Patent ID: 8754170

Claim:
A process to prepare a multiblock polyolefin represented by the formula (X) or (XX): PO—C(R 11 )(R 12 )—C(R 13 )═C(R 14 )—C(O)—O—((CR 15 R 16 ) z —(CR 17 R 18 ) m —O) n —R 19 (X) or PO—C(R 11 )(R 12 )—C(R 13 )═C(R 14 )—C(O)—O—((CR 15 R 16 ) z —(CR 17 R 18 ) m O) n —C(O)—C(R 14 )═C(R 13 )—C(R 12 )(R 11 )—PO (XX), wherein R 11 , R 12 , R 13 , and R 14 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C 1 through C 4 hydrocarbyl group or a hydrogen; R 15 , R 16 , R 17 , and R 18 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C 1 through C 4 hydrocarbyl group or a hydrogen; R 19 is a C 1 to a C 20 substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group or a hydrogen; z is ≧1 to about 5; m is ≧1 to about 5; PO is a polyolefin hydrocarbyl group comprising 10 to 4000 carbon atoms; n is from 1 to about 10,000; comprising contacting an alkene metathesis catalyst with i) a vinyl terminated polyolefin containing at least 5% allyl chain ends (relative to total unsaturations), and ii) an acrylate or methacrylate functionalized polyalkylene glycol represented by the formula (XII) or (XXII): C(R 13 )(R 20 )═C(R 14 )—C(O)—O—((CR 15 R 16 ) z —(CR 17 R 18 ) m —O) n —R 19 (XII) or C(R 13 )(R 20 )═C(R 14 )—C(O)—O—((CR 15 R 16 ) z —(CR 17 R 18 ) m —(O) n —C(O)—C(R 14 )═C(R 13 )(R 20 ) (XXII) wherein R 13 , R 14 , R 15 , R 16 , R 17 , R 18 , R 19 , Z, M, and N are as defined above; R 20 is a hydrogen or a C 1 to a C 4 substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group.