Abstract: This invention relates to new straight chained and branched copolyarylene sulphides with built-in aromatic or araliphatic comonomers containing phosphine groups and to products obtainable from the phosphine group-containing polyarylene sulphides by a special heat treatment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the solid phase post-condensation of (co)polyamides which contain small amounts of lysine components and about equivalent amounts thereto of a polycarboxylic acid incorporated. Thermoplastically deformable, slightly branched aliphatic (co)polyamides having increased melt viscosity and pronounced pseudoplasticity are obtained in a shortened reaction time. The invention also relates to solid phase post-condensed (co)polyamides of this type.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of highly concentrated and, surprisingly, viscosity-stable solutions of segmented polyurethane urea elastomers in highly polar solvents, such as dimethyl formamide and dimethyl acetamide, having little or no tendency to turn to paste, characterized by the use of certain primary and secondary cycloaliphatic monoamines or cycloaliphatic monisocyanates as chain-extending agents/blocking agents in the reaction of NCO prepolymers based on relatively high molecular weight dihydroxy compounds and (preferably aromatic) diisocyanates with aliphatic and and/or cycloaliphatic diamine chain-extending agents. The chain terminators according to the invention also show unexpected iprovements in the color of the elastomer solution and also in the stability of the end products, preferably filaments, to light and noxious gases.

Abstract: The liquid crystal polycondensates according to the invention based on aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acids, if appropriate aromatic aminocarboxylic acids, diphenols, if appropriate aminophenols, aromatic dicarboxylic acids and if appropriate carbonic acid which are obtainable by polycondensation of the difunctional monomers mentioned in the melt in the presence of aromatic esters with a defined sequence of the structural units of the formula ##STR1## of oligomers with random distribution of the structural units of the formula ##STR2## have a good heat stability and exhibit a stable viscosity under the processing conditions. The liquid crystal polycondensates can be used for the production of shaped articles, films, fibers and filaments.

Abstract: This invention relates to thermoplastically mouldable slightly branched aliphatic (co)polyamides of high molecular weight with increased melt viscosities and a marked structural viscosity prepared by accelerated polycondensation of suitable monomer melts in the presence of small quantities of lysine components and approximately equivalent quantities of a polycarboxylic acid optionally followed by a thermal after-condensation reaction, and to a process for the polycondensation. The lysine components used are lysine, lysine hydrate, esters of lysine with low alcohols or lysine hydrochlorides (the latter in the presence of approximately equivalent quantities of bases added at the same time to bind the HCl).

Abstract: This invention relates to polyarylene sulfide molding compounds, preferably polyphenylene sulfide molding compounds, having improved processability and increased UV stability.

Abstract: The invention relates to high molecular weight (co)polyamides and to a process for the accelerated production of polyamides during melt polycondensation using a combination of aminocaprolactam (ACL) and/or lysine components and polycarboxylic acids and known catalysts and also, if desired, for the accelerated solid-phase post-condensation of the catalyst-containing (co)polyamides and to the polyamides produced by the processes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of linear, unbranched polyarylene sulfides from aromatic dichlorine compounds and alkali sulfides in tetra-alkylated, cyclic ureas as the reaction medium.

Abstract: This invention relates to new straight chained and branched copolyarylene sulphides with built-in aromatic or araliphatic comonomers containing phosphine groups and to products obtainable from the phosphine group-containing polyarylene sulphides by a special heat treatment.

Abstract: The invention relates to aliphatic-aromatic polyamide-imides and their use for the production of shaped articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to new, free-flowing arylene sulfide polymers (PAS) preferably phenylene sulfide polymers, which crystallize with delay, optionally additionally display improved resistance to UV radiation, and are prepared by mixing PAS with aromatic mononitro compounds in the melt, preferably with the application of shearing forces.

Abstract: This invention relates to the process of applying heat curable reaction resin mixtures of polyisocyanates (a), polyepoxides (b), reaction inhibitors (c), heat activated reaction catalysts (d) and optionally auxiliary agents and additives (e) for the production of multilayered moulded products based on polyamides with a cured duromer layer by applying the mixture and heat curing of the reaction resin mixtures are preferably applied to the polyamide moulded products produced by the anionic lactam polymerization process by rotation, extrusion or centrifugal casting while the said polyamide products are still hot from the heat of polymerization, e.g. to form internal coatings on rotation cast polyamide pipes. The invention further relates to duromer coated multilayered moulded products produced by the above process.

Abstract: This invention relates to modified polyetheramide hotmelt adhesives showing reduced melt viscosity and, optionally, better adhesive properties and to their use as ingredients for hotmelt adhesives.

Abstract: A process for the production of polyester-polyamide block polymers by precondensing a polyamide-forming starting mixture until a relative viscosity of at least 1.2 is attained, and adding a polyester, the dicarboxylic acid units of which are derived to at least 50% from dicarboxylic acids having at least 17 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of aromatic polycarbonates, aromatic polyester carbonates and aromatic polyesters by the known two-phase interfacial method which is characterized in that a mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons with alkanes and/or cycloalkanes is used as the organic phase and in that phosphines or phosphine oxides are used as the catalysts.

Abstract: The invention relates to high-molecular polyarylene sulphides (PAS) and a process for producing them.

Abstract: This invention relates to polyarylene ethers containing benzoxazole groups and to a process for their preparation.

Abstract: This invention relates to thermoplastically deformable branched aliphatic polyamides prepared by the hydrolytic polycondensation of lactams in the presence of small quantities of .alpha.-amino-.epsilon.-caprolactam (ACL) and approximately equivalent quantities of polycarboxylic acids (preferably dicarboxylic acids) and to a process for their preparation which is distinguished by considerably reduced polycondensation times without giving rise to cross-linked products. The process optionally in addition employs a solid phase after-condensation in which rapid further condensation takes place to the products with increased melt viscosity which are branched but are still soluble in m-cresol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of aromatic polycarbonates, aromatic polyester carbonates and aromatic polyesters by the known two phase interface process, which is characterized in that the organic phase used is a mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons with alkanes and/or cycloalkanes.

Abstract: Polyesters useful as a binder or a component of a binder for powder lacquers and which contain hydroxyls, carboxyls or both and which have an acid value of up to 50, a hydroxyl value of up to 200 and a sum of hydroxyl value and acid value of from 20 to 200 is produced by reacting:(a) an acid component selected from the group consisting of (a1) at least one poly-functional organic carboxylic acid, (a2) at least one ester-forming derivative of a poly-functional organic carboxylic acid, (a3) at least one organic hydroxycarboxylic acid, (a4) at least one lactone of an organic hydroxycarboxylic acid, and mixtures thereof, with the proviso that at least 50 mol-% of component (a) consists of aromatic species of components (a1), (a2), (a3), (a4), or mixtures thereof,with(b) a polyol component which is at least one polyhydric alcohol having a molecular weight in the range from 62 to 250,while maintaining an equivalent ratio of carboxyl groups to hydroxyl groups of form 0.65:1 to 1.