A process for producing a metallocycle metallocene comprising reacting a reactant metallocene which has a cyclopentadienyl group having an alkenyl group attached which has at least 3 carbon atoms with about 2 molar equivalents of an alkali metal alkyl having at least 4 carbon atoms, catalyst systems resulting from the combination of the metallocycle metallocene and an organic cocatalyst, and polymerization processes using such catalyst systems are disclosed.
A process for producing a new metallocene comprising reacting a first bridged metallocene which has an olefinically unsaturated with about two molar equivalents of an alkali metal alkyl, catalyst systems resulting from the combination of the resulting metallocenes and a cocatalyst, and polymerization processes using such catalyst systems are disclosed.
Metallocycle metallocenes are produced by reacting a first metallocene having an aralkyl group or an aryl dialkyl silyl group attached to a cyclodienyl group with about two molar equivalents of an alkali metal alkyl having at least 4 carbon atoms. The use of the metallocycle metallocenes as components of catalyst for the polymerization of olefins is also disclosed.
This invention relates to catalyst compositions, methods, and polymers encompassing at least one Group 4 metallocene compound comprising bridging .eta..sup.5-cyclopentadienyl-type ligands, typically in combination with at least one cocatalyst, and at least one activator. The compositions and methods disclosed herein provide ethylene polymers with low levels of long chain branching.
