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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1980
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1978
Toyo Stauffer Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A titanium trichloride catalytic component suitable for preparing highly stereospecific polymers having highly uniform particle diameters from .alpha.-olefins is prepared by precipitating such catalytic component from a solution of TiCl.sub.4 in a solvent comprising a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon and/or an alicyclic hydrocarbon. Such solution is obtained by dissolving TiCl.sub.4, an ether and an organo-aluminum compound having the formula AlR.sub.n X.sub.3-n (wherein R, X and n are as defined hereinafter) in the solvent. The organo-aluminum compound is added at a solvent temperature not exceeding 55.degree. C. in the concomitant presence of an aromatic hydrocarbon halide; subsequently, the temperature of the resulting system is raised to 45.degree.-150.degree. C. over a period of 10 minutes to 24 hours to precipitate the catalytic component which has a uniform particle diameter between 10 and 1000.mu.. Homo- or co-polymerization of .alpha.-olefins is carried out in the presence of a catalyst system consisting of the above-described titanium trichloride catalytic component and an organo-aluminum compound (e.g., (C.sub.2 H.sub.5).sub.2 AlCl) to yield such polymers having highly uniform particle diameters and which are sufficiently pure to permit the omission or simplification of the conventional de-ashing and washing steps.