PREFACE |
1. AN UNIFIED MECHANISM OF OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION-A Transition State Theory (T. Keii) 1 |
2. GAS PHASE POLYMERIZATION OF OLEFINS AND DIENES BY METALLOCENE CATALYSTS (W. Kaminsky and D. Arrowsmith) 13 |
3. ALLOW YOUR CATALYST A PRODUCTIVE CAREER-HOW THE REACTION ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES CATALYST PERFORMANCE (W.H. Ray) 19 |
4. LONG-CHAIN-BRANCHING POLYETHYLENE PREPARED WITH Et(Ind)2HfCl2 CATALYST SYSTEMS (N. Kashiwa, S. Matsuo, S. Kojoh, M. Takahashi, T. Tsutsui and T. Fujita) 25 |
5. EFFECT OF 3rd MONOMER ADDITION IN ETHYLENE/NORBORNENE COPOLYMERIZATION INITIATED WITH rac-Et(Ind)2 ZrCl2/MAO CATALYST SYSTEM (D.H. Lee, Y.Y. Choi, H.J. Kim and S.S. Woo) 31 |
6. POLYMERISATION WITH METALLOCENE CATALYSTS IN THE PRESENCE OF HYDROGEN (R. Blom, I.M. Dahl, R.H. Heyn and O. Swang) 37 |
7. PROPENE/1-HEXENE COPOLYMER MICROSTRUCTURE AS A PROBE INTO ACTIVE CENTRE BEHAVIOR IN ZIEGLER-NATTA TRADITIONAL AND METALLOCENE BASED CATALYSIS (M.C. Sacchi, F. Forlini, S. Losio, I. Tritto and P. Locatelli) 43 |
8. MECHANISM OF SYNDIOSPECIFIC POLYMERIZAITON OF STYRENE (N. Tomotsu, H. Shouzaki, M. Aida, M. Takeuchi, K. Yokota, Y. Aoyama, S. Ikeuchi and T. Inoue) 49 |
9. VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF TITANIUM AND MAGNESIUM CHLORIDES (G. Mizutani, H. Miyaoka, H. Sano, H. Mori, N. Otsuka and M. Terano) 55 |
10. PROPENE/ETHENE-[1-13C]COPOLYMERIZATION AS A TOOL FOR MEASURING CATALYST REGIOSELECTIVITY: A COMBINED EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY ON MODEL METALLOCENE CATALYSTS (R. Cipullo, P. Budzelaar, V. Busico and S. Ronca) 61 |
11. METALLOCENE CATALYZED COPOLYMERIZATION OF ETHYLENE AND NORBORNENE (K.Y. Choi, S.Y. Park, J.J. Han, B. Kebede and K.H. Song) 73 |
12. EFFECT OF DONORS ON THE NUMBER AND PROPAGATION RATE CONSTANTS FOR STEREOSPECIFIC AND NON-STEREOSPECIFIC CENTERS AT PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION WITH SUPPORTED ZIEGLER-NATTA CATALYSTS (G.D. Bukatov and V.A. Zakharov) 79 |
13. “VARIABLE SITE”METALLOCENE CATALYST SYSTEM FOR ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION WITH CLAY MINERAL SUPPORT-ACTIVATOR (Y. Ishihama, Y. Kashiwagi, E. Isobe, Y. Uehara and T. Sugano) 85 |
14. A STUDY OF POLYMER SUPPORTED METALLOCENE CATALYSTS FOR GAS PHASE OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION (J.C. Hsu, G. Tairova, J.S. Chung, Y. Zhang, K.B. McAuley and D.W. Bacon) 91 |
15. POLYMERIZATION OF METHYL METHACRYLATE INITIATED BY HALF-METALLOCENE COMPLEXES OF TANTALUM: LIGAND ARCHITECTURE LEADING TO LIVING POLYMERIZATION (K. Mashima, Y. Matsuo and K. Tani) 98 |
16. POLYMERISATION OF OLEFINS WITH HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS METALLOCENE CATALYSTS ON CLAY MINERALS (K. Weiss, S. Botzenhardt and M. Hofmann) 104 |
17. COCATALYST ACTIVATION AND FIRST MONOMER INSERTION OF METALLOCENE CATALYSTS. AN IN SITU FTIR AND QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDY (J.L. Eilertsen, J.A. Stovneng, M. Ystenes and E. Rytter) 111 |
18. IONS PAIRS FORMATION FOR CATALYST CP2ZrMe2/MAO: A DFT QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDY (V.A. Zakharov and I.I. Zakharov) 117 |
19. STUDIES IN SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY FOR POLYMERIZATION CATALYST SYSTEMS-A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CLAY-SUPPORTED AND SILICA-SUPPORTED METALLOCENE CATALSYTS (P.J.T. Tait and D.A.S. Walshe) 124 |
20. STYRENE AND DIENE POLYMERIZATION WITH CpTiCl3-BASED CATALYSTS. (A. Zambelli, F. Grisi and I. Sessa) 132 |
21. FI CATALYSTS: HIGH PERFORMANCE NEW OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYSTS (T. Fujita, M. Mitani, S. Matsui, J. Saito, Y. Yoshida, Y. Tohi, N. Matsukawa, S. Ishii, J. Mohri, Y. Inoue, T. Nakano, H. Tanaka, T. Matsugi, S. Kojoh and N. Kashiwa) 141 |
22. EFFECT OF SILICA SUPPORTS ON OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST PERFORMANCE (T.J. Pullukat) 147 |
23. XPS STUDY ON THE CHROMIUM SPECIES OF THE PHILLIPS CATALYST REDUCED WITH COCATALYSTS (K. Hasebe, T. Nozaki and F. Matsushita) 156 |
24. HETEROGENIZATION OF METALORGANIC CATALYSTS AND NON-UNIFORMITY OF ACTIVE SITES (L.A. Novokshonova, I.N. Meshkova, N. Yu Kovaleva, T.M. Ushakova, P.N. Brevnov, V.G. Krasheninnikov, T.A. Ladygina, I.O. Leipunskii, A.N. Zhigach and M.L. Kuskov) 162 |
25. ETHYLENE-NORBORNENE COPOLYMER MICROSTRUCTURE AT TETRAD LEVEL: ADVANCES IN ASSIGNMENTS OF 13C-NMR SPECTRA AND INSIGHTS ON POLYMERIZATION MECHANISMS (I. Tritto, L. Boggioni, J. Jansen, K. Thorshaug, M.C. Sacchi and D.R. Ferro) 168 |
26. INFLUENCE OF ETHYLENE ON THE KINETICS OF PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION WITH A CLAY MINERAL SUPPORTED METALLOCENE CATALYST (F. Shimizu, Y. Suga and G. Weickert) 174 |
27. ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION WITH ”CONSTRAINED-GEOMETRY” TITANIUM CATALYSTS OVER BORATE-MODIFIED SILICA SUPPORTS (K. Musikabhumma, T.P. Spaniol and J. Okuda) 178 |
28. INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY-A SECRET WINDOW TO THE HEART OF THE CATALYST? (M. Ystenes, O. Bache, O.M. Bade, R. Blom, J.L. Eilertsen, O. Nirisen, M. Ott, K. Svendsen and E. Rytter) 184 |
29. ALTERNATING COPOLYMERIZATION OF ETHYLENE AND 5-HEXEN-1-OL WITH ZIRCONOCENE/MAO CATALYSTS (H. Hagihara, K. Tsuchihara, Y. Suzuki, M. Asai, M. Murata, H. Ozaki, T. Kase, M. Kawabe, Y. Fukui, H.T. Ban, J. Jin, T. Uozumi and T. Sano) 192 |
30. ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION TESTS AND XPS MEASUREMENTS OF THE CrOx/SiO2 CATALYST MODIFIED BY Et3Al (P. Sindelar, B. Liu and M. Terano) 200 |
31. CAR-PARRINELLO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS INVESTIGATION OF ACTIVE SURFACES AND Ti/V CATALYTIC SITES IN ZIEGLER-NATTA HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS (M. Boero, K. Terakura, M. Parrinello and H. Weiss) 210 |
32. HIGHLY ISOSPECIFIC POLYMERIZATION OF PROPYLENE BY HIGHLY MODIFIED 4TH GENERATION CATALYST (H. Yanagihara, K. Tagashira and H. Takahashi) 216 |
33. ON THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE SITES IN SYNDIOSPECIFIC LIVING POLYMERIZATION OF STYRENIC MONOMERS (M. Murata, M. Kawabe, Y. Fukui, T. Kase, H. Ozaki, H.T. Ban, K. Tsuchihara, H. Hagihara, Y. Suzuki and M. Asai) 223 |
34. A NEW FAMILY OF POLYOLEFINS WITH FISCHER-TROPSCH OLEFINS: TERPOLYMERS WITH BRANCHED α-OLEFINS (I. Tincul, D. Joubert, J. Smith and P.v. Zyl) 229 |
35. MAPPING OF CATALYST RESIDUES AND OXIDATION SITES IN POLYPROPYLENE (I. Blakey, H. Liu and G. George) 235 |
36. IMPROVEMENT OF MECHANICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE BY NOVEL NUCLEATING AGENTS (METAL SOAP OF CYCLIC ORGANOPHOSPHOROUS) (E. Tobita and T. Haruna) 241 |
37. EFFECT OF PRIMARY STRUCTURE ON PHOTO-OXIDATIVE STABILITY OF POLYPROPYLENES (M.S. Alam, T. Ichiki, B. Liu, H. Nakatani, K. Nitta and M. Terano) 249 |
38. RECENT POLYMER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY IN THE JAPANESE PLASTIC INDUSTRY (T. Sakai) 255 |
39. INFLUENCE OF CATALYST CONTROLLED MOLECULAR STRUCTURE ON THE POSTMODIFICATION OF POLYOLEFINS (F. Ciardelli, A. Altomare, E. Passaglia and S. Bronco) 261 |
40. MOLECULAR CHAIN ARRANGEMENTS IN CRYSTALS FORMED DURING HETEROGENEOUS POLYMERIZATION OF OLEFINS (T. Komoto) 268 |
41. A MOLECULAR THEORY FOR MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYOLEFIN SOLIDS (K. Nitta) 274 |
42. LIVING NATURE OF PROPENE POLYMERIZATION WITH ANSA-(CYCLOPENTADIENYLAMIDO) DIMETHYLTITANIUM DERIVATIVES USING MAO AS COCATALYST) (T. Shiono, T. Hasan, A. Ioku, K. Nishi-i and T. Ikeda) 280 |
43 PHENOXY-TITANIUM COMPLEX COMPOUNDS AS NEW SINGLE SITE CATALYSTS FOR ETHYLENE, α-OLEFIN AND DIOLEFIN MONOMERS (A. Imai, H. Katayama, M. Nabika, H. Hozumi, A. Ogawa and H. Jouhouji) 286 |
44. CONTROLLED BLOCK COPOLYMERIZATIONS OF 1-OLEFINS WITH POLAR MONOMERS CATALYZED BY SINGLE COMPONENT LANTHANIDE INITIATORS (H. Yasuda and G. Desumont) 292 |
45. RARE EARTH ALKOXIDES AS NEW CATALYTIC PRECURSORS FOR OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION AND COPOLYMERIZATION (J. Gromada, J.F. Carpentier, T. Chenal, A. Mortreux, F. Leising and J.W. Ziller) 298 |
46. CONTROL OF STRAIN-HARDENING BY A SMALL MASS FRACTION OF ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPONENT UNDER UNIAXIAL ELONGATIONAL FLOW (K. Koyama and A. Minegishi) 304 |
47. POLYMERIC FOAMING OF OLEFIN POLYMER IN THE 21st CENTURY (M. Ohshima) 310 |
48. ALKYLATION OF TRANSITION METAL SALTS AS A FERTILE AND VERSATILE APPROACH TO OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYSTS (J.J. Eisch, F.A. Owuor, P.O. Otieno, J.A. Gitua, X. Shi and A.A. Adeosun) 316 |
49. SYNTHESIS OF HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT ATACTIC POLYPROPYLENE WITH NOBEL PHENOXY TITANIUM CATALYST (K. Yada, M. Tsuji, H. Johoji and S. Hosoda) 327 |
50. PROPENE POLYMERIZATION WITH SILICA-SUPPORTED (η5-PENTAMETHYLCYCLOPENTADIENYL) TRIMETHYLTITANIUM CATALYST (A. Ioku, T. Shiono and T. Ikeda) 333 |
51. FUNCTIONALIZATION OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPENE USING 1,2,4-TRIVINYL-CYCLOHEXANE AS A COMONOMER (Y.G. Nam, S. Murayama, T. Shiono and T. Ikeda) 339 |
52. PREPARATION OF SURFACE ALKYLATED SILICA SUPPORTED CATALYSTS FOR ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION (I. Nishiyama, K. Fukuda, M. Yamahiro, B. Liu, H. Nakatani and M. Terano) 345 |
53. SYNTHESES OF POLYETHYLENE AND POLYPROPYLENE WITH CYCLOPENTANE UNITS IN THE MAIN CHAIN BY ZIRCONOCENE CATALYSTS (N. Naga and Y. Imanishi) 351 |
54. MISCIBILITY AND ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS FOR BINARY BLENDS OF i-PP AND METALLOCENE BASED ETHYLENE α-OLEFIN RANDOM COPOLYMER (M. Seki, M. Uchida, N. Ikeya, Y. Matsushita and K. Takagi) 359 |
55. INVESTIGATION OF EFFECTS AND ROLES OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DONORS ON THE ISOSPECIFICITY DISTRIBUTION OF THE ACTIVE SITES OF A ZIEGLER CATALYST BY TEMPERATURE RISING ELUTION FRACTIONATION ANALYSIS (H. Matsuoka, B. Liu, H. Nakatani, I. Nishiyama and M. Terano) 365 |
56. SYNDIOSPECIFIC LIVING POLYMERIZATION AND BLOCK COPOLYMERIZATION OF SILYL-PROTECTED HYDROXYSTYRENE AND PREPARATION OF SYNDIOTACTIC POLY(4-HYDROXYSTYRENE) WITH NARROW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION (M. Kawabe, M. Murata, Y. Fukui, T. Kase, H. Ozaki, H.T. Ban, K. Tsuchihara, H. Hagihara, Y. Suzuki and M. Asai) 372 |
57. HOMOPOLYMERIZATION OF ETHENE AND COPOLYMERIZATION WITH 1-HEXENE WITH DI-SILYLENE BRIDGED ZIRCONOCENE CATALYSTS (H. Wigum, R.H. Heyn, K.A. Solli, J.A. Stovneng and E. Rytter) 378 |
58. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY ON PROPYLYENE POLYMERIZATION OVER ZIEGLER-NATTA CATALYSTS (M. Fushimi, M. Ando, H. Kurokawa, Z. Hui, S. Takami, M. Kubo, A. Miyamoto and A. Imamura) 384 |
59. INFLUENCE OF ADSORPTIVE SEPARATION OF METHYLALUMOXANE BY SILICEOUS POROUS MATERIALS ON ITS CO-CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE IN PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION (Y. Oumi, T. Miyazaki, T. Niimi, H. Hagimoto, T. Uozumi and T. Sano) 390 |
60. INFLUENCE OF INTERNAL DONORS FOR HYDROGEN RESPONSE ON PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION WITH MgCl2-SUPPORTED CATALYSTS (K. Tashino, H. Ogawa, Y. Suzuki and M. Sato) 398 |
61. MODIFIED ALUMOXANE AS NEW ADVANCED COCATALYST OF TRANSITION METAL COMPLEX CATALYST FOR OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION (Y. Seki, M. Fujita and T. Miyatake) 404 |
62. PROBING THE INDUCTION PERIOD OF PHILLIPS CrOx/SiO2 CATALYST THROUGH COMBINED SURFACE ANALYTICAL METHODS (B. Liu, H. Nakatani and M. Terano) 409 |
63. REACTION-MADE HIGH MELTSTRENGTH PP “NEWSTREN AND NEWFOAMER” (K. Shimizu, M. Kimura, A. Yamauchi and M. Sugimoto) 415 |
64. STABILITY OF GROWING POLYMER CHAIN ON THE Cr(acac)3/MgCl2-ETHYLBENZOATE/AlEt2Cl CATALYST SYSTEM (Y.-W. Shin, H. Nakatani, T. Uozumi, B. Liu, T.Sano, K. Nitta and M. Terano) 421 |
PREFACE |
1. AN UNIFIED MECHANISM OF OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION-A Transition State Theory (T. Keii) 1 |
2. GAS PHASE POLYMERIZATION OF OLEFINS AND DIENES BY METALLOCENE CATALYSTS (W. Kaminsky and D. Arrowsmith) 13 |
3. ALLOW YOUR CATALYST A PRODUCTIVE CAREER-HOW THE REACTION ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES CATALYST PERFORMANCE (W.H. Ray) 19 |
4. LONG-CHAIN-BRANCHING POLYETHYLENE PREPARED WITH Et(Ind)2HfCl2 CATALYST SYSTEMS (N. Kashiwa, S. Matsuo, S. Kojoh, M. Takahashi, T. Tsutsui and T. Fujita) 25 |
5. EFFECT OF 3rd MONOMER ADDITION IN ETHYLENE/NORBORNENE COPOLYMERIZATION INITIATED WITH rac-Et(Ind)2 ZrCl2/MAO CATALYST SYSTEM (D.H. Lee, Y.Y. Choi, H.J. Kim and S.S. Woo) 31 |