Abstract: An improved process for the production of alkylene glycol alginates from seaweeds of the Class Phaeophyceae by treating with a dilute aqueous solution of a strong acid, washing the solid residue, optionally but preferably neutralizing only part of the free alginic acid in the washed residue with an alkaline agent, esterifying the unisolated alginic acid in situ in the solid seaweed residue with an alkylene oxide, and recovering the alkylene glycol alginate so formed from the resulting reaction mixture.
Abstract: Polymeric halogenated organophosphorus diols are obtained by reacting chlorine or bromine with spirocyclic phosphites and thereafter reacting the halogenated product with a diol, in the presence of an acid acceptor. These novel viscous polymers react with polyisocyantes to produce polyurethanes. Polyurethanes so made are characterized by improved flame retardant properties compared with conventional polyurethanes. Such polyurethanes are preferably in the form of foams, especially flexible foams.
Abstract: Certain hydrazodicarboxylates, namely polymers or oligomers made by reacting hydrazine with polyfunctional haloformates, especially difunctional haloformates, cyclized forms of said oligomers and condensation products of hydrocarbyl carbazates with polyfunctional, especially difunctional, haloformates are useful as chemical blowing agents for expanding gas-expandable polymeric materials. These compounds are novel.
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