Abstract: This invention relates to the use of polyphenylene oxides corresponding to the following general formula: ##STR1## for the production of aromatic block polyether-poly(ester) carbonates by the interfacial process and also to the block polyether-poly(ester) carbonates obtainable by the process.

Abstract: Thermoplastic polyamides with improved stability against reduction in molecular weight due to the effect of light, which have maleic imides as end groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of colorless, heat-stable and hydrolysis-stable aromatic polyesters and polyester carbonates by conventional interfacial polycondensation of aromatic dicarboxylic acid dichlorides and diphenolates in which dicarboxylic acid dichlorides are used which have been obtained by chlorination from the dimethyl esters of the corresponding acids, and tertiary cycloaliphatic amines are used as catalysts.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymer mixtures with a mat surface, based on graft polymers with acid functions and thermoplastic resins with basic functions.

Abstract: Thermotropic fully-aromatic polyesters which contain radicals of 3,4'- and/or 4,4'-dihydroxybenzophenone in addition to radicals of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, iso- and optionally terephthalic acid, hydroquinone and/or 4,4'-dihydroxydiphenyl, have good rigidity and toughness and yet are easily processible.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of aromatic polyester-carbonates wherein, in a first stage, aromatic oligo-esters or oligo-ester-carbonates having hydroxyl end groups are prepared from diaryl esters of aromatic dicarboxylic acids (or their starting materials) and diphenols and, optionally, a diaryl carbonate, by trans-esterification in the melt, and in a second stage these oligo-esters or oligo-ester-carbonates are condensed with phosgene by the phase boundary process to give the polyester-carbonate.

Abstract: Aromatic polyesters based on diphenols, iso- and terephthalic acid, which contain terminal or lateral radicals with two conjugated double bonds, show greatly improved resistance to stress corrosion after tempering.

Abstract: Thermotropic fully aromatic polyesters which contain radicals of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, iso- and/or terephthalic acid and 2,7-dihydroxynaphthalene condensed therein, having outstanding mechanical properties and accordingly are very easy to process.

Abstract: Polyglycidyl compounds are prepared by reacting certain polyallyl compounds with a percarboxylic acid containing 3 or 4 C atoms, subsequently removing, by distillation, the carboxylic acid formed from the percarboxylic acid, then separating the remaining mixture by simultaneous extraction with a lipophilic and a hydrophilic phase, subsequently working up the laden lipophilic phase and the laden hydrophilic phase separately in a manner which is known per se, and obtaining the polyglycidyl compound as the residue from working up of the laden hydrophilic phase.

Abstract: Polymer alloys having a mat surface constituting a mixture of grafted rubbers, the graft superstrate containing an acidic monomer in one part of the mixture and a basic monomer in the other part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of optionally branched polyarylene sulfides by reacting dihalogen benzenes in admixture with aromatic polyhalogen compounds and alkali sulfides in polar solvents, the reaction being carried out in the presence of reducing agents.

Abstract: Aromatic polyester carbonates may be produced by melt-extruding solutions of aromatic polyesters and aromatic polycarbonates.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to molding compositions comprising aromatic, thermoplastic polycarbonate resins at least some molecular chains thereof are characterized in that their terminal groups contain conjugated double bonds. The invention is further directed to a process for the preparation of said compositions.

Abstract: Thermoplastic polyphosphonatocarbonates prepared by polycondensing at least one aromatic dihydroxy compound with a diaryl carbonate and a phosphonic acid diaryl ester in the presence of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of (a) tetra-C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl titanates, (b) di-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl-tin oxides, (c) di-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl-di-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy-tin compounds, (d) tetra-C.sub.3 -C.sub.18 -alkyl zirconates, (e) tri-C.sub.2 -C.sub.18 -alkyl vanadylates and (f) mixtures of germanium dioxide or titanium dioxide and at least one of (a) to (e) in a weight ratio of 1:3 to 3:1 at a temperature of from 80.degree.-340.degree. C. and under a pressure of 600 to 0.1 mm Hg in an inert gaseous atmosphere, the molar ratio of diaryl carbonate to phosphonic diaryl ester being from 5:95 to 95:5 and the molar ratio of aromatic dihydroxy compound to the sum of diaryl carbonates and phosphonic diaryl ester being from 0.91:1 to 0.99:1.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a process for the preparation of polyphosphonates containing carbonate structures in amounts of 0.3 to 4.5 mol %, relative to the sum of phosphonate and carbonate structural units, which is characterized in that diaryl phosphonates are reacted with diphenols in the presence of neutral transesterification catalysts, and the reaction is then completed by adding diaryl carbonate.

Abstract: A block copolymer is produced fromI. 1 to 60% by weight of at least one telechelic diene polymer containing terminal carbonate ester, --OH--, --NH.sub.2 --, carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid ester groups and having a molecular weight M.sub.n of from about 400 to 1300, andII. 99 to 40% by weight of at least one polyamide or polyamide-forming component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyarylene sulphides in alkylated polyureas at a temperature of 250.degree. to 290.degree. C. under a pressure from 4 to 50 bars.

Abstract: High molecular weight p-polyarylensulfides having a high melt viscosity, capable of being processed thermoplastically, and have good mechanical properties are produced by reacting components (a), (b), and (c) in a polar solvent with a molar ratio of (a):(c) in the range of 0.85:1 to 1.15:1 and a molar ratio of (c): solvent in the range of 1:2 to 1:15, for a time of up to 10 hours at a temperature of from 160.degree. C. to 300.degree. C.

Abstract: Process for preparing polyarylensulfides by reacting dihalogenobenzenes, optionally substituted with polyhalogenoaromatic compounds with 3 or 4 halogeno substituents, and alkali metal sulfide in polar solvents using alkali metal sulfites and/or alkaline earth metal sulfites as catalysts.

Abstract: Thermoplastic, branched aromatic polyphosphonates with average molecular weights (number average M.sub.n) of from 11,000 to more than 200,000, obtainable by transesterifying (a) from 97 to 100 moles of at least one diaryl phosphonate, and (b) from 0 to 3 moles of at least one triaryl phosphate--the sum of the moles of (a) and (b) being 100--with (c) from 90 to 99 moles of at least one aromatic dihydroxy compound, and (d) from 0 to 3 moles of at least one aromatic trihydroxy or tetradhydroxy compound--with the proviso that at least one of the components (b) and (d) is present in a quantity of at least 0.001 mole and that, where (b) and (d) are used, the maximum limit on the moles is 3.0.