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• the present invention relates to new bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes, to the corresponding ligands and to catalysts for the polymerization of olefins containing them.
• Stereorigid chiral metallocene compounds possessing two bridged cyclopentadienyl groups condensed to a C 5 -C 7 ring are well known in the state of the art and are mainly used as catalytic components in olefin polymerization processes; in particular, metallocene compounds possessing two bridged indenyl or 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-indenyl groups are widely used in the preparation of stereoregular polyolefins.
• the indenyl groups are linked together by divalent radicals generally linked to the 1 position of said indenyl groups, and therefore, the common indenyl metallocenes are 1 -indenyl compounds.
• the European patent application EP 0 485 823 describes a class of bridged bis(l- indenyl) metallocenes, wherein the indenyl groups have a substituent other than hydrogen in the 2 position and are bridged in the 1 position by means of a bridge containing 1 or more carbon atoms (e.g. an ethylene or isopropylidene group) or containing heteroatoms (e.g. a dimethyl-silyl or a diphenyl-silyl group).
• a bridge containing 1 or more carbon atoms e.g. an ethylene or isopropylidene group
• heteroatoms e.g. a dimethyl-silyl or a diphenyl-silyl group
• European patent application EP 0 485 821 describes a class of bridged bis(4,5,6,7-tetrahydro- inden-1-yl) metallocenes, bearing a substituent in the 2 position and bridged in the 1 position by means of an ethylene, isopropylidene, dimethyl-silyl or diphenyl-silyl group.
• the European patent application EP 0 372 414 describes a very broad class of bridged or unbridged metallocenes; among the many metallocenes exemplified, two specific bis-indenyl metallocene compounds are reported, wherein the ethylene group bridging the indenyl groups is linked to the 1 position of one indenyl group and to the 2 position of the other indenyl group (formulae II- 1 and II-2, on page 5 of said application). No tetrahydro-indenyl derivatives are mentioned.
• the International patent application WO 94/11406 describes a very broad class of metallocene compounds of formula RTnd-M-(Cp)Q k , wherein: Ind is an indenyl group; R' is a substituent, other than hydrogen, linked in the 2 position of said indenyl group; Cp is a cyclopentadienyl group; M is a transition metal belonging to group 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements; and Q is a sigma-ligand of the metal M, k being an integer linked to the valence of M.
• R' can form a bridge between the 2 position of the Ind group and the Cp group of the above formula.
• an object of the present invention is a bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocene of formula (I):
• M is a transition metal belonging to group 3, 4, 5, 6 or to the lanthanide or actinide groups of the Periodic Table of the Elements (new IUPAC notation);
• the substituents X are monoanionic sigma ligands selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, -R, -OR, -OSO 2 CF 3 , -OCOR, -SR, - NR 2 and -PR, groups, wherein the R substituents are linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, C,-C 20 alkyl, C 3 -C 20 cycloalkyl, C 6 -C, 0 aryl, C 7 -C 20 alkylaryl or C 7 -C 20 arylalkyl radicals, optionally containing one or more atoms belonging to groups 13-17 of the Periodic Table of the Elements (new IUPAC notation), such as B, N, P, Al, Si, Ge, O, S and F atoms,
• ZR' ⁇ j is a divalent group bridging the two tetrahydro-indenyl residues, Z being selected from the group consisting of C, Si, Ge, N and P;
• the substituents R 1 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C,-C 20 alkyl, C 3 -C, 0 cycloalkyl, C 6 -C 20 aryl, C 7 -C 20 alkylaryl and C 7 -C 20 arylalkyl radicals, optionally containing one or more atoms belonging to groups 13-17 of the Periodic Table of the Elements (new IUPAC notation), such as B, N, P, Al, Si, Ge, O, S and F atoms;
• the substituents R 2 and R 3 are selected from the group consisting of halogen, linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C,-C 20 alkyl, C
• Another object of the present invention is a catalyst for the polymerization of olefins comprising the product obtainable by contacting:
• the present invention provides a process for the polymerization of olefins comprising the polymerization reaction of one or more olefinic monomers in the presence of a catalyst as described above.
• bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes of formula (I), the catalysts for the polymerization of olefins containing them and the ligands of formula (II), according to the present invention will be better described in the following detailed description. It is an object of the present invention a bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocene of formula (I), as reported above, wherein the metal M preferably belongs to group 4 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, and more preferably is Zr or Hf.
• the X substituents are preferably Cl, Br or methyl, and are preferably the same.
• the divalent bridge (ZR' j is preferably selected from the group consisting of CR' 2 , SiR ! 2 , GeR' 2 , NR 1 , PR 1 and (CR',) 2 , R 1 having the meaning reported above. More preferably, said divalent bridge is Si(CH 3 ) 2 , SiPh,, CH 2 , (CH 2 ), or C(CH 3 ) 2 , and even more preferably it is CH 2 .
• variable i is 1 or 2, and more specifically it is 1 when Z is N or P, and it is 2 when Z is C, Si or Ge; j ranges from 1 to 4 and, when j > 1 , the atoms Z can be the same or different from each other, such as in the divalent bridges -CH,-Si(CH 3 ),-, -CH 2 -O- and -CH 2 -S-.
• R 2 is preferably selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, i-propyl, n-butyl, t-butyl, phenyl, benzyl and trimethyl-silyl. The choice of the preferred R 2 depends also on the nature of the final polymer, as will be evident from what reported below.
• R 3 is preferably selected form the group consisting of halogen, methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, i- propyl, n-butyl, t-butyl, phenyl and benzyl.
• variable m ranges from 0 to 2; the variable n ranges from 0 or 8.
• Non-limiting examples of bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes corresponding to formula (I), according to the present invention are: rac- and meso-methylene-bis(l-methyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-2-yl)zirconium dichloride, rac- and meso-methylene-bis(l-ethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-2-yl)zirconium dichloride, rac-methylene-bis( 1 -t-butyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-2-yl)zirconium dichloride, rac- and meso-methylene-bis(l -trimethylsilyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-2-yl)zirconium dichloride, rac- and meso-methylene-bis(l-phenyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-2-yl)zircon
• the bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes of formula (I) can be prepared by reaction of the corresponding ligands of formula (II) first with a compound capable of forming a delocalized anion on the cyclopentadienyl ring, and then with a compound of formula MX_ +2 , wherein M, X and p are defined as above, according to common procedures known in the state of the art.
• one or more X groups are other than halogen
• the substitution reaction can be carried out by standard procedures, for example, when the substituents X are alkyl groups, by reacting the metallocene halide with alkylmagnesium halides (Grignard reagents) or with alkyllithium compounds.
• the methylene-bridged metallocenes of the invention can be obtained by reacting directly a ligand of formula (II) with at least one molar equivalent of a compound of formula MX S , in the presence of at least (p+2) molar equivalents of a suitable alkylating agent, wherein R, M and X have the meaning reported above and s is an integer corresponding to the oxidation state of the metal M and ranges from 3 to 6.
• Said alkylating agent can be an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal, such as LiR or MgR 2 , or a Grignard reagent, such as RMgCl or
• RMgBr as described in WO 99/36427 (priority European app. no. 98200077.0), in the name of the same Applicant.
• the bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes of formula (I) are prepared by hydrogenation of the corresponding bis-indenyl metallocenes.
• the hydrogenation of bis-indenyl metallocenes to the corresponding tetrahydro-indenyl derivatives is preferably carried out in organic solvents, such as CH 2 C1 2 or DME, at a temperature of 20-
• the bis-indenyl metallocenes can be prepared from the corresponding bis-indenyl ligands, according to procedures known in the state of the art.
• the corresponding bis-indenyl ligands can be prepared by reacting formaldehyde with an indene of formula (IV):
• the corresponding bis-indenyl ligands can be prepared by reacting the lithium salt of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindene with dimethyldichlorosilane, according to methods known in the state of the art (W. Mengele et al., Organometallics, 12:1931-1935, 1993).
• R'MgBr R'MgCl or R' k B
• the bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes according to the present invention can be advantageously used as catalytic components for the polymerization of olefins.
• another object of the present invention is a catalyst system for the polymerization of olefins, comprising the product obtainable by contacting:
• Activating cocatalysts suitable as component (B) in the catalysts of the invention are linear, branched or cyclic alumoxanes, containing at least one group of the type:
• substituents R 4 are a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C,-C 20 alkyl, C 3 -C 20 cycloalkyl, C 6 -C 20 aryl, C 7 -C 20 alkylaryl, C 7 -C 20 arylalkyl radicals, optionally containing Si and Ge atoms, or R 4 is a group -O-Al(R 4 ) 2 .
• R 4 is preferably methyl, ethyl, isobutyl or 2,4,4-trimethyl-pentyl.
• alumoxanes suitable as activating cocatalysts in the catalysts according to the present invention are methylalumoxane (MAO), tetra-isobutyl-alumoxane (TIBAO), tetra- 2,4,4-trimethylpentylalumoxane (TIOAO) and tetra-2-methyl-pentylalumoxane. Mixtures of different alumoxanes can also be used.
• Activating cocatalysts suitable as component (B) in the catalysts of the invention are also the products of the reaction between water and an organometallic aluminum compound, preferably of formula A1R 5 3 or A1 2 R 5 6 , wherein R 5 has the meaning reported above.
• organometallic aluminum compounds of formula (II) described in EP 0 575 875 and those of formula (II) described in WO 96/02580.
• suitable cocatalysts are the ones described in WO 99/21899 (priority European app. no. 97203332.8) and in the European app. no. 99203110.4.
• AlR 4 , oorr AA 1Ll 2 ,RRR 444 6 are: tris(methyl)aluminum, tris(isobutyl)aluminum, tris(isooctyl)aluminum, bis(isobutyl)aluminum hydride, methyl-bis(isobutyl)aluminum, dimethyl(isobutyl)aluminum, tris(isohexyl)aluminum, tris(benzyl)aluminum, tris(tolyl)aluminum, tris(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)aluminum, bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)aluminum hydride, isobutyl-bis(2-phenyl-propyl)aluminum, diisobutyl-(2-phenyl-propyl)aluminum, isobutyl-bis(2,4,4-trimethyl-pentyl)
• Particularly preferred aluminum compounds are trimethylaluminum (TMA), tris(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) aluminum (TIOA), triisobutylaluminum (TIBA), tris(2,3,3- trimethyl-butyl)aluminium and tris(2,3-dimethyl-butyl)aluminium.
• the molar ratio between aluminum and the metal M of the methylene-bridged metallocene is preferably comprised between about 10:1 and about 50,000:1, and preferably between about 100:1 and about 4,000:1.
• both said methylene-bridged metallocene and said alumoxane can be pre-reacted with an organometallic aluminum compound of formula A1R 4 3 or A1 2 R 4 6 , wherein the R 4 substituents have the meaning reported above.
• cocatalysts suitable as component (B) in the catalysts of the invention are those compounds capable of forming an alkylmetallocene cation; preferably, said compounds have formula Y + Z " , wherein Y + is a Broensted acid capable of donating a proton and of reacting irreversibly with a substituent X of the compound of formula (I), and Z " is a compatible non- coordinating anion, capable of stabilizing the active catalytic species which result from the reaction of the two compounds, and which is sufficiently labile to be displaceable by an olefinic substrate.
• the Z " anion comprises one or more boron atoms.
• the anion Z " is an anion of formula BAr 4 (_) , wherein the Ar substituents, the same or different from each other, are aryl radicals such as phenyl, pentafluorophenyl, bis(trifluoro- methyl)phenyl. Tetrakis-pentafluorophenyl-borate is particularly preferred.
• compounds of formula BAr 3 can be conveniently used.
• the catalysts of the present invention can also be used on inert supports. This is achieved by depositing the methylene-bridged metallocene (A), or the product of its reaction with the activating cocatalyst (B), or the component (B) and then the metallocene (A), on a suitable inert support, such as silica, alumina, magnesium halides, olefin polymers or prepolymers, such as polyethylenes, polypropylenes or styrene-divinylbenzene copolymers.
• a suitable inert support such as silica, alumina, magnesium halides, olefin polymers or prepolymers, such as polyethylenes, polypropylenes or styrene-divinylbenzene copolymers.
• the thus obtained supported catalyst system optionally in the presence of alkylaluminum compounds, either untreated or pre-reacted with water, can be usefully employed in gas-phase polymerization processes.
• the present invention also provides a process for the homo or copolymerization of olefins, comprising the polymerization reaction of one or more olefinic monomers in the presence of a catalyst system as described above.
• olefinic monomers which may be used in the polymerization process of the invention are ethylene, alpha-olefms such as propylene, 1-butene, 1-hexene, 4-methyl-l-pentene and 1-octene, and non-conjugated diolefins such as 1,5-hexadiene.
• the catalyst systems of the invention are particularly advantageous in ethylene and propylene homopolymerizations; in fact, by changing the substitution patterns of the bridged bis(tetrahydro-indenyl) metallocenes of the invention it is possible to obtain in high yields, at temperatures of industrial interest, polyethylenes and polypropylenes having intrinsic viscosity (IN.) ranging from very low to high values. Therefore, an advantage of the metallocenes of the invention is that they allow polymers having a wide range of molecular weights to be obtained.
• linear ⁇ -olefins having a Pn (Number Average Degree of Polymerization) ranging from 50 to 500, and preferably from 80 to 350; these ⁇ -olefins have more than 90% of terminal vinyl unsaturations (on the total number of terminal vinyl and vinylidene unsaturations).
• ⁇ -olefins having a percentage of terminal vinyl unsaturations > 95%, preferably > 98%, thus providing useful ⁇ -olefinic PE waxes.
• Said ⁇ -olefins are linear, having a number of total branches preferably lower than 1/100 carbon atoms, and more preferably lower than 0.1/lOOC. These ⁇ - olefins are particularly useful as polymerization monomers and chemical intermediates.
• the catalyst systems of the invention are particularly advantageous in the copolymerization of ethylene and propylene, because they allow to obtain copolymers in high yields, having a broad range of comonomer content (ranging from 5 to 70 %wt.), having IN. values ranging 0.6 to 4dl/g.
• the polymerization process can be carried out in the liquid phase, optionally in the presence of inert hydrocarbon solvents, or in the gas phase.
• the hydrocarbon solvent can be either aromatic, such as toluene, or aliphatic, such as propane, hexane, heptane, isobutane and cyclohexane.
• the polymerization temperature is generally comprised between -100°C and +150°C, and more particularly between 50°C and 100°C. The lower is the polymerization temperature, the higher are the molecular weights of the polymers obtained.
• the molecular weight of the polymers can be further varied by changing the type or the concentration of the catalytic components or by using molecular weight regulators, for example hydrogen.
• the molecular weight distribution can be varied by using mixtures of different metallocenes, or by carrying out the polymerization in several steps, that differ with respect to the temperatures of polymerization and/or the concentrations of molecular weight regulators.
• An advantageous embodiment of the process for the polymerization of olefins, according to the present invention, is the use of a metallocene of formula (I) in combination with other metallocenes known in the state of the art, in order to produce polyethylenes with a well- defined bimodal distribution.
• a metallocene of formula (I) able to produce PE waxes having low molecular weight such as methylene-bis(l-methyl-2-tetrahydro- indenyl)metallocenes, may be used in mixture with one or more metallocenes known in the state of the art, able to yield polyethylenes having high molecular weights; by combining the above metallocenes, it is possible to obtain bimodal or multimodal polyethylenes which, despite the presence of the PE wax fraction of the invention (having very low molecular weight), do not have significant amounts of extractables.
• the polymerization yields depend on the purity of the metallocene compound of the catalyst.
• the metallocene compounds obtained by the process of the invention can be used as they are, or they can undergo purification treatments.
• the components of the catalyst can be brought into contact with each other prior to polymerization.
• the duration of contact is generally between 1 and 60 minutes, preferably between 5 and 20 minutes.
• the pre-contact concentrations for the metallocene component (A) are between 1 and 10 "8 mole/1, whereas for component (B) they are between 10 and 10 "8 mole/1.
• Precontact is generally effected in the presence of a hydrocarbon solvent and, if suitable, in the presence of small amounts of monomer.
• Solvents were purified by degassing with N 2 and passing over activated (8 hours, N 2 purge, 300
• the intrinsic viscosity (IN.) was measured in tetrahydronaphtalene (TH ⁇ ) at 135°C.
• the polymer molecular weights were determined from the viscosity values. IR Analysis
• IR analysis were performed on a Nicolet 20 instrument, on samples of 0.1 mm thickness.
• T g values were measured on a DSC Mettler instrument. The samples were first heated to
• Tris(2,4,4-trimethyl-pentyl)aluminum (TIOA) was purchased from Witco and was diluted to a IM solution in hexane. 3.45 ml of said solution were added at room temperature to 5 ml of toluene, previously deoxygenated and distilled over triisobutylaluminum. 0.031 ml of H 2 O were then added at room temperature with a syringe and the resulting solution was stirred for 10 minutes at room temperature.
• the catalyst mixture was prepared by adding the desired amount of the metallocene to the proper amount of MAO, thus obtaining a solution which was stirred for 10 minutes at room temperature and then injected into the autoclave, at the polymerization temperature, in the presence of the monomer.
• CDHC1 at 5.377 ppm, room temp.): t-Bu, 1.719, s; CH 2 , 4.926, s; Cp- H, 6.220, s; Ar, 7.2-7.3, m; 7.4-7.5, m, 7.8-7.9, m.
• Propylene was charged at room temperature in a 1-L or 4.25-L jacketed stainless-steel autoclave, equipped with magnetically driven stirrer and a 35-ml stainless-steel vial, connected to a thermostat for temperature control, previously purified by washing with a AliBu 3 solution in hexane and dried at 50°C in a stream of propylene.
• AliBu 3 (1 mmol in hexane) was added as scavenger before the monomer.
• the autoclave was then thermostatted at 2°C below the polymerization temperature and then a toluene solution containing a mixture of catalyst and cocatalyst, in the amounts reported in Table 1, was injected into the autoclave, by means of nitrogen pressure through the stainless- steel vial. The temperature was rapidly raised to the polymerization temperature and the polymerization was performed at constant temperature for 1 hour.
• Example 1 turned out to be totally inactive.
• the catalyst solution comprising the catalyst and cocatalyst reported in Table 2 A, was injected into the autoclave with ethylene overpressure and the ethylene partial pressure was stabilized
• the catalytic system was prepared separately in 10 ml of heptane by consecutively introducing the cocatalyst reported in Table 2A and, after 5 minutes under stirring, methylene-bis(l-t-butyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-2-yl)zirconium dichloride solved in the lowest possible amount of toluene.
• the polymer obtained in Comparative Example 2 was further characterized by 13 C-NMR analysis; it resulted that said polymer is a linear ⁇ -olefin containing 0.15% of C, branches and
• Copolymerization reactions were carried out in a 1-L jacketed stainless-steel autoclave, as described in Examples 1-2. AliBu 3 (1 mmol in hexane) and propylene (530 g, 1 L total volume at 60°C) were charged and thermostatted at 55°C; the amounts of catalyst and cocatalyst reported in Table 3 were injected into the autoclave, by means of ethylene pressure (using the amount of ethylene required to achieve the bath composition shown in
• TIBA TIBA were charged into the reactor; the temperature was brought to 80°C and the reactor was vented to remove residual nitrogen. The reactor was then pressurized with ethylene up to 11 bar-a.
• the two catalyst/cocatalyst mixtures were combined, siphoned into the steel vial and injected into the reactor by means of ethylene overpressure, the ethylene partial pressure was then stabilized to 9.6 bar-a, (P tot 11 bar-a).
• the test was carried out at 80 °C for 30 min hour, by maintaining a constant ethylene partial pressure. After quenching the reaction with CO and degassing unreacted ethylene, the polymer was isolated by filtration and dried in vacuo at

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