Abstract: Provided is a low-cost, highly active, environmentally friendly living radical polymerization method which does not require a radical initiator. Even if a catalyst is not used, a living radical polymerization method can be conducted by controlling the amount of the oxygen in the gaseous phase in the reaction vessel within a suitable range. A monomer having a radical-reactive unsaturated bond can be subjected to a radical polymerization reaction to obtain a polymer having narrow molecular weight distribution. The cost of the living radical polymerization can be remarkably reduced. The present invention eliminates the disadvantages of the conventional catalysts such as toxicity, low solubility, coloring/odor and the like, and is significantly more environmentally friendly and economically efficient than conventional living radical polymerization methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a catalyst useful in gas phase polymerization of olefins wherein the hydrogen response of the catalyst can be improved by using a ketone as the electron donor in the catalyst. The catalyst consists of compounds of Ti, Mg, Al and a ketone preferably supported on an amorphous support.

Abstract: A process for the catalytic fluorination of hydrochlorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons in the liquid phase. The process is useful for fluorinating hydrochloropropanes, hydrochlorofluoropropanes, hydrochloropropenes and hydrochlorofluoropropenes and most particularly useful for fluorinating 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane to 1,1,1,3,3-pentafloropropane.

Abstract: Non-tacky, base polymers are plasticized into pressure-sensitive adhesives and comprise: a) about 100 parts by weight of a base copolymer having a Tg greater than about 0° C., wherein the base copolymer is formed from and comprises: (1) about 50 to 70% by weight of a high Tg comonomer component, wherein the homopolymer formed from the high Tg comonomer component has a Tg of at least about 20° C.; (2) optionally, up to about 20% by weight based on the total weight of the base copolymer of an acidic comonomer; and (3) about 30 to 50% by weight of one or more low Tg (meth)acrylate comonomer, wherein the Tg homopolymer of the low Tg comonomer is less than about 20° C., and b) about 1 to about 100 parts based on the base copolymer of a nonreactive, non-volatile, non-acrylic-based plasticizing agent.

Abstract: There is provided a process comprising polymerizing a compound selected from the group consisting of a conjugated diene, a vinyl-substituted aromatic compound, and mixtures thereof in a gas phase fluidized polymerization vessel under polymerization conditions in the presence of at least one anionic initiator, optionally in the presence of an inert particulate material. A novel resin particle produced by the process is also provided.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel horizontal fluid bed reactor, which in a single unit, provides for the polymerization of monomer to polymer and mixed monomers to copolymers. Within one reactor shell the reactor contains a plurality of polymerization stages which permit the achievement of narrow residence time distribution of the produced polymer. This arrangement also creates a sufficiently tight subdivision of the reactor volume which permits a plurality of gas circulation stages of different gas compositions, as well as, polymerization temperatures.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of water absorptive resins which comprises supplying a solution containing at least 20% by weight of a water soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer as a main component to a polymerization vessel accommodating a vapor phase comprising steam or a mixture of steam with at least one gas substantially inert with respect to polymerization, and polymerizing the monomer in the vapor phase under the relative humidity conditions in the vapor phase of 30% or more.

Abstract: Novel copolymers of ethylene containing per 100 parts by weight ethylene 0.2 to 5.0 parts by weight of 2,4,4-trimethylpentene-(1) and optionally 2.0 to 20 parts by weight of vinyl ester or vinyl ether or ester of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with alcohols of 1 to 8 carbon atoms having a melt index MFI (190/2.16) of 0.4 to 20 g/10 min. a density of 0.915 to 0.960 g/ml and an impact tensile strength of 850 to 2,600 mJ/mm.sup.2 and a process for their preparation useful for making transparent films.

Abstract: The polymerization of fluoromonomers can be accomplished without fouling by using gaseous monomers in the presence of at least one nonvolatile initiator and by recycling the initiator-free polymerizer gases through an external cooler.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical insulating material which comprises an ethylene copolymer prepared by subjecting, to a high-pressure radical polymerization, ethylene or a mixture of ethylene and at most 3 mol % of another monomer in the presence of one- to three-ring aromatic compound having at least two carbon-carbon double bonds, which are different from each other in reactivity in radical polymerization, in one molecule at a polymerization pressure of 500 to 4,000 kg/cm.sup.2 at a polymerization temperature of 50.degree. to 400.degree. C., with the ethylene copolymer containing 0.005 to 1 mol % of a unit derived from the aromatic compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for improving impulse destructive strength of an electrical insulating material which is characterized by employing, as the electrical insulating material, a random copolymer of a styrene series monomer and ethylene or a combination of ethylene and another ethylenic unsaturated monomer, or a composition in which the copolymer is blended with an ethylene series polymer, the copolymer being prepared by introducing, into a reaction system, the styrene series monomer selected from the group of styrene and single-ring substituted styrenes, ethylene or the combination of ethylene and the ethylenic unsaturated monomer and a polymerization initiator, the latter being introduced thereinto separately from at least the styrene series monomer, and subjecting these monomers to a high-pressure radical copolymerization under a polymerization pressure of 500 to 4,000 kg/cm.sup.2 at a polymerization temperature of 50.degree. to 400.degree. C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for polymerizing vinyl chloride, alone or in combination with a comonomer, in the vapor phase maintained at a pressure lower than the vapor pressure of the monomer at the polymerization temperature employed, and in the presence of the specified seed vinyl chloride polymer particles. The seed polymer particles used are prepared by polymerizing vinyl chloride, along or in combination with a comonomer, under bulk conditions, in the presence of 0.001% to 2% by weight, based on the weight of the monomer, of a cellulose ether soluble in the monomer.

Abstract: A process of manufacturing an amphoteric composite resin which process comprises first polymerizing a dispersion comprising two liquid phases wherein the first liquid phase comprises at least one monomer containing a basic group or a precursor or derivative thereof and a crosslinking agent, and the second liquid phase comprises at least one monomer containing an acidic group or a precursor or derivative thereof and a crosslinking agent, and wherein the monomers are not of opposite charge, the two liquid phases are substantially immiscible and partitioning of the monomers from one liquid phase to the other is minimal, to form a composite polymeric material; and second treating the composite polymeric material to convert any acidic group precursor or derivative and any basic group precursor or derivative to the free acid and free base respectively to form an amphoteric composite resin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterogeneous anionic polymerization process, catalysed by a metallic insertion graphitic compound. According to the invention, the alkaline metal chosen for the insertion compound is lithium, and the insertion compounds are of binary or ternary type; in the latter case, the insertion compound may comprise an aromatic hydrocarbon also inserted within the graphitic structure. The invention relates in particular to the homopolymerization of butadiene or isoprene, and to the copolymerization of isoprene-styrene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterogeneous anionic polymerization process, catalyzed by a metallic insertion graphitic compound. According to the invention, the alkaline metal chosen for the insertion compound is lithium, and the insertion compounds are of binary or ternary type; in the latter case, the insertion compound may comprise an aromatic hydrocarbon also inserted within the graphitic structure. The invention relates in particular to the homopolymerization of butadiene or isoprene, and to the copolymerization of isoprene-styrene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterogeneous anionic polymerization process, catalyzed by a metallic insertion graphitic compound. According to the invention, the alkaline metal chosen for the insertion compound is lithium, and the insertion compounds are of binary or ternary type; in the latter case, the insertion compound may comprise an aromatic hydrocarbon also inserted within the graphitic structure. The invention relates in particular to the homopolymerization of butadiene or isoprene, and to the copolymerization of isoprene-styrene.