Abstract: Hair setting composition containing as film formers copolymers based on tert-butyl acrylate and/or tert-butyl methacrylate, having a K value of from 10 to 50 and obtainable by free radical polymerization ofA) from 75 to 99% by weight of tert-butyl acrylate and/or tert-butyl methacrylate,B) from 1 to 25% by weight of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid andC) from 0 to 10% by weight of a further free radical copolymerizable monomer,the carboxyl groups of the copolymers having been partly or wholly neutralized by amines.

Abstract: A curable thickened polyester resin molding compound contains from 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a thermoplastic vinyl polymer which is compatible with the resin and contains acid groups.

Abstract: Storage-stable solutions of film forming carboxyl-containing copolymers, from 5 to 80% of whose carboxyl groups have been reacted with glycidyl (meth)acrylate, in an inert organic solvent or solvent mixture additionally contain a phosphoric ester of a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and, if required, orthophosphoric acid, and photosensitive coatings which contain a photoinitiator, ethylenically unsaturated organic monomeric compounds which can be subjected to free radical polymerization and, if required, plasticizers, dyes, dye precursors and thermal polymerization inhibitors are produced in such storage-stable solutions.They are particularly suitable for the production of offset printing plates.

Abstract: A terpolymer suitable for use as a film former in hair setting compositions is obtainable by free radical polymerization of 10%-24% by weight of N-vinylpyrrolidone, 46%-74% by weight of tert-butyl acrylate or methacrylate and 16%-30% by weight of acrylic or methacrylic acid, whose carboxyl groups may be partially or completely neutralized with an organic amine, ammonia or a basic alkali metal compound and which has a K value of from 25 to 65.

Abstract: A crop protection agent containing an active ingredient and based on a polymeric carrier, the active ingredient being adsorbed onto, dissolved in or otherwise bound to the said carrier, contains, as the polymeric carrier, a macroporous crosslinked, preferably styrene-containing, polymer having a particle size such that the said agent can be distributed by means of a conventional apparatus for applying crop protection agents, the active ingredient being taken up in the carrier by absorption.

Abstract: Copolymers of monoalkyl maleates or maleic acid and salts thereof and vinyl alkyl ethers are prepared by free radical copolymerization of maleic anhydride and vinyl alkyl ethers and subsequent reaction with an alkanol or water and optionally metal hydroxides and/or oxides in a process wherein at every stage of the polymerization the vinyl alkyl ether component is present in excess in the reaction mixture, the free radical copolymerization is carried out in acetone and the acetone is removed by distillation during or after the esterification or hydrolysis, which comprises using a peroxyester of a carboxylic acid of 8 or more carbon atoms as polymerization initiator. The copolymers obtained are used in cosmetic preparations.

Abstract: Copolymers based on tert-butyl acrylate and/or tert-butyl methacrylate, having a K value of from 10 to 50 and obtainable by free radical polymerization ofA) from 20 to 90% by weight of tert-butyl acrylate and/or tert-butyl methacrylate,B) from 10 to 60% by weight of N-vinylpyrrolidone andC) from 0 to 30% by weight of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl acrylate, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl methacrylate, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -hydroxyalkyl acrylate, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -hydroxyalkyl methacrylate or vinyl acetate or a mixture thereof,are used as film formers in hair setting compositions and compositions for the surface protection of two- or three-dimensional structures.

Abstract: The preparation of copolymers which form clear aqueous solutions fromA) 45 to 90% by weight N-vinylpyrrolidone,B) 10 to 55% by weight of a vinyl ester andC) 0 to 10% by weight of other copolymerizable monomersby radical polymerization in an organic solvent in the presence of a radical initiator, and removal of the organic solvent and other volatiles by distillation, entails allowing the polymerization to proceed until the N-vinylpyrrolidone content in the reaction mixture is from 5 to 1% by weight of the N-vinylpyrrolidone amount employed, substantially removing the organic solvent and other volatiles by distillation, adding water to the mixture, again adding a radical initiator and leaving the aqueous solution at from 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. for from 1 to 10 hours, and then removing volatile organic constituents virtually completely by a steam distillation.

Abstract: A process for removing heavy metal ions from wine and wine-like beverages, which entails treating each 100 l of the beverage with from 5 to 250 g of a polymer which contains, as copolymerized units, from 50 to 99.5% by weight of at least one basic vinylheterocycle with a pK.sub.a of not less than 3.8 and from 0 to 49.5% by weight of another copolymerizable monomer, and which has been prepared with the exclusion of oxygen and of polymerization initiators and in the presence of from 0.5 to 10% by weight, based on the monomers, of a crosslinker.

Abstract: A mixture of one or more pharmaceutical active compounds and one or more thermoplastic polymers is tabletted by a process in which the mixture is extruded and the still moldable extrudate is pressed to give tablets, between two belts, or a belt and a roller, which make contact in parts, rotate in opposite directions and run parallel along the contact zone, the shape-imparting indentations, which may be present in complementary pairs, being located in both or in only one of the revolving shape-imparting elements.

Abstract: A membrane of an organic polymer, which contains a crystalline carrier compound capable of selective transport of low molecular weight substances, and the preparation and use of the said membrane.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording element which is suitable for the production of printing plates or resist images possesses a photopolymerizable recording layer which is applied to a dimensionally stable base, can be developed in an aqueous alkaline medium and contains, as a polymeric binder, one or more film-forming copolymers which are insoluble in water but soluble or dispersible in aqueous alkaline solutions and consist of from 10 to 50% by weight of one or more N-vinylamides, preferably N-vinylcaprolactam and/or N-vinylpyrrolidone, from 5 to 30% by weight of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid, from 30 to 80% by weight of one or more comonomers from the group consisting of the vinyl aromatics and (meth)acrylates of monoalkanols and from 0.2 to 5% by weight of an olefinically unsaturated compound which contains basic nitrogen atoms and has a pK.sub.a >4.

Abstract: 3-Methyl-1-vinylimidazolium chlorides are prepared by quaternizing N-vinylimidazoles in aqueous solution with methyl chloride and are used for the preparation of water-soluble homo- or copolymers.

Abstract: Hydrazine-free vinlypyrrolidone polymers which dissolve in water and organic solvents to give a clear solution are prepared by polymerization using di-tert-butyl peroxide in an aqueous medium.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording element which is suitable for the production of printing plates or resist images, possesses a photopolymerizable recording layer which is applied to a dimensionally stable base, can be developed in an aqueous alkaline medium and contains, as a polymeric binder, one or more film-forming copolymers which are insoluble in water but soluble or dispersible in aqueous alkaline solutions and consist of from 10 to 50% by weight of one or more hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates, from 8 to 30% by weight of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid and from 30 to 80% by weight of one or more alkyl (meth)acrylates, some of the carboxyl groups of the copolymer being esterified by reaction with glycidyl (meth)acrylate.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording element which is suitable for the production of printing plates or resist images possesses a photopolymerizable recording layer which is applied to a dimensionally stable base, can be developed in an aqueous alkaline medium and contains, as a polymeric binder, one or more film-forming copolymers which are insoluble in water but soluble or dispersible in aqueous alkaline solutions and consist of from 10 to 50% by weight of one or more N-vinylamides, from 8 to 30% by weight of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid and from 30 to 80% by weight of one or more hydrophobic comonomers which, as such, form homopolymers which are insoluble in water and aqueous alkaline solutions, some of the carboxyl groups of the copolymer being esterified by reaction with glycidyl (meth)acrylate.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of solid pharmaceutical forms by mixing one or more pharmaceutical active compounds with one or more fusible, pharmacologically tolerated binders and, if required, other conventional pharmaceutical auxiliaries, at from 50.degree. to 180.degree. C., and subjecting the mixture to injection molding or extrusion and shaping, wherein the fusible binder used is a NVP polymer which contains not less than 20% by weight of NVP as copolymerized units, and, where they are present, all of whose comonomers contain nitrogen and/or oxygen.

Abstract: Vinylpyrrolidone is removed from its polymers by a process in which an aqueous or alcoholic solution of the polymer is treated with an adsorbent, the adsorbents used preferably being active carbon, zeolites and especially acidic ion exchangers.

Abstract: A terpolymer of acrylic acid, ethyl acrylate and N-tert-butylacrylamide is prepared by suspension polymerization.

Abstract: Polyvinylpyrrolidone having a Fikentscher K value of from 14 to 95 is prepared at from 50.degree. to 95.degree. C. in aqueous solution with hydrogen peroxide as starter, the solution being maintained at pH 7-11 by means of NaOH, KOH, their carbonates or bicarbonates.