TY - JOUR ID - 891 TI - Propene-cycloolefin polymerization JO - Polyolefins Journal JA - POJ LA - en SN - 2322-2212 AU - Boggioni, Laura AU - Tritto, Incoronata AD - Instituto per lo Studio delle Macromolecole, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via E. Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 61 EP - 75 KW - Propene KW - norbornene KW - metallocene catalysts KW - cycloolefin copolymers KW - microstructure DO - 10.22063/poj.2014.891 N2 - Highly active metallocenes and other single site catalysts have opened up the possibility of polymerizing cycloolefins such as norbornene (N) or of copolymerizing them with ethene (E) or propene (P). The polymers obtained show exciting structures and properties. E-N copolymers are industrially produced materials, with variable and high glass transitions depending on the wide range of their microstructures. By realizing the possibility in great variety of stereoregularity of propene and norbornene units and the difference in comonomer distribution, P-N copolymers were expected to have fine tuned microstructures and properties. Moreover, P-N copolymers should be characterized by higher Tg-values than E-N copolymers with the same norbornene content and molar mass. A review of the state of the art of P-N copolymerization by ansa-metallocenes of C2 symmetry, namely rac-Et(Ind)2ZrCl2 (I-I) and rac-Me2Si(Ind)2ZrCl2 (I-II), and rac-Me2Si(2-Me-Ind)2ZrCl2 (I-III), and of catalysts of Cssymmetry, namely (tBuNSiMe2Flu)TiMe2 (IV-I) and derivatives, is given here. Special emphasis is given to microstructural studies of P-N copolymers, including stereo- and regioregularity of propene units as well as of comonomer distribution, stereoregularity of norbornene units, and the structure of chain end-groups. This information allows us to find a rationale for the catalytic activities and the copolymer properties. UR - http://poj.ippi.ac.ir/article_891.html L1 - http://poj.ippi.ac.ir/article_891_4d711f0e3d78c500e8f79498db80bdd9.pdf ER -