Polymerization catalyst compositions

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2001-05-29

2003-12-02

Bell, Mark L. (Department: 1755)

Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: product or process

Catalyst or precursor therefor

Organic compound containing

C502S103000, C502S117000, C502S128000, C502S153000, C502S167000, C502S154000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06656868

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to spray dried olefin polymerization catalysts and their use in gas or slurry phase to produce polyolefins.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The intense commercialization of metallocene polyolefin catalysts (metallocene being cyclopentadienyl based transition metal catalyst compounds) has led to widespread interest in the design of non-metallocene, homogeneous catalysts, particularly for use in the economical gas and slurry phase processes. This field is more than an academic curiosity as new, non-metallocene catalysts in gas or slurry phase may provide an easier, more economical pathway to currently available products and may also provide product and process opportunities which are beyond the capability of metallocene catalysts in the gas or slurry phase.
New catalysts, however, are not automatically useable in the gas phase. Some catalysts are too active and foul the reactor. Other catalysts cannot be supported and thus cannot be introduced into the reactor in such as way that fouling does not occur. Thus there is a need in the art for a method of providing catalysts to a gas phase or slurry phase reactor, particularly catalysts that are difficult or impossible to support.
Schrock et al in U.S. Pat. No. 5,889,128 discloses a process for the living polymerization of olefins in solution using initiators having a metal atom and a ligand having two group 15 atoms and a group 16 atom or three group 15 atoms. In particular, the solution phase polymerization of ethylene using {[NON]ZrMe}[MeB(C
6
F
5
)
3
] or {[NON]ZrMe(PhNMe
2
)]}[B(C
6
F
5
)
4
] is disclosed in examples 9 and 10.
EP 893 454 A1 discloses unsupported transition metal amide compounds used in combination with activators to polymerize olefins in the solution phase.
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. in EP 0 893 454 A1 discloses transition metal amides combined with activators to polymerize olefins.
EP 0 874 005 A1 discloses phenoxide compounds with an imine substituent for use as a polymerization catalyst.
EP 893 454 A1 discloses unsupported transition metal amide compounds used in combination with activators to polymerize olefins in the solution phase.
U.S. Ser. No. 09/312,878 filed May 17, 1999 discloses a gas or slurry phase polymerization process using a supported bisamide catalyst.
Japanese Abstract JP 10330416A appears to disclose transition metal amide catalysts in combination with Ziegler-Natta catalysts. Japanese Abstract JP 10330412A appears to disclose transition metal amide catalysts in combination with group 4 transition metal cyclopentadienyl catalysts.
Ethylenebis(salicylideneiminato)zirconium dichloride combined with methyl alumoxane deposited on a support and unsupported versions were used to polymerize ethylene by Repo et al in Macromolecules 1997, 30, 171-175.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,672,669, 5,674,795 and EP 0 668 295 B1 disclose spray dried filled metallocene catalyst compositions for use in gas phase polymerizations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a catalytic molecule, and a spray dried catalyst system comprising a particulate filler, an activator, and a metal catalyst compound.
In one aspect the particulate filler may be any known particulate filler including carbon black, talc; inorganic oxides such as silica; magnesium chloride, alumina, silica-alumina; polymeric materials such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, cross-linked polystyrene; and the like.
Preferred activators include conventional-co-catalysts, alkyl aluminum compounds (such as diethylaluminum chloride), alumoxanes, modified alumoxanes, non-coordinating anions, non-coordinating group 13 metal or metalloid anions, boranes, borates and the like. It is within the scope of this invention to use alumoxane or modified alumoxane as an activator, and/or to also use ionizing activators, neutral or ionic, such as tri (n-butyl) ammonium tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl) boron or a trisperfluorophenyl boron metalloid precursor which ionize the neutral metallocene compound. Other useful compounds include triphenyl boron, triethyl boron, tri-n-butyl ammonium tetraethylborate, triaryl borane and the like. Other useful compounds include aluminate salts as well.
Some of many metal catalyst compounds that may be used herein include a group 15 containing metal compound as described below and or phenoxide based catalysts as described below.


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