Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compounds comprise as essential componentsA) from 10 to 100% by weight of copolymers of the monomers of the general formulae I and II ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is H or alkyl of 1-22 carbon atoms,R.sub.2 is H or alkyl of 1-22 carbon atoms,R.sub.3 is H or alkyl of 1-4 carbon atoms,a is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, andb is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5,B) from 0 to 3000 ppm, based on the weight of component A, of compounds of the general formula I,C) from 0 to 500 ppm, based on the weight of component A, of compounds of the general formula II,D) from 0 to 90% by weight, based on the total weight of the molding compound, of polymers other than A), andE) from 0 to 50% by weight, based on the total weight of the molding compound, of additives and processing aids.

Abstract: Essentially dry materials are obtained by mechanically dewatering water-moist rubber, prepared by emulsion polymerization and precipitation, to give a compact material having a rubber content of at least 50%, by a process in which the previously dewatered rubber is fed to the feed section of a twin-screw extruder which has screws rotating in the same direction and possesses, in succession in the conveying direction, at least two back-up zones and two associated dewatering orifices, each of which may be provided with a retaining screw, and at least one kneading zone, one devolatilization zone and finally one discharge zone, which may be closed by a die lip, and the water separated off is discharged at the dewatering orifices in liquid form.

Abstract: Toughened vinyl aromatic compounds, in particular high impact polystyrene, are prepared by a continuous process in which the vinyl aromatic compound and the impact modifier, an elastomeric block copolymer, are each prepared separately in a reaction zone by anionic polymerization, with or without heat exchange with the environment and, if required, with the addition of a solvent, and are polymerized until complete conversion is achieved, and the living chain ends are terminated in a manner known per se, and a thermoplastic, toughened molding material is based on a vinyl aromatic compound having a residual content of less than 50 ppm of monomers and less than 100 ppm of oligomers.

Abstract: Anionically (co)polymerizable vinyl or diene compounds are polymerized in solution and in a reaction zone in the form of a flow tube, using an organometallic initiator, by a continuous process in which the reaction takes place essentially without heat exchange with the environment, the residence time is less than 5 minutes and the reaction zone contains no moving parts.

Abstract: In a process for preparing a thermoplastic molding material comprising from 80 to 50% by weight of a hard matrix of an anionically polymerized aromatic vinyl compound and from 20 to 50% by weight of a soft phase uniformly distributed in the hard matrix, the percentages being based in each case on the sum of the hard matrix and soft phase, a rubber-elastic block copolymer based on an aromatic vinyl compound and on an alkadiene in a weight ratio of 5:95 to 55:45 is anionically polymerized in a first stage, if desired the living chain ends are capped and the aromatic vinyl compound is polymerized in the presence of the block copolymer with renewed addition of an anionic initiator and while stirring, and the living chain ends are finally (re)closed.

Abstract: In a process for preparing block copolymers of styrene or its equivalents on the one hand and of butadiene or its equivalents on the other hand by sequential anionic polymerization, in which a first monomer and the organometallic compound serving as initiator are first of all combined to form a reaction mixture and the reaction is continued until at least part of the first monomer has been consumed, and then at least one further monomer is added and is in each case partially or completely reacted, the polymerization is carried out continuously in a conventional manner in a tubular reactor, the reaction of in each case one monomer being carried out in each case in one reactor section and at least two reactor sections being separated by a mixing stretch.

Abstract: A process is described for preparing styrene polymers by continuous anionic polymerization, the monomer or monomers and the organometallic compound serving as starter (initiator) being added in solution to a tubular reactor operating essentially without backmixing and being left in the reactor until the monomer has been consumed, wherein the polymerization is carried out in at least two successive tubular reactor sections operating in each case essentially adiabatically, with in each case at least one heat exchanger arranged between the sections. If desired a proportion of the starter and/or of the monomer is added to at least one reactor connected downstream of the first reactor.

Abstract: Impact-resistant polystyrene acrylonitrile (ABS) is prepared by free radical polymernation of monomeric styrene and acrylonitrile or equivalents thereof in the presence of preformed, dissolved polbutadiene as a grafting base, the solvents used being in particular ethylbenzene and, at least from time to time, the monomers, and phase inversion taking place when the process has progressed to a certain point, in two or more reaction zones, by a continuous process in which the first reaction zone is present at least in duplicate and is in the form of a stirred kettle in each case, so that one stirred kettle is operated batchwise and alternately with the other in such a way that the reaction mixture is polymerized until phase inversion is complete or the initiator has been consumed, and the particular kettle content is then fed continuously to a second reaction zone in the form of a tube reactor.

Abstract: A transparent thermoplastic molding material contains, based on A+B,A: from 5 to 95% by weight of polystyrene andB; from 95 to 5% by weight of a nonelastomeric star block copolymer which is composed of, based on B, b.sub.1 from 60 to 95% by weight of styrene and b.sub.2 from 5 to 40% by weight of one or more conjugated dienes of 4 or 5 carbon atoms and is prepared in a conventional manner by sequential anionic polymerization using one or more organolithium compounds as an initiator and in the presence of a solvent with subsequent coupling.In this process, component A is produced by conventional anionic polymerization using one or more organolithium compounds in the presence of an organic solvent.The molding material is prepared by mixing the components A and B, with or without C, in a conventional manner and is used for the production of moldings.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding materials contain, as essential components,A) 5-92% by weight of a polyphenylene ether which can contain up to 50% by weight of a styrene polymer which differs from C),B) 5-92% by weight of a nylon,C) 3-50% by weight of a copolymer composed of C.sub.1) 97-99.9% by weight of styrene and/or substituted styrenes of the general formula I ##STR1## where R is hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms or halogen, R.sup.1 is alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms or halogen and n is 0, 1, 2 or 3,C.sub.2) 0.1-3% by weight of an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated dicarbonyl compound andC.sub.3) 0-10% by weight of further, nonionic comonomers, andD) 0-35% by weight of a rubber impact modifier.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding materials containing, as essential components,(A) 5-95% by weight of a partially aromatic copolyamide essentially composed of(A.sub.1) 20-90% by weight of units derived from terephthalic acid and hexamethylenediamine(A.sub.2) 0-50% by weight of units derived from .epsilon.-caprolactam and(A.sub.3) 0-80% by weight of units derived from adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine,(B) 5-95% by weight of a polyphenylene ether,(C) 0-45% by weight of a vinylaromatic polymer and(D) 0-40% by weight of a rubber impact-modifier, are prepared.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding materials based on polyphenylene ethers and nylons are prepared in an extruder by a continuous process in which a modified polyphenylene ether is prepared in a first zone of the extruder and is then mixed with nylons and, if required, further additives in one or more further zones.

Abstract: A thermoplastic molding material containing, based on components A, B and C,A from 10 to 90% by weight of one or more polycarbonates,B from 10 to 50% by weight of one or more graft copolymers,C from 10 to 50% by weight of one or more thermoplastic copolymers containing a vinylaromatic monomer of 8 to 12 carbon atoms and acrylonitrile,wherein component B is composed ofB.sub.1 a first, coarsely divided graft copolymer which has an average particle size of from 200 to 700 nm (d.sub.50 value of cumulative molecular weight distribution) in a proportion of from 30 to 70% by weight, based on B, andB.sub.2 a second, finely divided graft copolymer which has an average particle size of from 50 to 180 nm (d.sub.50 value of cumulative molecular weight distribution) in a proportion of from 70 to 30% by weight, based on B,is used for producing moldings.

Abstract: Self-extinguishing, thermoplastic polyphenylene ether/polyamide molding materials contain, as essential components,(A) from 10 to 90% by weight of component (A), which consists of(A.sub.1) from 70 to 99% by weight of a modified polyphenylene ether,(A.sub.2) from 1 to 30% by weight of a compound containing bound phosphorus, the percentages by weight being based on the total weight of component (A), and(B) from 90 to 10% by weight of component (B), which consists of(B.sub.1) from 80 to 99% by weight of one or more polyamides and(B.sub.2) from 1 to 20% by weight of one or more compounds containing a bound triazine radical and from the group consisting of cyanuric acid and its derivatives.

Abstract: Graft polymers of(A) a polyphenylene ether as a base polymer and(B) a half ester of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid of the general formula ##STR1## as a graft monomer, where R.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.25 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.25 -alkylene or aryl, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each H, Br, Cl or one of the radicals R.sup.1, and Q is H or an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or an ammonium cation,with or without(C) further olefinically unsaturated monomers,and their preparation.

Abstract: Polyphenylene ethers are prepared from monohydric phenols, which possess alkyl substituents in the two ortho-positions and, if desired, in the meta-position, but not in the para-position, by an oxidative coupling reaction with oxygen at from 15.degree. to 50.degree. C. and under from 1 to 10 bar in the presence of a catalyst complex, of a solvent and, if required, of an activator, by a method in which the conversion of the phenols is carried out in two more reaction zones, in which some or all of the solvent, the catalyst complex and the phenols and, where relevant, the activator is initially taken and is circulated by means of a conveying unit, and about 60-100% of the stoichiometric amount of oxygen required for the oxidative coupling is introduced into the first reaction zone and from 0 to about 40% of the said stoichiometric amount is introduced into the second reaction zone.

Abstract: A thermoplastic molding material comprises copolymers I and II.Copolymer I is a high-impact (graft) copolymer which is derived from a monovinyl-aromatic monomer and a polymer or copolymer predominantly containing polymerized 1,3-diene units, and is present in a proportion of 0.1-1.0% by weight, based on the molding material.Copolymer II is a block copolymer with star-shaped branching, ie. a radial block copolymer, having an average of more than two branches per molecule. It is substantially derived from 55-80% by weight of a monovinyl-aromatic monomer and 20-45% by weight of a 1,3-diene monomer.The molding material may contain conventional assistants and is used for the production of blown film.

Abstract: A process for the continuous preparation of rubber-modified polymers of vinyl-aromatics, wherein a mixture which contains a monomeric aromatic vinyl compound and from 3 to 30% by weight, based on the monomer, of an elastomeric polymer, with or without a solvent, is polymerized, in the presence of a free radical initiator and in the presence or absence of a mercaptan as chain transfer agent, at from 80.degree. to 180.degree. C., with stirring, in a cascade of two or more isothermally operated reaction zones and of one or more additional reaction zones which can be operated isothermally or with a rising temperature profile in such a way that the residence time of the reactants in the first reaction zone is .ltoreq.35 minutes. The polymer obtained is freed from vinyl-aromatic monomer, and from any solvent, in a devolatilization zone. The product is useful for the production of injection moldings.

Abstract: An impact-resistant thermoplastic molding material, containing polystyrene as the matrix, and, dispersed therein, two elastomeric polymers or copolymers I and II composed entirely or predominantly of 1,3-dienes and containing particles of different mean size, namely, in I, particles from 0.2 to 0.6 .mu.m in size and having capsule particle morphology, and, in II, particles from 2 to 8 .mu.m in size, having cell particle or coil particle morphology.

Abstract: A process, carried out without a diluent or in solution, in more than 2 reaction zones, for the continuous preparation of rubber-modified polymers of vinylaromatics, wherein a monomeric aromatic vinyl compound and an elastomeric polymer, in an amount of from 3 to 16% by weight based on the monomer, are polymerized, in the absence of a free radical initiator, but in the presence of a mercaptan as a chain transfer agent, at from 80.degree. to 180.degree. C. in a first reaction zone, with stirring, up to a maximum monomer conversion, U.sub.max, given by the equationU.sub.max =K-1where K is the amount of rubber in % by weight based on monomer, and, in a second reaction zone, polymerization is continued, with stirring, to a conversion of up to about 50% by weight, after which a chain transfer agent is introduced in an amount of from 0.01 to 0.