Abstract: A two-phase bead polymer having an average bead diameter of from 10.mu. to 150.mu. comprising(A) 88% to 99.5% by weight of a polymer of polymerized units of at least one methacrylic acid ester containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the aliphatic, saturated alcohol component; and(B) 0.5% to 12% by weight of a polyurethane which has been obtained from (1) at least one dihydroxy compound, (2) a diisocyanate from the group comprising (a) aliphatic diisocyanates having a branched carbon skeleton of 7 to 26 carbon atoms, (b) cycloaliphatic diisocyanates and (c) aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates modified by radical graft copolymerization with vinyl monomers, (3) an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diamine and (4) a monofunctional chain terminator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the transesterification of the carbonic acid aryl esters obtainable according to German Published Patent Specification No. 2,650,533 with an excess of diphenol for the preparation of polyalkylene oxide-diol bis-diphenol carbonates lengthened via carbonate groups. The present invention also relates to the polyalkylene oxide-diol bis-diphenol carbonates, lengthened via carbonate groups, obtained according to the invention and their use for the preparation of polyether/polycarbonates. Finally, the present invention relates to the polyether/polycarbonates, obtained according to the invention, with an improved phase separation between the elastomeric segment and hard segment, which leads to better technological properties of the corresponding polycarbonate elastomers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of bis-carbonic acid monoaryl esters of polyester-diols, lengthened via --OCOO-- groups, characterized in that polyester-diols with molecular weights Mn (number-average) of over 250, preferably over 600, are heated with carbonic acid bis-aryl esters at temperatures between about 100.degree. C. and 200.degree. C., preferably between about 110.degree. C. and 180.degree. C., in vacuo below about 35 mm Hg, preferably between about 25 and 1 mm Hg, in the presence of catalysts, less than one mol of carbonic acid bis-aryl ester being employed per mol of OH group of the polyester-diol and the hydroxyaryl compounds formed being distilled off.The invention further relates to the bis-carbonic acid aryl esters of polyester-diols lengthened via --OCOO-- groups.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the transesterification of the carbonic acid aryl esters prepared according to German Published Patent Specification 2,651,639 (which corresponds to U.S. Patent application Ser. No. 854,174, filed Oct. 25, 1977) with an excess of diphenol for the preparation of polyester-diol bis-diphenol carbonate. The present invention further relates to the polyester-diol bis-diphenol carbonates obtained according to the invention and their use for the preparation of polyester/polycarbonates and to the polyester/polycarbonates so prepared.

Abstract: Polyesters containing carbonate groups and consisting of repeating structural units corresponding to the general formula ##STR1## in which X is the residue of a reaction product of a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic aliphatic carboxylic acid having a molecular weight of from 800 to 3500,X' has the same meaning as X or represents the residue of an aliphatic polyether having a molecular weight of from 800 to 3500,n=0 or 1 to 10 andm=is a number >20,the intrinsic viscosity in tetrahydrofuran being from 0.8 to 2.5 dl/g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of carbonic acid esters of polyester-polyols by transesterifying the polyols with carbonic acid aryl esters at elevated temperatures under vacuum in the presence of a catalyst. The reaction conditions are controlled to avoid the formation of by-products and the chain extension of the polyester-polyols. The present invention is also concerned with the polyester carbonic acid esters so formed, their use in producing polycarbonate block copolymers and the copolymers so produced. The copolymers may be produced by transesterifying the polyester carbonic acid esters with bisphenols and subjecting the bis-hydroxyaryl carbonates so formed to normal polycarbonate synthesis such as interfacial or melt polycondensation.

Abstract: The invention includes formulated dental filling materials comprising a polymerizable organic plastics material containing inorganic fillers, which filling material comprises at least two pastes in intimate admixture with one another in a paste/paste system in which hardening is initiated by means of a peroxidic initiator and an accelerator, wherein said at least two pastes contain different inorganic fillers with different chemical constitutions such that one of said at least two pastes contains filler with a substantially higher proportion of elements with high atomic number than does the other of said at least two pastes. Also included in the invention is a dental filling pack containing said formulated dental filling materials as well as a method for their use.

Abstract: A thermoplastic moulding composition with improved flow properties being workable without difficulty by extrusion, injection moulding or blow moulding and resulting in colorless, transparent products with a smooth, glossy surface, comprising a mixture of(A)90 to 99.9% by weight of a polymer with a K-value of from 50 to 80, as measured at a temperature of 25.degree. C. in dimethyl formamide on a 0.5% by weight solution, which contains at least 50% by weight of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile or a mixture thereof in polymerized or grafted form, and(B)0.1 to 10% by weight of a statistical copolymer of copolymerized units of65 to 85% by weight of at least one acrylic acid alkyl ester with 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alcohol component, and15 to 35% by weight of styrene,The copolymer B having an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] of from 2.9 to 13.0 dl/g, as measured at 25.degree. C. in tetrahydrofuran.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer comprising at least 40% by weight of copolymerized acrylonitrile and from 0.5 to 10% by weight of at least one copolymerized unsaturated ester of acetoacetic acid corresponding to the general formula:CH.sub.3 --CO--CH.sub.2 --COO--R--CR'.dbd.CH.sub.2and, optionally, at least one other copolymerized comonomer.

Abstract: Acrylonitrile/vinyl acetate/styrene copolymers containing a high proportion of acrylonitrile (50-80% by weight) which undergo no discoloration and result in highly transparent products when thermoplastically processed are produced by continuous emulsion copolymerization the monomers in a tube reactor in which comparatively little back mixing occurs (plug flow = laminar flow = non-stationary state).

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of chemically uniform acrylonitrile-vinyl chloride copolymers with improved whiteness and improved thermal stability comprising from 25 to 60% by weight of acrylonitrile and from 40 to 75% by weight of vinyl chloride and, optionally, up to 15% by weight of other copolymerized ethylenically unsaturated compounds by emulsion polymerization using a redox catalyst of persulphate and compounds of sulphurous acid, wherein the ratio by weight of reducing component to oxidizing component is at least 4 : 1 and wherein polymerization is carried out at a pH-value in the range of from 2.5 to 4.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer comprising at least 40% by weight of copolymerized acrylonitrile, from 0.5 to 40% by weight of at least one copolymerized aceto acetate of a mono (meth) acrylate of an aliphatic diol containing from 2 to 8 carbon atoms and, optionally, at least one other copolymerized comonomer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of chemically uniform copolymers of acrylonitrile and vinyl chloride and, optionally, other copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated compounds, by the method of emulsion polymerization in the presence of an anion active emulsifier and a non-ionic emulsifier.

Abstract: The invention relates to wet-spun modacrylic filaments with improved coloristic properties based on a polymer mixture, which comprises at least one acrylonitrilevinyl chloride copolymer and a chlorine-containing copolymer containing sulphonic acid ester groups or sulphuric acid ester groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to dry-spun modacrylic filaments with improved coloristic properties based on a polymer mixture, which comprises at least one acrylonitrile-vinyl chloride copolymer and a chlorine-containing copolymer containing sulphonic acid ester groups or sulphuric acid ester groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of guanidinium salts of aliphatic mercaptosulphonic acids by reacting S-isothiuronium betains with gaseous ammonia in an inert organic solvent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of acrylonitrile-vinyl chloride copolymers, consisting of 20 - 85 % by weight of acrylonitrile and of 80 - 15 % by weight of vinyl chloride wherein the process is carried out in the presence of a latex of acrylonitrile-vinyl chloride copolymer.

Abstract: Vacuole-free films, filaments and fibers consisting of a polymer mixture which comprises a copolymer of acrylonitrile and a polymer which is obtained by a polymer-analogue reaction of a polyacrylic acid ester with dimethylamine, said polymer containing from 40-99 mol % of N,N-dimethyl acrylamide units.

Abstract: A process for identifying manufactured articles in which a marking agent such as a homo- or copolymer of polymerizable ethylenically unsatured monomers is applied to the articles. Said homo- or copolymer contains at least one group which can be split off to form a low molecular weight compound such as an amine or phenol, which can be converted into dyes, said dyes being used to identify the manufactured articles.