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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 1134-1140Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma990959a
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Energy calculations relative to the adsorption of several substituted 1,3-diethers on the unsatured (100) and (110) lateral cuts of MgCl2 are presented. Independent of the particular approach used, coordination of the diethers on the (110) cut is always preferred. The energy difference favoring the diether coordination on the(110) cut depends on the substituents on carbon 2 of the 1,3-alkoxypropane skeleton. These calculated energy differences are able to rationalize the observed dependence on the chemical structure of the 1,3-diethers of the stereoregulating ability for propene polymerization of MgCl2/TiCl4 catalytic systems. In fact, a semiquantitative relationship has been found in the assumption that xylene-soluble (essentially atactic) and -insoluble (essentially isotactic) fractions of polypropylene obtained by these catalytic systems are prevailingly produced by Ti catalytic species adsorbed on (100) and (110) cuts, respectively.
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