A ring-opened copolymer including structural units derived from a norbornene compound having a specific structure and structural units derived from a monocyclic olefin, wherein the proportion of the structural units derived from a norbornene compound is 25 to 90 wt % and the proportion of the structural units derived from a monocyclic olefin is 10 to 75 wt % relative to the total repeating structural units in the ring-opened copolymer, the weight average molecular weight of the ring-opened copolymer is 100,000 to 1,000,000, and the cis/trans ratio of the ring-opened copolymer is 0/100 to 50/50.

Chemically inert, mechanically tough, cationic metallo-polyelectrolytes designed as durable anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cobaltocenium-containing cyclooctene with triazole as the only linker group, followed by backbone hydrogenation to provide a new class of AEMs with a polyethylene-like framework and alkaline-stable cobaltocenium cation for ion transport, which exhibit excellent thermal, chemical and mechanical stability, as well as high ion conductivity.

Contemplated subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to organometallic olefin metathesis catalysts, and more particularly to longer-lived olefin metathesis catalysts supported by hemi-labile carbene ligands that bear an arm with one or more donor ligands, as well as the use of such catalysts in metathesis reactions of olefins and olefin compounds. The contemplated subject matter has utility in the fields of catalysis, organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, and industrial and fine chemicals chemistry. This contemplated subject matter serves to reduce the cost of olefin metathesis (OM) processes including in olefin metathesis polymerizations, conversion of vegetable oils into chemicals, and processes in the petrochemical industry. This contemplated subject matter reduces the cost of OM processes by providing OM catalysts that are longer-lived and lead to higher turnover numbers, hence requiring less catalyst to convert a given amount of substrate(s). Considering that the OM catalyst is the most expensive part of some OM processes, longer-lived OM catalysts have the benefit of reducing the overall cost of the OM processes.

Chemically inert, mechanically tough, cationic metallo-polyelectrolytes designed as durable anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cobaltocenium-containing cyclooctene with triazole as the only linker group, followed by backbone hydrogenation to provide a new class of AEMs with a polyethylene-like framework and alkaline-stable cobaltocenium cation for ion transport, which exhibit excellent thermal, chemical and mechanical stability, as well as high ion conductivity.

The present disclosure is directed to methods of making a polymer, including exposing a reaction mixture including a strained cyclic unsaturated monomer and an organic initiator to a stimulus to provide an activated organic initiator, whereby the activated organic initiator is effective to polymerize the strained cyclic unsaturated monomer via a 4-membered carbocyclic intermediate to provide a polymer having constitutional units derived from the strained cyclic unsaturated monomer.

Described herein are compositions having an eight-membered monocyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon, methods and system to separate the eight-membered monocyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon at from a hydrocarbon mixture including additional nonlinear unsaturated C.sub.8H.sub.2m hydrocarbons with 4m8, by contacting the hydrocarbon mixture with a 10-ring pore molecular sieve having a sieving channel with a 10-ring sieving aperture with a minimum crystallographic free diameter greater than 3 and a ratio of the maximum crystallographic free diameter to the minimum crystallographic free diameter between 1 and 2, the molecular sieve having a T1/T2 ratio 20:1 wherein T1 is an element independently selected from Si and Ge, and T2 is an element independently selected from Al, B and Ga, the 10-ring pore molecular sieve further having a counterion selected from NH.sub.4.sup.+, Li.sup.+, Na.sup.+, K.sup.+ and Ca.sup.++.

A process has the ability to produce polyalkenamer-containing compositions. Stages of the process include converting at least one cycloalkene by ring-opening metathetic polymerization to obtain a polyalkenamer-containing product mixture, and working up the product mixture to remove at least one of a monomer and an oligomer of the at least one cycloalkene to obtain the polyalkenamer-containing composition. The working up stage is effected by a diafiltration.

The present invention relates to a method for the polymerization of cycloolefins by ring-opening metathesis. The reaction is carried out in the presence of at least one particular catalyst, selected from the ruthenium alkylidene complexes comprising at least one 1-aryl-3-cycloalkyl-imidazolin-2-ylidene ligand and mixtures thereof. The invention also relates to a kit for implementing this method.

The present invention relates to a process for producing cycloalkenamer-containing compositions. The polymerization of cycloalkenamer is stopped by addition of alkyl vinyl ethers. This is followed by a membrane filtration. This type of production affords polyalkenamers that are thermally stable at 180 C.

Described herein are compositions having an eight-membered monocyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon, methods and system to separate the eight-membered monocyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon at from a hydrocarbon mixture including additional nonlinear unsaturated C.sub.8H.sub.2m hydrocarbons with 4m8, by contacting the hydrocarbon mixture with a 10-ring pore molecular sieve having a sieving channel with a 10-ring sieving aperture with a minimum crystallographic free diameter greater than 3 and a ratio of the maximum crystallographic free diameter to the minimum crystallographic free diameter between 1 and 2, the molecular sieve having a T1/T2 ratio20:1 wherein T1 is an element independently selected from Si and Ge, and T2 is an element independently selected from Al, B and Ga, the 10-ring pore molecular sieve further having a counterion selected from NH.sub.4.sup.+, Li.sup.+, Na.sup.+, K.sup.+ and Ca.sup.++.