Styrene/1-alkene copolymerization by CpTiCl3-additive initiator systems
Author
CANCINO,R.A.
RODRÍGUEZ,F.J.
PÉREZ,M.A.
RABAGLIATI,F.M.
Abstract
Initiator systems resulting from the combination of cyclopentadienyltitanium trichloride (CpTiCl3), ethylaluminium dichloride (EtAlCl2) with and without methylaluminoxane (MAO), were used to initiate styrene (S) homopolymerization and S/1-alkene copolymerization. The CpTiCl3-EtAlCl2 system turned out to be an effective initiator of styrene homopolymerization as well as of styrene/1-decene (S/1-C10H20) and styrene/1-hexadecene (S/1-C16H32) copolymerization. Both S/1-C10H20 and S/1-C16H32 copolymers obtained from various S/1-alkene molar ratios in the initial feed contained variable amounts of boiling-butanone-insoluble product which was a S/1-alkene copolymer according to NMR and DSC analyses. The copolymers obtained showed Tg values which decrease as the proportion of 1-alkene in the initial feed increases