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 C>n< olefin with ethylene in the presence of an organometallic catalyst to produce a C>n+2< linear alpha-olefin, wherein the catalyst is capable of producing a Schlulz-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.