申请人:EXXON CHEMICAL PATENTS INC.
公开号:EP0400867A1
公开(公告)日:1990-12-05
Oil soluble grafted ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer useful as a viscosity modifier for oleaginous compositions comprising:
(i) backbone copolymer of ethylene and at least one other alpha-olefin monomer, said copolymer comprising intramolecularly heterogeneous copolymer chains containing at least one crystallizable segment of methylene units and at least one low crystallinity ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer segment, wherein said at least one crystallizable segment comprises at least about 10 weight percent of said copolymer chain and contains at least about 57 weight percent ethylene, wherein said low crystallinity segment contains not greater than about 53 weight percent ethylene, and wherein said copolymer has a molecular weight distribution characterized by at least one of a ratio of Mw/Mn of less than 2 and a ratio of Mz/M2 of less than 1.8, and wherein at least two portions of an individual intramolecularly heterogeneous chain, each portion comprising at least 5 weight percent of said chain, differ in composition from one another by at least 7 weight percent ethylene; having grafted on said backbone copolymer
(ii) residue of ethylenically unsaturated grafting material; said grafted ethylenealpha-olefin copolymer having substantially the molecular weight distribution, i.e., within about 10 percent, of said copolymer of ethylene. The preferred grafting material is an ethylenically monounsaturated carboxylic acid material having 1 to 2 carboxylic acid groups or an anhydride group.
可溶于油的接枝乙烯-α-烯烃共聚物,可用作含油组合物的粘度调节剂,其成分包括
(i) 乙烯和至少另一种α-烯烃单体的骨架共聚物,所述共聚物包括分子内异构共聚物链,其中至少含有一个亚甲基单元的可结晶段和至少一个低结晶度的乙烯-α-烯烃共聚物段、其中所述至少一个可结晶段占所述共聚物链的至少约 10 重量%,并含有至少约 57 重量%的乙烯,其中所述低结晶度段含有不大于约 53 重量%的乙烯,并且所述共聚物具有分子量分布,其特征为 Mw/Mn 比值小于 2 和 Mz/M2 比值小于 1 中的至少一种。8,且其中单个分子内异质链的至少两个部分(每个部分占所述链的至少 5 重量%)在组成上彼此相差至少 7 重量%的乙烯;在所述骨架共聚物上接枝有
(ii) 乙烯不饱和接枝材料的残留物;所述接枝的乙烯-α-烯烃共聚物的分子量分布与所述乙烯共聚物基本相同,即在约 10%以内。优选的接枝材料是具有 1 至 2 个羧酸基团或酸酐基团的乙烯单不饱和羧酸材料。