Abstract: A method for, and compositions, providing vulcanizable compounds of unsaturated polymers having an improved balance of scorch time and cure rates, ie., slow scorch times and fast cure rates, comprising adding to said vulcanizable polymers accelerating amounts of benzothiazolesulfenamides selected from the group consisting of N-oxydiethylene-2-benzothiazole sulfenamide, N-t-butyl-2-benzothiazole sulfenamide and N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazole sulfenamide, with N-oxydiethylenethiocarbamyl-N'-t-alkyl sulfenamides wherein the alkyl radicals contain 4 to 8 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Electron beam curable polyurethanes that have significantly improved dispersibility, improved magnetic pigment binder utility and result in improved magnetic tape for use in a variety of applications. This is accomplished by providing an oligomeric polyurethane that contains pendant carboxyl groups along the backbone chain.

Abstract: Compositions of salts of water-soluble, carboxyl-containing polymers and surface active agents, deposited on polymerization reactor surfaces exposed to polymerization mixtures, substantially reduce or eliminate undesirable polymer build-up on reactor surfaces during aqueous polymerization of vinylidene monomers, even when the amount of carboxyl-containing polymers deposited on the reactor surfaces is very small.

Abstract: Vapor phase chlorosulfonated polyolefins usually contain as much as about 100 to 200 parts of more per million of sulfur dioxide in the chlorosulfonated polyolefin particles, even after degassing, that is released over a period of time. The amount of sulfur dioxide released from vapor phase chlorosulfonated polyolefins can be reduced to an amount of less than 0.

Abstract: The stability, especially to heat, of thiocarbamylsulfenamides is improved when the thiocarbamylsulfenamide in solution is treated with acidic aqueous solutions. The recovered and dried thiocarbamylsulfenamides demonstrate improved resistance to heat and improved storage stability.

Abstract: Thiocarbamylsulfenamides are readily recovered from solutions of the thiocarbamylsulfenamides by the addition of a dilute aqueous caustic solution, to flash off the solvent separating the thiocarbamylsulfenamide from the resulting water slurry and drying the thiocarbamylsulfenamide.

Abstract: A novel process for making solutions of alkaline-earth metal salts of alkaryl sulfonic acids that contain about 1.5 to less than three weight percent water and that does not require an azeotropic distillation step to reduce the water of the reaction product to this level, comprises reacting an alkaryl sulfonic acid with alkaline-earth metal oxide in an organic solvent in the presence of 0.05 to less than 2.5 weight percent water. Calcium oxide, alkylbenzene sulfonic acids wherein the alkyl groups contain 10 to 14 carbon atoms, solvent mixtures of lower alkanols and non-polar hydrocarbon solvents all are representative of materials useful in the process of the invention, wherein the alkyl benzene sulfonic acid is preferably proportioned into a mixture of the other reactants and the water is supplied in admixture with a small amount of a calcium alkylbenzene sulfonate.

Abstract: Anionic water soluble carboxyl-containing polymers, deposited and dried on polymerization reactor surfaces exposed to polymerization mixtures, substantially reduce or eliminate undesirable polymer build-up on reactor surfaces during aqueous polymerization of vinylidene monomers, even when the amount of carboxyl-containing polymers deposited on the reactor surfaces is in an amount as small as at least one ppm of monomers being polymerized, providing a layer on the polymerization surfaces as thin as about 0.1 to about one or more microns in thickness.

Abstract: This invention provides an additive composition for use for example in drilling, completion and workover fluids that minimizes production formation damage by increasing well clean up efficiency and aids in recovering oil held in place by dynamic capillary forces between oil, water and injected fluids, driving down the water saturation of the formation resulting in an increase in permeability to oil and resulting production. These additives, found to be especially useful in 38% calcium chloride workover and completion fluids, are also effective in 25 and 10% sodium chloride workover and completion fluids, as well as other brines, including bromides. The additives of this invention, when added to fluid workover and completion fluids, in addition to reducing interfacial tension in production formations to minimize water blocks resulting from use of workover and completion fluids, and compatability with brines, also promote water wetting, demulsification and are thermally stable over a useful range.

Abstract: 2,4-bis(2,6-di-t-alkyl-4-substituted-phenoxy)-1,3,2,4-dioxadiphosphetanes are prepared from 2,4,6-tris(substituted phenoxy)-1,3,5,2,4,6-trioxatriphosphorinanes.

Abstract: Tetrakis(2,6-di-t-butyl-4-substituted phenyl)4,4'-substitutedbisphenyl diphosphites that are prepared from a hindered phenol and a non-hindered bisphenol have been found to be excellent stabilizers for organic materials subject to degradation, and form even more effective combinations with hydroxyphenylalkyleneyl isocyanurates, substantially and synergistically enhancing the stabilizing efficiency of the isocyanurate.

Abstract: Vinyl dispersion resins containing a major proportion of vinyl chloride that provide fluid suspensions thereof with thixotropic properties are obtained by isolating and drying the vinyl chloride polymer resin from an emulsion (latex) thereof containing a small amount of a cross-linked, water-swellable polymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Improved radiation curable polyurethanes are provided that are polymerizable crystalline polymers having terminal ethylenic unsaturation, relatively low molecular weights and that rapidly crystallize, are prepared from the reaction product of (1) certain polyester glycols and diisocyanates to form an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer that is then reacted with an ethylenic unsaturated alcohol to form the ethylenic unsaturated crystallizable polymer, or in the alternative, (2) the polyester glycol is reacted with an ethylenic unsaturated monoisocyanate to form the polymerizable crystallizable polymer, that can be used as such for example in preparing magnetic tape, as such, or in admixture with other materials, and which can be applied to a substrate from a melt, or formed by molding, extrusion, and then cured with appropriate energy as an electron beam.

Abstract: Substituted 2-(2,6-di-t-butyl-4-alkylphenoxy)-4H-1,3,2-benzodioxaphosphorins that are readily prepared, for example from hindered phenols and ortho-methylolphenols, are effective heat and anti-oxidant stabilizers for organic materials subject to degradation by heat and oxygen, and provide particularly efficient stabilizer systems when combined with hydroxyphenylalkyleneyl isocyanurates.

Abstract: Amines are reacted with phosphorous trichloride to form N-dichlorophosphinoamines that are then reacted with a bisphenol in about equimolar amounts to provide polyphosphoramidite oligomers. The polyphosphoramidite oligomers are effective as stabilizers for polymers such as polyolefins, and form even more efficient stabilizer combinations with hydroxyphenylalkyleneyl isocyanurates.

Abstract: 3,5-Dialkyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-substituted acetic acids are prepared by reacting a 2,6-dialkylphenol with a haloform, a ketone and an alkali metal hydroxide. These 3,5-dialkyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-substituted acetic acids are also useful as stabilizers and in the preparation of derivatives thereof such as esters and the like.

Abstract: Configurations of cross-linked or vulcanized amphophilic or quaternized block copolymer of haloalkyl epoxides and hydroxyl terminated alkadiene polymers are useful as battery separators in both primary and secondary batteries, particularly nickel-zinc batteries. The quaternized block copolymers are prepared by polymerizing a haloalkyl epoxide in the presence of a hydroxyl terminated 1,3-alkadiene to form a block copolymer that is then reacted with an amine to form the quaternized or amphophilic block copolymer that is then cured or cross-linked with sulfur, polyamines, metal oxides, organic peroxides and the like.

Abstract: Tris (3,6-di-t-butyl-2-naphthyl) phosphite is a heat and hydrolysis resistant stabilizer for organic materials subject to heat and ultra-violet degradation, and in combination with hydroxy-phenylalkyleneyl isocyanurates, provides a useful synergistic combination for use in polymers, particularly hydrocarbon polymers including the poly(olefins).

Abstract: An improved process for preparing 2,4,6-tris(substituted phenoxy)-1,3,5,2,4,6-trioxatriphosphorinanes is realized when the appropriate substituted-phenylphosphorodichloridite is reacted with water in the presence of a trialkyl amine wherein the alkyl groups contain 4 to 8 carbon atoms in acetone as the sole solvent, to provide the desired 2,4,6-tris(substituted phenoxy)-1,3,5,2,4,6-trioxatriphosphorinanes in increased yields and of a higher purity.

Abstract: Polymers of 98.9 to 95.5 weight percent of olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids containing at least one activated double bond, 1 to about 3.5 weight percent of an alkyl acrylate ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid wherein the alkyl group contains 10 to 30 carbon atoms and 0.1 to less than 1 weight percent of a crosslinking monomer, are efficient thickeners in many applications where high ionic environments are encountered and may be used at lower concentrations to obtain equivalent or better results than prior art thickeners, and have been found to be particularly effective in print paste applications wherein there are reactive dyes, direct dyes and disperse dyes with high and varying ionic content. Further, in screen printing, improved print pastes are provided when they contain the novel polymers of this invention that have better rheology with less bounce back on release of printing pressure, and textile prints so made have better penetration.