Abstract: A hair fiber strengthening composition includes an aqueous vehicle containing as a hair strengthening additive a source of metal cations having a valence of 2 or 3 and anions derived from an oxidized carbohydrate, an inorganic acid and/or an organic acid, the composition having a pH of from about 6 to about 11.

Abstract: There is provided novel mono-acrylate functionalized siloxane monomer containing carbosiloxane linkage for improved hydrolysis resistance. This invention also provides copolymers produced using these monomers and their use in various applications.

Abstract: A hair fiber strengthening composition includes an aqueous vehicle containing as a hair strengthening additive a source of metal cations having a valence of 2 or 3 and anions derived from an oxidized carbohydrate, an inorganic acid and/or an organic acid, the composition having a pH of from about 6 to about 11.

Abstract: A water soluble silicone macromer comprising a siloxane backbone having grafted thereto a suitable number of hydrophilic groups to render the macromer water soluble, the macromer comprising a polymerizable functional group grafted to the siloxane backbone. In one aspect, the present invention provides a water soluble silicone macromer having a structure of Formula (1): where M is a hydrophilic group or segment; L is a hydrophilic or hydrophobic linkage; N is a hydrophilic or hydrophobic group or segment. Q is a polymerizable functional group; x is zero or an integer greater than zero; y is zero or an integer greater than zero; v is zero or an integer greater than zero; and z is greater than zero, with the proviso that both y and v are not zero.

Abstract: A composition, suitable for use in producing hydrogel polymer films from which biomedical devices such as contact lenses can be made, comprising at least one hydrophilic silicone macromer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fast curing compositions comprising a (meth)acrylamide functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers having a polyether moiety containing a branched linking group. In one embodiment, such compositions are useful for preparing water-absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for contact lens applications. In one embodiment, the (meth)acrylamide monomers disclosed here have a branched linking group on the polyether moiety which makes it possible to produce hydrophilic polyether modified silicone copolymers without the need to separate various by-products including, but not limited to, unreacted, isomerized polyether and associated high molecular weight by-products.

Abstract: There is provided a fast curing composition comprising an alpha, beta-unsaturated amido-containing organosilicon compound, useful in making water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for biomedical devices, such as contact lens, and a process for producing these monomers. This invention also provides for hydrogels made from the alpha, beta-unsaturated amido-containing organosilicon compound described herein.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are cobalt complexes containing terdentate pyridine di-imine ligands and their use as efficient, reusable, and selective dehydrogenative silylation, crosslinking, and tandem dehydrogenative silylation-hydrogenation catalysts.

Abstract: A process for the hydrosilylation of an unsaturated compound comprising reacting (a) a silyl hydride with (b) an unsaturated compound in the presence of (c) a platinum compound and (d) a cyclodiene, with the provisos that (i) when the unsaturated compound is a terminal alkyne, the silyl hydride is other than a halosilane, and (ii) when the platinum compound is a Pt(II)-based compound, the ratio of total moles of cyclodiene to moles of platinum is less than 3:1.

Abstract: A composition comprising a carbocyclic group and a hydrophilic moiety attached thereto an alpha, beta-unsaturated organosilicon compound. Such compounds are useful in developing water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films. Silicone-hydrogel films provide increased oxygen to pass through a lens or other treated materials.

Abstract: A water soluble silicone macromer comprising a siloxane backbone having grafted thereto a suitable number of hydrophilic groups to render the macromer water soluble, the macromer comprising a polymerizable functional group grafted to the siloxane backbone. In one aspect, the present invention provides a water soluble silicone macromer having a structure of Formula (1): where M is a hydrophilic group or segment; L is a hydrophilic or hydrophobic linkage; N is a hydrophilic or hydrophobic group or segment. Q is a polymerizable functional group; x is zero or an integer greater than zero; y is zero or an integer greater than zero; v is zero or an integer greater than zero; and z is greater than zero, with the proviso that both y and v are not zero.

Abstract: A process for the hydrosilylation of an unsaturated compound comprising reacting (a) a silyl hydride with (b) an unsaturated compound in the presence of (c) a platinum compound and (d) a cyclodiene, with the provisos that (i) when the unsaturated compound is a terminal alkyne, the silyl hydride is other than a halosilane, and (ii) when the platinum compound is a Pt(II)-based compound, the ratio of total moles of cyclodiene to moles of platinum is less than 3:1.

Abstract: A composition comprising a carbocyclic group and a hydrophilic moiety attached thereto an alpha, beta-unsaturated organosilicon compound. Such compounds are useful in developing water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films. Silicone-hydrogel films provide increased oxygen to pass through a lens or other treated materials.

Abstract: A composition, suitable for use in producing hydrogel polymer films from which biomedical devices such as contact lenses can be made, comprising at least one hydrophilic silicone macromer.

Abstract: There is provided a fast curing composition comprising an alpha, beta-unsaturated amido-containing organosilicon compound, useful in making water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for biomedical devices, such as contact lens, and a process for producing these monomers. This invention also provides for hydrogels made from the alpha, beta-unsaturated amido-containing organosilicon compound described herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fast curing compositions comprising a (meth)acrylamide functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers having a polyether moiety containing a branched linking group. In one embodiment, such compositions are useful for preparing water-absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for contact lens applications. In one embodiment, the (meth)acrylamide monomers disclosed here have a branched linking group on the polyether moiety which makes it possible to produce hydrophilic polyether modified silicone copolymers without the need to separate various by-products including, but not limited to, unreacted, isomerized polyether and associated high molecular weight by-products.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are cobalt complexes containing terdentate pyridine di-imine ligands and their use as efficient and selective dehydrogenative silylation and crosslinking catalysts.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is the selective synthesis of mono-hydrosilylated derivatives of polyunsaturated compounds, such as trivinylcyclohexane using non-precious metal based pyridinediimine and terpyridine complex as selective hydrosilylation catalysts.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are cobalt complexes containing terdentate pyridine di-imine ligands and their use as efficient, reusable, and selective dehydrogenative silylation, crosslinking, and tandem dehydrogenative silylation-hydrogenation catalysts.

Abstract: There is provided new mono-(meth)acrylate functionalized silicone monomers containing carbosiloxane linkage for improved hydrolysis resistance, useful in making water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for contact lens applications. This invention also provides homo-polymers and copolymers made from the mono-(meth)acrylate functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers described herein. Also provided is a process for producing the monomers and polymers described herein and contact lenses produced from the same.