Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Symyx Technologies, Inc.

Exxonmobil Chemicals Patents, Inc.

Symyx Solutions, Inc.

Lily Joy Ackerman

Gary Michael Diamond

James M Longmire

Keith Hall

Vince J Murphy

Xiaohong Bei

Dawn E Verdugo

Susan Jessica Schofer

Francis Charles Rix

Anne Marie Lapointe

John F Walzer, Jr

Pu Sun

Eric L Dias

Robert Tan Li

David H McConville

Matthew Cornyn Kuchta

Victor Oswaldo Nava-Salgado

Tom Boussie

James A W Shoemaker

John Robert Hagadorn

Jerzy Klosin

Margarete K Leclerc

Timothy Marlow Boller

Mark Micklatcher

Steven D Brown

Eric Lee Kuiokalani Dias

Andrew Cottone, Iii

Carl Edgar Whittle

Laughlin G McCullough

Cynthia Lee Micklatcher

Jessica Zhang

The present invention provides a method of producing oligomers of olefins, comprising reacting olefins with a catalyst under oligomerization conditions. The catalyst can be the product of the combination of a chromium compound and a pyridyl ether compound. In particular embodiments, the catalyst compound can be used to trimerize or tetramerize ethylene to 1-hexene, 1-octene, or mixtures of 1-hexene and 1-octene.

Methods for oligomerizing olefins with chromium pyridine ether catalysts

Alternate methods for preparing functionalized pyridyl-amine products from pyridinyl starting materials are provided herein. These alternately-prepared functionalized pyridyl-amines can be used as ligands or ligand precursors in catalytic compositions, e.g., in oligomerization reactions. Methods for such reactions are also provided herein.

Methods for preparation of pyridylamines and their use in oligomerization reactions

This invention relates to a method to selectively oligomerize olefins comprising contacting olefins with: 1) at least one diaryl-substituted diphosphine ligand; 2) a chromium metal precursor; and 3) optionally, one or more activators. In a particular embodiment, the method for selectively oligomerizing olefins includes trimerizing ethylene to selectively form 1-hexene.

Phosphine ligand-metal compositions, complexes, and catalysts for ethylene trimerizations

Metal complexes comprising certain polydentate heteroatom containing ligands, catalysts, and coordination polymerization processes employing the same are suitably employed to prepare polymers having desirable physical properties.

Polydentate heteroatom ligand containing metal complexes, catalysts and methods of making and using the same

Alternate methods for preparing functionalized pyridyl-amine products from pyridinyl starting materials are provided herein. In addition, these alternately-prepared functionalized pyridyl-amines can be used as ligands or ligand precursors in catalytic compositions, e.g. for use in alkene oligomerization reactions.

Methods for preparation of pyridylamines

The present invention provides a method of producing oligomers of olefins, comprising reacting olefins with a chromium based catalyst under oligomerization conditions. The catalyst can be the product of the combination of a chromium compound and a pyridyl mono-oxazoline compound. In particular embodiments, the catalyst compound can be used to trimerize or tetramerize ethylene to 1-hexene, 1-octene, or mixtures of 1-hexene and 1-octene.

Methods for oligomerizing olefins with chromium pyridine mono-oxazoline catalysts

The present invention provides a method of producing oligomers of olefins, comprising reacting olefins with a chromium based catalyst under oligomerization conditions. The catalyst can be the product of the combination of a chromium compound and a pyridyl thioether compound. In particular embodiments, the catalyst compound can be used to trimerize or tetramerize ethylene to 1-hexene, 1-octene, or mixtures of 1-hexene and 1-octene.

Methods for oligomerizing olefins with chromium pyridine thioether catalysts

Ligands, compositions, and metal-ligand complexes that incorporate phenol-heterocyclic compounds are disclosed that are useful in the catalysis of transformations such as the polymerization of monomers into polymers. The catalysts have high performance characteristics, including high comonomer incorporation into ethylene/olefin copolymers, where such olefins are for example, 1-octene, propylene or styrene. The catalysts particularly polymerize styrene to form polystyrene.

Phenol-heterocyclic ligands, metal complexes, and their uses as catalysts

The present invention provides a method of producing oligomers of olefins, comprising reacting olefins with a catalyst under oligomerization conditions. The catalyst can be the product of the combination of a chromium compound and a pyridyl amine or a heteroaryl-amine compound. In particular embodiments, the catalyst compound can be used to trimerize or tetramerize ethylene to 1-hexene, 1-octene, or mixtures of 1-hexene and 1-octene.

Methods for oligomerizing olefins

The present invention provides a method of producing oligomers of olefins, comprising reacting olefins with a catalyst under oligomerization conditions. The catalyst can be the product of the combination of a chromium compound and a heteroaryl-amine compound. In particular embodiments, the catalyst compound can be used to trimerize or tetramerize ethylene to 1-hexene, 1-octene, or mixtures of 1-hexene and 1-octene.

Methods of oligomerizing olefins

Copolymers of an olefin or alpha-olefin and a cyclic olefin where the cyclic olefin comprises greater than 50 mole percent by weight of the copolymer have been discovered. These copolymers have unique properties, including low density, high chemical resistance, low elongation to break, low shrinkage, good processability, low water absorption and good clarity. The copolymers also may be used as an engineering plastic. A process for making these copolymers is also disclosed, with the process comprising reaction of the olefin or alpha-olefin with the cyclic olefin under polymerization conditions including a catalyst comprising a metal-ligand complex having a bridged bi-phenyl phenol ligand structure.

Cyclic olefin copolymers, and methods of making the same

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