| Abstract: | ![]()
Two unbridged metallocene catalysts, bis (2, 4, 7-trimethylindenyl)zirconium dichloride (met-I) and bis(2, 4, 6-trimethylindenyl) zirconium dichloride (met-II), which are different in the position o f substituents on the six-membered ringof the indenyl ligands were synthesized. The effect of substituents in the two metallocenes on the propylene polymerizationwas studied in the presence of methylaluminoxane (MAO) and triisobutylaluminium (TIBA). From the analysis ofmicrostructure determined by ~(13)C-NMR, it was demonstrated that the polymers produced by met-II have higher [mmmm]isotactic sequences than that of met-I. Using a mechanism based on model statistical analysis, it was found that chain-endmodel was dominant for met-I. However, met-II obeys the concurrent two-sites model during polymerization, which can beattributed to the existence of "racemic-like" conformer in its system. |
