University of Hamburg

Department of Chemistry

Institute for TMC

Catalysts

Synthesis and application of

• metallocenes
• half sandwich compounds
• late transition metal complexes
• klassic Ziegler-Natta-systems

Cocatalysts

Application of

• methylaluminoxane
• non coordinating anions
• heteroatom stabilized cocatalysts

Processes

Polymerization in

• solution
• mass
• suspension
• gasphase (fluidized bed reactor, stirred bed reactor)
• emulsion

Polymers

Synthesis of

• PE and Poly(ethene)-co-(a-olefine)
• PP and Poly(propene)-co-(a-olefine)
• EPDM
• polystyrene
• polybutadiene
• COC
• polypentene, polyhexene

Polymerization in presence of filling material

Investigations of altering reactions

Analytic

• ¹H and ¹³C-NMR
• DSC
• GPC
• viscosimetry

Mechanistic investigations