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• the present invention relates to a metallocene borohydride complex of a lanthanide, its method of preparation, a catalytic system incorporating this complex, a process for the copolymerization of at least two olefinic monomers by means of this catalytic system and a copolymer of ethylene and butadiene obtained by this process, whose units derived from butadiene comprise 1,4-cyclohexane or 1,2-cyclohexane linkages.
• EP-A-1 092 731 teaches the use, for obtaining copolymers of ethylene and of a conjugated diene, of a catalytic system comprising:
• organometallic complex represented by one of the following generic formulas A or B:
• Ln is a metal of a lanthanide having atomic number which can range from 57 to 71
• X is halogen can be chlorine, fluorine, bromine or iodine
• Cp and Cp i 2 each includes a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl or fluorenyl group and wherein P is a bridge of the formula MR1R 2 , where M is an element of column IVA of the Mendeleev periodic table, and wherein R 1 and R 2 represent an alkyl group comprising from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and
• a co-catalyst which is selected from a group comprising an alkyl magnesium, an alkyl lithium, an alkyl aluminum, or a Grignard reagent, or which consists of a mixture of these constituents.
• Ln represents a metal of a lanthanide whose atomic number can range from 57 to 71
• X represents a halogen that can be chlorine, fluorine, bromine or iodine
• M represents a halogen that can be chlorine, fluorine, bromine or iodine
• M is an element of column IVA of the periodic table of Mendeleev
• R 1 and R 2 represents an alkyl group comprising from 1 to 20 carbon atoms
• X1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 C or a phenyl group
• X 2 represents Cl, BH 4 , H, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms N [Si (CH 3 ) 3 ] 2 , CH 2 [Si (CH 3 ) 3 ] or tetrahydrofuran
• R 1, R 3 , R 4 represents H or the radical CH 3
• R 2 represents H
• R 5 , R 6 represent H, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or Si (CH 3 ) 3 ,
• R 7 represents Si, C, Ge or Sn
• An object of the present invention is to overcome this drawback, and this object is achieved in that the Applicants have unexpectedly discovered that a new metallocene borohydride complex of a lanthanide responding to one or the other other two formulas A and B:
• this metallocene lanthanide complex according to the invention specifically includes, on the one hand, two fluorenyl and borohydride groups. connected to the lanthanide and, on the other hand, the alkali metal L, preferably lithium, associated with the complexing solvent molecule N which is preferably composed of tetrahydrofuran (THF).
• THF tetrahydrofuran
• these formulas A and B are such that x is equal to 1 and p is equal to 2, the complex according to the invention then being a dimer in both cases.
• said complex specifically corresponds to formula B, being in this case of bridged type via the bridge of formula MR] R 2 , in which element M is preferably silicon and R 1 and R 2 are advantageously a methyl group.
• said complex according to the invention corresponds to one of the formulas:
• FIu represents an unsubstituted fluorenyl group of formula C) 3 H 8 in the BJ 1 complex, or substituted by an alkyl group comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms in the B 1 group, where Me represents a methyl group, where Si is silicon, Nd neodymium, Li lithium, Et 2 O is an ether and x an integer ranging from 0 to 3.
• said complex is isolatable in the form of single crystals, which makes it possible in particular to analyze it by the X-ray diffraction technique (see annex 1 attached) to obtain crystallographic data. More specifically, the Applicants have been able to establish that these single crystals of the B complex according to the invention are arranged according to a monoclinic network system.
• Said complex according to the invention is advantageously obtained by a preparation process comprising the reaction of a ligand salt of formula P-Cp 1 Cp 2 -L 2 and a tris (borohydride) of lanthanide Ln dissolved in said complexing solvent and of formula Ln (BH 4 ) 3 N 3 .
• this method of preparation comprises the casting at ambient temperature of said ligand salt dissolved in another solvent, such as diethyl ether, on said solution of lanthanide tris (borohydride). state dissolved in this other solvent, stirring at room temperature of the solution, filtering the stirred solution, concentration of the filtrate and / or drying the complex, the possible addition of a bad solvent to the concentrate to make rush the complex.
• another solvent such as diethyl ether
• a catalyst system according to the invention comprises, on the one hand, said metallocene borohydride complex of a lanthanide as defined above and, on the other hand, said co-catalyst chosen from the group consisting of an alkyl magnesium, a alkyl lithium, a Grignard reagent and a mixture of an alkyl lithium and an alkyl aluminum.
• said co-catalyst is butyloctyl magnesium.
• this catalytic system according to the invention advantageously makes it possible to copolymerize several olefins, such as mono-olefins and diolefins, which was not possible with any prior art catalytic system based on a metallocene complex of lanthanide borohydride type.
• metallocene lanthanide borohydride complex confers on the catalytic system according to the invention an even higher catalytic activity for the copolymerization of a monoolefin, such as ethylene, and of a conjugated diene, such as the butadiene, than that provided by the metallocene halogenated complex of the aforementioned document WO-A-2004/035639 for the same copolymerization reaction.
• a process for the copolymerization according to the invention of at least two olefinic monomers, such as a monoolefin and / or a diolefin comprises a reaction of said catalytic system in the presence of said monomers and, preferably, this reaction is
• P10-1790-PCT carried out in suspension or in solution, in a hydrocarbon solvent, such as toluene, and at a temperature of between -20 ° C. and 120 ° C.
• This reaction may be carried out under a variable pressure, preferably ranging from 1 bar to 50 bar and also preferably at a temperature preferably between 20 ° C. and 90 ° C.
• the copolymerization process comprises:
• the catalyst system could be formed in situ in the polymerization medium.
• this process comprises the copolymerization of ethylene and butadiene to obtain an ethylene / butadiene copolymer in which:
• the molar level of units derived from butadiene is advantageously greater than 10% and, still more advantageously, equal to or greater than 25%, and in which the units derived from butadiene comprise cyclic chains in the form of 1,2-cyclohexane, in addition to the usual trans-1,4 and 1,2 (vinyl) sequences.
• the molar ratio of the 1,2-cyclohexane linkages in the units of said copolymer which are derived from butadiene is equal to or greater than 20% and even more advantageously equal to or greater than 25%. It will be noted that in certain cases this rate of 1,2-cyclohexane linkages may even be greater than 35%.
• a molar ratio (cocatalyst / complex) of less than or equal to 10, and advantageously less than or equal to 5, is used to obtain a number-average molecular weight Mn of said copolymer. which is equal to or greater than 50 000 g / mol.
• this molar ratio (co-catalyst / complex) is chosen to be less than or equal to 2 and the copolymerization is carried out under a pressure equal to or greater than 8 bar, for example equal to 10 bar, for obtaining a number-average molecular weight Mn of said copolymer which is equal to or greater than
• Fig. 2 schematically illustrates the various sequences observed for the insertion of butadiene units in the ethylene / butadiene copolymers thus prepared.
• test 4-2 leads to the production of a copolymer comprising 30.8% of units derived from butadiene, of which 20.2% of 1,2-cyclohexane linkages, with an activity catalytic 339 gg ⁇ .h "1 for complex 1 used against only 143 gg" '.h' 1 for the complex 2 "witness" tested in the test 4-4 carried out under conditions similar to those of polymerization Test 4-2, because of a butadiene feed of about 30% (see Table 4).
• the 1-metallocene lanthanide borohydride complex according to the invention makes it possible to prepare copolymers of ethylene and butadiene having 1, 2-cyclohexane units with very high catalytic activities, which are the most important known to date. to the knowledge of the Claimants.
• the polymerization took place in a 250 ml glass reactor, in
• Lanthanide borohydride metallocene complex 1 according to the invention once alkylated by the cocatalyst, exhibits catalytic activity g.mol “.h” 1 of 831,900 g-mol "1. H” 1.
• P10-1790-PCT b) neodymium borohydride of formula Nd (BH 4 ) 3 (THF) 3 was synthesized, as described in the article by SM Cendrowski-Guillaume, G. Le Gland, M. Nierlich, M. Ephritikhine, Organometallics 2000, 19, 5654-5660.
• the monocrystals of complex 3 have been characterized by X-ray diffraction, as illustrated in FIGS. 7 and 8, which indicates in particular that the crystals are arranged according to the triclinic network system.
• the complex 3 according to the invention is also in the monomeric form and the unit cell contains two crystallographically independent complexes.
• Its molar mass M 3 is between 1008 and 1012 g mol -1 depending on whether the ether molecules of the structure are THF, diethyl ether or a mixture of both.
• the polymerizations were carried out in a 250 ml glass reactor, in 200 ml of toluene at a temperature of 80 ° C. and at an initial pressure of 4 bars or 2 bars in the case of test 6-5.
• the monomers were introduced into the medium in the form of gaseous mixtures comprising 10, 20 and 30% butadiene.
• Cy-1,2-T means cyclohexane-1,2-trans units in the copolymer chain
• Cy-1,2-C means cyclohexane-1,2-cis units in the copolymer chain
• Cy-1,4 means cyclohexane units -1.4 in the copolymer chain
• the copolymer obtained using complex 3 has units derived from butadiene comprising chains in the form of 1,4-cyclohexane and 1,2-cyclohexane.
• the X-ray diffraction analysis was carried out on a diffractometer using a MoKa source provided with a graphite monochromator (wavelength equal to 0.71069 ⁇ ) at a temperature of 150 K.
• This series of columns, placed in an enclosure thermostated at 45 ° C, is composed of:
• Detection was performed using a "Waters 410" refractometer. The molar masses were determined by relative calibration using polystyrene standards certified by “Polymer Laboratories”.
• TMS
• T butadiene or isoprene unit inserted in 1, 4-trans

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