The invention provides a low-
metal-residue cycloolefin
polymer and a preparation method and application thereof, and the preparation method specifically comprises the following steps: (1) mixing a main catalyst, a cocatalyst and an organic solution to obtain a catalyst solution; (2) carrying out ring-opening
polymerization reaction on the cycloolefin
monomer solution and the catalyst solution, and after the ring-opening
polymerization reaction is finished, carrying out
hydrogenation reaction to obtain a cycloolefin
polymer solution; and (3) adding an adsorbent, and separating to obtain the low-
metal residual cycloolefin
polymer. According to the adsorbent, hydrophobic groups are grafted on the surface of a
molecular sieve, adsorption on polar molecules is reduced, polar
metal impurities are preferentially captured, then a template in a pore channel of the
molecular sieve is removed through absolute ethyl
alcohol, sulfydryl and phenolic hydroxyl are grafted in the pore channel of the
molecular sieve, double capture sites are provided, and a
metal catalyst left in a cycloolefin
polymer solution is chelated; the cycloolefin polymer which is deeply removed and purified can be applied to the field of medical packaging materials, and the safety can be improved.