“…A similar mechanism has also been suggested by Satyanarayana and Sivaram (1993) for the formation of active sites in the case of Cp 2 TiCl 2 supported on MgCl 2 . Although directly impregnated silica-supported systems are inactive in olefin polymerization when AlR 3 is the cocatalyst, the use of MAO yields active polymerization catalysts (Soga et al, 1991;Kaminsky and Renner, 1993;Kaminsky, 1995a;Chen et al, 1995;Sacchi et al, 1995). By analogy with homogeneous metallocene/MAO systems, Kaminsky and Renner (1993), He (1991), andChen et al (1995) have suggested the formation, on silica supported catalysts, of ionic species of the type (SiO -‚Zr + ); see Scheme 2.…”