POLYMERIZATION OF STYRENE BY DIPHENYLZINC-ADDITIVE SYSTEMS. PART X. HOMO- AND COPOLYMERIZATION OF STYRENE USING Ph2Zn - METALLOCENE - MAO SYSTEMS
Author
RABAGLIATI,FRANCO M.
PÉREZ,MÓNICA. A.
CANCINO,RODRIGO A.
SOTO,MARCELO A.
RODRÍGUEZ,FRANCISCO J.
LEÓN,ARTURO G.
AYAL,HUGO A.
QUIJADA,RAÚL
Abstract
Combination of diphenylzinc, Ph2Zn, cyclopentadienyl titanium trichloride, CpTiCl3, and methylaluminoxane, MAO, were used to initiate styrene, S, polymerization and its copolymerization with 1-hexadecene, 1-C16H32, and with p-tert-butylstyrene, p-ButS. For homopolymerization an almost pure syndiotatic polystyrene, s-PS, was obtained when using Ph2Zn-CpTiCl3-MAO combination, while other combinations of these components produced atactic polystyrene, a-PS, or almost no polymer at all. CpTiCl3-MAO and Ph2Zn-CpTiCl3-MAO were effective initiator systems for S/1-C16H32 and for S/p-ButS copolymerization. S/1-C16H32 copolymers showed crystalline melting temperature at range 235 - 255 °C while S/p-ButS copolymers did not show any melting temperature signal at DSC, but behave as stereoregular polymer