Bridged metallocene catalysts with a pendant group 13 element, catalyst systems containing same, processes for making a polymer product using same, and products made from same

A metallocene catalyst compound represented by the formula:

• wherein:
• each of R4 and R5 is a hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched linear, or cyclic C1-C30 hydrocarbyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched linear, or cyclic C1-C30 hydrosilylcarbyl group;
• R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched linear, or cyclic C1-C30 hydrocarbyl group, or R1 and R2, taken together with the carbon atoms in the first cyclopentadienyl ring to which they are directly connected, collectively form one or more substituted or unsubstituted rings annelated to the first cyclopentadienyl ring;
• each of R10 and R11 is a hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched linear, or cyclic C1-C30 hydrocarbyl group;
• R12 and R13 are each independently a hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched linear, or cyclic C1-C30 hydrocarbyl group, or R12 and R13, taken together with the carbon atoms in the second cyclopentadienyl ring to which they are directly connected, collectively form one or more substituted or unsubstituted rings annelated to the second cyclopentadienyl ring;
• M is a transition metal having an integer valency of v;
• each X is independently a halogen, a hydride, an amide, an alkoxide, a substituted alkoxide, or a C1-C20 substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched, or cyclic hydrocarbyl group, a perfluorinated oxyphenyl, a perfluorinated oxynaphthyl, or optionally two or more X moieties form a fused ring or ring system;
• m is an integer equal to v-2;
• and
• the bridging group (BG) comprises —[BA(R20)2]n—, wherein:
• n is an integer from 1 to 3;
• each BA, the same or different at each occurrence, is independently carbon, silicon, or germanium;
• and each R20, the same or different at each occurrence, is each independently a C1-C8 substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched, or cyclic hydrocarbyl group or a pendant group having a formula —R21-G13(X*)2, where each G13 is a group 13 element, each R21 is independently a C1-C8 substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched, or cyclic hydrocarbyl group;
• and each X* is independently a halogen, a hydride, an amide, an alkoxide, a substituted alkoxide, a perfluorinated oxyphenyl, a perfluorinated oxynaphthyl, a C1-C20 unsubstituted linear, branched, or cyclic hydrocarbyl group, a C1-C20 substituted linear, branched or non-aromatic cyclic hydrocarbyl group, or a C1-C20 substituted aromatic cyclic hydrocarbyl group, where the substitution on the substituted aromatic cyclic hydrocarbyl is selected from NR*2, OR*, where R* is, independently, hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl, or where at least one heteroatom has been inserted within the aromatic hydrocarbyl ring, provided that at least one R20 is a pendant group of the formula —R21-G13(X*)2.