Organo aluminum halide catalysts and polymerization processes employing same

Claim 1

IN THE POLYMERIZATION OF A-OLEFINIC HYDROCARBONS CONTAINING AT LEAST THREE CARBON ATOMS TO SOLID, CRYSTALLINE POLYMER, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES CATALYZING THE POLYMERIZATION WITH A CATALYTIC MIXTURE CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF (1) ORGANO-ALUMINUM HALIDES HAVING A FORMULA SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF RMALXN AND R2AL2X3 WHERE R IS A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALKYL, CYCLOALKYL, PHENYL, TOLYL, X IS A HALOGEN SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF CHLORINE AND BROMINE AND M AND N ARE INTGERS WHOSE SUM IS EQUAL TO THE VALENCE OF ALUMINUM, (2) A COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HALIDES, ALKOXY HALIDES AND ALKOXIDES OF A TRANSITION METAL FROM GROUP IVB-VIB OF THE PERIODIC TABLE AND (3) A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF MONOCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS CONTAINING UP TO 16 CARBON ATOMS AND AT LEAST THREE ETHYLENIC BONDS IN THE RING, PHENYL SUBSTITUTED ACYCLIC STRAIGHT CHAIN HYDROCARBONS CONTAINING AT LEAST THREE ETHYLYLENIC BONDS AND POLYBUTADIENE HAVING AN INHERENT VISCOSITY IN TETRALIN AT 145* C. IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT .1 TO ABOUT 1.5, THE MOLAR RATIO OF COMPONENT (1) TO COMPONENT (3) BEING IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 10:1 TO ABOUT 1:5.