Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures of special polyesters and/or special polyester carbonates with amorphous thermoplastics and/or with partly crystalline thermoplastics and/or with rubbers and/or with graft polymers useful for molding articles.

Abstract: Dihydroxydiphenyl bicycloalkanes characterized in that they contain 9 to 13 ring C atoms in the bicycloaliphatic component are disclosed. The disclosed compounds were found to be suitable for the preparation of high molecular weight, thermoplastic polycarbonate resins having favorable properties.

Abstract: Dihydroxydiphenyl bicycloalkanes characterized in that they contain 9 to 13 ring C atoms in the bicycloaliphatic component are disclosed. The disclosed compounds were found to be suitable for the preparation of high molecular weight, thermoplastic polycarbonate resins having favorable properties.

Abstract: Photoconductive recording material which incorporates in an outermost layer a siloxane-copolymer including at least one polysiloxane block that is copolymerized with aromatic carbonate units, wherein the polysiloxane block(s) consist(s) of 5 to 200 chemically bonded diorgano siloxy units in which the organic substituents are selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, an aralkyl, an alkaryl and an aryl group, and said block(s) is (are) present in an amount by weight in the range of 0.3% to 6% with respect to the total weight of said copolymer.

Abstract: Photoconductive recording material which incorporates in an outermost layer a siloxane-copolymer including at least one polysiloxane block that is copolymerized with aromatic ester units or with aromatic carbonate units and aromatic ester units, wherein the polysiloxane block(s) consist(s) of 5 to 200 chemically bonded diorgano siloxy units in which the organic substituents are selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, an aralkyl, an alkaryl and an aryl group and said block(s) is (are) present in an amount by weight in the range 0.3% to 80% with respect to the total weight of said copolymer.

Abstract: A photoconductive recording material having a conducting electrode element coated with one or more layers, one or more of said layers incorporating one or more polyester carbonate copolymers, wherein the aromatic carbonate units are present in the range of 10 to 48 mole % of said copolymer and correspond to the general formulae (I), and wherein the aromatic ester units are present in the range of 52 to 90 mole % of said copolymer and have one or more of the compositions represented by the general formulae (II and III) described herein.

Abstract: Polyesters and polyester carbonates ofa) aromatic diphenols,b.sub.1) aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic and/or aromatic dicarboxylic acids and optionallyb.sub.2) carbonic acid,containingb.sub.1) in a quantity of 0.1 to 100 mol-% andb.sub.2) in a quantity of 0 to 99.9 mol-%, based on (b.sub.1 +b.sub.2), in which 0.

Abstract: The new polyester carbonate-polysiloxane block copolymers having recurrent structural units of the following formulae ##STR1## have improved resistance to petrol compared with known polyester carbonate-polysiloxane block copolymers. They are used for the manufacture of moulded products, in particular those used under the engine bonnet of a motor vehicle or as external parts of motor vehicles.

Abstract: Polydiorganosiloxane-polycarbonate block copolymers based on dihydrodiphenylcycloalkanes corresponding to formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 independently of one another represent hydrogen, halogen, preferably chlorine or bromine, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, C.sub.5-6 cycloalkyl, C.sub.6-10 aryl and C.sub.7-12 aralkyl, preferably phenyl-C.sub.1-4 -alkyl, more especially benzyl,n=2 or 3 andthe substituents R.sup.5 independently of one another are hydrogen or C.sub.1-12 alkyl, with the proviso that at least one of the substituents R.sup.5 is not hydrogen,having an average molecular weight M.sub.w (weight average) in the range from 10,000 to 300,000 (as measured by ultracentrifugation or scattered light measurement) and a content of carbonate containing dihydroxydiphenylcycloalkanes of formula I and, optionally, other diphenols in co-condensed form of from 75% by weight of 99.

Abstract: Polyesters and polyester-carbonates based on dihydroxydiphenylcycloalkanes corresponding to the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represent hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 hydrocarbon radical or halogen; m represents an integer of from 4 to 7,R.sup.5, and R.sup.6, may be selected individually for each X and independently represent hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl; andX represents carbon;with the proviso that, on at least one atom X, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 simultaneously represent alkyl.

Abstract: Films from aromatic polyesters and from aromatic polyestercarbonates are excellently suitable for preparing printing ribbons, in particular for thermal and electrothermal recording processes.

Abstract: Thermoplastic blends ofA) 1 to 99% by weight of at least one thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonate which contains difunctional carbonate structural units of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently of one another are hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -hydrocarbon radical or halogen and R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 independently of one another are H or a hydrocarbon radical, with the proviso that at least one of the radicals R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 is a hydrocarbon radical, that when only one of the radicals R.sup.5, R.sup.6 or R.sup.7 is present as a hydrocarbon radical this is a C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 -hydrocarbon radical with the exception of C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 -n-alkyl, and that when two or three radicals R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are present as hydrocarbon radicals these are any C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: Aromatic polycarbonates having weight average molecular weight M.sub.w of at least 10,000 which contain bifunctional carbonate structural units corresponding to general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 independently represent hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 hdyrocarbon or halogen radicals; andR.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 independently represent hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 hydrocarbon radicals, one or R.sup.5 and R.sup.9 representing hydrogen and the other C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 hydrocarbon radical;in amounts of from 100 to 1 mole % based on the total amount of difunctional carbonate structural units in the polycarbonate were found to be useful for thermoplast processing of compositions which are characterized by their improved toughness and high heat deflection temperature.

Abstract: Polyester-carbonate/polysiloxane block copolymers containing the following recurring structural units: ##STR1## wherein the structural units (1) comprise at least 75 wt.% of the sum of the structural units (1) and (2), exhibit better low temperature tough fracture properties than the known polyester-carbonate/polysiloxane block copolymers containing comparable recurring structural units on comparison of polyester-carbonate/polysiloxane block copolymers of the same heat resistance.

Abstract: Thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonates having average molecular weights Mw of at least 10,000 which contain bifunctional carbonate structural units corresponding formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 independently of one another represent hydrogen, a C.sub.1-12 hydrocarbon, halogen,Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2, Y.sup.3 independently of one another represent hydrogen,C.sub.1-5 alkyl, a C.sub.6-12 hydrocarbon radical,at least two of the substituents Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2 and Y.sup.3 not being hydrogen and at least one of the substituents Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2 and Y.sup.3 being C.sub.1-5 alkyl,in quantities of from 100 to 1 mol-%, based on the total quantity of difunctional carbonate structural units in the polycarbonate.

Abstract: Thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonates having average molecular weight Mw of at least 10,000 which contain bifunctional carbonate structural units corresponding to formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently of one another represent hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -hydrocarbon, halogen,m is 2 or 3 andX represents hydrogen or a C.sub.6 -C.sub.12 hydrocarbon, at least one substituent X being a C.sub.6 -C.sub.12 hydrocarbon radical,in quantities of from 100 to 1 mol-% based on the total quantity of difunctional carbonate structural units in the polycarbonate.

Abstract: Thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonates having average molecular weights Mw of at least 10,000 which contain bifunctional carbonate structural units corresponding to formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently of one another represent hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 hydrocarbon radical, halogen andR.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 represent hydrogen, iso-C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 -alkyl,one of the substituents R.sup.5, R.sup.6 or R.sup.7 not being hydrogen, in quantities of from 100 to 1 mol-%, based on the total quantity of difunctional carbonate structural units in the polycarbonate.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of mixtures consisting of 5 to 95% by weight of an aromatic polycarbonate of which the linear chains contain from 0.1 mol-% to 50 mol-% bifunctional structural units corresponding to formula (1) ##STR1## and 95 to 5% by weight of a thermoplastic styrene polymer and, optionally, standard additives as substrates for optical storage media.

Abstract: Optionally substituted 3-benzalphthalides are effective UV stabilizers for thermoplastic aromatic polyesters, polycarbonates and polyester carbonates.

Abstract: Films from aromatic polyesters and from aromatic polyestercarbonates are excellently suitable as electrically insulating films, for example as dielectric for capacitors and as conductor track films.