Selective coupling of terminal olefins with ethylene to manufacture linear alpha-olefins

摘要

A process for producing a linear alpha-olefin which comprises: reacting a stoichiometric excess of a terminal Cn olefin with ethylene in the presence of an organometallic catalyst to produce a Cn+2 linear alpha-olefin, wherein the catalyst is capable of producing a Schulz-Flory distribution of the linear alpha-olefin with a Schulz-Flory constant of less than about 0.8 and wherein n is an integer between about 3 to 20.