Abstract: A hot melt adhesive composition comprising (A) 99 to 80 wt % of a thermoplastic resin selected from the group consisting of a substantially amorphous thermoplastic saturated polyester resin, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and an ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer and (B) from 1 to 20 wt % of a monofunctional or polyfunctional cyanate ester compound having at least one cyanato group in the molecule is disclosed. The hot melt adhesive composition can further contain a co-modifier, a monofunctional or polyfunctional maleimide compound or a cross-linking catalyst for the thermoplastic resin (A). This composition has improved adhesive force, mechanical characteristics and heat resistance.

Abstract: A photosetting polymer composition comprises:a base polymer comprising a denatured copolymer which is produced by reacting a copolymer of maleic anhydride and an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound with a specific aminocarboxylic acid, an alcohol or a cellosolve derivative, and a glycidyl (meth)acrylate compound under specific conditions;5-500 weight parts of a photopolymerizable monomer per 100 weight parts of the base polymer; and1-50 weight parts of a photopolymerization initiator per 100 weight parts of the base polymer.

Abstract: Photolytically crosslinkable thermally stable compositions comprising at least one crosslinkable polymer and a crosslinkable quantity of a multifunctional 3,4-disubstituted maleimide. The compositions may be employed to prepare adhesives and photo printing mats.

Abstract: A composition of matter which comprises an elastomer grafted at a level of from about 40 to about 60 weight percent with a polymer matrix comprising recurring units of at least one free radical polymerizable monomer and its method of preparation are disclosed.

Abstract: An extrudable acrylic composition which incorporates an interpolymer produced by the polymerization of methyl methacrylate monomer, an N-substituted maleimide monomer, an alkyl acrylate monomer, and a difunctional reactive monomer is disclosed.

Abstract: Various fabrication properties of polyvinyl chloride are improved such as melt flow by treating the polyvinyl chloride resin with a low inherent viscosity-high glass transition temperature enhancing agent. The treatment occurs as a suspension overpolymerization on the polyvinyl chloride resin by reacting at least one high glass transition temperature enhancing agent with at least one substantially water insoluble chain transfer agent. The formed high glass transition temperature-low inherent viscosity agent imparts a high glass transition temperature to the polyvinyl chloride resin and also reduces the inherent viscosity to a level below the inherent viscosity formed by the combined effect of the polyvinyl chloride resin and the glass transition temperature agent.

Abstract: The invention provides a rubber dispersed copolymer resin having excellent heat resistance, impact strength and moldability and composed of (1) a dispersed phase formed of a rubbery polymer and copolymerized styrene-type, acrylonitrile-type and maleimide-type monomers, said rubbery polymer specifically controlled occluding the copolymer of monomers, being grafted with the copolymer and/or forming a multicomponent gel together with copolymers, and (2) a continuous phase formed at least of a specifically controlled copolymer of the styrenetype, acrylonitrile-type and maleimide-type monomers. The resin is useful as a molding material for electric appliances, electronic equipment and cars.

Abstract: A process for forming a polymer resistant to degradation comprising chemically bonding unsaturated antioxidants into polymeric materials by adding the antioxidant to the polymeric material, introducing a free radical initiator and causing the initiator to generate free radicals and bond the antioxidant to the polymeric material.

Abstract: A polyamide adhesive composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a polymer component and 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of an aminosilane compound. The polymer component comprises 50 to 99.5% by weight of a polyamide and 0.5 to 50% by weight of a modified polyolefin formed by grafting a polyolefin with an unsaturated compound having a polar group in the molecule and/or a polymer other than polyamides, having a polar group or an aromatic group and a tensile modulus not higher than 2,000 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: Impact-resistant thermoplastic molding materials based on a resin A containing one or more vinylaromatic monomers are prepared by reacting the resin A (component A) with one or more monomers from the group consisting of the .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated dicarbonyl compounds (component B) by a process in which the reaction is carried out in a melt of A in the presence of B and in the absence of initiators, and the resin A used is one which contains from 3 to 50% by weight, based on A, of one or more elastomers a.sub.1 (rubber) and has been prepared in a conventional manner by polymerizing one or more vinylaromatic monomers of 8 to 12 carbon atoms in the presence of the elastomer a.sub.1 are used for the production of moldings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising(A) 64-4 parts by wt. of a bismaleimide compound, or an isomaleimide isomer thereof, a maleimide-amide compound or an isomaleimide isomer thereof and maleic anhydride compound,(B) 7-77 parts by wt. of one or more ethylenically unsaturated compounds containing 5-50 C-atoms and is characterized in that the composition further comprises(C) 3-60 parts by wt. of one or more compounds from the group of hydroxy-alkylacrylates or amino-alkylacrylates,(D) 1-20 parts by wt. of one or more terminally functional polymers as flexibilizer, with the proviso that the sum, of parts of compounds A, B, C and D amounts to 100.

Abstract: Polymers which have been modified by a polymer-analogous reaction, in the acid form or in the form of their salts, consist of a copolymer of ethylene, (meth)acrylic acid and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of vinyl esters, vinyl ethers, (meth)acrylates and (meth)acrylamides, and olefinically unsaturated side radicals which have been introduced into the said copolymer by a polymer-analogous reaction and are of the general formula I ##STR1## where X is hydroxyl, amino or mercapto, Y is an ester, amide, ether or C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkylene group and R is hydrogen or methyl.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin and a composition containing therein such modified polyolefin, having excellent adhesive property and heat-sealing property at the time of high speed forming operations, the modified polyolefin resin consisting essentially of: a copolymer of ethylene and .alpha.-olefin having 4 or more carbon atoms, the copolymer having a density in a range of from 0.890 to 0.910 g/cm.sup.3, a ratio of a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) to a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of Mw/Mn=2 to 15, and a product of a melt tension (g) and a melt-index (g/10 min.) of a molten resin measured at 160.degree. C. of 4 or below; and unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivatives thereof grafted on the ethylene type copolymer at a ratio of from 0.01 to 3% by weight.

Abstract: Unique Diels-Alder adducts of an activated olefin and an alloocimene polymer containing pendant conjugated double bonds were prepared. These adducts are useful as binders in adhesive, printing ink and coating formulations.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparing a polymer bound stabilizer which comprises reacting a stabilizer precursor molecule containing a reactive double bound which is not readily homopolymerizable with a pre-formed polymer in the presence of a free radical.

Abstract: Described herein are novel bismaleimides and prepregable resin compositions comprising these bismaleimides and one or more liquid coreactants and optionally, one or more other additives. The novel bismaleimides, such as alpha, alpha-bis-(4-maleimidophenyl)-meta-diisopropylbenzene, are characterized by the presence of three aromatic rings in the molecular structure and in some respects optimize the desirable characteristics of the one or two and four atomatic ring-containing bismaleimides in resins prepared therefrom.

Abstract: A method of producing a molded rubber product for use in the pharmaceutical industry comprising the steps of mixing a rubber formulation including a halogenated butyl rubber and a curing system of from 0.5 to 2.0 parts by weight of zinc oxide and from 0.5 to 1.5 parts by weight of m-PBM. The parts are based upon the weight of the formulation. A sheet is formed from the mixture by feeding the mixture through a calender means. The calender sheet is molded into a molded rubber product at a pressure of at least 500 psi and at a temperature of up to 375.degree. F. for up to 5 minutes. The formed product is then removed.

Abstract: Cured rubber compositions having modulii at 10% elongation of from about 50 MPa to about 200 MPa are prepared by curing, curable rubber compositions comprising: (a) 100 parts by weight of a rubber selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, nitrile rubber, neoprene and blends thereof; (b) from about 50 to about 100 parts by weight of a metal dimethacrylate selected from the group consisting of zinc dimethacrylate and magnesium dimethacrylate and (c) from about 1.0 to about 6.0 parts by weight of a peroxide curing agent; at temperatures ranging from about 140.degree. to about 180.degree. C. for time periods ranging from about 10 to about 45 minutes. The curable rubber compositions may optionally and in some instances preferably contain from about 0.1 to about 2.0 parts by weight of a co-curing agent.Cured rubber compositions of the invention may be utilized in various applications including for example conveyor belts and tire compounds.

Abstract: A new compound is disclosed, N-(chlorocarbonyloxy-5-norbornene-2,3-dicarboximide I, in addition to processes for its production and employment of the compound as starting product for the manufacture of non-symmetrical carbonate, urethane-protected amino acid or peptide, activated carrier and carrier-ligand-complexes. The new compound is reacted with alcohols as well as with hydroxyl-group-containing or amino-group-containing polymers.

Abstract: Tough multi-phase thermoplastic compositions consisting essentially of 55 to 99 parts by weight of a polyamide matrix and 1 to 45 parts by weight of a multiphase polymer comprising 50 to 90 parts by weight of a crosslinked elastomer core and 10 to 50 parts by weight of a rigid polymer shell comprising from about 1 to about 25 parts by weight of an interpolymerized ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, from about 20 to about 80 parts by weight of interpolymerized styrene, from about 0 to about 79 parts by weight of an interpolymerized C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 alkyl acrylate or methacrylate and from about 0 to about 45 parts by weight of an interpolymerized acrylonitrile. The toughened compositions are useful for making molded and extruded parts possessing impact resistance and ductility.

Abstract: An acrylic modified styrenic/N-arylmaleimide copolymer containing composition which exhibits excellent melt flow properties, impact strength and gloss upon molding is disclosed.

Abstract: An extrudable acrylic composition which incorporates an interpolymer produced by the polymerization of methyl methacrylate monomer, an N-substituted maleimide monomer, an alkyl acrylate monomer, and a difunctional reactive monomer is disclosed.

Abstract: "Living" polymers and their preparation from acrylic-type or maleimide monomers and organosilicon, -tin or -germanium initiators.

Abstract: Novel compositions of matter which crosslink under the action of light and which contain(A) an aliphatically unsaturated polymerization product which is free of aromatic groups and which can contain structural elements of the formula I ##STR1## (B) a bisimide of the formula II ##STR2## and a sensitizer and, if desired, a further crosslinking agent, where R and R' are alkyl or together are tetramethylene, R.sub.1 is hydrogen, chlorine or methyl, Y and Y' are each --OH or together are --O-- and R.sub.4 is alkylene, arylene or bis-arylene, are suitable, inter alia, for preparing printing plates or as photoresist materials.

Abstract: Polyolefins are graft modified with functional hydroxyl groups through an imide linkage and chemically reacted with polymerized polycarbonates, polyesters, and/or poly(ester-carbonates) to produce a thermoplastic molding composition.

Abstract: When vinyl pyridines including vinyl stilbazole materials and vinyl styrylpyridine oligomer materials are admixed with bismaleimides and cured to form copolymers the cure temperatures of the copolymers are substantially below the cure temperatures of the bismaleimides alone.

Abstract: Copolymers adapted for use as stabilizers in dispersions and stable dispersions, including crosslinked dispersions containing microgel particles, prepared therefrom. Stabilizer bears pendent ethylenic unsaturation capable of reacting with monomers employed in random copolymerization used to make the dispersion polymer. Stabilizer comprises a random copolymer segment of ethylenically unsaturated monomers, some of which are characterized in that homopolymers thereof would be substantially insoluble in the organic liquid used to form the stable dispersion and some of which are characterized in that homopolymers thereof would be substantially soluble in the organic liquid used to form the stable dispersion.

Abstract: A heat resistant resin composition comprising from 10 to 90% by weight of a copolymer A and from 90 to 10% by weight of a copolymer B, in which the copolymer A is composed of an N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue, a maleimide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the total content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue and the maleimide monomer residue being from 10 to 45%, the content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue being greater than the content of the maleimide monomer residue, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 90 to 55% and the content of said other vinyl monomer residue being from 0 to 20%, and the copolymer B is composed of a vinyl cyanide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the content of the vinyl cyanide monomer residue being from 20 to 55%, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 80 to 45% and the content of said other

Abstract: An acetal resin composition comprising (A) an acetal resin and (B) 1 to 200 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the acetal resin (A), of at least one modified alpha-olefin polymer, said modified alpha-olefin polymer (B) being a graft-copolymerization product of 100 parts by weight of an alpha-olefin polymer and 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative.

Abstract: A heat resistant resin composition comprising from 10 to 90% by weight of a copolymer A and from 90 to 10% by weight of a copolymer B, in which the copolymer A is composed of an N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue, a maleimide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the total content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue and the maleimide monomer residue being from 10 to 45%, the content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue being greater than the content of the maleimide monomer residue, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 90 to 55% and the content of said other vinyl monomer residue being from 0 to 20%, and the copolymer B is composed of a vinyl cyanide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the content of the vinyl cyanide monomer residue being from 20 to 55%, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 80 to 45% and the content of said other

Abstract: Interpolymers resulting from the polymerization of a vinyl/aromatic monomer such as styrene, an olefinic nitrile such as acrylonitrile and a maleimide in the presence of both an ethylene propylene-diene terpolymer (EPDM) and an ethylene-acrylate copolymer and to molded products produced therefrom are described.

Abstract: Surface-coating compositions that have improved resistance to attack by bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms contain from 0.1% to 3% by weight of a biocidal compound having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein R represents hydrogen or --COR'; R' represents alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl; and X and Y, which may be the same or different, represent hydrogen or chlorine.

Abstract: A method of improving the handling of low molecular weight EPM or EPDM polymers which includes reacting the low molecular weight polymer with a monomer capable of providing quaternary salt forming groups and then cross linking the resulting polymer with a difunctional cross linking agent whereby the polymer takes on the characteristics of a high molecular weight polymer but which can be returned to the characteristics of a low molecular weight polymer upon exposure to elevated temperature.

Abstract: Modified cis-1,4-polyisoprene rubber obtained by incorporating into cis-1,4-polyisoprene rubber a side chain formed by succinimide residue containing in the N position a hydrocarbon residue having at least one tertiary nitrogen atom. This rubber is excellent in green strength at ordinary room temperature, and flowability at an elevated temperature. Its vulcanizate is comparable to, or better than natural rubber in breaking strength and hardness.

Abstract: Phosphine oxide-containing polyimide resins modified by elastomers, having improved mechanical properties and particularly useful in the production of fiber or fabric-reinforced composites or laminates.

Abstract: This invention concerns dispersant-VI improvers prepared by reacting a polyamine-derived dispersant with an oxidized ethylene-propylene polymer or ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer. The products thus formed have a dispersancy superior to that obtained by separately blending the reactants in a lubricating oil. Also disclosed are oils containing the present dispersant-VI improvers.

Abstract: A heat resistant resin composition comprises 10 to 90 wt. % of a copolymer (A) having 15 to 50 wt. parts of N-phenylmaleimide component, 85 to 40 wt. parts of a vinyl aromatic monomer component and 0 to 30 wt. parts of a vinyl comonomer component to be 100 wt. parts in total; and 90 to 10 wt. % of a copolymer (B) having 15 to 30 wt. parts of a cyanovinyl monomer component, 85 to 65 wt. parts of a vinyl aromatic monomer component and 0 to 30 wt. parts of a vinyl comonomer component.

Abstract: Photo-crosslinkable, novel polymers with side tricyclic imidyl groups, for example those of the formula ##STR1## are described. The novel photo-crosslinkable polymers are suitable for photo-mechanical applications, for example for the production of printing plates for the offset printing process and especially as photo-resists. They have high UV absorption and ensure a high rate of crosslinking even without the addition of photosensitizers.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel rubber composition based on an ethylene-propylene copolymeric rubbery elastomer and curable by hot air vulcanization under atmospheric pressure giving great advantages over conventional ones vulcanizable only under pressure. The inventive rubber composition comprises, in addition to the ethylene-propylene copolymeric rubbery elastomer, an oganopolysiloxane gum having alkenyl or mercapto groups in the molecule, a reinforcing silica filler, an organic compound having at least two maleimido groups in a molecule and a curing agent which is an organic peroxide or an organic sulfur compound.

Abstract: A curable resin composition comprising (i) a catalytic composite comprising a peroxide and other catalytic component and (ii) a mixture or a preliminary reaction product of (a) a polyfunctional cyanate ester, prepolymer of the cyanate ester or coprepolymer of the cyanate ester and an amine and (b) a polyfunctional maleimide, prepolymer of the maleimide or coprepolymer of the maleimide and an amine and optionally (c) other component is disclosed. The composition cures rapidly at a low temperature and is preferable from view point of quantity production and workability. The composition is excellent in respect of adhering property, heat-resistance, moisture-resistance and chemical-resistance, and is useful for preparing laminated products, molded products, paint, powder paint, adhesive or varnish.

Abstract: Photocrosslinkable polymers which have a mean molecular weight of not less than 5,000 and contain, in side chains, thioxanthone groupings of the formula ##STR1## and, in side chains, imidyl groupings of the formula ##STR2## in which X, Y, Z, n, G.sub.1 and G.sub.2 are as defined in the patent claim, are suitable for the production of highly light-sensitive image materials, for the production of printing plates for the offset printing process and in particular as so-called photoresists for the production of printed circuits. The thioxanthone groupings (I) act as sensitizers for the photocrosslinkable groups of the polymer, so that it is not necessary to add further sensitizers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition comprising (a) a bismaleimide and/or a polymaleimide and (b) at least one member selected from alkenylaniline derivatives, linear dimers thereof, and polymers thereof. In addition to components (a) and (b), this resin composition can contain (c) a polymerizable unsaturated substance.

Abstract: In a filled/plasticized polymeric composition, e.g., a natural or synthetic rubber, the compatibility between reinforcing filler and plasticizer, particularly an oil, is markedly enhanced by incorporating therein a minor amount of an alkenyl succinimide.

Abstract: An air drying latex coating composition, curable under ambient conditions, is described having copolymer particles consisting essentially of copolymerized monoethylenically unsaturated monomers dispersed in an aqueous emulsion. The copolymer particles have 0.5-30% by weight of ethylenically unsaturated monomers bonded thereto through reacted C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 N-alkylol functionalities. Curing agents or curing catalysts are also present to cure the deposited composition. The coating compositions are provided by forming an aqueous dispersion of the copolymer particles, bonding an ethylenically unsaturated monomer thereto through a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 N-alkylol functionality, and admixing therein a curing catalyst or curing agent.

Abstract: The adhesive or adhesive component according to the invention, which contains a vinyl monomer, a vinyl polymer, a compound producing free radicals, and, as an adhesion promoter, an acid amide or imide which is substituted on the nitrogen atom by a chlorosulfonated alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group, forms, together with an amine accelerator, an adhesive with which heat-, oil- and water-resistant bonds, for example of metals, polymeric materials, glass and ceramics, having very high tensile shearing strength can be obtained. The adhesive can also be converted into the form of a dried sheet, with or without carrier, and in this form can be used for bonding.

Abstract: Photo-crosslinkable, novel polymers with side tricyclic imidyl groups, for example those of the formula ##STR1## are described. The novel photo-crosslinkable polymers are suitable for photo-mechanical applications, for example for the production of printing plates for the offset printing process and especially as photo-resists. They have high UV absorption and ensure a high rate of crosslinking even without the addition of photosensitizers.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a method for making a lubricating oil additive which comprises a first step of graft copolymerizing an alkyl ester of acrylic acid or of methacrylic acid, alone or in combination with styrene, onto a backbone copolymer which is hydrogenated block copolymer of styrene and a conjugated diene having 4 to 6 carbon atoms to form a first graft copolymer, and a second step of graft copolymerizing a polymerizable heterocyclic monomer, alone or in combination with a hydrophobizing vinyl ester, onto said first graft copolymer to form a second graft copolymer, and the lubricating oil additive so made.

Abstract: Flame retardation of 1,2-polybutadiene based upon the use of halogenated bisphenol bisacrylate reactive flame retardants, for example, 2,2-bis(4-methacryloyl-3,5-dibromophenyl)-propane. Flame retardancy performance of UL 94 V-0 or V-1 has been achieved without impairing desirable dielectric properties and heat resistance inherently possessed by 1,2-polybutadiene. If an aromatic bismaleimide modifier, for example, N,N'-4,4'-diphenylmethane bismaleimide, is jointly used, a thermal expansion coefficient less than a half of the thermal expansion coefficient of cured 1,2-polybutadiene can be achieved.

Abstract: Structurally colored polymers, formed by polymerizing monomers of the acrylic type, containing 0.5% to 20% by weight of dyestuff in copolymerized form or grafted form which have a number-average molecular weight between 1000 and 12,880 g. and contain m hydroxy functions and n groups of the formula: ##STR1## in which X.sub.1 is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine or methyl;and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, chlorine, methyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl or carboxyl;m being a number from 0 to 49and n being a number from 2 to 70such that the sum m+n is from 7 to 70and the ratio m/n is from 0 to 2.4.These polymers are used in particular for the formation of colored coating on various supports and surfaces.

Abstract: Vinyl polybutadiene maleimide prepolymers which are peroxide curable are provided. The prepolymers are formed from the reaction product of a vinyl polybutadiene providing pendant vinyl groups and a maleimide and, more particularly, a mixture of aliphatic maleimides with cycloaliphatic or aromatic maleimides in combination with a peroxide-free radical initiator. The prepolymer is a vinyl polybutadiene backbone structure having grafted maleimide polymers forming cross-linking between polybutadiene backbone segments. The resultant prepolymer can be subsequently cured to a hard resin by heating in the presence of a peroxide-free radical initiator to form cross-linking between vinyl polybutadiene structures through the pendant vinyl groups. The resultant hard resin provides strength retention at elevated temperatures and exhibits a flexibility and strength without being brittle.