Abstract: Novel oxymethylene graft polymers are obtained by grafting, via Michael addition, an amine functional polymer onto an oxymethylene backbone having pendant acrylate or substituted acrylate ester groups serving as reactive sites for the graft reaction.

Abstract: Iodoisocyano, iodourea and oxazole modified 1,3 dioxep-5-ene ring monomers are synthesized and used in copolymerization reactions with trioxane to produce acetal copolymers with backbone functional groups. The invention also concerns processes for the production of acetal copolymers containing iodourea and oxazole functional groups from acetal copolymers with backbone double bonds.

Abstract: Novel oxymethylene graft polymers are obtained by grafting a functional compound (i.e., a polymer or compound having one or two hydroxyl, carboxyl, or amine functional groups) onto an oxymethylene backbone having pendant hydroxyl groups which serve as reactive sites for the graft reaction with diisocyanate coupling agents.

Abstract: Acetal copolymers of trioxane with epoxy functional groups are obtained by copolymerizing trioxane with 5,6-epoxy-1,3-dioxepane. The epoxide group in the polymer chain provides a highly reacting functional group for further modification. Acetal copolymers with backbone epoxide groups exhibit toughness and thermal stability. The backbone epoxide groups can also be aminated in a one step hydrolysis-amination process.

Abstract: Cationic copolymerization of trioxane and trimethylolpropane (TMP) formal or its ester derivatives yields acetal copolymers having pendant functional groups. The TMP formal or ester derivatives of TMP formal may therefore include functional groups selected from hydroxyl or ester moieties which are protected and thus survive the copolymerization with trioxane. These groups may then be present as functional reactive sites for the subsequent synthesis of block copolymers and/or to chemically bind modifiers to the acetal copolymer backbone, for example.

Abstract: Cationic copolymerization of trioxane with glycidyl ester derivatives, preferably glycidyl acrylate derivatives, produces thermally stable, usually cross-linked, acetal copolymer. The resulting acetal copolymer will exhibit side chain ester functionality, and particularly side chain vinyl functionality when glycidyl acrylate derivatives are employed, so as to permit its futher reaction with other chemical moieties to achieve an acetal copolymer of modified chemical and/or physical properties.

Abstract: Cationic copolymerization of trioxane and 1,2,6-hexanetriol formal (HTF) or its ester derivatives yields acetal copolymers having pendant functional groups. The HTF formal or ester derivatives of HTF may therefore include functional groups selected from hydroxyl or ester moieties which are protected, and thus survive, the copolymerization with trioxane. These groups may then be present as functional reactive sites for the subsequent synthesis of block copolymers and/or to chemically bind modifiers to the acetal copolymer backbone, for example.

Abstract: Cationic polymerization of trioxane and a mixture of ester derivatives of .alpha.,.alpha.- and .alpha.,.beta.-isomers of glycerol formal yields acetal terpolymers having pendant functional groups (i.e., ester groups, or hydroxyl groups obtained by hydrolyzing ester groups, pendent from the polymer's backbone). The glycerol formal monomers employed in this invention may include functional groups selected from ester moieties which are protected from, and thus survive, the polymerization process with trioxane. These groups may then be present as functional reactive sites for the subsequent synthesis of block polymers and/or to chemically bind modifiers to the acetal terpolymer backbone, for example.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing an acetal copolymer containing backbone bromo-functional groups comprising copolymerizing trioxane with 5,6,-dibromo-1,3-dioxepene. The invention also concerns methods of modifying acetal copolymers containing bromo-functional groups and the copolymers produced by the methods of the invention.

Abstract: Acetal copolymers of trioxane and 1,3-dioxep-5-ene having a high degree of crystallinity and specific mole percent incorporations of 1,3-dioxep-5-ene are synthesized.The invention also provides a process for producing highly crystalline acetal copolymers by copolymerizing triozane and 1,3-dioxep-5-ene and precipitating the copolymer product from solution.The copolymers show much improved stability against halogen degradation.

Abstract: An oxymethylene polymer composition which exhibits a reduced tendency to form mold deposits upon molding, reduced tendency to discolor under thermal stress and low extractable formaldehyde levels is provided by utilizing as a stabilizer a major amount of superpolyamide and a minor amount of a cyclic amidine compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is phenyl, polynuclear aromatic, heterocyclic, cycloaliphatic and aliphatic containing at least 6 carbon atoms, as well as substituted derivatives of the listed substituents.

Abstract: An electrically conductive polyacetal molding resin composition having improved flexibility and impact strength is provided by formulating an oxymethylene polymer, an electrically conductive carbon black having a surface area, BET N.sub.2 of greater than 1,200 m.sup.2 /g and a pore volume, DBP absorption of greater than 500 cc/100 g, and an elastomeric polyurethane.

Abstract: This invention describes an improved process for the production of C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl acrylate by the reaction of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl alcohol with acrylic acid in the presence of esterification catalysts and soluble manganese or cerium ions.

Abstract: An oxymethylene polymer composition which exhibits improved thermal stability is provided by utilizing as a stabilizer a major amount of superpolyamide and a minor amount of a transition metal salt.

Abstract: In the process of producing ethyl acrylate by the reaction of ethylene and acrylic acid in the presence of sulfuric acid, using phenolic type inhibitors, soluble manganese or cerium salts are additionally utilized.

Abstract: A normally liquid hydrocarbon having a minimum boiling point of about 425.degree. F. is utilized to provide the liquid seal in a vacuum pump which intakes a gaseous light ends stream resulting from a process for the production of ethyl acrylate by the reaction of ethylene with acrylic acid in the presence of a sulfuric acid catalyst. Upon contact in the vacuum pump, the gaseous light ends are partially absorbed into the normally liquid hydrocarbon, with the normally liquid hydrocarbon being recovered by fractionation.

Abstract: Olefins are converted to aldehydes and/or alcohols having one more carbon atom than the olefin by reacting the olefin with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of an in situ formed catalytic complex of a Group VIII metal, carbon monoxide and a trivalent ligand, the metal being introduced into the reaction zone in the form of a solution of a water-soluble inorganic salt dissolved in a solvent comprised of at least 40% by volume of a polyalkylene glycol, the polyalkylene glycol acting as a coupling agent preventing precipitation of the metal prior to formation of the catalyst complex.

Abstract: Olefins are converted to aldehydes and/or alcohols having one more carbon atom than the olefin by reacting the olefin with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of an in situ formed catalytic complex of a Group VIII metal, carbon monoxide and a trivalent ligand, the metal being introduced into the reaction zone in the form of a solution of a water-soluble inorganic salt dissolved in a solvent comprised of at least 40% by volume of a polyalkylene glycol, the polyalkylene glycol acting as a coupling agent preventing precipitation of the metal prior to formation of the catalyst complex.

Abstract: In a process for hydroformylating an olefin in the presence of a catalyst comprising rhodium in complex combination with carbon monoxide and a triorganophosphorus ligand, progressive deactivation of the catalyst, as well as loss of the ligand species through by-product formation, are reduced by continuously stripping the liquid reaction medium to a degree such that the content of high-boiling organophosphorus by-products therein is maintained at a low level such that the ratio of phosphorus contained in said high-boiling by-products to phosphorus contained in the ligand present in the reaction medium does not exceed about 0.2.