Chisso Corporation

Makoto Iijima

Masato Harada

Sadahiko Yamada

Noriaki Saito

Shinya Miya

Noriaki Saitoh

A process for producing polyolefins having a high stereoregularity, no smell and a good particulate form, without needing removal of catalyst residue contained in the resulting polyolefins, which process comprises polymerizing olefins by the use of a catalyst obtained by combining a solid product (II) as a solid catalyst component prepared through the following reaction steps I, II and III, with an organoaluminum compound component and an organic silicon compound component having Si-O-C bond: Step I of mixing and dissolving .circle.a an anhydrous Mg dihalide, .circle.b a specified orthotitanic acid ester or/and a specified polytitanic acid ester and .circle.c a saturated or unsaturated, mono- or polyhydroxy alcohol of 1.about.20 C in an inert hydrocarbon solvent to obtain a component (A), Step II of mixing (A) with a component (B) consisting of .circle.d an aliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic acid ester, .circle.e a specified halogenated aluminum and .circle.f a specified halogenated silicon to obtain a solid product (I), and Step III of reacting (I) with a component (C) consisting of .circle.g a specified halogenated titanium or/and .circle.h  a specified halogenated vanadyl or a specified vanadium halide to obtain the solid product (II).

Process for polymerizing olefins

A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization having a high polymerization activity and affording a highly stereoregular polymer having a good particulate form, and a process for producing the same are provided, which component indispensably contains Mg, Ti, Al, halogen and alkoxy group; has two absorption peaks (absorbances A.sub.1 and A.sub.2) at specified wavenumbers within a specified region of spectra according to infrared spectrophotometry, A.sub.1 /A.sub.2 and A.sub.1 /A.sub.3 (A.sub.3 : an absorbance at a specified wavenumber) being each in a specified range; and has X-ray diffraction spectra distinctive from those of Mg halide or its complex with electron donor, and which process consists of step I of dissolving (a) anhydrous Mg dihalide, (b) a specified orthotitanic or polytitanic acid ester and (c) a specified alcohol in an inert hydrocarbon solvent to prepare component A; step II of mixing and reacting component A with component B consisting of (d) a specified organic acid ester, (e) a specified Al halide and (f) a specified Si halide to prepare solid product (I); and step III of reacting solid product (I) with component C consisting of (g) a specified Ti halide and/or (h) a specified vanadyl or vanadium halide to obtain solid product (II) as the objective catalyst component.

Solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization and process for

A carrier for olefin polymerization catalysts (or catalyst components) which is in spherical form and has a narrow particle size distribution is produced by reacting an anhydrous magnesium dihalide with an alcohol or a phenol in an inert organic solvent to obtain a complex compound; suspending this complex compound with vigorous stirring in the presence of a nonionic surfactant in an inert organic solvent at the melting point of the complex compound or higher; and adding an organoaluminum compound or a silicon halide to the suspension to react them to thereby form spherical solids.

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