Abstract: A high surface area system is provided with latex particles for immobilization of substances containing nucleophilic groups. The high surface area system is formed by aggregating the latex particles or by bonding the latex particles to a porous support of high surface area. The latex particles contain groups such as oxirane groups that react with the nucleophilic groups. The substances containing nucleophilic groups may be enzymes or proteins such as albumin, immunoglobulins, blood-clotting factors, cell-membrane proteins or peptide hormones. The high surface area system may be used as a sorbent in removing pollutants, as a stationary phase in organic synthesis such as peptide synthesis, and in the therapeutic treatment of a patient.

Abstract: The invention is a copolymer P, dispersant for dyes and/or pigments in standard plastic substances SK, wherein P exhibits a universal compatibility with standard plastics SK, with the feature that copolymer P is synthesized from monomer units:(m1) methyl methacrylate,(m2) (meth)acrylate of formula I: ##STR1## (m3) (meth)acryl compound of formula II: ##STR2## and optionally (m4) methacrylate of formula III: ##STR3##

Abstract: Aqueous synthetic resin dispersions comprising latex particles having an average particle diameter below 140 nanometers, consisting ofa) 5 to 45 weight percent of a core material having a dynamic glass transition temperature above 60.degree. C. andb) 95 to 55 weight percent of a shell material having a dynamic glass transition temperature below 80.degree. C., whereby the dynamic glass transition temperature of the shell is at least 20 K. below that of the core,which dispersions have a low minimum film forming temperature and give films of low tackiness and high block point.

Abstract: Polymer particles dispersible to form a latex and latices of such polymer particles, said particles being adaptable to the fixing or bonding thereto of a biologically active substance and having a core-shell construction wherein the polymer material of the core determines the stability of the form of the latex particles and their redispersibility, and the material of the shell(1) is so hydrophilic that it would be completely or largely water soluble if it were not anchored to the core material and/or crosslinked,(2) contains functional groups which are suitable for the covalent fixation or bonding of biological active substances, and(3) in an anhydrous condition has a T.sub..lambda.max from 20.degree.-250.degree. C., depending on its composition, and methods for bonding a biologically active substance to such particles, for example to prepare a diagnostic reagent.

Abstract: A film forming dispersion for the heat sealing of dissimilar substrate said dispersion comprising at least two different types of polymers having different adhesive properties in an organic solvent system, at least one of the polymer types being fully miscible at room temperature with the organic solvent system, both of said two polymer types having an acid number ranging from 0 to 160 mg KOH per gram of polymer, and said dispersion further containing a third graft polymer containing components corresponding to said two different polymer types.

Abstract: Polymer particles dispersible to form a latex and latices of such polymer particles, said particles being adaptable to the fixing or bonding thereto of a biologically active substance and having a core-shell construction wherein the polymer material of the core determines the stability of the form of the latex particles and their redispersibility, and the material of the shell(1) is so hydrophilic that it would be completely or largely water soluble if it were not anchored to the core material and/or crosslinked,(2) contains functional groups which are suitable for the covalent fixation or bonding of biological active substances, and(3) in an anhydrous condition has a T.sub..lambda.max from 20.degree.-250.degree. C., depending on its composition, and methods for bonding a biologically active substance to such particles, for example to prepare a diagnostic reagent.

Abstract: A suspension of an aqueous solution of a water-soluble polymer in an organic liquid forming a continuous organic phase, said suspension containing, as an emulsifier, a mixture of two copolymers which are similar but differ in their content of basic nitrogen by 0.1 to 1.5 percentage points.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a method for thickening aqueous systems in the acid range at a pH below 7 by the addition of an aqueous dispersion of a synthetic polymer having a molecular weight of at least 500,000, and which is water soluble or at least colloidally dispersible at a pH below 7, said polymer comprising (A) 5-100 percent by weight of at least one monomer having at least one basic nitrogen atom (B) 0-95 percent by weight of at least one monomer which has at most limited solubility in water, and (C) 0-30 percent by weight of at least one further non-basic, water soluble comonomer.

Abstract: Coating materials for pharmaceutical dosage forms contain, besides the conventional liquid or solid additives for pharmaceutical coatings, a binder comprising a synthetic polymer, prepared by emulsion polymerization, having 5 to 100% by weight of units derived from monomers of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, R.sub.2 is an alkylene or aralkylene group having at least 3 carbon atoms in the chain between the amino nitrogen and the ester oxygen atom of which at least one is tertiary or quaternary, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are lower alkyl radicals or together with the amino-nitrogen atom form a heteroaliphatic ring, and, optionally, additional comonomer units.

Abstract: An aqueous artificial resin dispersion, comprising an aqueous phase and a water-insoluble disperse phase formed from particles containing a copolymer formed in substantial part from a water insoluble or slightly soluble first monomer, wherein the copolymer additionally is formed from a second monomer of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents hydrogen or methyl, R' represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical with 1 to 12 C-atoms, R" represents an alkyl radical with 7 to 20 C-atoms, and M represents a proton, an alkali metal ion, or an ammonium ion, with the proviso that the aqueous phase is free of low molecular weight, ionic emulsifying agents. Such dispersions are particularly well suited for continuous emulsion polymerization because of the highly stable monomer emulsions formed by mixtures produced according to the invention.

Abstract: What is disclosed are the method of making a lubricating-oil additive which improves the viscosity index and has a dispersing and detergent action, which method comprises graft copolymerizing, onto an oil-soluble base polymer, from 0.5 to 10 parts of a polymerizable lactam together with 0.1 to 3 parts of a polymerizable N-heterocyclic compound, said parts being by weight of said base polymer, and the lubricating-oil additives so produced.

Abstract: What is disclosed are the method of making a lubricating-oil additive which improves the viscosity index and has a dispersing and detergent action, which method comprises graft copolymerizing, onto an oil-soluble base polymer, from 0.5 to 10 parts of a polymerizable lactam together with 0.1 to 3 parts of a polymerizable N-heterocyclic compound, said parts being by weight of said base polymer, and the lubricating-oil additives so produced.

Abstract: Symmetric azo-bis-mercapto compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are methyl or ethyl, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different alkylene having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n is 0 or 1, and a method for forming block copolymers of vinyl monomers in a two-step process employing such compounds as polymerization initiators.