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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2000
Nemesio D. Miro, Seabrook, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a catalyst system and methods for polymerizing homopolymers or copolymers of olefins, preferably polypropylene and copolymers of polypropylene. The catalyst system includes a Ziegler-Natta or Ziegler-Natta-type catalysts in combination with a mixture of silane electron donors, preferably at least two electron donors, even more preferably three electron donors, selected from tetraethoxysilane, methylcyclohexyldimethoxysilane, propyltrimethoxysilane, propyltriethoxysilane, dimethyldimethoxysilane, methyltrimethoxysilane, dicyclopentyldimethoxysilane and mixtures thereof. The preferred silane electron donor is methylcyclohexyldimethoxysilane.