Bitumen/polyethylene blends: using m-LLDPEs to improve stability and viscoelastic properties

The stability and the rheological properties of blends of a 60/70 penetration-grade bitumen with conventional HDPEs and metallocene catalysed LLDPEs (m-LLDPE) are investigated. Considerably better stability results are obtained using m-LLDPEs instead of conventional polyethylenes, allowing one to avoid phase separation of the emulsion-like system during storage at high temperature. Thermodynamical interaction between bitumen and polyethylene is discarded as a cause of the observed difference, because the solubility parameter is practically the same for all the investigated polyethylenes. The result is explained on the basis of the lower melt elasticity of m-LLDPEs (attributed to their narrow molecular weight distribution), which facilitates the drop breakup during mixing process. The modification of bitumen with any of the m-LLDPEs considered in this work gives a new material with considerably improved viscoelastic properties.     

Magnetic Anisotropy of Dichlorobis(η5‐cyclopentadienyl) Complexes of Vanadium,Niobium, and Tantalum

Abstract. The magnetic behavior of the mononuclear nd¹ systems MCp₂Cl₂ (M = V⁴⁺[3d¹], Nb⁴⁺[4d¹], Ta⁴⁺[5d¹], space group P2₁/c, pseudosymmetry of the molecules C_2v) deviates from pure single ion spin magnetism on account of ligand field effect (H_lf), spin‐orbit coupling (H_so), and intermolecular spin‐spin exchange interactions (H_ex). For both VCp₂Cl₂ and NbCp₂Cl₂ excellent adaptations to the measured susceptibility data were obtained (2 K ≤ T ≤ 300 K) on the basis of spectroscopic data (lf, so) and cooperative metal–metal interactions (ex) of antiferromagnetic nature [molecular field model (mf)]. For TaCp₂Cl₂ experimental term structure data are not available. Therefore, Jørgensen's spectroscopical series (g‐factor of the central ion) was applied to extrapolate the data set for TaCp₂Cl₂. H_lf, H_so, and H_ex (antiferromagnetic) increase in the order 3d¹ → 4d¹ → 5d¹ leading, with rising atomic number of the metals, to a distinct enhancement of the magnetic anisotropy. At 4 K the μ_eff components μ_eff,y (oriented perpendicular to the cg–M–cg plane; “cg” = center of gravity of the Cp ring), μ_eff,z (oriented along the twofold pseudoaxis), and μ_eff,x are 1.73, 1.69, 1.68 (V), 1.73, 1.62, 1.59 (Nb), and 1.71, 1.59, 1.49 (Ta). While μ_eff,y is independent of T, both μ_eff,z and μ_eff,x decrease with decreasing T.     

茂金属化合物/Zn/BDGE/MAO催化体系合成aPS-b-P(S-co-E)-b-PE嵌段共聚物的研究

采用单茂钛化合物CpTiCl3,有机环氧化合物1,4-丁二醇二缩水甘油基醚(BDGE),金属锌(Zn)及甲基铝氧烷(MAO)为催化体系,通过自由基聚合和配位聚合机理合成无规聚苯乙烯-b-聚(苯乙烯-co-乙烯)-b-聚乙烯(aPS-b-P(S-co-E)-b-PE).探讨了温度、时间、乙烯压力及Al/Ti摩尔比对共聚合的影响.所得嵌段共聚物采用DSC,WAXD,GPC和13C-NMR等手段进行了表征.结果表明该共聚物是苯乙烯/乙烯嵌段共聚物,聚苯乙烯链段是无规的,聚乙烯链段具有结晶性.     

烯烃聚合催化剂的研究进展

获得高性能聚烯烃材料是化学家们不断的追求。烯烃聚合催化剂的结构对其催化性能有重要影响,而聚烯烃的改性则能够改善聚合物实际应用中表面形貌、本体性能中存在的缺陷,如通过改性可增加聚合物韧性、降低聚合物表面的摩擦系数或提升表面能等。 本文系统总结了金属烯烃聚合催化剂研究进展,包括Ziegler-Natta催化剂、茂金属催化剂、非茂金属催化剂的结构及调控策略,探讨了位阻效应、双金属协同效应以及其他效应对催化效果的影响。     

Synthesis of Optically Pure Helicene Metallocenes

Two types of ruthenocenes and a ferrocene coordinated by rac ‐9H ‐cyclopenta[1,2‐c :4,3‐c ′]diphenanthrenyl anion(s), a [7]helicene with a cyclopentadienyl moiety at the center of its skeleton, were successfully synthesized: mono‐helicene ruthenocene 1 and its iron analogue 1_Fe with one [7]helicene ligand bound to the central metal, and bis‐helicene ruthenocene 2 with two [7]helicenes. Starting from a racemic mixture of the ligand precursor, rac ‐ 2 and meso ‐ 2 were obtained in a 7:3 ratio. Since the [7]helicene has a high racemization barrier, enantiomers of the complexes were isolated in their pure forms; they showed large optical rotations and intense circular dichroism (CD) responses.