Ube Industries, Inc.

Koji Maeda

Michinori Suzuki

Masato Murakami

Nobuharu Hisano

Nobuhiro Tsujimoto

Yasumasa Iwamoto

Sakae Yuasa

Satoshi Bandai

Yoshihira Hosoyama

The present invention provides a process for the production of a conjugated diene polymer having a controlled microstructure at a high polymerization activity in the presence of a metallocene type complex of compound of transition metal of the group V of the Periodic Table. A novel catalyst is provided comprising (A) a metallocene type complex of a transition metal of the group V of the Periodic Table, (B) an ionic compound of a non-coordinating anion and a cation, (C) an organic metal compound of the groups I to III and (D) water, wherein the molar ratio of (C)/(D) is from 0.66 to 5. A novel process for the production of a conjugated diene polymer is also provided, which comprises the polymerization of a conjugated diene compound in the presence of a catalyst comprising (A) a metallocene type complex of a transition metal of the group V of the Periodic Table, (B) an ionic compound of a non-coordinating anion and a cation, (C) an organic metal compound of the groups I to III and (D) water, wherein the molar ratio of (C)/(D) is from 0.66 to 5.

Conjugated diene compound polymerization catalyst process for the preparation of conjugated diene polymer in the presence thereof and polybutadiene thus prepared

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Chiba, Japan

Koji Maeda