Abstract: A vulcanizable rubber composition suitable for the production of rubber materials having improved scorching stability and heat aging resistance can be obtained by compounding raw material rubber with a sulfenamide compound having the following general formula ##EQU1## wherein X represents a residue selected from the group consisting of residues of hydrocarbon, alkyl ether and secondary alcohol having 2-20 carbon atoms, and residues represented by the general formulae ##EQU2## (wherein R' represents a residue of hydrocarbon or alkyl ether having 0-20 carbon atoms, and R" represents a hydrocarbon residue having 1-10 carbon atoms), and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are same or different and are selected from hydrocarbon residues having 2-10 carbon atoms, and hydrogen atom, or R.sub.1 is ringed with R.sub.2 and/or R.sub.3 is ringed with R.sub.4, through the nitrogen atom of the general formula (1), to form heterocyclic rings of 5-7 members.

Abstract: A process for instantaneous peptization of polychloroprene latexes made by polymerizing in the presence of sulfur and a modifying agent such as iodoform or a dialkylxanthogen disulfide, by adding a suitable thiol at a pH at least equal to 9.

Abstract: Dyestuffs of the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein X and Y are hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro, alkyl, alkylsulfonyl or alkoxy and Z is hydrogen or an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl radical and the utility thereof in the dyeing and printing of synthetic hydrophobic materials.

Abstract: One shot mouldable and curable homogeneous rubber composition consisting mainly of polyisoprene rubber and a monomer mixture composed of divinylbenzene and .alpha.-methylstyrene in specifically limited weight ratios of the rubber/the monomer mixture and of divinylbenzene/.alpha.-methylstyrene and containing small amounts of organic peroxide and at least one of amine compound and phenol compound. The cured product of the rubber composition has high Young's modulus, tear energy and tensile strength retention. More improved cured rubbers having these physical properties well balanced in a high level can be easily obtained by additionally adding a small amount of sulfur or p-quinonedioxime to the above rubber composition.

Abstract: Copolymers of vinyl chloride and maleic or fumaric acid diester, which have good workability, are improved by incorporating therein an organic peroxide as a cross-linking agent. Products formed from the resin, which can be foamed articles, have improved thermal stability.

Abstract: Novel rubbery polymer having a uniform and broad molecular weight distribution, a ratio of weight average molecular weight to number average molecular weight of 3 or more, a content of monovinyl aromatic compound of 0 to 30% by weight, a bonding manner of conjugated diolefin of 60% or more of 1,4-linkage and improved processability and physical properties can be obtained by circulating living polymer in the polymerization or copolymerization of conjugated diolefins or copolymerization of conjugated diolefin and monovinyl aromatic hydrocarbon carried out with a lithium-based catalyst.

Abstract: Rubber is cross-linked by heating with compounds of the formula (Acc-SS.sub.x).sub.n R wherein Acc-S-- is an accelerating moiety, R is an organic bridging group and n is two or more.

Abstract: Insoluble polymeric organotin hydrides of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein P represents an organic polymer backbone; R and R.sub.1 each represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 6 to 10 carbon atoms, or an alkaryl or aralkyl group of from 7 to 10 carbon atoms; and n is a positive number greater than 1 are disclosed. Such polymeric organotin hydrides are useful as reagents for reducing organic compounds such as organic halides, ketones, and aldehydes without the different problem of removing dissolved or dispersed tin impurities from the reduced compounds.

Abstract: A diglycidyl ether of a diphenol, such as a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A, is reacted with bisphenol S to form a chain-extended epoxy resin. This chain-extended epoxy resin is then esterified with a fatty acid derived from a drying oil, such as linseed oil fatty acid. The resulting epoxy resin ester is cut with a solvent for use as a rapid drying coating material. A primer using this material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride polymer for providing a vinyl chloride paste which has a good thermal stability, a stability to sol viscosity and an excellent air release capability in the natural state or in a short period of time under a moderately low pressure is produced by using, in the production thereof, as an emulsifying agent, the alkali metal salts and/or ammonium salts of a mixture of a major amount of olefin alkyl sulfonates and a minor amount of hydroxyalkyl sulfonates (hereinafter olefin alkyl/hydroxyalkyl sulfonates) having from about 8 to 20 carbon atoms, in the polymerization thereof or in the preparation of a vinyl chloride paste from the polymerized product.

Abstract: This invention relates to copolymers of acrylonitrile and vinylidene chloride containing at least 55 % by weight of acrylonitrile and at most 45 % by weight of vinylidene chloride of the kind used for the production of substantially non-flammable textile filaments, which copolymers are distinguished by their outstanding whiteness and high softening temperatures which enable homogeneous spinning solutions particularly suitable for spinning to be prepared. This invention also relates to a process for the production of these copolymers.

Abstract: The melt index of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers is decreased by mechanically working the preformed copolymers.

Abstract: A linear conjugated diene of 4 to 8 carbon atoms or a mixture of such conjugated dienes or a mixture of such a conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic monomer is polymerized in a monomer-starved process to yield homopolymers of copolymers of low molecular weight containing as low as 35 and up to 90 or 95% or more of microcyclic structures, if properly catalyzed and depending upon the temperature and other conditions of the reaction. These microcylic structures are defined as microcyclic rings of molecules containing 6 to 18 or more alkylene units. These cyclic structures are produced by the monomer-starved process which causes the bond between the carbon and the metal to bite back on itself.

Abstract: This invention is directed to dispersions containing stabilizing amounts of certain substantially linear interpolymeric interfacially spreading polyelectrolytes composed of a mixture of nonionic hydrophobic units and ionic hydrophilic units where the nonionic units are randomly distributed in the backbone of the polyelectrolyte and where the polyelectrolyte is adsorbed at the surface of the disperse phase of the dispersion in a substantially flat configuration. The polyelectrolytes are further characterized by having an adsorption constant equal to or greater than 1 at the point where the surface of the disperse phase is saturated with the polyelectrolyte, the absorption constant being determined as the amount of polyelectrolyte in the disperse phase divided by the amount of polyelectrolyte in the continuous phase. These stabilized dispersions are particularly useful as coating compositions and for use in the preparation of microspheres and seed latexes.

Abstract: Organometallic compounds of high carbanion yield are prepared by metallation with barium, strontium or calcium or mixture of the same of certain acidic organic compounds having a pKa value of between about 15 and 35 on the MSAD scale in the presence of aprotic polar solvents, e.g., barium reacted with xanthene in 1,2-dimethoxyethane to yield dixanthenyl barium. Such organometallic compounds formed by metal-hydrogen exchange reaction are useful in initiating anionic growth-type polymerization of monomers, e.g., alkylene oxides and vinyl compounds, to form homopolymers and copolymers. The persistence of polymer carbanions created by such catalysts makes possible the controlled preparation of a variety of polymers, including block copolymers.

Abstract: A hard water-tolerant, storage stable dye solution which comprisesA. about 10 to 25 percent of a dye of the formula ##SPC1##wherein M is a solubilizing cation and R is --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, --CH.sub.2 CH(CH.sub.3)OH or --CH.sub.2 CH(C.sub.2 H.sub.5)OH,b. about 5 to 25 percent of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone,C. about 0.02 to 0.3 part of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid anion per part of said dye,D. lithium and/or akanolammonium cations in an amount sufficient to provide a pH of about 6.5 to 12, andE. at least about 50 percent water.

Abstract: Vulcanizable rubber formulations will contain compounds comprising substituted thioformamidines as exemplified by N,N'-diphenyl-N-cyclohexylthioformamidine to inhibit the premature vulcanization thereof.

Abstract: Antioxidants such as 2-(3,5-di tert.butyl-4-hydroxybenzyloxy) ethyl acrylate and 2-(3,5-di tert.butyl-4-hydroxybenzyloxy) ethyl methacrylate, age resistant polymers having age resistors physically combined therewith and age resistant polymeric compositions prepared by emulsion free radical polymerization techniques involving the use of said age resistors as monomers.

Abstract: An improved aqueous-organic solvent solution, having a pH between 10 and 13, of the disazo dye ##SPC1##Wherein X is a cation, preferably the sodium or lithium cation, the improvement comprising the presence, in combination, ofI. 0.1% to 10%, by total weight, of a particular anionic surfactant, andIi. 0.1% to 3.0%, by total weight, of a particular nonionic surfactant.

Abstract: Brominated butyl rubber can be vulcanized by heating it at 120.degree. - 200.degree.C for 5 minutes -- 2 hours with elemental sulfur in the absence of the usual activators and accelerators. Chlorinated butyl rubber does not vulcanize under the same conditions.