Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Yasuhiro Hasada

Yasushi Tohi

Hiroshi Noguchi

Kenji Doi

Yasuhiro Takano

Hidetatsu Murakami

Toshio Murakami

Akira Kumagae

Toshizi Nishimura

To provide a process for producing an olefin polymer, which makes it possible to use, as a solvent for use in the catalyst preparation and the like, an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent instead of an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent causing large environmental burden, and which has good olefin polymerization activity. A process for producing an olefin polymer, characterized by having a step comprising feeding an olefin polymerization catalyst solution, which is obtained by mixing a metallocene compound, a compound that reacts with the metallocene compound to form an ion pair and at least one compound selected from an organoaluminum compound and an organoaluminum oxy compound with a saturated hydrocarbon solvent, to a polymerization reactor and solution-polymerizing an olefin in the polymerization reactor.

Process for producing olefin polymer

It is an object of the present invention to provide a non-conjugated cyclic diene and a non-conjugated cyclic diene composition which enable the production of a polymer based on non-conjugated cyclic diene which makes it possible to produce a (co)polymer at a high degree of polymerization activity, and a method of producing a polymer based on non-conjugated cyclic diene which makes it possible to produce a (co)polymer at a high degree of polymerization activity. A non-conjugated cyclic diene is used which meets at least one of the following requirements: (1) it contains a compound having a seven-membered cyclic triene hydrocarbon structure in a specific amount or less and (2) it contains a conjugated polyene compound having an eight-membered bicyclic hydrocarbon structure in a specific amount. Also, in a method of producing a non-conjugated cyclic diene polymer, the aforementioned non-conjugated cyclic diene is supplied to the polymerization or copolymerization using an olefin polymerization catalyst containing an organic aluminum oxy compound and/or an ionizing ionic compound. Also, in another method of producing a non-conjugated cyclic diene polymer, a non-conjugated cyclic diene which is obtained by bringing a crude non-conjugated cyclic diene into contact with an alkali and then removing at least a part of a low-boiling point fraction and at least a part of a high-boiling point fraction is used for the polymerization.

Non-conjugated cyclic diene, non-conjugated cyclic diene composition and method of producing polymer based on non-conjugated cyclic diene

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Yamaguchi, Japan

Yasuhiro Hasada