Catalyst compositions and use thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10280234-B2
Application number	US-201715782418-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2017
Priority date	Nov 11, 2016
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

This invention relates to novel transition metal catalyst compounds comprising four oxygen atoms bonded to a transition metal where two of the oxygen groups are bonded to the metal by dative bonds and a silyl or germyl bridge, catalyst systems comprising such, and polymerization processes using such.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A catalyst compound represented by the formula:

wherein
the dotted line indicates a dative bond;
M is a group 4 metal;
each J is, independently, Si or Ge, provided that when z is 2 or more, one JR* 2 group may be CR* 2 ;
z is a number from 1 to 12, provided that when z is 2, the two JR* 2 groups may be connected by a heteroatom, X*, to form a group represented by the formula R* 2 J-X*-JR* 2 ;
each of R 1 *, R 2 *, R 3 *, R 4 *, and R* is, independently, hydrogen, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 2 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, or a heteroatom, provided that any adjacent R* groups may form a fused ring or multicenter fused ring system where the rings may be aromatic, partially saturated or saturated; and
each X is, independently, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, a hydride, an amide, an alkoxide, a sulfide, a phosphide, a halide, an amine, a phosphine, an ether, a combination thereof, or two X's may form a part of a fused ring or a ring system.

2. A compound represented by the formula:

wherein
the dotted line indicates a dative bond;
M is a group 4 metal;
each J is, independently, Si or Ge, provided that when z is 2 or more, one JR*s may be CR* 2 ;
z is a number from 1 to 12, provided that when z is 2, the two JR* 2 groups may be connected by a heteroatom, X*, to form a group represented by the formula R* 2 J-X*-JR* 2 ;
each R* is, independently, hydrogen, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 2 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, or a heteroatom, provided that any adjacent R* groups may form a fused ring or multicenter fused ring system where the rings may be aromatic, partially saturated or saturated; and
each X is, independently, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, a hydride, an amide, an alkoxide, a sulfide, a phosphide, a halide, an amine, a phosphine, an ether, a combination thereof, or two X's may form a part of a fused ring or a ring system;
each of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 12 , R 13 , R 14 , R 15 , and R 16 is, independently, hydrogen, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, or a heteroatom, provided that any of adjacent R groups may form a fused ring or multicenter fused ring system where the rings may be aromatic, partially saturated or saturated.

3. The compound of claim 1 , wherein each of R*, is, independently, hydrogen, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, docecyl, t-butyl, isopropyl, phenyl, napthyl, benzyl, or an isomer thereof.

4. The compound of claim 1 , wherein each X is, independently, selected from Cl, Br, F, I, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, benzyl or an isomer thereof, and dimethylamido.

5. A compound represented by the formula:

wherein
the dotted line indicates a dative bond;
M is a group 4 metal;
each X is, independently, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, a hydride, an amide, an alkoxide, a sulfide, a phosphide,
a halide, an amine, a phosphine, an ether, a combination thereof, or two X's may form a part of a fused ring or a ring system;
each of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 12 , R 13 , R 14 , R 15 , and R 16 is, independently, hydrogen, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 1 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, or a heteroatom, provided that any of adjacent R groups may form a fused ring or multicenter fused ring system where the rings may be aromatic, partially saturated or saturated; and
the (JR* 2 )z group comprises one or more of is dicyclohexylsilyl, diphenylsilyl, di3′,5′-di-tert-butylphenylsilyl, dicarbazolylsilyl, difluorenlylsilyl, cyclobutylsilyl, dicyclobutylsilyl, dicyclohexylgermyl, diphenylgermyl, di3′,5′-di-tert-butylphenylgermyl, dicarbazolylgermyl difluorenlylgermyl, cyclobutylgermyl, dicyclobutylgermyl, (dicyclohexylsilyl) 2 , (diphenylsilyl) 2 , (di3′,5′-di-tert-butylphenylsilyl) 2 , (dicarbazolylsilyl)) 2 , (difluorenlylsilyl) 2 , (cyclobutylsilyl) 2 , (dicyclobutylsilyl) 2 , (dicyclohexylgermyl) 2 , (diphenylgermyl) 2 , (di3′,5′-di-tert-butylphenylgermyl) 2 , (dicarbazolylgermyl) 2 , (difluorenlylgermyl) 2 , (cyclobutylgermyl) 2 , and (dicyclobutylgermyl) 2 .

6. The compound of claim 1 , wherein X* is O, S, NR* 2 or PR* 2 , and each R* is, independently, hydrogen, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 2 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, or a heteroatom, provided that any adjacent R* groups may form a fused ring or multicenter fused ring system where the rings may be aromatic, partially saturated or saturated.

7. The compound of claim 1 , wherein each of R*, is, independently, hydrogen, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, docecyl, t-butyl, isopropyl, phenyl, napthyl, benzyl, or an isomer thereof; z is 1 or 2; and each X is, independently, selected from Cl, Br, F, I, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, benzyl or an isomer thereof, and dimethylamido.

8. The compound of claim 2 , wherein
wherein each of R*, is, independently, hydrogen, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, docecyl, t-butyl, isopropyl, phenyl, napthyl, benzyl, or an isomer thereof; z is 1 or 2; and each X is, independently, selected from Cl, Br, F, I, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, benzyl or an isomer thereof, and dimethylamido.

9. A compound represented by one or more of the formulas:

10. A catalyst system comprising activator and the catalyst compound of claim 1 .

11. The catalyst system of claim 10 further comprising chain transfer agent represented by the formula AlR 3 or ZnR 2 where each R is, independently, a C 1 -C 8 aliphatic radical, preferably methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, octyl, an isomer thereof, or a combination thereof.

12. The catalyst system of claim 10 , wherein the activator is present on a support.

13. A catalyst system comprising activator and a compound represented by the formula:

wherein
the dotted line indicates a dative bond;
M is Hf or Zr;
each J is, independently, Si or Ge, provided that when z is 2 or more one JR*s may be CR* 2 ;
z is a number from 1 to 12, provided that when z is 2, the two JR* 2 groups may be connected by a heteroatom, X*, to form a group represented by the formula R* 2 J-X*-JR* 2 ;
each R* is, independently, hydrogen, a substituted C 1 to C 40 hydrocarbyl group, a C 2 to C 40 unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, o

Assignees

• Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc

Inventors

• Crowther Donna J
• Zhou Hua
• Lovell Jacqueline A

Classifications

• C08F210/06

  Propene · CPC title

• C08F210/14

  Monomers containing five or more carbon atoms · CPC title

• C08F10/00

  Homopolymers and copolymers of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond · CPC title

• C08F232/08

  having condensed rings (coumarone-indene polymers C08F244/00) · CPC title

• C08F4/64193

  OOOO · CPC title