Method for producing solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization, catalyst for olefin polymerization, and method for producing olefin polymer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10364304-B2
Application number	US-201214240588-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2012
Priority date	Aug 25, 2011
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

A method for producing a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization includes bringing a magnesium compound, a tetravalent titanium halide compound, and an electron donor compound represented by a general formula (1) into contact with each other, reacting the mixture, washing the resulting reaction product to obtain a solid component, bringing the solid component, a tetravalent titanium halide compound, and an electron donor compound represented by a general formula (2) into contact with each other, reacting the mixture, and washing the resulting reaction product.

(R 1 ) k C 6 H 4-k (COOR 2 )(COOR 3 )  (1)

R 4 R 5 C(COOR 6 ) 2   (2)

A polymer that exhibits high activity with respect to hydrogen, high stereoregularity, and high bulk density can be obtained using a catalyst including a solid catalyst component obtained by the method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing a solid catalyst component, the method comprising:
contacting a magnesium compound, a first tetravalent titanium halide compound, and an electron donor compound represented by formula (1) with each other:
(R 1 ) k C 6 H 4-k (COOR 2 )(COOR 3 )  (1);

reacting the magnesium compound, the first tetravalent titanium halide compound, and the electron donor compound represented by formula (1) to obtain a first reaction product;
washing the first reaction product to obtain a solid component;
contacting the solid component, a second tetravalent titanium halide compound, and one or more compound (2) selected from dimethyl isopropylbromomalonate, dimethyl butylbromomalonate, dimethyl isobutylbromomalonate, dimethyl isopropylmalonate, dimethyl butylmalonate, dimethyl isobutylmalonate, dimethyl isopentylmalonate, dimethyl diisopropylmalonate, dimethyl dibutylmalonate, dimethyl diisobutylmalonate, dimethyl diisopentylmalonate, dimethyl isopropylisobutylmalonate, dimethyl bis(3-chloro-n-propyl)malonate or dimethyl bis(3-bromo-n-propyl)malonate
reacting the solid component, the second tetravalent titanium halide compound, and said one or more compound (2) to obtain a second reaction product; and
washing the second reaction product, to obtain a solid catalyst component,
wherein:
R 1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or a halogen atom;
R 2 and R 3 independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, wherein R 2 and R 3 are either identical or different;
k represents 0, 1, or 2, wherein R 1 are either identical or different when k is 2;
wherein the electron donor compound represented by formula (1) and said one or more compound (2) are not contacted with each other in the preparation of the solid component and the solid catalyst component.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the magnesium compound is an alkoxymagnesium.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more compound (2) is dimethyl diisobutylmalonate or dimethyl isobutylmalonate.

4. A catalyst, comprising:
(I) a solid catalyst component obtained by the method of claim 1 ;
(II) an organoaluminum compound represented by formula (3):
R 7 p AlQ 3-p   (3); and

(III) an external electron donor compound,
wherein:
R 7 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms;
Q represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; and
p represents a real number that satisfies 0<p≤3.

5. A catalyst, comprising:
(I) a solid catalyst component obtained by the method of claim 2 ;
(II) an organoaluminum compound represented by formula (3):
R 7 p AlQ 3-p   (3); and

(III) an external electron donor compound, wherein:
R 7 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms;
Q represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; and
p represents a real number that satisfies 0<p≤3.

6. A catalyst, comprising:
(I) a solid catalyst component obtained by the method of claim 3 ;
(II) an organoaluminum compound represented by formula (3):
R 7 p AlQ 3-p   (3); and

(III) an external electron donor compound, wherein:
R 7 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms;
Q represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; and
p represents a real number that satisfies 0<p≤3.

7. The catalyst according to claim 4 , wherein the external electron donor compound (III) is at least one organosilicon compound selected from the group consisting of an organosilicon compound represented by formula (4) and an organosilicon compound represented by formula (5):
R 8 q Si(OR 9 ) 4-q   (4),

(R 10 R 11 N) s SiR 12 4-s   (5),

wherein:
R 8 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, a vinyl group, an allyl group, or an aralkyl group, and R 8 are either identical or different when a plurality of R 8 is present;
R 9 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, a vinyl group, an allyl group, or an aralkyl group, and R 9 are either identical or different when a plurality of R 9 is present;
q represents an integer from 0 to 3;
R 10 and R 11 represent a hydrogen atom, a linear alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a branched alkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, a vinyl group, an allyl group, an aralkyl group, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group, wherein R 10 and R 11 are either identical or different, and optionally bond to each other to form a ring;
R 12 represents a linear alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a branched alkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, a vinyl group, an allyl group, an aralkyl group, a linear or branched alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a vinyloxy group, an allyloxy group, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl group, or an aryloxy group, wherein R 12 are either identical or different when a plurality of R 12 is present; and
s represents an integer from 1 to 3.

8. A method for producing an olefin polymer, the
method comprising polymerizing an olefin in the presence of the catalyst of claim 4 .

9. A method for producing an olefin polymer, the method comprising polymerizing an olefin in the presence of the catalyst of claim 7 .

Assignees

• Uozumi Toshiya
• Yamada Shingo
• Toho Titanium Co Ltd

Inventors

• Uozumi Toshiya
• Yamada Shingo

Classifications

• C08F110/06 Primary

  Propene · CPC title

• C08F4/651

  Pretreating with non-metals or metal-free compounds · CPC title

• C08F4/6492

  containing aliphatic unsaturation · CPC title

• C08F4/6548

  magnesium or compounds thereof, not provided for in C08F4/6543 or C08F4/6546 · CPC title

• C08F2500/18

  Bulk density · CPC title