Abstract: Multifunctional polymers containing polymerized units of (a) ?-Acyloxyacrylonitrile, ?-haloacrylic acid, ?-acyloxyacrylic ester and/or ?-hydroxyacrylic acid, (b) monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, (c) vinyl esters of saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acids and/or vinyl alcohol and optionally (d) other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers copolymerizable with said monomers (a) to (c) and optionally (e) crosslinkers containing at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds and having a K value of at least 7 (determined after H. Fikentscher in acetone at 25° C.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of water-soluble polymers of esters of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and polyalkylene glycols by azeotropic esterification, in the presence of organic solvents which form an azeotrope with water, of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids with polyalkylene oxides which are capped at one end by end groups, to a degree of at least 85 wt %, followed by free-radical polymerization of the resulting esters optionally together with other ethylenically unsaturated monomers, in aqueous medium, wherein the organic solvents are removed by azeotropic distillation from the reaction mixture during polymerization and the water that is removed by distillation is recycled or the quantity of water removed by distillation from the reaction mixture is replaced by a feed of fresh water.

Abstract: Polymers containing acid groups are modified by reaction of (a) polymers which comprise at least 5% by weight of a copolymerized monoethylenically unsaturated monomer containing acid groups, have molar masses of from 200 to 100,000 and are obtainable by free-radical polymerization of monoethylenically unsaturated acids in aqueous solution in the presence or absence of other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and in the presence of at least 4% by weight, based on the monomers used in the polymerization, of a water-soluble sulfur compound in which the sulfur is in the oxidation state +4, with (b) polyalkylene glycols which are end-capped at one end, alkylpolyalkylene glycol amines or mixtures thereof, or mixtures of at least one of the two compounds specified with up to 30% by weight, based on the mixtures, of ammonia, amines, alcohols, hydroxycarboxylic acids or aminocarboxylic acids at up to 250° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of water-soluble polymers containing polyalkylene glycol ether side chains and having molecular weights of from 15,000 to 65,000 by solution polymerization of esters of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and polyalkylene glycols which are masked on the end groups at one end, if desired together with another monomer in at least one hydrocarbon at monomer concentrations of from 70 to 95% by weight in the presence of free-radical-forming polymerization initiators and, if desired, polymerization regulators at temperatures of up to 200° C., removal of the solvent used in the solution polymerization, and dissolution of the polymers in water to give from 50 to 80% strength by weight solutions, with polymers containing acid groups being neutralized if desired.

Abstract: Multifunctional polymers containing polymerized units of

Abstract: Mixtures of at least one polycarboxylate-based plasticizer for cement-comprising mineral building materials, and butoxylated polyalkylenepolyamines or their salts as air detrainers, and the use of such mixtures as additives for mineral building materials comprising cement, are described.

Abstract: Polymers containing acid groups are modified by reaction of

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of water soluble or water dispersible polymers containing carboxyl groups, optionally in latent form, and side-chains of general formula (I) -X-Y-[-O-(-Alk-O) n -R] k as additives in mineral building materials, wherein X, Y, Alk, R, n and k have the meanings cited in claim 1. Said polymers can be obtained by polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of compounds containing phosphorus and, optionally, by additional polymer-analogous transformation. The invention further relates to the production of said polymers and the use thereof. Also described are polymers, which can be obtained by polymerizing aromatic vinyl compounds, olefins, cycloolefins and/or dienes, as D monomers and anhydrides of ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids as E monomers and which can be used both as parent compounds for the above-mentioned polymers and as additives for mineral building materials.

Abstract: Water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers which contain carboxyl groups, possibly in latent form, and side chains of the formula I,

Abstract: Additives for mineral building materials made of water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers containing a carboxyl group, optionally in latent form, and at least one side chain of formula I: —X—Y—[O—(Alk—O)n—R]k  (I) wherein k is 1, 2, 3 or 4; Y is a C1-C4-alkylene unit, or a single bond if X is a carbonyl group, or when k≠1, can also be  X is  wherein R′ is hydrogen, C1-C20-alkyl, C5-C10-cycloalkyl, C6-C20-aryl, C1-C20-alkanoyl, C7-C21-aroyl, (Alk-O)n—R or -Alk′-O(Alk-O)n—R; Alk is C2-C4-alkylene; Alk′ is C1-C4-alkylene optionally having an OH group; n is a number in the range from 15 to 300; and R is hydrogen, C1-C20-alkyl, C5-C8-cycloalkyl, C6-C20-aryl, C1-C20-alkanoyl or C7-C21-aroyl; are obtained by polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of phosphorus-containing compounds and, if appropriate, subsequent polymer-analogous conversion.

Abstract: Polymeric polyamines obtainable by reacting linear, alternating carbon monoxide/1-alkene copolymers with ammonia or amines of the formula (I)R--NH.sub.2 (I)where R is --NH.sub.2, --OH, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.20 -aryl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.20 -arylalkyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.20 -alkylaryl or an organosilicon radical having 3 to 30 carbon atoms,or with a reagent which releases ammonia or the amine (I), and subsequent hydrogenation.

Abstract: Water-insoluble, crosslinked polymers containing polymerized units of 1-vinylpyrrolidone and/or 1-vinylimidazoles of the formula ##STR1## where R, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different and each is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or phenyl, or of 4-vinylpyridine N-oxide, in finely divided form, at least 90% by weight of the polymers having a particle size from 0.1 to 500 .mu.m, are useful as detergent additives for inhibiting the transfer of dye during the wash.

Abstract: The use of endgroup-capped fatty amide alkoxylates IR.sup.1 --CO--NH--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --O--(AO).sub.x --R.sup.2(I)whereR.sup.1 is C.sub.5 -C.sub.21 -alkyl or -alkenyl,R.sup.2 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl,A is C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkylene,n is 2 or 3, andx has a value from 1 to 6,as nonionic surfactants or emulsifiers in detergents, cleaners or body care compositions, as surface-active substances for industrial applications in electroplating, in the photographic industry, in petroleum production, in the pharmaceutical industry, in plant feeding and in crop protection formulations, and as surface-active substances in the production of emulsions and pigment and plastic dispersions.

Abstract: A water-soluble or water-dispersible graft copolymer obtainable by free-radical graft copolymerization of(I) at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer onto(II) polymers with a molecular weight of 200-5000 of monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids or anhydrides thereofusing from 5 to 2,000 parts by weight of the monomers (I) per 100 parts by weight of grafting base, a process for preparing the graft copolymers and the use of the graft copolymers as additive to phosphate-free or reduced phosphate textile detergents, as dispersants and preventers of deposits in cleaners for hard surfaces and as water-treatment agents for reducing the deposition of scale and the separation out of water hardness in water-conveying systems.

Abstract: Mixtures of(I)polymers of monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids having a molecular weight of from 200 to 5,000 and(II)(1) copolymers having a molecular weight of from 10,000 to 150,000 and comprising(a) from 10 to 70% by weight of monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 -dicarboxylic acids or the salts thereof and(b) from 30 to 90% by weight of monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -monocarboxylic acids and/or the salts thereof,(2) graft polymers having a molecular weight of from 5,000 to 150,000, which are obtainable by free radical graft polymerization of(A) monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -carboxylic acids or the anhydrides and/or the salts thereof in the presence of(B) mono-, oligo- or polysaccharides and the derivatives thereof in a weight ratio (A) : (B) of (95 to 20) : (5 to 80), and/or(3) polyaminocarboxylic acids and/or polymers containing aminocarboxylic acid groupscontain the components (I) and (II) in a weight ratio of from 10 : 0.5 to 0.

Abstract: Copolymers of hydroxyalkyl vinyl ethers are obtainable by cationic or free radical copolymerization of(a) from 99 to 1% by weight of a hydroxyalkyl vinyl ether,(b) from 1 to 99% by weight of an adduct of a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkylene oxide with a hydroxyalkyl vinyl ether and(c) from 0 to 98% by weight of other copolymerizable monomers,and the stated copolymer and hydroxyalkyl vinyl ethers polymerized by cationic or free radical polymerization, which contain the monomers (a) or (b) as sole monomers or as a mixture with other copolymerizable monomers in the form of polymerized units, are used as additives for detergents and cleaning agents in amounts of from 0.1 to 50% by weight.

Abstract: A mixture suitable for use as a foam-suppressing surfactant additament in cleaning compositions for mechanized cleaning processes comprises at least two mixtures of alkoxylated alcohols IR--O--(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.x --(C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.y --H (I)where x is an average degree of ethoxylation between 1 and 12, y is an average degree of propoxylation between 1 and 15, one alkoxylated alcohol mixture carries straight-chain or branched C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 -alkyl groups as the radical R and one other alkoxylated alcohol mixture carries straight-chain or branched C.sub.10 -C.sub.20 -alkyl groups as the radical R, subject to the proviso that the two radicals R differ by at least 0.5 in the average number of carbon atoms, and the two alkoxylated alcohol mixtures present in a ratio of from 10:90 to 90:10.

Abstract: Soluble polyacetals containing acetaldehyde acetal units are obtainable by cationically initiated addition polymerization of(a) compounds containing at least 3 hydroxyl groups, and(b) divinyl ethers containing terminal vinyl ether groups, or mixtures of such divinyl ethers and monovinyl ethers, in the presence or absence of(c) dihydroxy compounds and/or monohydroxy compounds, and are useful as admixture in phosphate-reduced and phosphate-free detergents and cleaners and as dispersant for finely divided minerals.

Abstract: Polyacetals useful as reduced-phosphate or phosphate-free detergent and cleaner additives are obtainable by cationically initiated polyaddition of(a) divinyl ethers and(b) dihydroxy compounds and also, optionally,(c) monohydroxy compoundsand have K values of from 8 to 100.

Abstract: Polyacetals useful as reduced-phosphate or phosphate-free detergent and cleaner additives are obtainable by cationically initiated polyaddition of(a) divinyl ethers and(b) dihydroxy compounds and also, optionally,(c) monohydroxy compoundsand have K values of from 8 to 100.