Abstract: A graft copolymer having a plurality of polymer side chains is disclosed. The starting backbone polymer is a homopolymer or copolymer of a styrene derivative having a pendant vinylidene group on the benzene ring. The graft copolymer may be produced by metallizing said backbone polymer with an alkali metal and then polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of the metallized polymer as an anionic polymerization initiator.

Abstract: Macromonomer prepared by contacting and reacting a polymer (oligomer) having at least three monomer repeat units and at least one silyl ether group, in the presence of an anion catalyst, with a terminally unsaturated acyl fluoride or sulfonyl fluoride.

Abstract: Composite resin particles each of which comprises a granular body portion of crosslinked polymer having a mean diameter of 0.01 to 10.mu. and a number of linear polymer chains, a part of the respective chain penetrating into the inside of the granular body portion and the remaining part extending outwardly therefrom. A dispersion of said composite resin particles in an organic solvent is useful as a resinous vehicle for coating compositions.

Abstract: A heat-fixable electrophotographic toner composition comprising(A) a graft modified polyolefin composed of 100 parts by weight of a polyolefin having an intrinsic viscosity, measured in decalin at 135.degree. C., of from 0.04 to 1.2 dl/g, and grafted thereto a monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) 1.0 to 100 parts by weight of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile, (b) 3 to 200 parts by weight of an aromatic carboxylic acid vinyl ester and (c) 2 to 43 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, and(B) a coloring agent.

Abstract: Graft polymers are prepared by reacting an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer with a polymer of an olefin of 2 to about 8 carbon atoms in a process wherein the olefin polymer is substantially insoluble in the monomer but is capable of absorbing the monomer. In a preferred aspect, a vinyl halide polyolefin graft polymer is produced by reacting a solid polyolefin particle with a vinyl halide monomer in which the polyolefin is substantially insoluble, but is capable of absorbing the monomer. The solid particles can be contacted with the monomer in one step or in stages. When the stage-wise reaction is continued until the proportion of polyolefin in the polymer product is about 2 to about 20 weight percent, the resulting product can be formed to a transparent or translucent article.

Abstract: A process is provided for metallating ethylene polymers which have polymerized therein a minor amount of nonconjugated diene. Metallation is accomplished with a blend of three metallating reagents: (a) an alkyllithium compound; (b) a potassium alkoxide; and (c) a chelating tertiary diamine. The metallated polymers so prepared may be reacted with one or more anionically polymerizable monomers to form graft polymers or with a reagent such as carbon dioxide to form a functionalized polymer. When the anionically polymerizable monomer has two or more polymerizable sites, the metallated polymer is reacted with a modifying compound such as alpha-methylstyrene before it is reacted with the monomer(s). Certain of the graft polymers behave as thermoplastic elastomers whereas others are thermoplastic. The blend of metallating reagents may be used with any polymer having partial or complete unsaturation.

Abstract: Particulate hydroperoxidized poly-N-vinyl lactam containing an average of about 0.5 to 20 hydroperoxy mole equivalents per mole of poly-N-vinyl lactam, the preparation of the same by subjecting particulate poly-N-vinyl lactam to an effective amount of ozone, and the use thereof in the preparation of graft copolymers possessing a low degree of extractibles, finding utility in a wide number of fields, particularly in biomedical devices, semipermeable membranes, and as films or fibers.

Abstract: An impact resistant thermoplastic polymer comprising highly occluded rubbery particles is prepared by contacting an emulsion of a rubbery polymer with at least one addition polymerizable, graftable monomer under conditions such that the rubber emulsion particles imbibe the monomer, but substantially no monomer polymerization occurs followed by free radically polymerizing the monomer and thereafter repeating steps (a) and (b) at least one more time.

Abstract: Sulphur-containing elastic-thermoplastic graft products of styrene, .alpha.-methyl styrene, p-methyl styrene, vinyl toluene, acrylonitrile or methyl methacrylate or mixtures thereof on a particle-like rubber with an average particle diameter (d.sub.50) of from 0.05 to 20.0 .mu.m and a glass temperature .ltoreq.10.degree. C. with a total rubber content of from 1 to 80% by weight, whereby the graft products have a sulphur content of from 1.15 to 3.95% by weight and the thermoplast proportion of the polymerized monomers on the particle-like rubber has a limiting viscosity of from 2 to 15 ml/g (measured in dimethyl formamide at 25.degree. C.) and in which at least 90% by weight of the incorporated sulphur is present as a constituent of terminal C1-18-thioalkyl groups.

Abstract: A thermoplastic polymer comprising a styrenic monomer, an acrylate, a methacrylate and a block copolymer is provided which possesses an unexpected excellent balance of properties including good physical properties, good elongation and a high degree of transparency. Also provided are processes for the preparation of the thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition obtained by graft-polymerizing 95 to 50 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising a vinyl aromatic compound monomer and an acrylic compound monomer and optionally a vinyl cyanide compound monomer in the presence of 5 to 50 parts by weight of a rubbery substance consisting of styrene-butadiene copolymers, characterized in that the rubbery substance comprises (A) 40 to 80% by weight of a styrene-butadiene copolymer having a number-average particle diameter of at least 0.05 .mu.m and less than 0.2 .mu.m, a gel content of 30 to 100% by weight and a bound styrene content of 10 to 40% by weight and (B) 60 to 20% by weight of a styrene-butadiene copolymer having a number-average particle diameter of 0.2 to 3 .mu.m, a gel content of 10 to 80% by weight and a bound styrene content of 10 to 40% by weight and the total content of the components (A) and (B) in the rubbery substance is at least 80% by weight.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing coagulated colloidal particles with close-packed structure which comprises;(A) adding a coagulant to aqueous colloidal particles at a temperature lower than softening temperature of the colloidal particles under such conditions that said coagulant will be present in discrete units in the dispersion before it is brought into solution by diffusion;(B) allowing the molecules of coagulant to gradually diffuse from said coagulant units into the surrounding dispersion, thereby coagulating the colloidal particles on the surface of each coagulant unit, causing the coagulated particles to grow from inside to outside of each unit, and producing coagulated particles of desired size with regularly packed structure;(C) separating the coagulated particles thus formed from the dispersion; and(D) drying, or heating in an aqueous phase, the coagulated particles separated above at a temperature lower than the softening point of said colloidal particles.

Abstract: A process is provided for metallating ethylene polymers which have polymerized therein a minor amount of nonconjugated diene. Metallation is accomplished with a blend of three metallating reagents: (a) an alkyllithium compound; (b) a potassium alkoxide; and (c) a chelating tertiary diamine. The metallated polymers so prepared may be reacted with one or more anionically polymerizable monomers to form graft polymers or with a reagent such as carbon dioxide to form a functionalized polymer. When the anionically polymerizable monomer has two or more polymerizable sites, the metallated polymer is reacted with a modifying compound such as alpha-methylstyrene before it is reacted with the monomer(s). Certain of the graft polymers behave as thermoplastic elastomers whereas others are thermoplastic. The blend of metallating reagents may be used with any polymer having partial or complete unsaturation.

Abstract: A weather-resistant resin having excellent impact resistance, processability and appearance, which comprises a graft polymer comprising an ethylene/alpha-olefin elastomer and at least one monomeric component chosen from aromatic vinyl monomers, vinyl cyanides and alkyl unsaturated carboxylates grafted thereon, the graft polymer having a material soluble in tetrahydrofuran and n-hexane in a volume ratio of 1:4 in a content of not more than 40% by weight and having a material insoluble in tetrahydrofuran in a content of not more than 60% by weight.

Abstract: Stable dispersion of addition (co)polymers in an inert relatively non-polar organic hydrocarbon liquid, the dispersed particles embracing both a (co)polymer and a polymer containing an ethylenically unsturated monamer. The (co)polymers are substantially composed of:(a) 5 to 100 mole % of styrene and/or methyl styrene;(b) 0 to 95 mole % of alkyl methacrylate having 1 or 2 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and/or alkoxyalkylene methacrylate having 1 or 2 carbon atoms in the alkoxy group and the alkylene group;(c) 0 to 40 mole % of alkyl methacrylate having 3 to 12 carbon atoms in the alkyl group;(d) 0 to 40 mole % of hydroxyalkyl methacrylate having 2 to 12 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and/or glycidyl methacrylate; and(e) 0 to 20 mole % of methacrylic acid.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride polymer composition comprising(A) 3 to 50 parts by weight of a grafted copolymer and(B) 97 to 50 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer, a total amount of the copolymer (A) and the polymer (B) being 100 parts by weight; the grafted copolymer (A) comprising(1) 50 to 80 parts by weight of a rubber copolymer and(2) 50 to 20 parts by weight of a grafting monomer, a total amount of the component (1) and the component (2) being 100 parts by weight; the component (1) comprising(a) 60 to 90% by weight of the rubber copolymer comprising 99 to 85% by weight of alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group of 2 to 8 carbon atoms, 1 to 15% by weight of conjugated diolefin and 0 to 5% by weight of polyfunctional cross-linking agent and(b) 40 to 10% by weight of a surface rubber copolymer comprising 98 to 70% by weight of alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group of 2 to 8 carbon atoms, 2 to 30% by weight of conjugated diolefin and 0 to 5% by weight of polyfunctional cross-linking agent and being obtained by polyme

Abstract: A polymerizable polymer is obtained by the anionic polymerization and termination by use of a vinyl monomer. It produces a graft copolymer by co-polymerization with another monomer. The process produces a new, polymerizable, optically active polymer and a graft copolymer thereof.

Abstract: A thermoplastic polymer comprising a styrenic monomer, an acrylate, a methacrylate and a block copolymer is provided which possesses an unexpected excellent balance of properties including good physical properties, good elongation and a high degree of transparency. Also provided are processes for the preparation of the thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: This invention provides thermoplastic moulding moulding compositions with good dimensional stability under heat and transparency consisting of particular graft polymers and optionally thermoplastic polymer resins.

Abstract: Graft polymers are prepared by reacting an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer with a polymer of an olefin of 2 to about 8 carbon atoms in a process wherein the olefin polymer is substantially insoluble in the monomer but is capable of absorbing the monomer. In a preferred aspect, a vinyl halide polyolefin graft polymer is produced by reacting a solid polyolefin particle with a vinyl halide monomer in which the polyolefin is substantially insoluble, but is capable of absorbing the monomer. The solid particles can be contacted with the monomer in one step or in stages. When the stage-wise reaction is continued until the proportion of polyolefin in the polymer product is about 2 to about 20 weight percent, the resulting product can be formed to a transparent or translucent article.

Abstract: A process for producing a resin composition which comprises suspension-polymerizing at least one vinyl monomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a dispersing agent, said suspension polymerization being carried out using a nonionic dispersant as said dispersing agent in the presence of a high-molecular-weight vinyl polymer having a weight average molecular weight of at least 500,000 obtained by emulsion polymerization.

Abstract: A process is provided for the preparation of a graft copolymer compatibilizer useful at low levels for blending with separately prepared olefin copolymers and polymethacrylate polymers to form a stable, concentrated, polymer blend. The polymer blend, as well as the compatibilizer, are useful lubricating oil additives concentrates which contain at least 80 weight percent polymethacrylate segments. The polymer blend may be further diluted with a hydrocarbon oil to form a lubricating fluid. The polymer blend offers the benefit of the thickening power of olefin copolymers, the low temperature viscosity characteristics of polymethacrylates, and is stable for prolonged periods without phase separation.

Abstract: A sealant composition for the puncture-sealing tire and a method of producing the same are disclosed. This sealant composition is crosslinking-reaction type and comprises (A) at least one rubber, (B) a tackifier, (C) an acryloyl or methacryloyl group-containing polymerizable unsaturated compound, (D) a filler and (E) a photopolymerization initiator. In the production of the sealant composition, the component (A) is first reacted with the component (C) and then kneaded with the components (B), (D) and (E).

Abstract: Graft polymers are prepared by reacting an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer with a polymer of an olefin of 2 to about 8 carbon atoms in a process wherein the olefin polymer is substantially insoluble in the monomer but is capable of absorbing the monomer. In a preferred aspect, a vinyl halide polyolefin graft polymer is produced by reacting a solid polyolefin particle with a vinyl halide monomer in which the polyolefin is substantially insoluble, but is capable of absorbing the monomer. The solid particles can be contacted with the monomer in one step or in stages. When the stage-wise reaction is continued until the proportion of polyolefin in the polymer product is about 2 to abut 20 weight percent, the resulting product can be formed to a transparent or translucent article.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved method for forming a grafted rubbery particle suitable for use as a reinforcing rubber in a thermoplastic resin. The grafted rubbery particles produced by the method of the present invention have a substantially continuous, generally uniform layer of polymer grafted to the rubber particle core.

Abstract: A clear, cast acrylic sheet of improved impact strength may be prepared by dispersing or dissolving 8-14% of an ABA block copolymer, (where A is styrene, B is a hydrogenated butadiene, containing a large 1-2 butadiene fraction) in a methyl methacrylate casting mixture which contains 0.1- 20% styrene, and polymerizing in sheet form by heating with free-radical initiators.

Abstract: A two part type acrylic adhesive composed of liquid I comprising an acrylate ester monomer, a polymer soluble in the acrylate ester monomer, and an organic peroxide and liquid II containing a hardening accelerator capable of hardening said liquid I by polymerization at a temperature lower than room temperature, wherein at least liquid I contains 0.005 to 0.1% by weight polyphosphoric acid.

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: The present invention relates to a thermally stable modified selectively hydrogenated high 1,2 content block copolymer wherein at least one acid compound is grafted to the block copolymer at a secondary or tertiary carbon position.

Abstract: Elastomer toughened two-part acrylic monomer adhesives which employ styrene-butadiene block copolymer rubbers as the elastomer have improved heat resistance properties at temperatures typical of industrial paint bake ovens. The adhesives include: in one part an acrylic monomer, at least 33% by weight of the rubber dissolved in the monomer, and a free radical catalyst system free of organic sulfonyl chloride; and in the other part a polymerization activator such as an amine-aldehyde condensation product.

Abstract: The impact resistance of resin compositions consisting of a thermoplastic polymer, particularly a homopolymer or copolymer of vinyl chloride, can be improved by an impact additive of the graft copolymer type. The graft copolymer impact additive consists of a backbone composed of a statistical copolymer of butadiene or isoprene, an alkyl acrylate of a C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 alkyl, and a polyfunctional cross-linking agent, onto which are grafted the chains of a polymer of an alkyl methacrylate of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl, particularly methyl methacrylate. The backbone of the graft copolymer impact additive comprises 0.5-35% by weight butadiene or isoprene, and up to 10 mole % of the cross-linking agent, while the weight ratio of grafted chains to the backbone can range from 10 to 200%.The resin compositions are particularly useful to improve impact strength at low temperatures.

Abstract: Solvent-soluble copolymers having a number average molecular weight of about 1,000 to about 1,000,000 and comprising recurring units of the following formulae (I) and (II) (case A) or recurring unit of the following formulae (I), (II) and (III) (case B) or solvent-soluble graft copolymers having a number average molecular weight of about 1,500 to about 2,000,000 and comprising recurring units of the following formulae (I), (II) and/or (II'), and (IV) (case C) or recurring units of the following formulae (I), (II) and/or (II'), (III) and (IV) (case D), said recurring units being combined to form the main alkylene chain, wherein in the cases A and B the amount of the formula (I) unit is about 3 to 60 mol % of the total amount of the whole units, and in the cases C and D the amount of the formula (I) unit is about 5 to 60 mol % of the total amount of the units of formulae (I), (II) and/or (II'), and (IV), and in the cases B and D the amount of the formula (III) unit is about 1 to 40 mol % of the total amount of

Abstract: A two-step emulsion polymerization method for making an aqueous emulsion of core/shell polymer particles recoverable as a polymer powder by spray drying the emulsion, said polymer being capable of swelling and forming a gel in gasoline, and paints and coating compositions containing gasoline and such a polymer powder as a thickening agent or binder.

Abstract: Impact-resistant transparent polymeric compositions are prepared comprising particulate diene-monovinylidene aromatic block copolymer elastomer dispersed in a matrix comprising polymerized monovinylidene aromatic and acrylate monomers. These compositions can be advantageously prepared by adding the elastomeric block copolymer to an agitated polymerization system at a point where the elastomer will become dispersed as particles immediately or nearly immediately after addition.

Abstract: Solvent-soluble copolymers having a number average molecular weight of about 1,000 to about 1,000,000 and comprising recurring units of the following formulae (I) and (II) (case A) or recurring unit of the following formulae (I), (II) and (III) (case B) or solvent-soluble graft copolymers having a number average molecular weight of about 1,500 to about 2,000,000 and comprising recurring units of the following formulae (I), (II) and/or (II'), and (IV) (case C) or recurring units of the following formulae (I), (II) and/or (II'), (III) and (IV) (case D), said recurring units being ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represents independently hydrogen, a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a halogen; R.sub.4 represents hydrogen or a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl group or a benzyl group; R.sub.6 represents hydrogen or a methyl group; R.sub.

Abstract: In a process comprising adding an ethylenic monomer or monomer mixture (B) to a rubbery polymer (A) latex, emulsion-polymerizing it to produce a graft copolymer (C) latex, then adding an acidic substance or an electrolyte to said graft copolymer (C) latex to partially coagulate the latex, thereafter either first adding an ethylenic monomer or monomer mixture (D) and then adding a suspension polymerization stabilizer or simultaneously adding an ethylenic monomer or monomer mixture (D) and a suspension polymerization stabilizer, and carrying out suspension polymerization to obtain a graft copolymer (E) in the form of beads, a process for producing an impact-resistant resin wherein:(1) said rubbery polymer (A) contains at least 60% by weight of a diene monomer component and has a degree of swelling of 10-35, a gel content of 70% by weight or more and a weight average particle diameter of 0.2-0.5.mu. and the major part of the particles has a particle diameter ranging from 0.03.mu. to 1.0.mu.

Abstract: A multi-layer structure polymer composition having a gel content of at least 50% which is constituted of an innermost layer polymer (A) consisting mainly of alkyl acrylate and having a degree of swelling of 10 or lower, and having a glass transition temperature lower than 10.degree. C., a crosslinked elastomer polymer (B) consisting mainly of alkyl acrylate and having a degree of swelling slightly higher than that of said polymer (A) and having a glass transition temperature not higher than 0.degree. C., said innermost layer polymer (A) and said crosslinked elastomer polymer (B) constituting a double layer elastomer structure polymer, as well as an outermost layer polymer (C) consisting mainly of alkyl methacrylate and having a glass transition temperature not lower than 60.degree. C.

Abstract: A MBS resin useful as a reinforcement for vinyl chloride polymers and capable of improving the impact resistance of the vinyl chloride polymers without impairing the transparency thereof, which is prepared by graft-polymerizing a monomer mixture comprising an aromatic vinyl compound and an alkyl methacrylate onto a butadiene copolymer comprising styrene and butadiene, the butadiene copolymer being present in the polymerization system in a higher proportion as compared with a conventional MBS resin and present in the form of an aqueous latex of particles having a structure such that a portion formed in the last stage of a polymerization for the preparation of the butadiene copolymer amounting to 20% by weight of the produced butadiene copolymer, has a very high butadiene content of 80 to 100% by weight and moreover has at least 5% by weight higher butadiene content than the average butadiene content of the produced butadiene copolymer.

Abstract: A stable aqueous latex of a copolymer containing at least about 40 percent by weight of a polymerized olefinic unsaturated nitrile is described. The copolymer comprises a main polymer core of from about 40 to 100 percent by weight of the polymerized nitrile and from about 0 to about 60 percent by weight of at least one other polymerized olefin monomer, said main polymer core being overpolymerized with a copolymer comprising a major proportion of a polymerized acrylate and from about one to 40 percent by weight of a polymerized olefinic unsaturated nitrile. A two-step method for preparing such a latex also is described. The latices of the invention are useful in forming films at low temperatures, and the minimum film forming temperature can be regulated by the selection of the particular components and the relative amounts of the components used to form the latices.

Abstract: A composition comprising a polyamide, a reinforcing amount of glass fiber, and 1 to 25, preferably 5 to 25, and more preferably 10 to 20 percent by weight based on the weight of the polyamide of a core/shell polymer. The core/shell polymer comprises 40 to 90 and preferably 50 to 90 parts by weight of an elastomer core and 10 to 60 and preferably 10 to 50 parts by weight of a rigid thermoplastic polymer shell. The shell comprises an interpolymer of 20 to 100 parts by weight of an methyacrylic ester, 0 to 80 parts by weight styrene, and from 0 to 50 parts by weight of acylonitrile. The shell can also contain alkyl acrylates, allyl methacrylates, diallyl methacrylates, and the like. The methacrylic ester is preferably a lower alkyl methacrylate/such as methyl methacrylate. The core is an elastomer and can be a diene elastomer, an ethylene-propylene-diene rubber, an acrylic elastomer, or a polyurethane elastomer.

Abstract: A process for producing a rubber-modified thermoplastic resin by graft-copolymerizing a monomeric component composed of an aromatic alkenyl compound, an alkenyl cyanide compound and a methacrylic acid ester compound on an ethylene-propylene rubber, characterized in that the first reaction step, a monomer mixture composed of an aromatic alkenyl compound and an alkenyl cyanide compound or a mixture composed of these two compounds and 20% by weight or less of a methacrylic acid ester is graft-copolymerized on an ethylene-propylene rubber until the polymerization conversion reaches 30 to 70% by weight, and in the second reaction step, a methacrylic acid ester compound or a mixture of a methacrylic acid ester compound and 20% by weight or less of at least one other copolymerizable monomer is polymerized in the presence of the reaction mixture obtained in the first reaction step until the polymerization reaction is substantially completed.

Abstract: Thermoplastic core-shell compositions having a rigid core, a rubbery acrylic shell and transition layer intermediate between the core and shell layers and formed of the core and shell monomer components have excellent elastomeric properties. Although the rigid and rubbery components include interreactive functional monomers, the resulting elastomers remain thermally processable in extrusion and injection molding equipment.

Abstract: Block copolymers having a first sequence formed with a conjugated diene or a vinyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon other than alpha-methylstyrene, a second sequence formed with an acrylic ester, and a linking intermediate sequence formed with alpha-methylstyrene. An anionic polymerization process is used to form these block copolymers.

Abstract: Free-flowing rubber powders containing particles of a diene, acrylate or EPDM rubber having an average diameter of from 0.01 to 10 mm which contain, polymerized thereon, a shell of the polymer or copolymer of one or more vinyl monomers in a quantity of from 2 to 20% by weight, based on the rubber, and a process for their production, wherein a latex of a diene, acrylate or an EPDM rubber having a glass transition temperature of below 0.degree. C. is completely broken with the formation of an aqueous suspension of the rubber, from 2 to 20% by weight, based on the rubber, of one or more vinyl monomers which form polymers having glass transition temperatures of above 25.degree. C. are then introduced into the suspension and the monomer(s) is/are polymerized, optionally after adding radical-forming catalysts.

Abstract: Free-flowing rubber powders of particles having an average diameter of from 0.01 to 10 mm which contain a grafted-on shell of the polymer or copolymer of one or more vinyl monomers in a quantity of from 2 to 20% by weight, based on the rubber, which rubber is a latex polymer of which the latex particles consist essentially of from 99 to 80% by weight of acrylate rubber having glass transition temperatures below 0.degree. C. and from 1 to 20% by weight of polymer having glass transition temperatures above 0.degree. C. grafted thereon, and a process for their production, wherein the latex of the rubber is completely broken to form an aqueous suspension of the rubber, after which from 2 to 20% by weight, based on the rubber, of one or more vinyl monomers which form polymers having glass transition temperatures above 25.degree. C. are introduced into the suspension and the monomer(s) is/are polymerized, optionally after the addition of a radical-forming catalyst.

Abstract: Stable, free-flowing dispersions in organic liquids of rubbers in the form of discrete particles having an average diameter of from 100 to 3000 nm which contains:A--as rubber, from 1 to 20% by weight, based on the total dispersion, of a crosslinked diene rubber; B--from 0 to 20% by weight, based on the total dispersion, of water in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion; C--as the continuous organic phase, from 99 to 66% by weight, based on the total dispersion, of (a) C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl acrylates or alkyl methacrylates, methyl methacrylate, ethyl acrylate or n-hexyl acrylate; or (b) a mixture of from 85 to 50% by weight of styrene or .alpha.-methyl styrene and from 15 to 50% by weight of acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl acrylates or alkyl methacrylates, methyl methacrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-hexyl acrylate; or (c) a mixture of from 85 to 50% by weight of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A structurally toughened heat resistant adhesive composition comprising a solution of polyisoprene elastomer in polymerizable acrylate ester monomers. The adhesive composition also contains an adhesion promoter, a cross-linking agent, a free-radical generator and a free-radical accelerator. The adhesive compositions are generally used as two-part systems, and yield bonds with improved heat and solvent resistant properties. The polymerizable acrylate ester monomers may be monofunctional or a combination of mono- and polyfunctional monomers. Among the useful classes of monomers are alkyl and cycloalkyl acrylates, alkyl and cycloalkyl methacrylates, alkoxy acrylates and methacrylates, alkylene diacrylates and dimethacrylates. A few of the preferred monomers are methyl methacrylate, lauryl methacrylate, isobornyl methacrylate, and tetrahydrofurfuryl methacrylate.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin which is outstanding in impact resistance and heat distortion resistance and is discolored only little by heat is produced by polymerizing, in the presence of diene type synthetic rubber, a monomer mixture of acrylonitrile and styrene, adding thereto a monomer mixture containing more than 80 wt % of .alpha.-methylstyrene, and then adding thereto little by little a monomer mixture containing more than 70 wt % of acrylonitrile, whereby 95-70 parts by weight of monomer is polymerized in the presence of 5-30 parts by weight of the diene type synthetic rubber.

Abstract: Impact modifiers having high efficiency at low levels and at low temperatures comprising at least three stages, Stage A being a non-crosslinked polymer of at least 70% butadiene and at least 10% lower alkyl (C.sub.2 -C.sub.8) acrylate, Stage B being a polymer of at least 80% styrene, and Stage C containing at least 50% methyl methacrylate and at least 1% alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) acrylate, the ratio of Stages A:B:C, excluding optional additional stages, being about 70-85:10-15:10-20, the ratio of stages C:B being at least 1, and Stage A being non-agglomerated are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the impact modifier and thermoplastic polymer compositions containing the impact modifier.

Abstract: This invention provides a graft copolymer of at least one acrylic monomer and chlorinated natural or synthetic rubber, in which at least about 8 percent of the total weight of said graft copolymer is derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or both. It also provides aqueous dispersions of such graft copolymers and coating compositions containing them.