Abstract: A process for the preparation of dispersions of optionally cross-linked ethylene-vinyl ester graft polymers wherein an ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer is used as graft substrate and a vinyl ester of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 carboxylic acid and/or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl ester of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid are used as a graft monomer which is polymerized, optionally together with a cross-linking agent having two or more C--C double bonds, in organic solution until at least 25% by weight of the graft monomer has been reacted, the reaction product is converted into a stable finely divided dispersion by the addition of a precipitating agent under the action of shearing forces and polymerisation is completed before, during or after the formation of the dispersion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of bis-carbonic acid aryl 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 OH group of the polyester-diol and the hydroxyaryl compounds formed being distilled off.

Abstract: Graft copolymers of A 2 to 30% by weight of a polysaccharide ester as graft basis, and B 98 to 70% by weight of a grafted monomer mixture of (1) 8 to 90% by weight of ethylene and (2) 92 to 10% by weight of vinyl acetate. The polymers are suitable for the production of moulding compounds, films, packaging foils, and coatings.

Abstract: A thermoplastic molding composition contains a mixture of 10 to 95% by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer and 90 to 5% by weight of an adipate/carbonate mixed ester which is the transesterification reaction product of an adipate-diol polyester having terminal hydroxyls and a bifunctional carbonic acid aryl ester. The composition has a favorable combination of physical properties which include good cold fracture behavior coupled with easy processability and good ageing characteristics.

Abstract: An azo di-isobutyric acid-(N,N'-hydroxyalkyl)-amidine corresponding to the formula (I): ##STR1## in which R and R', which may be the same or different, represent linear or branched alkylene radicals containing from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, andX represents R'-OH or H.They may be produced by reacting an azo-di-isobutyric acid iminoalkyl ether containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl group with at least one mono-alkanolamine containing from 2 to 4 carbon atoms or with a mixture of at least one monoalkanolamine and at least one dialkanolamine each containing from 2 to 4 carbon atoms in an alkanol radical, the molar ratio of monoalkanolamines to dialkanolamines in the mixture amounting to substantially 1:1, in substantially equivalent quantitative ratios at a temperature in the range of from 0.degree. to 50.degree. C. The amidines may be used as polymerization initiators, as cross-linking agents and as blowing agents in the production of foams.

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 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 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: A process for the production of partially or completely hydrolyzed ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer which is suitable for the various powder coating techniques, wherein the polymer solution is extruded in a non-gelled state into water with a temperature no more than 20.degree. C below the gellation temperature and the gelling solution is converted into particles from 0.02 to 5 mm in diameter by means of high shear forces.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of graft polymers from ethylene homopolymers or copolymers and olefinically unsaturated monomers, especially from ethylene/vinyl ester copolymers, in the presence of a radical forming agent in homogenous or heterogeneous phase, in which a mixture of (meth)acrylonitrile, at least one aromatic vinyl compound and vinylchloride are polymerized in the presence of an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer. The products obtained contain no ungrafted styrene/acrylonitrile copolymer and more than 80% by weight of the graft polymer is chemically almost uniform in structure. The products obtained according to the invention are eminently suitable for use as coating materials and as materials which can be thermoplastically processed.

Abstract: Copolymers with improved dimensional stability under heat consisting essentially of (meth)acrylonitrile, styrene and at least one aliphatic monoolefin with 2 to 8 carbon atoms.

Abstract: There are disclosed water-insoluble proteinic preparations in which a protein or polypeptide is bound to a copolymer, which preparations are useful for binding enzymes in order to carry out enzyme-catalyzable reactions. These preparations comprise a peptide material bound to a cross-linked copolymer comprising the following copolymerized units:A. about 0.1 to 50 weight percent of at least one .alpha.,.beta. - monoolefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride having about 4 to 9 carbon atoms;B. about 99.9 to 50 weight percent of at least one di- and/or poly(meth)acrylate of a diol and/or a polyol as hereinafter defined,The copolymer having a bulk volume of 1.4 to 30 ml/g and a specific surface area of about 1 to 500 m.sup.2 /g, and containing, after saponification of the anhydride groups, about 0.02 to 10 milliequivalents of acid per gram.

Abstract: Process for the production of vinyl chloride polymers modified with aromatic polycarbonate, characterized in that mixtures of olefinically unsaturated monomers containing at least 70 % by weight of vinyl chloride are polymerized by radical polymerization in the presence of aromatic polycarbonates, 0 - 100 % by weight of rubber or rubber-modified thermoplastic resin, based on the polycarbonate-modified vinyl chloride polymer, being added before or after polymerization.

Abstract: Dispersions suitable for the manufacture of moulding compositions which can be cured with low shrinkage to give mouldings with excellent surfaces can be obtained by the addition of finely divided ethylene copolymers manufactured in aqueous emulsion to unsaturated polyester resins.

Abstract: Pourable and pumpable, storage-stable organic dispersions which can be cured with little shrinkage comprising unsaturated polyesters, copolymerizable vinyl monomers, ethylene vinyl ester copolymers and optionally dispersing agents.

Abstract: Moulding compounds with improved impact strength and weather resistance comprising mixtures of polyvinylchloride and graft polymers prepared from ethylene/vinyl ester copolymers on which have been grafted units of monomer mixtures of aromatic vinyl compounds, (meth)acrylonitrile and aliphatic monoolefins.

Abstract: Weather-resistant thermoplastic moulding compounds of mixtures ofA. copolymers of (meth)acrylonitrile, of at least one aromatic vinyl compound and of optionally at least one monoolefin, andB. a graft copolymer of an ethylene/vinyl ester copolymer as graft substrate and grafted polymerized units of (meth)acrylonitrile of at least one aromatic monovinyl compound and of optionally at least one aliphatic monoolefin.

Abstract: There are disclosed water-insoluble proteinic preparations in which a protein or polypeptide is bound to a copolymer, which preparations are useful for binding enzymes in order to carry out enzyme-catalyzable reactions. These preparations comprise a peptide material bound to a crosslinked copolymer comprising the following copolymerized units:A. about 0.1 to 30 wt. % of at least one .alpha.,.beta.-monoolefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride having about 4 to 9 carbon atoms;B. about 35 to 90 wt. % of at least one di- and/or poly(meth)acrylate of a diol and/or polyol as hereinafter defined; andC. about 5 to 60 wt. % of at least one hydrophilic monomer,The copolymer having a bulk volume of 1.4 to 30 ml/g and a specific surface area of about 1 to 500 m.sup.2 /g, and containing, after saponification of the anhydride groups, about 0.01 to 14 milliequivalents of acid per gram.