Abstract: A photocurable prepreg composition which is characterized by easy control of a B stage state of a thermosetting resin such as an unsaturated polyester resin or an epoxy acrylate resin, excellent storage stability, and remarkable curability after being shaped; as well as a production method therefor. A photocurable prepreg composition which contains an unsaturated polyester resin and/or an epoxy acrylate resin; at least two photopolymerization initiators with photosensitivity in different wavelength ranges; and an inorganic or an organic fiber-reinforcing material and/or filler, and which composition is treated with light of a specific wavelength such that at least one photopolymerization initiator and radical-polymerizable unsaturated groups remain partially in said resin; a production method therefor; and formed articles produced therefrom.

Abstract: A curable composite material composition comprising (A) a polymerizable unsaturated compound, (B) a fiber reinforcing material and/or fiber, and (C) a polymerization initiator comprising an organic boron compound represented by the general formula (1) wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent an alkyl, aryl, allyl, aralkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, silyl or heterocyclic group, a halogen atom, or a substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, substituted allyl, substituted aralkyl, substituted alkenyl, substituted alkynyl or substituted silyl group, and Z+ represents a cation, and an acidic compound, as well as a curing process for the curable composite material composition which includes irradiating and/or heating the curable composite material composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a crosslinkable styrene or styrene derivative polymer having narrow molecular weight distribution by radical polymerization of a styrene or styrene derivative monomer and other comonomer, wherein the polymerization is conducted in the presence of a catalyst system composed of a free radical compound and a radical polymerization initiator. With the present process, a heat- or photo-crosslinkable styrene or styrene derivative polymer having excellent rheology controlling ability and excellent reaction efficiency of a functional group can be obtained.

Abstract: A composition comprises organoborane polyamine complex and polyol. The composition can form a part of a polymerization initiator system that also includes polyisocyanate. The system can be used to initiate polymerization of acrylic monomer and to form a polyurethane/polyurea acrylic adhesive that has exceptionally good adhesion to low surface energy polymers.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I and II ##STR1## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are, for example, unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, where none of the radicals R.sub.1 -R.sub.3 is a phenyl radical which is substituted ortho to the bond to the borate atom;R.sub.1 ', R.sub.2 ', R.sub.3 ' have one of the meanings of R.sub.1 -R.sub.3 ;R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are OH or OR.sub.6 or have one of the meanings of R.sub.1 -R.sub.3 and the radicals R.sub.1 ', R.sub.2 ', R.sub.3 ', R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 can also be substituted ortho to the bond to the borate atom;R.sub.6 is, for example, unsubstituted or C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkoxy- or halo-substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl;X is, for example, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkylene which is unsubstituted or substituted or which is interrupted by one or more aromatic hydrocarbons, or X is, for example, C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 cycloalkylene or polycycloalkylene; andZ.sup.

Abstract: An adhesive composition for dental or surgical treatment comprising (A) 2 to 24 parts by weight of an organic boron compound, (B) 0.002 to 0.5 part by weight of a photopolymerization initiator, (C) 75 to 97 parts by weight of a polymerizable monomer mixture comprising 2 to 20% by weight of a monomer containing an acidic group and 80 to 98% by weight of a monomer containing no acidic group, and (D) optionally, 250 parts or less by weight of a filler.

Abstract: The invention relates to photopolymerizable compositions comprising as photoinitiator a borate of the formula I or I' ##STR1## R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are, for example and independently of one another, phenyl or another aromatic hydrocarbon, with or without any heteroatoms, which radicals are unsubstituted or are substituted, or the radicals R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 form bridges to produce structures of the formula II, IIa or IIb ##STR2## with the provisos that not more than two of the radicals R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are identical and either at least two of the radicals R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are aromatic hydrocarbon radicals or phenyl radicals which are substituted in both ortho-positions or at least one radical R.sub.1, R.sub.2 or R.sub.3 is a sterically bulky aryl radical and the remaining radicals of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are aromatic hydrocarbon radicals or are phenyl radicals which are substituted in at least one ortho-position; R.sub.4 is, for example, phenyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A polymerization initiator composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an organic boron compound (A) and 10 to 150 parts by weight of an aprotic solvent (B) having a boiling point of 30 to 150.degree. C.; and a dental or surgical adhesive composition containing the above polymerization initiator composition.

Abstract: A composition comprises organoborane polyamine complex and polyol. The composition can form a part of a polymerization initiator system that also includes polyisocyanate. The system can be used to initiate polymerization of acrylic monomer and to form a polyurethane/polyurea acrylic adhesive that has exceptionally good adhesion to low surface energy polymers.

Abstract: A cationic catalyst composition comprising a reactive cation and a compatible non-coordinating anion used at a temperature of 20.degree. C. or less to produce olefin polymers, particularly polyisobutylene is disclosed.

Abstract: A composition comprises organoborane polyamine complex and polyol. The composition can form a part of a polymerization initiator system that also includes polyisocyanate. The system can be used to initiate polymerization of acrylic monomer and to form a polyurethane/polyurea acrylic adhesive that has exceptionally good adhesion to low surface energy polymers.

Abstract: A process for producing a copolymer of isoolefin having between 4 and 7 carbon atoms and para-alkylstyrene is provided. The process comprises admixing the isoolefin and the para-alkylstyrene in a copolymerization reactor under copolymerization conditions in the presence of a diluent, and a Lewis Acid catalyst, and maintaining the copolymerization reactor substantially free of impurities which can complex with the catalyst or copolymerize with the isoolefin or the para-alkylstyrene.

Abstract: A composition comprises organoborane amine complex and aziridine-functional material. The composition can form a part of a polymerization initiator system that also includes a compound that is reactive with the amine portion of the complex. The system can be used to initiate polymerization of acrylic monomer and to form an acrylic adhesive that has exceptionally good adhesion to low surface energy polymers.

Abstract: Systems for initiating the polymerization of acrylic monomers comprising (1) organoborane amine complexes and (2) bireactive decomplexers preferably comprising at least one free-radically polymerizable group and at least one amine-reactive group in the same molecule. The decomplexer is capable of forming a covalent bond with both the acrylic monomers and amine complex, resulting in a reduced level of mobile constituents. Furthermore, when the organoborane amine complex of the initiator system comprises a polyamine compound, polymerized acrylic compositions having improved solvent resistance are advantageously provided.

Abstract: A polymerization initiator composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an organic boron compound (A) and 10 to 150 parts by weight of an aprotic solvent (B) having a boiling point of 30.degree. to 150.degree. C.; and a dental or surgical adhesive composition containing the above polymerization initiator composition.

Abstract: There is provided a dental primer composition capable of obtaining high adhesive strength to both dentin and enamel, as a pretreatment material for a chemically polymerizable adhesive. This composition is a dental primer composition comprising a polymerizable monomer containing an acidic group, water, aryl borate and transition metal compound.

Abstract: Compositions containing conductivity enhancers, which are capable of being coated onto a substrate by means of electrostatic assistance. The compositions comprise one or more free-radically curable monomer(s), and one or more non-volatile conductivity enhancer(s), having cationic and anionic portions, which are soluble in the monomer(s) and which do not interfere with free-radical polymerization, wherein said anionic portion is a non-coordinating organophilic carbon-containing anion. The compositions may further comprise one or more initiator(s), one or more dissociation enhancing agent(s), cross-linking agent(s), cationically polymerizable monomer(s), cationic initiator(s), leveling agents, oligomer(s) or polymer(s), preferably co-reactive, and other additives or adjuvants to impart specific properties to the cured coating.

Abstract: A resin composition comprises an EVOH (A) and a thermoplastic polymer (B) having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of boronic acid group, borinic acid group and boron-containing groups convertible into boronic acid group or borinic acid group in the presence of water. The composition may further comprise a thermoplastic polymer (C) other than (A) or (B). The resin compositions thus obtained have good compatibility and give molded products having superior transparency and good mechanical properties.

Abstract: A composition comprises organoborane polyamine complex and polyol. The composition can form a part of a polymerization initiator system that also includes polyisocyanate. The system can be used to initiate polymerization of acrylic monomer and to form a polyurethane/polyurea acrylic adhesive that has exceptionally good adhesion to low surface energy polymers.

Abstract: The present invention provides borohydrides that are useful in reducing aldol condensation and subsequent polymer formation in caustic scrubbers. The borohydrides are believed to react with reactive carbonyls yielding more stable alcohols and a salt of the borohydride which remains water soluble, and thus is unlikely to be carried out with the hydrocarbon phase. The borohydrides of the present invention have the potential to reduce reactive carbonyls at a molar ratio as high as about 4:1::carbonyl:borohydride. A preferred borohydride is sodium borohydride (sodium tetrahydroborate).

Abstract: A resin composition comprises an EVOH (A) and a thermoplastic polymer (B) having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of boronic acid group, borinic acid group and boron-containing groups convertible into boronic acid group or borinic acid group in the presence of water. The composition may further comprise a thermoplastic polymer (C) other than (A) or (B). The resin compositions thus obtained have good compatibility and give molded products having superior transparency and good mechanical properties.

Abstract: A living carbocationic catalyst composition comprising an initiator of a tertiary alkyl halide, a tertiary aralkyl halide or polymeric halide a co-initiator of a methylaluminum or methylboron compound, and a solvent medium with a dielectric constant between 2.5 and 7 is used to produce narrow molecular weight distribution polymers particularly isobutylene polymers.

Abstract: The present invention provides the near infrared polymerizable composition which has high sensitivity sufficient to provide excellent curability to the coating composition containing the same, even if the coating composition contains the pigment as well. The present invention provides a near infrared polymerizable composition comprising a cyanine dye, a S-triazine compound, an organoboron salt and an ethylenically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: A two-part initiator system useful in acrylic adhesive compositions comprising in one part a stable organoboron amine complex and in the second part an aldehyde destabilizer or activator. This initiator is particularly useful in elastomeric acrylic adhesive compositions and provides room temperature, relatively slow curing systems with good adhesive properties making them useful in applications where longer open times are required.

Abstract: A living carbocationic catalyst composition comprising an initiator of a tertiary alkyl halide, a tertiary aralkyl halide or polymeric halide a co-initiator of an alkyl aluminum or alkyl boron, a proton scavenger and a solvent medium with a dielectric constant between 2.5 and 3.25 is used to produce narrow molecular weight distribution polymers particularly isobutylene polymers.

Abstract: A two-part initiator system useful in acrylic adhesive compositions comprising in one part a stable organoboron amine complex and in the second part an aldehyde destabilizer or activator. This initiator is particularly useful in elastomeric acrylic adhesive compositions and provides room temperature, relatively slow curing systems with good adhesive properties making them useful in applications where longer open times are required.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of substituted cycloalkylidene bisphenols from phenols and special cycloalkanones in the presence of acid condensation catalysts and in the presence of water.

Abstract: A two-part initiator system useful in acrylic adhesive compositions comprising in one-part a stable organoboron amine complex and in the second part an organic acid destabilizer or activator. This initiator is particularly useful in elastomeric acrylic adhesive compositions and provides a fast, room temperature cure with good stability and exhibiting both high tensile strength and high peel strength.

Abstract: An .alpha.-cyanoacrylate base adhesive composition comprising 0.0001 to 0.5 part by weight of borofluoric acid on a 100% basis per 100 parts by weight of an .alpha.-cyanoacrylate monomer, which composition has improved storage stability.

Abstract: A curable composition effective for use for dental adhesive and exhibiting superior water-resistant bonding performance and high bonding strength onto enamel, dentine and dental alloys without imparting to dental pulp any irritative influence, which composition comprises(A) a monofunctional monomer based on (meth)acrylate,(B) a polyfunctional monomer based on (meth)acrylate,(C) an acidic group-containing monomer based on (meth)acrylate having in the moleucle at least one (meth)acryloyloxyl group and(D) a trialkylboron or its oxide.

Abstract: Hotmelt adhesives which, after heating, are capable of polymerization under the effect of atmospheric oxygen and which essentially consist of a solid reactive component containing at least one polymerizable ethylenic C.dbd.C double bond and a polymerization-initiating organoboron compound and, if desired, other standard auxiliaries.

Abstract: A curable composition is provided, comprising a monofunctional (meth)arcylate monomer, a poly functional (meth)acrylate monomer, a (meth)acrylate monomer containing an acidic group and at least one (meth)acryloyloxyl group in its molecule, a monofunctional (meth)acrylamide monomer, and a trialkylboron and/or a partial oxide thereof. The composition has improved low-temperature curability at approximately room temperature and water-resistant adherence, and excellent adhesiveness to tooth substances including enamel and dentin and dental alloys, and gives no adverse influence of stimulation to dental pulp. Most preferably, the composition is used as a bonding agent for dental composite resins.

Abstract: (Meth)-acrylate compounds having one or two terminal (meth)-acrylic acid groups on an oligomer chain which have low volatility and are liquid to solid at room temperature, wherein the oligomer chain is mainly in the form of a polyester oligomer formed from one or more hydroxycarboxylic acids. The preferred (meth)-acrylate compounds are based on polyester-oligomers with a mean molecular weight in the range of about 200 to 600. The invention also relates to the use of these new reactive (meth)-acrylate compounds in construction adhesives.

Abstract: Organoboron containing starter systems having improved storage characteristics which are activated by air and which can be used to polymerize olefinic compounds, comprising a mixture of at least one organoboron compound which can be activated by air and at least one organic oligomer or polymer that is inert to the organoboron compound.

Abstract: The aerobically hardenable compositions which comprise polymerizable systems containing components having some degree of ethylenic unsaturation and an oxygen-stable polymerization initiator of at least one organo-boron compound containing at least a major portion of boron to carbon bonds and possibly some boron to hydrogen bonds in the molecule and the boron containing radials are bound to an organic polymer matrix which is oxygen stable, the compositions being useful as casting resins, fillers and adhesives.

Abstract: Surgical adhesive systems for the bonding of hard body tissues which contain as a polymerization initiating starter an organoboron compound and a resorbable (meth)acrylate component which is liquid to solid at room temperature and which consists of (meth)-acrylic acid esters with (meth)-acrylate groups on polyester oligomer chains from hydroxycarboxylic acids, preferably having 2 (meth)-acrylate groups in the .alpha., .omega. positions on the oligomer chains, and wherein the polyester oligomers are preferably formed from monohydroxymonocarboxylic acids.

Abstract: A functional fluid composition is provided which comprises a plurality of different phosphazene compounds of the general formula (P=N).sub.n (R).sub.a (R').sub.b (R").sub.c (R'").sub.d wherein R is at least one alkoxy moiety described by the general formula --OCH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.y X, with X being hydrogen or fluorine and y being equal to 1 to about 10; R', R" and R'" are different aryloxy moieties, each of R', R" and R'" being selected from the group consisting of phenoxy, alkoxy phenoxys, alkyl phenoxys, chlorinated phenoxys, fluorinated phenoxys, aryl phenoxys, phenoxy phenoxys, fluoroalkyl phenoxys, fluoroalkoxy phenoxys, chlorinated phenoxy phenoxys, fluorinated phenoxy phenoxys and mixtures thereof; n is equal to 3 to about 4 for each of said phosphazene compounds, each of a, b, c and d is equal to or greater than zero such that the sum a+b+c+d is equal to 2n; and for the composition as a whole, the average value of each of a, b, c and d is greater than 0.

Abstract: Acrylamide and related monomers which are substantially free of any metallic ions and contain only that amount of oxygen or other polymerization inhibitor which is inherently present in the monomer are improved by adding thereto a borane compound, i.e., sodium borohydride.

Abstract: A stable, fluid or spreadable, aerobically-hardening adhesive, storable without hardening under exclusion of oxygen, containing polymerizable olefinically-unsaturated compounds and an amount sufficient to initiate polymerization of an organoboron compound initiator, in the form of an aerobically-hardening single-component mixture, consisting essentially of:(a) at least one organoboron compound capable of initiating the polymerization of ethylenically-unsaturated compounds in the presence of oxygen, in an amount sufficient to initiate the polymerization,(b) at least one polymerizable compound containing at least one ethylenic double bond with a molecular weight of between 63 and 10,000(c) at least one compound capable of inhibiting and/or stabilizing anionic polymerization, in an amount sufficient to inhibit and/or stabilize anionic polymerization, and(d) optionally, other conventional auxiliary substances for aerobically-hardening adhesives.

Abstract: Polymerizable adhesives mixtures containing ethylenic double bonds capable of polymerizing and boron compounds as polymerization initiators, wherein the boron compounds are organoboron compounds and contain at least one boron-carbon bond or one boron-hydrogen bond and have practically no spontaneous combustibility in air. The adhesives harden after a short time to give stable adhesive bonds, even in the presence of moisture.

Abstract: Water miscible monomers such as acrylamide are polymerized in an aqueous phase in the presence of an initiator containing a borohydride such as sodium borohydride and an easily reduced metal ion such as cupric ion.

Abstract: A fast-setting .alpha.-cyanoacrylate-type adhesive composition having good storage stability comprising an .alpha.-cyanoacrylate and about 0.1 ppm or more of at least one macrocyclic polyether compound or an analogue thereof, such as 18-crown-6 or 15-crown-5.

Abstract: The preparation of a photoconductor which comprises the polymerization reaction product of an N-alkenyl carbazole or derivative thereof such as N-vinyl carbazole, in the presence of a catalyst in the form of a monochelate or muli-chelate of boron in which the chelate catalyzes the polymerization reaction and remains in the polymerization product as a sensitizer for the photoconductive properties of the organic polymer.

Abstract: Homopolymers of conjugated dienes and copolymers of conjugated dienes with other conjugated dienes or with vinyl aromatic compounds having an elastomeric character are prepared by use of a catalytic system formed of the reaction product of (a) an organometallic compound of a metal of Group IIIA of the Mendeleev periodic table of elements with (b) at least one electron-donor compound containing at least one hetero-atom.

Abstract: Homopolymers of conjugated dienes and copolymers of conjugated dienes with other conjugated dienes or with vinyl aromatic compounds having an elastomeric character are prepared by use of a catalytic system formed of the reaction product of (a) an organometallic compound of a metal of Group IIIA of the Mendeleev periodic table of elements with (b) at least one electron-donor compound containing at least one hetero-atom.

Abstract: Homopolymers of conjugated dienes and copolymers of conjugated dienes with other conjugated dienes or with vinyl aromatic compounds having an elastomeric character are prepared by use of a catalytic system formed of the reaction product of (a) an organometallic compound of a metal of Group IIIA of the Mendeleev periodic table of elements with (b) at least one electron-donor compound containing at least one hetero-atom.

Abstract: Homopolymers of conjugated dienes and copolymers of conjugated dienes with other conjugated dienes or with vinyl aromatic compounds having an elastomeric character are prepared by use of a catalytic system formed of the reaction product of (a) an organometallic compound of a metal of Group IIIA of the Mendeleev periodic table of elements with (b) at least one electron-donor compound containing at least one hetero-atom.

Abstract: Homopolymers of conjugated dienes and copolymers of conjugated dienes with other conjugated dienes or with vinyl aromatic compounds having an elastomeric character are prepared by use of a catalytic system formed of the reaction product of (a) an organometallic compound of a metal of Group IIIA of the Mendeleev periodic table of elements with (b) at least one electron-donor compound containing at least one hetero-atom.

Abstract: The invention relates to reduction of polymer buildup during the suspension polymerization of vinyl chloride, either alone or with other olefinically unsaturated monomers copolymerizable therewith. There is employed a particular combination of ingredients in the polymerization recipe, the essential features being the use of a water phase inhibitor and an oil phase inhibitor along with a substantially water-insoluble polymerization initiator and operating at a high pH. A multiplicity of charges may be polymerized in the reactor without opening the same.

Abstract: A continuous process for the preparation of gel-free interpolymers from monomers comprising one or more halomethylated vinyl aromatic compounds and one or more Type III monoolefins is characterized by the use of a solvent or mixture of solvents in which the reactants and the interpolymers are soluble; a soluble Lewis acid or Friedel-Crafts catalyst, especially an organo-Group IIIa element halide catalyst; a reaction temperature in the range of -120.degree. C to -20.degree. C; and a conversion of at least one of the monomers to interpolymer in excess of 85 percent. The interpolymers may be crosslinked with nucleophilic reagents to produce elastomeric compositions; quaternized with nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorous compounds to give self-emulsifying latices useful as surface coatings or converted to sulfonic or carboxylic derivatives for the preparation of ionomer resins.