Abstract: Build-up during vinyl halide, particularly vinyl chloride, polymerization is prevented by employing a polymerization process using a reactor having an adherent internal coating of a coating product derived from the admixture of at least polyethyleneimine; one or more of hydroquinone, p-benzoquinone, catechol and o-benzoquinone; and at least one o-aldehyde-substituted phenol, particularly salicylaldehyde. The preferred system is prepared from polyethyleneimine, hydroquinone and salicylaldehyde.

Abstract: Build-up during vinyl halide, particularly vinyl chloride, polymerization is prevented by employing a reactor having an adherent internal coating of a product derived from the admixture of at least polyethyleneimine and one or more of hydroquinone, p-benzoquinone, catechol and o-benzoquinone. The preferred system excludes catechol, p-benzoquinone and o-benzoquinone and optionally includes a small quantity of pyrogallol. The chemical constitution of the resulting coating product is not properly understood but is thought to include aminoquinonoid structures, condensates and radical anions. One embodiment is directed towards low temperature formation of the coating product in the presence of oxygen and on the reactor surface. Another embodiment concerns preforming the coating product and then applying it to the reactor surfaces.

Abstract: A process for the polymerization of vinyl halides and/or vinylidene halides which comprising contacting the vinyl halide and/or vinylidene halide in gaseous form with a catalyst composition comprising(a) at least one compound of a transition metal of Groups IVA to VIA of the Periodic Table of the Elements, as hereinbefore defined, and(b) at least one compound having the structure ##STR1## WHERE M is aluminum or zinc, n and m each is an integer not greater than one less than the valency of M, at least one of the groups R is a hydrocarbon group, R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group, and X is hydrogen or a monovalent organic group.