Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser – Synthetic resins – Polymers from only ethylenic monomers or processes of...
Reexamination Certificate
2003-03-03
2004-09-14
Lu, Caixia (Department: 1713)
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser
Synthetic resins
Polymers from only ethylenic monomers or processes of...
C526S348000, C526S348200, C526S348300, C526S160000, C526S165000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06790922
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to linear, isotactic polymers, to a process for preparing same, and to the use thereof, isotacticity of the linear polymers, due to a statistic distribution of stereoscopic errors in the polymer chain, being within the range of from 25 to 60% of [mmmm] pentad concentration.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
For a long time, isotactic polymers have been of interest as plastic materials for manufacturing articles of relatively good deformation resistance, such as sheathings of household appliances. In general, such isotactic polymers with propylene as monomer are of highly crystalline nature and, therefore, are relatively hard with little or no impact resistance such that they are useful only in applications in which those characteristics are desirable.
Most recently, various attempts have been made, aiming at preparing also polypropylene with elastic characteristics. EP 0 707 016 A1 specifies a catalyst composition and a process for preparing polyolefins. The catalysts specified in EP 0 707 016 A1 are, in substance, made up of a metallocene compound having an indene ring and a fluorene ring which are bridged via C, Si or Ge. In case of the metallocene compound, it is essential that, in the indene ring system, at least the residue denoted with R
4
not be hydrogen. When that residue R
4
is hydrogen, the effects will not be attained. The polymers specified in EP 0 707 016 A1 prepared with metallocenes, especially the polypropylene prepared with those metallocenes, however, have shown unsatisfactory characteristics in regard of the elastic behavior.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the present invention to make polymers from olefinically unsaturated compounds which have not only thermoplastic characteristics but also thermoplastic-elastic characteristics, thus making the polymers useful for many applications. It is a further object of the present invention to suggest a process suitable for preparing the polymers and the use thereof.
According to the invention, linear, thermoplastic, elastic polymers from an olefinically unsaturated compound with an isotactic arrangement of the monomer units and a statistic distribution of isolated stereoscopic errors along the individual chains and a mean molecular weight Mw of the polymers within the range of from 100,000 to 800,000 g/mol and a Tg of from −50 to +30° C., thus, are suggested.
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Lu Caixia
Rieger Bernhard
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