Korea Polymer Journal, Vol.5, No.4, 234-237, December, 1997
Syndiotactic Polymerization of Styrene Catalyzed by Dinuclear Half-Titanocenes with Bridging Hexamethyltrisiloxanediylbis(cyclopentadienyl) and Pentamethylenediylbis(cyclopentadienyl) Ligands
The styrene polymerizations were carried out with the new dinuclear half-titanocenes, hexamethyltrisiloxanediylbis(cyclopentadienltitanium trichloride) (1) and pentamethylenediylbis (cyclopentadienltitanium trichlordie) (2) in the presence of a modified methylaluminoxane cocatalyst. The styrene polymerization behavior of the above dinuclear titanocene catalysts and the property of the obtained polystyrene (PS) were examined and compared with those of PS obtained by mononuclear CpTiCl3. For a fiven polymerization condition, the catalyst activity was in the following order; CpTiCl3>2>1. The syndiotactic index (SI) of PS was dependent on the catalyst structure and decreased in the order of 1>CpTiCl32. The weight-average molecular weight (Mw)of PS produced with dinuclear 1 and 2 was much higher than that of PS generated from mononuclear CpTiCl3, and the polydispersity index (Mw/Mn) of the polymer by 1 and especially by 2 was larger than that of the polymer by CpTiCl3. Although the pentamethylene-bridged titanocene 2 exhibited higher activity and lower SI of PS than the hexamethytrisiloxane-bridged complex 1, the Mw and Mw/Mn of PS prepared with the dinuclear half-titanocene 2 were almost identical to those of PS with complex 1.
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