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POLYMER INTERNATIONAL
Volume 60, Issue 8, Pages 1167-1172Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/pi.3100
Keywords
MgCl2/TiCl4/diether; polypropylene (PP); propylene-1-octene copolymer; Ziegler-Natta polymerization
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [20774098]
- National '973' Project [G2003 CB615605]
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MgCl2/TiCl4/diether is a fifth-generation Ziegler-Natta catalyst for the commercial polymerization of propylene. The outstanding features of this catalyst are the high activity and high isotacticity for propylene polymerization without using an external electron donor. In this study, we explored the copolymerization of propylene and 1-octene with MgCl2/TiCl4/diether catalyst. It was found that MgCl2/TiCl4/diether catalyst showed higher polymerization activity and led to greater 1-octene content incorporation, compared with a fourth-generation Ziegler-Natta catalyst (MgCl2/TiCl4/diester). With an increase in 1-octene incorporation in polypropylene chains, the melting temperature, glass transition temperature and crystallinity of the copolymers decreased distinctly. The microstructures of the copolymers were characterized using C-13 NMR spectroscopy, and the copolymer compositions and number-average sequence lengths were calculated from the dyad concentration and distribution. This result is very important for the in-reactor polyolefin alloying process, especially for the case of a single catalyst and two-step (or two-reactor) process. (C) 2011 Society of Chemical Industry
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