Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of metal effect lacquerings having improved weather-resistance by the multilayered lacquering of various substrates, using a clear layer as top coat and a lacquer containing metal pigments to form the outer layer of the multilayered lacquering which is covered by the layer of clear lacquer, characterized in that the clear lacquer used is one the main binder of which is a two-component system consisting of:(a) a polyol component consisting essentially of polyester polyols having a low aromatic component content and optionally also polyacrylate polyols; and(b) a polyisocyanate component having biuret and/or isocyanurate groups, as well as aliphatically-bound isocyanate groups which may be blocked with isocyanate blocking agents. The present invention also relates to the substrates coated with these lacquers.

Abstract: A two step catalyzed process for the preparation of thermoplastic polyphosphonatophenyl ester carbonates comprising first, the preparation of an aryloxy carbonyloxy-benzoic acid aryl ester and second, its transesterification with a phosphonic acid diphenyl ester and a diphenol is disclosed.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a process for the preparation of polyisocyanates containing isocyanurate groups which comprises trimerizing a proportion of the isocyanate groups of organic polyisocyanates or mixtures of di- and monoisocyanates in the presence of basic alkali metal compounds as catalysts and terminating the trimerization reaction by the addition of a catalyst poison, characterized in that the trimerization catalysts are complexes of(i) basic alkalimetal compounds and(ii) acyclic organic compounds which(a) have at least 6 alkylene oxide units of the formula --R--O--, wherein R represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: Polycarbonates having improved impact performance are provided, comprising a blend of polycarbonate resin and an acrylic rubber interpolymer composite.

Abstract: The present invention relates to stable and bright thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonate compositions characterized in the absence of phosphites and boric acid esters and in that they comprise an additive amount of an organic-silicon compound having on its silicon atom three or four organo-oxy radicals.

Abstract: Polycarbonates are provided with hydrolytic stability by combining the polycarbonate polymer with a carboxylic acid salt of cadmium. The cadmium salt provides improved hydrolytic stability to both polycarbonates based on diphenols and halogenated diphenols over conventional stabilizers, and does not detrimentally affect other properties such as color stability, haze, initial tensile strength and elongation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermally cross-linkable coating compositions which are liquid and stable in storage at room temperature and which contain combinations of dialkyl-malonate-blocked polyisocyanates and organic polyhydroxyl compounds as binders and, optionally, auxiliaries and additives, being characterized in that the binder comprises:(a) a polyisocyanate component containing dialkyl-malonate-blocked isocyanate groups and a content of blocked isocyanate groups, expressed as NCO, based on the weight of the polyisocyanate component excluding the weight of the blocking agent, of from about 3 to 33.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of specific polyisocyanates by reacting diamines containing hydrogen atoms which are active in the context of the isocyanate addition reaction with excess quantities of organic diisocyanates. The invention also relates to a modification of the above process characterized in that the diamines are reacted first with excess quantities of a first diisocyanate after which the thus obtained reaction product which contains a urea group and a biuret group is reacted in a second stage with a second diisocyanate. The invention also relates to the use of polyisocyanates as the isocyanate component in the production of polyurethane plastics by the isocyanate-polyaddition process.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to the processes for producing polycarbonates from specific crude bisphenols. The bisphenols are characterized in that immediately after their preparation they are subjected to (i) separation, of excess phenols and low-boiling substances, by means of an evaporator, and (ii) removal of monophenols by desorption.The invention also relates to high-molecular weight aromatic polycarbonates made of crude bisphenols and their use in a variety of applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to lacquer polyisocyanates which contain about 0 to 8% free isocyanate groups, about 10 to 28% blocked isocyanate groups and about 2 to 10% of the structural units, --NH--NH--CO--O, all percentages based on the weight of the polyisocyanates, but excluding the weight of the blocking agent. Also provided is a process for preparing these polyisocyanates which comprises reacting about 10 to 30 mol % of the isocyanate groups of an organic polyisocyanate with reaction products which have (i) alcoholic hydroxyl groups and (ii) structural units of the formula, --O--CO--NH--NH--CO--O--, and/or of the formula H.sub.2 N--NH--CO--O--, with the formation of urethane groups and optionally groups corresponding to the formula, --NH--NH--CO--O--, and reacting about 50 to 90 mol % of the isocyanate groups of the organic polyisocyanate with a blocking agent.

Abstract: This invention relates to new ammonium salts of .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acids, to their use for the production of amines in situ by photochemical decomposition and to photochemically hardenable coating compositions containing these ammonium salts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement in the phase boundary polycondensation process for the preparation of aromatic, in particular thermoplastic, polycarbonates comprising carrying out the process in the presence of a saturated solution of alkali metal salts.

Abstract: This development is concerned with an improved process of preparing polycarbonate molding compositions and molded articles having superior hydrolysis resistance, stress crack resistance and flame retardancy, by thermoplastically processing a partially crosslinked aromatic polycarbonate. A crosslinkable aromatic thermoplastic polycarbonate is subject to irradiation to cause crosslinking on its surface such that between about 5 and 50 wt. % of the polymer is crosslinked and it is then thermoplastically processed. This partially crosslinked polycarbonate may be blended with uncrosslinked thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonate or known flame retardant agents. This development is also concerned with the compositions or articles so produced.

Abstract: Certain solutions of phosphines in oxetane compounds impart oxidative stability to aromatic thermoplastic polycarbonates in which such solutions are admixed.

Abstract: Process for the production of sheet products having a suede-like surface by application of a coating paste to a matrix whose surface has the structure of a negative of suede or suede-like materials, solidification of the coating by heating, stripping of the solidified coating from the matrix and, optionally, laminating it to a textile material, characterized in that:(a) a coating paste of a two-component system which does not harden to a polyurethane urea until heated, which system is based either on a blocked isocyanate prepolymer and a polyamine or on an isocyanate prepolymer and a complex of an alkali metal halide and an aromatic polyamine and, optionally, up to about 40% by weight, preferably less than about 30% by weight, more preferably less than about 25% by weight, and most preferably less than about 15% by weight, of solvent, so that the coating paste has a viscosity of at the most about 100,000 mPa.s at room temperature, is applied;(b) the coating is heated to a temperature of from about 30.degree.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to light stable polyisocyanate adduct mixtures with an average functionality greater than 2.0 and an isocyanate content of between about 4 and 19 percent by weight based on solids, which has good compatibility with apolar solvents and good storage stability in a solution of polyisocyanate solvents. The polyisocyanate adduct mixtures are based on the reaction product of a polyisocyanate, preferably a biuret-containing polyisocyanate, with a first monohydroxy compound containing a saturated hydrocarbon chain of at least 8 carbon atoms and a second monohydroxy compound containing at least one polarity inducing group. Alternatively, both the saturated hydrocarbon chain and the polarity inducing group may be present in the same monohydroxy compound.The present invention is additionally directed to the use of the polyisocyanate adduct mixtures in the process of curing alkyd or acrylic resins and to compositions containing the adduct mixture and alkyd or acrylic resins.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a molding composition comprising an intimate, well dispersed blend of thermoplastic polyurethane, thermoplastic polyphosphonate and thermoplastic polycarbonate which composition is characterized by an improved level of flame resistance. A process for the preparation of said composition is also disclosed.