and a mean residence time of from 0.5 to 5 hours and subsequently, in a second polymerization stage, a mixture of propylene and further C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes is polymerized at from 30.degree. to 100.degree. C., pressures in the range from 15 to 40 bar and mean residence times of from 0.5 to 5 hours onto the propylene polymer obtained from the first polymerization stage, and the silica gel used as support for the titanium-containing solid component has a mean particle diameter of from 5 to 200 .mu.m, a mean particle diameter of the primary particles of from 1 to 10 .mu.m and voids or channels having a mean diameter of from 1 to 10 .mu.m, which voids or channels have a macroscopic volume as a proportion of the total particle in the range from 5 to 20%.

Propylene polymers

A process for polymerizing C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes in the presence of a metallocene complex of the formula I ##STR1## where the substituent groups have the meanings described in the specification.

Polymerization process using metallocene complexes in the catalyst system

Random propylene copolymers containing copolymerized C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes are obtainable by polymerization of propylene and C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system comprising a titanium-containing solid component a) comprising a compound of magnesium, a halogen, silica gel as support and a carboxylic ester as electron donor compound, and also, as cocatalysts, an aluminum compound b) and a further electron donor compound c), where propylene and the C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes are polymerized with one another at from 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. at pressures in the range from 15 to 40 bar and mean residence times of from 0.5 to 5 hours and the support used in the titanium-containing solid component is a silica gel which has a mean particle diameter of from 5 to 200 .mu.m, a mean particle diameter of the primary particles of from 1 to 10 .mu.m and voids or channels having a mean diameter of from 1 to 10 .mu.m, which voids or channels have a macroscopic proportion by volume based on the total particle in the range from 5 to 20%.

Random propylene copolymers

A process for preparing oligomers and polymers, obtained from

Oligomers and polymers of aminoalkenes

Cyclopentadineyl compounds of the formula II ##STR1## and formula III ##STR2## their preparation and their use as intermediates in the preparation of metallocene complexes of the formula I.

Racemic metallocene complexes and their preparation

Polymers of C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes are prepared at from 0.5 to 3000 bar and from -50.degree. to 300.degree. C. using a catalyst system by a process in which the catalyst system used is one which contains, as active components: a) a metallocene complex of the general formula I ##STR1## where M is titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium or tantalum, X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl or --OR.sup.7,

Preparation of polymers of C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes using racemic

Propylene polymers contain A) a semicrystalline propylene homopolymer having a melting point of 125 to 165.degree. C. and a glass transition temperature which is greater than -10.degree. C. and B) a semicrystalline propylene homopolymer having a melting point below 130.degree. C. and a glass transition temperature which is less than or equal to -10.degree. C. or a non-crystallizing propylene homopolymer having a glass transition temperature which is less than or equal to -10.degree. C.

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