active site nature of magnesium dichloride-supported titanocene catalysts in olefin polymerization

Heterogeneous zieglernatta and homogeneous metallocene catalysts exhibit greatly different active sitenature in olefin polymerization. in our previous study, it was reported that mgcl2supported titanocenecatalysts can generate both zieglernattatype and metallocenetype active sites according to the type of activators.the dual active site nature of the supported titanocene catalysts was further explored in the present study: the influence of the ligand structure of titanocene precursors was studied on the nature of active sites when supported on mgcl2 in ethylene and propylene homopolymerization, and ethylene/1hexene copolymerization. it was found that the reducibility of titanocene precursors by alkylaluminum is closely related to the appearance of the dual active site nature, while the kind of olefin did not affect the type of active sites formed during polymerization. the zieglernattatype active sites produced poorly isotactic polypropylene and less branched polyethylene, while the metallocenetype active sites produced atactic polypropylene and exhibited much higher incorporation efficiency for 1hexene.