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Patrik Mueller

Juergen Kerth

Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg

Bernd Lothar Marczinke

Meinolf Kersting

Peter Koelle

Franz Langhauser

Peter Ittemann

Guenther Schweier

Horst Baumgartl

Rainer Hemmerich

Harald Schwager

Ralf Zolk

Klaus Dieter Ruempler

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

Ziegler-natta catalyst systems containing specific organosilicon

Multiphase block of propylene, comprising copolymers of propylene

High-flow propylene/ethylene copolymers which have a melt flow index of from 2 to 200 g/min under a load of 2.16 kg at 230.degree. C. and which may be produced from the gas phase by polymerization in two stages in an agitated fixed bed in the presence of hydrogen acting as chain stoppage regulator and using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system comprising a titaniferous solid component which contains a magnesium compound on finely divided silicon oxide or on finely divided aluminum oxide or on a finely divided aluminum silicate having the empirical formula SiO.sub.2.aAl.sub.2 O.sub.3, where a stands for a value between 0.001 and 2, and an aluminum component, by means of a procedure comprising a) a first polymerization stage in which propylene is polymerized under a pressure of from 20 to 40 bar and at a temperature of from 60.degree. to 90.degree. C., the ratio of the partial pressure of the hydrogen to that of the propylene being adjusted to from 1:100 to 10:100, followed by b) a second polymerization stage, which consists in the polymerization, at a temperature of from 40.degree. to 100.degree. C., of a mixture of propylene and ethylene and the addition thereof, in the form of polymerized units, to the polypropylene produced in the first polymerization stage, the pressure in this second polymerization stage being from 10 to 30 bar and at least 7 bar lower than that used in the first polymerization stage, while the ratio of the partial pressure of the hydrogen to that of the propylene is adjusted to from 2:100 to 12:100 and the ratio of the weight of monomer converted in the first stage to that of monomer converted in the second stage is kept within the range of 1:1 to 20:1.

Process for the production of high-flow propylene/ethylene copolymers

Propylene copolymers grafted with .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid derivatives and consisting of a random propylene copolymer (I) with from 0.1 to 15% by weight of polymerized C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes and a random propylene copolymer (II) with from 15 to 80% by weight of polymerized C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes, are obtainable by reacting the graft monomer with the propylene copolymer at from 1 to 300 bar, from 0.01 to 1.0% by weight, based on the propylene copolymer, of the graft monomer being mixed with the molten propylene copolymer in the absence of a free radical initiator, and the grafting reaction being carried out at from 200.degree. to 350.degree. C.

Propylene graft copolymers

Propylene copolymers grafted with .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid derivatives and consisting of

Propylene copolymers grafted using free radical initiators

Propylene-ethylene copolymers are obtained by two-stage polymerization from the gaseous phase in an agitated fixed bed by means of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system that contains in addition to a titanium-containing solid component also an aluminum compound as co-catalyst, wherein as Ziegler-Natta catalyst system a system is used which, following the reaction of the titanium-containing solid component with the co-catalyst, is deactivated by reaction with carbon dioxide. The copolymers are used for producing fibers, films and moldings.

Preparation of propylene-ethylene copolymers

Polymers of propene are prepared using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system comprising (1) titanium component which is based on a finely divided, shape-imparting silica gel and contains titan- ium, magnesium, chlorine and a benzenecarboxylic acid derivative, (2) an aluminum component and (3) a silane component. The process employs a titanium component (1) which is obtained by a method in which (1.1) first (I) a carrier is prepared from (Ia) a silica gel which has a relatively high moisture content, (Ib) an organomagnesium compound and (Ic) a gaseous chlorinating agent in a manner such that (1.1.1) first (Ia) is reacted with (Ib), (1.1.2) then (Ic) is passed into the mixture obtained from (1.1.1), (1.2) then a solid-phase intermediate is prepared from (I), (II) an alkanol, (III) titanium tetrachloride and (IV) a phthalic acid derivative in a manner such that (1.2.1) first (I) is reacted with (II), (1.2.2) then (III) is introduced into the mixture resulting from (1.2.1), with the proviso that (IV) is also introduced in (1.2.1) or (1.2.2), (1.3) then the solid-phase intermediate resulting from (1.2) is extracted with titanium tetrachloride or with a titanium tetrachloride/-hydrocarbon mixture and (1.4) finally the solid-phase product resulting from (1.3) is washed with a liquid hydrocarbon.

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