Provided is a method of producing a multicomponent copolymer, in which ethylene, a non-conjugated olefin compound having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a conjugated diene compound are copolymerized to produce a multicomponent copolymer. The method of producing a multicomponent copolymer is a method in which ethylene, a non-conjugated olefin compound having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a conjugated diene compound are copolymerized to produce a multicomponent copolymer, including a step of copolymerizing the ethylene, the non-conjugated olefin compound, and the conjugated diene compound, in the presence of a polymerization catalyst composition containing a rare earth element compound (component (A)) represented by predetermined formula.

Provided is a hybrid catalyst composition including a first transition metal compound represented by Formula 1 and a second transition metal compound represented by Formula 2, the compounds being different from each other in the Formulae. The hybrid catalyst composition including the first and second transition metal compounds may exhibit high catalytic activity and may prepare a polyolefin having processability and mechanical properties.

Embodiments of the present disclosure directed towards bimodal polymerization catalysts. As an example, the present disclosure provides a bimodal polymerization catalyst system including a non-metallocene olefin polymerization catalyst and a zirconocene catalyst of Formula I: (Formula I) where each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.4 are independently a C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group or a hydrogen, where R.sup.3 is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group, and where each X is independently a halide, C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aralkyl group or hydrogen. ##STR00001##

Metallic complexes having indenyl ligands can be used as an ingredient of a catalyst system. The catalyst system can be used in polymerizations of ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers that include both olefins and polyenes. Embodiments of the catalyst system can provide interpolymers that include polyene mer and from 40 to 75 mole percent ethylene mer, with a plurality of the ethylene mer being randomly distributed. The catalyst system also can be used in solution polymerizations conducted in C.sub.5-C.sub.12 alkanes, yielding interpolymers that include at least 10 mole percent ethylene mer.

Embodiments of the present disclosure directed towards polymerization catalysts having improved ethylene enchainment and/or improved catalyst productivity. As an example, the present disclosure provides a polymerization catalyst of Formula (I), wherein each of R.sup.1 to R.sup.12 is independently a C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group, or a hydrogen, wherein at least one of R.sup.4 to R.sup.7 is not a hydrogen, wherein M is a Group 4 metal, and wherein, each X is independently a halide, C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aralkyl or hydrogen.

The present invention relates to a high-density ethylene-based polymer comprising: an ethylene homopolymer; or a copolymer of ethylene and at least one comonomer selected from the group consisting of -olefins, cyclic olefins and linear, branched and cyclic dienes. According to the present invention, the high-density ethylene-based polymer has a wide molecular weight distribution and excellent comonomer distribution characteristics, has excellent melt flowability due to a long chain branched structure, and has excellent mechanical characteristics since the comonomer distribution is concentrated in a high-molecular-weight body. The high-density ethylene polymer of the present invention has excellent molding processability during processing such as extrusion, compression, injection and rotational molding by having excellent mechanical characteristics and melt flowability.

Provided is a method of producing a multicomponent copolymer, in which ethylene, a non-conjugated olefin compound having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a conjugated diene compound are copolymerized to produce a multicomponent copolymer. The method of producing a multicomponent copolymer is a method in which ethylene, a non-conjugated olefin compound having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a conjugated diene compound are copolymerized to produce a multicomponent copolymer, including a step of copolymerizing the ethylene, the non-conjugated olefin compound, and the conjugated diene compound, in the presence of a polymerization catalyst composition containing a rare earth element compound (component (A)) represented by predetermined formula.

Ethylene-based polymers having a density of 0.952 to 0.968 g/cm.sup.3, a ratio of HLMI/MI from 185 to 550, an IB parameter from 1.46 to 1.80, a tan at 0.1 sec.sup.1 from 1.05 to 1.75 degrees, and a slope of a plot of viscosity versus shear rate at 100 sec.sup.1 from 0.18 to 0.28 are described, with low melt flow versions having a HLMI from 10 to 30 g/10 min and a Mw from 250,000 to 450,000 g/mol, and high melt flow versions having a HLMI from 30 to 55 g/10 min and a Mw from 200,000 to 300,000 g/mol. These polymers have the processability of chromium-based resins, but with improved stress crack resistance and topload strength for bottles and other blow molded products.

Metallic complexes having indenyl ligands can be used as an ingredient of a catalyst system. The catalyst system can be used in polymerizations of ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers that include both olefins and polyenes. Embodiments of the catalyst system can provide interpolymers that include polyene mer and from 40 to 75 mole percent ethylene mer, with a plurality of the ethylene mer being randomly distributed. The catalyst system also can be used in solution polymerizations conducted in C.sub.5-C.sub.12 alkanes, yielding interpolymers that include at least 10 mole percent ethylene mer.

Embodiments of the present disclosure directed towards bimodal polymerization catalysts. As an example, the present disclosure provides a bimodal polymerization catalyst system including a non-metallocene olefin polymerization catalyst and a zirconocene catalyst of Formula I: (Formula I) where each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.4 are independently a C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group or a hydrogen, where R.sup.3 is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group, and where each X is independently a halide, C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, aralkyl group or hydrogen.