Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2001, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (1): 160.

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Studies on Polymerization of Norbornene with Titanocene/MAO Catalyst System

LU Ying-Ying, WU Qing, LU Ze-Jian   

  1. Institute of Polymer Science, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • Received:1999-09-10 Online:2001-01-24 Published:2001-01-24

Abstract: Vinyl-type polymerization of norbornene has been carried out with half-titanocene/MAOcatalysts. It was found that the Cp(cyclopentadienyl)-bearing titanocene catalysts afford the polynorbornene at much higher yield than the related Cp*(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)-bearing one. On the other hand, substitution of —ORligand for chlorine at the Cp-bearing compound causes remarkbaly increase in catalytic activity. The optimum temperature for the polymerization is 60 ℃. All the polynorbornenes obtained with CpTi(OCH2Ph)3/MAOcatalyst are soluble in the organic solvents such as cyclohexane and monochlorobenzene. The FTIRand 13C NMRspectra indicate that the polynorbornene obtained is vinyl-type polymer and has low stereo-regularity.

Key words: Metallocene catalyst, Norbornene, Vinyl-type polymerization

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