Patent ID: 7078164

Claim:
A method of screening potential catalysts for polymerization performance wherein the polymerization performance of the potential catalysts is determined for at least a first monomer as a predictor for the polymerization performance of the potential catalysts for at least a second monomer, the first and second monomers being different from each other and the first monomer being an olefin other than ethylene, the method comprising: concurrently reacting an array of at least 8 potential polymerization catalysts that are different from each other with only the first monomer and not the second monomer under polymerization conditions in a first reaction; determining the polymerization performance of each of the at least 8 potential catalysts reacted with the first monomer in the first reaction; identifying one or more catalysts from the at least 8 potential polymerization catalysts based on the polymerization performance of the catalysts in the first reaction; and reacting the one or more identified catalysts with the first and second monomers under polymerization conditions in a second reaction.