Abstract: High assay reaction-derived decabromodiphenylethane product is produced and provided. The process comprises feeding diphenylethane, a partially brominated diphenylethane, or both subsurface into the liquid phase of a reaction mixture formed from components comprising excess liquid bromine and aluminum-based Lewis acid bromination catalyst. The temperature of the reaction mixture, the catalyst concentration in the excess bromine in the reaction mixture, and the feed time are coordinated in the processes to produce high assay reaction-derived decabromodiphenylethane product. Ways of effecting such coordination are described.

Abstract: A compacted particulate polymer additive composition in a dry granular form formed from a substantially uniform mixture of the following components: (a) at least one particulate sterically-hindered phenolic compound; and (b) one or more particulate polymer additives other than a sterically-hindered phenolic compound; wherein the particles of said composition are held together in compacted dry granular form exclusively or substantially exclusively by contact with dried surfaces of in situ desolvated particles from particles of one or more at least partially solvated components of (a), and optionally by contact with dried surfaces of in situ desolvated particles from particles of one or more at least partially solvated components of (b). Compositions of this type except that there is no component (b) are also described.

Abstract: The present invention related to a method for producing submicron-sized flame retardant compositions having improved dielectric constant and/or dissipation factors.

Abstract: Styrenic polymer foams, especially expanded and/or extruded styrenic polymer foams, are flame retarded by use of one or more flame retardant additives.

Abstract: This invention provides aromatic diimines where the diimines have imino groups with at least two carbon atoms, and either are in the form of one benzene ring having two imino groups on the ring, which imino groups are meta or para relative to each other, and in which each position ortho to an imino group bears a hydrocarbyl group, or are in the form of two benzene rings connected by an alkylene bridge and having one imino group on each ring, and in which each position ortho to an imino group bears a hydrocarbyl group.

Abstract: Bromine is scrubbed from a gaseous mixture of bromine and hydrogen bromide by passing the mixture into a mixture formed from (i) diphenylethane and/or partially brominated diphenylethane with average bromine number less than about 2 and (ii) a catalytic quantity of iron and/or iron halide in which the halogen atoms are bromine atoms and/or chlorine atoms. Component (i) is brominated, and during such bromination, the mixture is kept hot enough to melt the organics to provide a liquid phase in the scrubber. Gaseous mixtures of bromine and hydrogen bromide are formed in processes of the invention in which decabromodiphenylethane products are produced using the partially brominated diphenylethane as feed to the bromination, which is conducted using an aluminum-based catalyst. Effective ways of removing iron catalyst residues from partially brominated diphenylethane or from decabromodiphenylethane product are also described.

Abstract: This invention provides a process which comprises mixing permanganate with a 1-bromopropane product mixture to form a permanganate-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture, and recovering a purified 1-bromopropane product from said permanganate-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture. This invention also provides a process for preparing a 1-bromopropane product mixture from 1-propanol and hydrogen bromide, characterized by mixing permanganate with the 1-bromopropane product mixture to form a permanganate-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture and recovering a purified 1-bromopropane product from said permanganate-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture.

Abstract: Bromine is scrubbed from a gaseous mixture of bromine and hydrogen bromide by passing the mixture into a mixture formed from (i) diphenylethane and/or partially brominated diphenylethane with average bromine number less than about 2 and (ii) a catalytic quantity of iron and/or iron halide in which the halogen atoms are bromine atoms and/or chlorine atoms. Component (i) is brominated, and during such bromination, the mixture is kept hot enough to melt the organics to provide a liquid phase in the scrubber. Gaseous mixtures of bromine and hydrogen bromide are formed in processes of the invention in which decabromodiphenylethane products are produced using the partially brominated diphenylethane as feed to the bromination, which is conducted using an aluminum-based catalyst. Effective ways of removing iron catalyst residues from partially brominated diphenylethane or from decabromodiphenylethane product are also described.

Abstract: Disclosed are flame retardant compositions comprised of (a) brominated anionic styrenic polymer, and (b) at least one polybrominated alpha-omega diphenylalkane having a total of at least 6 bromine atoms directly bonded to the phenyl rings and in the range of 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkylene group disposed between the phenyl groups, and specified flame retarded polymer compositions with which have been blended (a) and (b) individually or in combination.

Abstract: This invention provides a process which comprises mixing at least one phenol with a 1-bromopropane product mixture to form a phenol-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture, and recovering a purified 1-bromopropane product from the phenol-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture. This invention also provides a process for preparing a 1-bromopropane product mixture from 1-propanol and hydrogen bromide, characterized by mixing at least one phenol with the 1-bromopropane product mixture to form a phenol-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture, and recovering a purified 1-bromopropane product from the phenol-containing 1-bromopropane product mixture.

Abstract: This invention provides a multimodal brominated styrenic polymer composition. The composition is comprised of at least one brominated anionic styrenic polymer and at least one brominated non-anionic styrenic polymer. Also provided by this invention are processes for producing multimodal brominated styrenic polymer compositions.

Abstract: This invention provides a multimodal brominated anionic styrenic polymer composition. The composition is comprised of at least two brominated anionic styrenic polymer weight fractions which have different weight average molecular weights. Also provided by this invention are processes for producing multimodal brominated anionic styrenic polymer compositions.

Abstract: A fiber or filament which is formed from ingredients comprising (a) at least one fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer and (b) at least one polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer is provided. The polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer has a bromine content of at least about 50 wt %, and a GPC weight average molecular weight in the range of about 5000 to about 40,000, or a GPC weight average molecular weight of at least about 600,000. When the fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer is a polyester, the polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer is present in a flame resistant or flame retardant amount. When the fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer is a polyamide, the polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer is at least about 2 wt % of the fiber or filament. When the fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer is a polyolefin, at least one synergist is present and the polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer is no more than about 15 wt % of the fiber or filament.

Abstract: Reaction-derived decabromodiphenylalkane product, especially decabromodiphenylethane product, of high purity is formed by (A) maintaining in a loop reactor a circulating inventory comprising at least Lewis acid bromination catalyst and excess liquid bromine; (B) introducing diphenylalkane and/or partially brominated diphenylalkane into the reactor so that bromination can occur; and (C) after a period of travel in the reactor during which solids of reaction-derived decabromodiphenylalkane product of high purity is formed, removing such solids from the reactor.

Abstract: Flame retardant formulations comprised of at least one bromine-containing polyol are produced by a process which comprises: A) heating a mixture formed from components comprised of (i) tetrabromophthalic anhydride, (ii) at least one aliphatic polyol, and (iii) at least one liquid straight chain aliphatic diester of a straight-chain alkane dicarboxylic acid to form an intermediate composition; and B) contacting all or a portion of the intermediate composition one or more times with (iv) at least one alkylene oxide that results in the formation of a liquid product formulation, and optionally, removing any excess alkylene oxide present; the amounts of (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) used being proportioned to form a formulation having a bromine content of at least about 40 wt %, a viscosity at 25° C. of about 20,000 cps or less, and an acid number as determinable by aqueous sodium hydroxide titration and expressed in terms of potassium hydroxide, of less than about 1 milligram of KOH per gram of the formulation.

Abstract: An additive mixture useful as a flame retardant is described. The mixture is comprised of (i) a poly(bromophenyl)alkane having in the molecule in the range of 13 to 60 carbon atoms and in the range of two to four aryl groups and (ii) a poly(bromophenyl)bromoalkane having in the molecule in the range of 13 to 60 carbon atoms and in the range of two to four aryl groups, said poly(bromophenyl)bromoalkane being in an amount which is greater than 25 wt %, based on the total weight of the additive mixture. A facile process for making the poly(bromophenyl)bromoalkane is also described.

Abstract: Solid-state highly brominated compounds such as solid brominated flame retardants with bromine contents of at least about 60 wt % often contain occluded bromine. Because of their high bromine contents, such compounds have relatively low solubility in common organic solvents. Despite this low solubility, the content of occluded bromine in such solid brominated compounds is effectively reduced by agitating a concentrated agitated slurry of the compound in an inert solvent at a suitable temperature for at least about 1 hour. Thereafter, solids with reduced content of occluded bromine are isolated or recovered from the slurry. Novel products having substantially reduced or eliminated occluded bromine contents and other very desirable characteristics are also provided.

Abstract: Microbiological control in aqueous media and/or eradication or reduction of biofilm on a surface in contact with such media is achieved by introducing into the aqueous medium a microbiocidally effective quantity of one or more 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoins where one of the alkyls is methyl and the other is a C1-4 alkyl, wherein (i) the molar quantity of 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin introduced is less than the molar quantity of N,N?-bromochloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin that would be required to effect the same degree of microbiological control in that medium, (ii) the molar quantity of the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin introduced releases an amount of “free chlorine” that is greater than the amount of “free chlorine” that would be released in that medium by an equimolar quantity of N,N?-bromochloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, and (iii) the amount of “free chlorine” released by the quantity of the 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dialkylhydantoin introduced is greater than the amount of “free chlorine” that could be predicte

Abstract: A process for producing reaction-derived decabromodiphenylalkane product, especially decabromodiphenylethane product, of high assay is described. Diphenylalkane, preferably diphenylethane, is brominated by introducing the selected diphenylalkane in the form of a mist or spray into a reaction zone containing a reaction mixture having a liquid phase comprised of excess bromine and Lewis acid bromination catalyst, so that mist or spray of diphenylalkane descends onto and contacts the liquid phase of the reaction mixture and bromination of the diphenylalkane occurs to produce reaction-derived decabromodiphenylalkane product of high assay. Preferably, the reaction mixture is maintained under reflux and optionally is also stirred.

Abstract: A new class of amines is incorporated into photopolymerizable systems employing type I or type II photoinitiators. These amines are trialkylamines having a total of 10 to about 36 carbon atoms in the molecule and wherein at least one alkyl group has a chain length of at least 8 carbon atoms. Preferably, one or two of the alkyl groups are methyl or ethyl or one of each. Short chain amines as defined herein provide synergistic results when used with such trialkylamines.