Abstract: Copolymers made with quasi-living polyolefins and unsaturated acidic reactants, dispersants using same, and methods of making same are provided. Under one aspect, a copolymer of an unsaturated acidic reactant and high molecular weight polyolefin, wherein the polyolefin comprises an exo-olefin terminated quasi-living polymeric product, is provided. The quasi-living polymeric product is formed, e.g., by forming a quasi-living cationic polyolefin under suitable quasi-living conditions, and contacting the cationic polyolefin with an agent selected to convert the cationic polyolefin to the exo-olefin terminated quasi-living polymeric product. The cationic polyolefin can be formed, e.g.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for initiating radical polymerization of at least one monomer composition, the method comprising the steps of: supplying at least one monomer charge; and initiating radical polymerization of the at least one monomer charge via a hydrogen peroxide initiator and at least one polyamine co-initiator, wherein the method is carried out in an inverse-microemulsion, the inverse-microemulsion being a water/oil emulsion.

Abstract: There is disclosed a polyvinylpyrrolidone powder composition including polyvinylpyrrolidone having a K value of not lower than 60 and not higher than 130 and a secondary amine or a salt thereof. The poly-vinylpyrrolidone powder composition is produced by adding a secondary amine or a salt thereof to polyvinylpyrrolidone having a K value of not lower than 60 and not higher than 130, or by heat drying an aqueous solution containing polyvinylpyrrolidone having a K value of not lower than 60 and not higher than 130 and a secondary amine or a salt thereof.

Abstract: An alcohol-soluble resin and a method for preparing the same, in which the content of vinyl acetate monomer in polymeric raw material is 50% to 90%. In addition, acrylic ester monomer and other reactive functional group-containing compounds have been mixed in the raw material to ensure the performance of resin for special requirements in application. Also provided are products produced by using the resin, such as alcohol-soluble ink, composite adhesive, lustering oil for printing, glazing lacquer for woodware, superficial decorating coatings for plastic materials, safeguard coatings of metal surface and hair colorant, as well as preparation methods.

Abstract: A photoradical generator which produces no low-molecular decomposition material but a radical during a photoradical generating process, does not generate a radical during a heating process, exists in a chemically stable state in a resulting product of a radical reaction such as a cured coating layer or the like, has high heat resistance, stability and preserving ability, and is excellent in compatibility or solubility is provided. The photoradical generator is comprised of a compound (a) having a seven-membered ring imide structure-containing group represented by the following formula (1), wherein, R1 to R8 respectively represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent and may be a cyclic structure in which they are bonded to each other.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition including a late transition metal complex, a non-polar olefin, a polar olefin, and a free radical scavenger, wherein the polymerizable composition is capable of forming a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] substantially free of free radical addition polymer, is disclosed. A method of copolymerizing a non-polar olefin with a polar olefin, catalyzed by a late transition metal complex in the presence of a free radical scavenger, to produce a linear poly[(non-polar olefin)-(polar olefin)] substantially free of free radical addition polymer is also disclosed.

Abstract: A papermaking method and a composition which utilize, as a drainage aid, a water-soluble anionic copolymer prepared via a water-in-oil polymerization technique that, absent a cross-linking agent, is characterized by a Huggins' constant (k?) determined in 0.01M NaCl greater than 0.75 and a storage modulus (G?) for a 1.5 wt. % actives polymer solution at 4.6 Hz greater than 175 Pa.

Abstract: Cationic polyvinyl acetals are prepared by copolymerizing one or more cationic N-alkyldiallylammonium salt monomers with one or more vinyl esters of branched or unbranched carboxylic acids having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, hydrolyzing the resulting copolymers to copolymers containing ?50 mol % vinyl alcohol units, and acetalizating the vinyl alcohol units with one or more aliphatic aldehydes having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, their acetals, and/or hemiacetals, wherein the copolymerization takes place in a mixture of water and monovalent aliphatic alcohol having a water content of 2% to 35% by weight.

Abstract: An ink-jet ink used to form a functional film by ejecting an ink droplet using an ink-jet system onto a non-penetrative substrate includes a compound that has an amino group and an alkylene glycol portion within a molecule and serves as a wettability enhancer. Also provided are a method of producing the ink-jet ink, a method of producing a color filter using the ink-jet ink, and a method of forming a color filter or a functional film.

Abstract: Redispersible polymer powders which are cationically stabilized by spray drying a polymer dispersion with a cationic polymer can be used in higher concentrations in chemical building construction materials without introducing adverse properties.

Abstract: Hematin, a hydroxyferriprotoporphyrin, is derivatized with one or more non-proteinaceous amphipathic groups. The derivatized hematin can serve as a mimic of horseradish peroxidase in polymerizing aromatic monomers, such as aromatic compounds. These derivatized hematins can also be used as catalysts in polymerizing aromatic monomers, and can exhibit significantly greater catalytic activity than underivatized hematin in acidic solutions. In one embodiment, polymerization is in the presence of a template, along which aromatic monomers align. An assembled hematin includes alternating layers of hematin and a polyelectrolyte, which are deposited on an electrically charged substrate. Assembled hematin can also be used to polymerize aromatic monomers.

Abstract: The present process is directed to preparation of addition polymers in diluents that are subsequently reactive in coatings during cure, instead of in traditional hydrocarbon solvents. The polymers so prepared can be used as the main film-forming polymer in high solids coating compositions, especially those useful for finishing automobiles and truck exteriors.

Abstract: A metal complex comprising a metal compound complexed to a heteroatomic ligand, the metal complex having Structure X: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a substituted cycloalkyl group, an aromatic group, or a substituted aromatic group, R1c, R2c, R3c, R4c, and R5c are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group, and MXp comprises a group IVB, VB, or VIB metal. A metal complex comprising a metal compound complexed to a diphosphino aminyl ligand comprising at least two diphosphino aminyl moieties and a linking group linking each aminyl nitrogen atom of the diphosphino aminyl moieties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new cure accelerators for anaerobic curable compositions. These anaerobic cure accelerators are generally sulfonimide derivatives and sulfonamide derivatives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phenylgycines and derivatives thereof, 1,4-aminobenzoyl compounds, and phenyl pyrazolinones as cure accelerators for anaerobically curable compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a soluble polyfunctional vinylaromatic copolymer improved in heat resistance, resistance to thermal decomposition, solvent solubility, and processability. The soluble polyfunctional vinylaromatic polymer is obtained by cationically polymerizing, at a temperature of 20 to 120° C., one or more monomer ingredients including 20 to 100 mol % divinylaromatic compound (a) in the presence of a donor ingredient, e.g., a quaternary ammonium salt, with the aid of a Lewis acid catalyst and an initiator represented by the following general formula (1) wherein R1 represents hydrogen or a monovalent C1-6 hydrocarbon group; R2 represents an aromatic or aliphatic hydrocarbon group having a valence of p; Z represents halogen or C1-6 alkoxy or acyloxy; and p is an integer of 1 to 6; provided that when two or more R1's and Z's are present per molecule, they may be identical to different from each other.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a detergent builder comprising a copolymer excellent in compatibility with a liquid detergent and capable of exhibiting excellent basic abilities such as prevention of recontamination and detergency ratio, and a detergent composition containing the detergent builder. The above-mentioned detergent builder comprises a copolymer obtained by copolymerization of monomer components containing a polyalkyleneimine unsaturated monomer and other monomers.

Abstract: Quaternary boron salts are used as initiators of polymerisation in adhesive compositions for bonding low surface energy substrates such as polyolefins. The quaternary boron salts are of the formula I wherein R1 is C1-C10 alkyl, R2, R3 and R4, which may be the same or different, are, C1-C10 alkyl or C3-C10 cycloalkyl, phenyl, or phenyl-substituted C1-C10 alkyl or C3-C10 cycloalkyl, provided that any two of R1-R4 may optionally be part of a carbocyclic ring, and M+ is a metal ion or a quaternary ammonium ion. When M+ is a quaternary ammonium ion, the initiator may be used in a two-part composition having a (meth)acrylate monomer in both parts and the initiator compound in one part, the two parts being in a weight ratio of about 1:1.

Abstract: The invention is a two part polymerizable composition comprising in one part i) an organoboron compound capable of forming free radical generating species; and in the second part ii) one or more compounds capable of free radical polymerization; iii) one or more cure accelerators comprising a) at least one compound containing a quinone structure or b) at least one compound containing at least one aromatic ring and one or more substituents on the aromatic ring selected from hydroxyl, ether and both and a compound with a peroxide moiety; and iv) one or more vinyl functional modifiers having a glass transition temperature of ?50° C. or less.

Abstract: A method of continuously manufacturing a high viscosity polyalphaolefin product by introducing a monomer and an ionic liquid catalyst together into a reaction zone while simultaneously withdrawing from the reaction zone a reaction zone effluent that contains the high viscosity polyalphaolefin. The reaction zone is operated under reaction conditions suitable for producing the high viscosity polyalphaolefin product. The preferred high viscosity polyalphaolefin has a kinematic viscosity exceeding about 8 cSt and is the reaction product of the trimerization, oligomerization, or polymerization of an alpha olefin or a mixture of one or more product thereof. The high viscosity polyalphaolefins are useful as lubricants or lubricant additives.

Abstract: An acrylic polymer having pendant alkoxysilane comprising the free radical reaction product of a polysiloxane, an N-alkylphosphonate N-oxylalkyl ester initiator; and ethylenically unsaturated monomers. The acrylic polymer can be further crosslinked with reactive polysiloxanes.

Abstract: A curable composition is described comprising a Michael donor component, a polyacryl component, and 1) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a reactive azlactone functional group, or 2) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a reactive ring-opened azlactone functional group. A telechelic polymer that is the reaction product of these components is also described.

Abstract: This invention relates to the composition of an integrally-layered polymeric membrane and a process for utilizing the integrally-layered polymeric membrane components of a feedstream. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this invention relates to the composition of an integrally-layered polymeric membrane and a process for utilizing the integrally-layered polymeric membrane in the separation of aromatics from a hydrocarbon based feedstream. The polymeric membranes of the present invention are fabricated by chemically crosslinking adjacent polymer membrane layers of the same or differing copolymer solutions to produce an integrally-layered polymeric membrane with improved separations properties.

Abstract: This invention relates to the fabrication of a polymeric membrane and a process for utilizing the polymeric membrane for separating components of a feedstream. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this invention relates to the fabrication of a polymeric membrane and a process for utilizing the polymeric membrane in the separation of aromatics from a hydrocarbon based feedstream. The membranes of the present invention possess low soft segment glass transition temperatures and improved separation characteristics.

Abstract: Cross-linked ampholytic polymers that may be used as rheological modifiers, and/or absorbent gelling materials are disclosed. The polymers may be storage stable in aqueous compositions comprising soluble salt, and/or an oxidizer, such as hydrogen peroxide.

Abstract: A process for producing a stable polymer such as poly(hydroxystyrene) which comprises the decarboxylation of a corresponding phenolic in the presence of a non-amine basic catalyst and a polar organic solvent, followed by the polymerization thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition and process for enhancing the controlled radical polymerization in the presence of nitroxyls and nitroxylethers by adding a chain transfer agent selected from the group consisting of mercaptanes, thioethers and disulfides to the polymerizable mixture. A further subject of the invention is the use of mercaptanes, thioethers and disulfides for increasing rate and yield of controlled radical polymerizations in the presence of a nitroxyl or a nitroxylether.

Abstract: Curable formulations comprising: (a) at least one multifunctional acrylate having a functionality of at least two, (b) at least one mono-acrylate monomer, (c) at least one heteroatom-containing diacrylate, wherein the heteroatom is sulfur or selenium; and (d) a curing agent, have been discovered. The curable formulations show promise as precursors to high refractive index materials suitable for use in light management devices and other optical devices. In addition the novel curable formulations are useful for producing coatings, which may be useful in forming display films, in particular brightness enhancing display films.

Abstract: A curable composition is described comprising a Michael donor component, a polyacryl component, and 1) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a reactive azlactone functional group, or 2) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a reactive ring-opened azlactone functional group. A telechelic polymer that is the reaction product of these components is also described.

Abstract: A water-soluble polymer dispersion, process for producing the same and a method of use therefor. In particular, the water-soluble polymer dispersion is one comprising water-soluble polymer fine particles of 100 ?m or less diameter having at least one ionic property selected from among cationic, amphoteric, nonionic and anionic properties together with a polyalkyleneimine and/or a product of polyalkyleneimine modification wherein according to necessity an appropriate amount of water-soluble inorganic salt is incorporated. The provided process enables easily performing the production in dispersed form by means of production facilities of low cost. The obtained water-soluble polymer dispersion is excellent in storage stability and exhibits satisfactory fluidity and solubility so as to enable use in papermaking raw material pretreatments added to papermaking raw materials prior to machine operation and also for enhancement of freeness, increase of sizing degree and enhancement of yield.

Abstract: Hematin, a hydroxyferriprotoporphyrin, is derivatized with one or more non-proteinaceous amphipathic groups. The derivatized hematin can serve as a mimic of horseradish peroxidase in polymerizing aromatic monomers, such as aromatic compounds. These derivatized hematins can also be used as catalysts in polymerizing aromatic monomers, and can exhibit significantly greater catalytic activity than underivatized hematin in acidic solutions. In one embodiment, polymerization is in the presence of a template, along which aromatic monomers align. An assembled hematin includes alternating layers of hematin and a polyelectrolyte, which are deposited on an electrically charged substrate. Assembled hematin can also be used to polymerize aromatic monomers.

Abstract: Quaternary boron salts are used as initiators of polymerisation in adhesive compositions for bonding low surface energy substrates such as polyolefins. The quaternary boron salts are of the formula I wherein R1 is C1–C10 alkyl, R2, R3 and R4, which may be the same or different, are, C1–C10 alkyl or C3–C10 cycloalkyl, phenyl, or phenyl-substituted C1–C10 alkyl or C3–C10 cycloalkyl, provided that any two of R1–R4 may optionally be part of a carbocyclic ring, and M+ is a metal ion or a quaternary ammonium ion. Particular examples of initiator compounds include sodium tetraethyl borate and lithium tetraethyl borate, lithium phenyl triethyl borate and tetraethylammonium phenyl triethyl borate.

Abstract: Controlled architecture polymers made preferably with acrylamide type monomers are prepared in living-type or semi-living-type free radical polymerizations, with the architecture preferably being other than linear, such as star, branched, grafted or hyper-branched. The controlled architecture polymers have high weight average molecular weights and low viscosities, which make they particularly useful in replaceable capillary electrophoresis separation media for biological molecules, such as DNA fragments.

Abstract: A papermaking method and a composition which utilize, as a drainage aid, a water-soluble anionic copolymer prepared via a water-in-oil polymerization technique that, absent a cross-linking agent, is characterized by a Huggins' constant (k?) determined in 0.01M NaCl greater than 0.75 and a storage modulus (G?) for a 1.5 wt. % actives polymer solution at 4.6 Hz greater than 175 Pa.

Abstract: A method for polymerizing electronic and photonic polymers, wherein an aromatic monomer is combined with a hematin catalyst derivatized with at least one non-proteinaceous amphipathic group, and a peroxide initiator, and employing a template, wherein the aromatic monomer aligns along the template and polymerizes to form a complex comprising the polymerized monomer and the template.

Abstract: The present invention relates to selected 4-imino-N-alkoxy-polyalkyl-peperidine compounds preparation, a polymerizable composition comprising a) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and b) a 4-imino-N-alkoxy-polyalkyl-piperidine compound. Further aspects of the present invention are a process for polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and the use of 4-imino-N-alkoxy-polyalkyl-piperidine compounds for controlled polymerization.

Abstract: Quaternary boron salts are used as initiators of polymerisation in adhesive compositions for bonding low surface energy substrates such as polyolefins. The quaternary boron salts are of the formula I wherein R1 is C1–C10 alkyl, R2, R3 and R4, which may be the same or different, are, C1–C10 alkyl or C3–C10 cycloalkyl, phenyl, or phenyl-substituted C1–C10 alkyl or C3–C10 cycloalkyl, provided that any two of R1–R4 may optionally be part of a carbocyclic ring, and M+ is a metal ion or a quaternary ammonium ion. Particular examples of initiator compounds include sodium tetraethyl borate and lithium tetraethyl borate, lithium phenyl triethyl borate and tetramethylammonium phenyl triethyl borate.

Abstract: Polymers and copolymers synthesized by means that yield a narrow range of molecular weights can have different properties than polymers synthesized by conventional means. In order to obtain such polymers, however, polymerization must be controlled. One type of controlled polymerization is the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) process, which has characteristics of a living polymerization. The present invention discloses a group of dithioesters and trithioesters suitable as chain transfer agents for RAFT polymerization. The present invention also discloses RAFT polymerizations conducted in aqueous media.

Abstract: A method for polymerizing electronic and photonic polymers, wherein an aromatic monomer is combined with a hematin catalyst derivatized with at least one non-proteinaceous amphipathic group, and a peroxide initiator, and employing a template, wherein the aromatic monomer aligns along the template and polymerizes to form a complex comprising the polymerized monomer and the template.

Abstract: Polymers and copolymers synthesized by means that yield a narrow range of molecular weights can have different properties than polymers synthesized by conventional means. In order to obtain such polymers, however, polymerization must be controlled. One type of controlled polymerization is the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) process, which has characteristics of a living polymerization. The present invention discloses a group of dithioesters and trithioesters suitable as chain transfer agents for RAFT polymerization. The present invention also discloses RAFT polymerizations conducted in aqueous media.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hardenable (i.e., curable by polymerization, crosslinking, ionic, or other chemical reaction) composition that includes polymerizable urea or thiourea compounds that function as reductants (i.e., reducing agents) in redox polymerization reactions.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel multi-functional methacrylic copolymers that exhibit cationic pH-sensitive behavior as well as good water solubility under acidic conditions. The copolymers are constructed from tertiary amine methacrylates and poly(ethylene glycol) containing methacrylates. The copolymers are useful as gene vectors, pharmaceutical carriers, and in protein separation applications.

Abstract: Processes for the living polymerization of olefin monomers with terminal carbon-carbon double bonds are disclosed. The processes employ initiators that include a metal atom and a ligand having two group 15 atoms and a group 16 atom or three group 15 atoms. The ligand is bonded to the metal atom through two anionic or covalent bonds and a dative bond. The initiators are particularly stable under reaction conditions in the absence of olefin monomer. The processes provide polymers having low polydispersities, especially block copolymers having low polydispersities. It is an additional advantage of these processes that, during block copolymer synthesis, a relatively small amount of homopolymer is formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymerizable materials comprising two components, where component I comprises: (a) from 0.1 to 20% by weight of at least one vinyl ether, (b) from 10 to 89.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which is not a vinyl ether, (c) from 0.001 to 5% by weight of at least one accelerator, (d) from 9.999 to 89.899% by weight of fillers, thixotropy assistants, retardants and other auxiliaries, and component II comprises: (e) from 0.1 to 20% by weight of at least one barbituric acid derivative and/or at least one malonylsulfamide which is able to initiate the free-radical polymerization, and (f) from 0 to 89.9% by weight of fillers, thixotropy assistants, retardants and other auxiliaries, (g) from 10 to 80% by weight of conventional plasticizers, and to the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an emulsion polymerization process that comprises: (1) preparing an aqueous polymerization medium which is comprised of (a) at least one monomer, (b) a polymerization control agent, and an emulsifier, wherein the emulsifier is prepared in-situ within the aqueous polymerization medium; and (2) initiating polymerization of said monomer within the aqueous polymerization medium.

Abstract: This invention relates to (meth)acrylate based polymerizable compositions and adhesive systems prepared therefrom, which include an initiator system comprising a complex of an organoborane with a complexing agent, an aziridine-containing compound, and a carrier material with which the initiator system is unreactive and which renders the composition having a flash point above 140° F. The inventive compositions desirably have a flash point above 200° F., for each of the parts of the adhesive system. To achieve the physical properties of the inventive compositions and adhesive systems, it is desirable for the carrier material to have such flash points; however, provided that in their entirety the inventive compositions and adhesive systems have such flash points, it is not necessary for the carrier material itself to have such flash points. The inventive compositions and adhesive systems also include a package for controlling the rate of cure and indicating the extent of cure.

Abstract: The polymerization of polar vinyl monomers in the presence of Lewis acids produces stereoregular vinyl polymers. Polar vinyl monomers may be mixed with Lewis acids to form associations or complexes between the monomers and Lewis acids. The mixtures or monomer-Lewis acid complexes may be polymerized to produce the desire stereoregular vinyl polymers.

Abstract: Substantive UV-absorbing, water-soluble, cationic polymers containing cinnamidoalkylamines and benzamidoalkylainines, with ‘inverse temperature dependant solubility’ are described in the present invention. They are water-soluble at ambient conditions and yet they are water-resistant at the temperature of human body as well as in the presence of electrolytes. These properties make these macromolecules useful for personal care as well as fabric care products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to C4–C6-polymercaptopolyols as regulators in the free-radically initiated solution and precipitation polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition and process for enhancing the controlled radical polymerization in the presence of nitroxyls and nitroxylethers by adding a chain transfer agent selected from the group consisting of mercaptanes, thioethers and disulfides to the polymerizable mixture. A further subject of the invention is the use of mercaptanes, thioethers and disulfides for increasing rate and yield of controlled radical polymerizations in the presence of a nitroxyl or a nitroxylether.