This invention relates to the field of polymers and olefin polymerization, and more specifically olefin metathesis polymerization. Specifically, the present invention provides a polymer comprising rigorously alternating AB subunits and methods of formation of the AB alternating polymers. In the polymers and process of the invention, the A monomer is derived from a cyclobutene derivative, and the B monomer is derived from a cyclohexene derivative. The polymerization takes place in the presence of an olefin metathesis catalyst.

Described herein are associative polymers capable of controlling a physical and/or chemical property of non-polar compositions and related compositions, methods and systems. Associative polymers herein described have a non-polar backbone and functional groups presented at ends of the non-polar backbone, with a number of the functional groups presented at the ends of the non-polar backbone formed by associative functional groups capable of undergoing an associative interaction with another associative functional group with an association constant (k) such that the strength of each associative interaction is less than the strength of a covalent bond between atoms and in particular less than the strength of a covalent bond between backbone atoms.

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 4≤m≤8, 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 Å 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.+.

Exemplary methods, catalysts, catalyst compositions and systems are provided to activate a latent ruthenium olefin metathesis catalyst using a deep red to near infrared light (e.g., 600-800 nm) in conjunction with an osmium (II) photocatalyst that is directly excited to its triplet state via spin-forbidden excitation. An excited state single electron reduction of a latent solvent coordinated, cationic pre-catalyst is proposed as the operating mechanism for activation and photocontrol, as probed via in situ LED NMR kinetic studies and cyclic voltammetry. Excellent levels of spatiotemporal control can be found under light irradiation. NIR olefin metathesis exhibits improved light penetration through barriers over lower wavelengths of light, a control element that was deployed to mold dicyclopentadiene via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP).

The invention relates to 1) a hydrocarbonated polymer comprising two alcoxysilane end groups of formula (1), and 2) a method for producing said polymer, an adhesive composition comprising said polymer and the use of said adhesive composition.

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A method for synthesizing polyolefin materials with a controlled degree of branching includes the following steps: polymerizing cyclic olefin monomers under catalyst conditions. The cyclic olefin monomer is shown in formula I, where n≥0, n is an integer. By changing monomers and reaction parameters such as reaction temperature, solvent type, catalyst concentration, monomer concentration and reaction time, the degree of branching, the molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of polyolefin can be controlled. Compared with the existing process, the present invention is a new polymerization process, which can prepare the hyperbranched polyolefin with precise and controllable branching structure. The polyolefin material prepared according to the present invention has advantages of a controlled degree of branching, low viscosity and good fluidity, which has broad application in coating, lubricant, polymer and process flow improvement technologies.

The invention relates to a hydrocarbon polymer containing two alcoxysilane end groups having the following Formula (I). The invention also relates to a method for preparing said polymer, to an adhesive composition containing said polymer, and to the use of said adhesive composition.

A method for producing a fluorine-containing polymer includes subjecting at least one kind of fluorine-containing cycloolefin compound selected from the group consisting of a fluorine-containing cycloolefin compound represented by the following formula (41) and a fluorine-containing cycloolefin compound represented by the following formula (42) to ring-opening metathesis polymerization in the presence of a metal-carbene complex compound (10) having an olefin metathesis reaction activity.

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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.

An improved process for preparing a conductive polymer dispersion is provided as is an improved method for making capacitors using the conductive polymer. The process includes providing a monomer solution and shearing the monomer solution with a rotor-stator mixing system comprising a perforated stator screen having perforations thereby forming droplets of said monomer. The droplets of monomer are then polymerized during shearing to form the conductive polymer dispersion.