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Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002

Filed:

May. 31, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:

Gregory George Hlatky, Houston, TX (US);

Howard William Turner, Houston, TX (US);

Jo Ann Marie Canich, Webster, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 3/100 ; B01J 3/700 ; C08F 4/02 ; C08F 4/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 3/100 ; B01J 3/700 ; C08F 4/02 ; C08F 4/60 ;
Abstract

A catalyst system comprising a Group 4 transition metal cation having bonded thereto (1) a single cyclopentadienyl ligand or polycyclic derivative thereof, (2) a Group 15 or 16 heteroatom ligand, said single cyclopentadienyl ligand or polycyclic derivative and said heteroatom ligand being covalently bound and bridged to each other, and (3) at least one other ligand selected from the group consisting of hydride, hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, and hydrocarbyl substituted organonometalloid radicals; (b) a compatible non-coordinating anion; (c) a Group 13 element, hydrolyzable Lewis acid compound. The catalyst system is useful for polymerizing olefins, diolefins, cyclic olefins or acetylenically unsaturated monomers, either alone or in combination with each other or with other polymerizable monomers.


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