Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous styrene-butadiene polymer dispersion by free-radical aqueous emulsion polymerization of a monomer mixture M comprising styrene, butadiene, and if desired up to 30% by weight, based on 100% by weight of monomers, of ethylenically unsaturated comonomers other than styrene and butadiene; in a polymerization vessel by a monomer feed technique in the presence of a regulator system containing, based on 100% by weight of monomers, from 0.02 to 0.5% by weight of at least one hydrocarbon HC having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms, selected from compounds which on abstraction of a hydrogen atom form a pentadienyl radical or 1-phenylallyl radical, and &agr;-methylstyrene dimer, and from 0.3 to 2% by weight of an organic compound S containing at least one SH group wherein at least 30%, preferably at least 50%, in particular at least 80%, and with particular preference the entirety (or >95%) of hydrocarbon HC is included in the initial charge to the polymerization vessel.

Abstract: A paper coating slip containing a mineral pigment and an aqueous polymer dispersion as a binder, wherein the polymer dispersion is obtainable by emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated compounds (monomers) and the paper coating slip gels at above 35° C., i.e. the viscosity of the paper coating slip at from 35 to 60° C. is at least twice the viscosity at 30° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for hydrogenating ethylenically unsaturated double bonds in polymers P by reacting an aqueous dispersion of at least one polymer P with hydrogen in the presence of at least one hydrogenation catalyst comprising at least one transition metal selected from rhodium and/or ruthenium and at least one nonionic phosphorus compound capable of forming a coordinative compound with the transition metal, which comprises incorporating the hydrogenation catalyst into the aqueous dispersion of the polymer P without adding a solvent. The present invention also relates to the aqueous dispersions of the hydrogenated polymers P obtainable by this process and to coating compositions comprising such dispersions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing graft rubbers built up from at least one graft core and from at least one graft shell, comprising a) preparing an aqueous dispersion of at least one elastomeric polymer, b) then, to obtain the at least one graft core, selectively hydrogenating ethylenically unsaturated double bonds in the elastomeric polymer, using hydrogen, in the presence of at least one hydrogenation catalyst, where the aqueous dispersion of the elastomeric polymer comprises not more than 20% by volume of an organic solvent, and c) grafting onto the graft core at least one graft shell, and also to the corresponding graft rubbers.

Abstract: In paper coating slips containing, as a binder, a copolymer which is obtainable by free radical polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated compounds, at least one of the ethylenically unsaturated compounds is a polymer having at least one copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated group, a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 50000 g/mol and at least one carboxyl group (referred to below as ethylenically unsaturated polymer for short).

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing graft rubbers built up from at least one graft core and from at least one graft shell, comprising