Abstract: Copolymers of aliphatic monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids and unsaturated monomers have been formed by gradually and simultaneously adding monomers and initiator, in the presence of a metal salt activator, to a reaction vessel initially containing water at a temperature suitable for polymerization. These copolymers have consistent compositions and superior properties as antiscalants, dispersants and incrustation inhibitors.

Abstract: Crystallizable 3,4-polyisoprene and isoprene-butadiene copolymers having high vinyl contents can be synthesized in organic solvents to quantitative yields after short polymerization times by utilizing the catalyst systems of this invention. The 3,4-polyisoprene made utilizing this catalyst system is strain crystallizable and can be employed in tire treads which provide improved traction and improved cut growth resistance. This invention specifically discloses a process for the synthesis of 3,4-polyisoprene which comprises polymerizing isoprene monomer in an organic solvent at a temperature which is within the range of about -10.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of copper and cobalt ions to control molecular weight in the aqueous polymerization of vinyl monomers. Incorporating catalytic amounts, generally from 1 to about 300 ppm of copper or cobalt ions, in aqueous polymerization reactions initiated with peroxides, preferably with partial neutralization of the monomers, provides for molecular weight control of the resulting polymers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of electrically conducting polymers based on polythiophenes by chemical polymerization of thiophene by means of a ferric salt, an alkyl halide and water.The invention also relates to the electrically conducting devices containing the polythiophenes obtained and a thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: Superabsorbents made by the process of electron beam initiated polymerization of partially neutralized acrylic acid having improved absorbencies when a trivalent cationic salt, for example, Aluminum Acetate or a tetravalent cationic salt, for example, Platinum Tetrachloride, are added to the partially neutralized acrylic acid solution before polymerization is initiated.

Abstract: A curable composition, the cure of which can be monitored optically, comprises at least one of a hydride curable silicone, an ethylenically unsaturated compound, and a cationically polymerizable monomer, and as cure monitor dibenzofulvene or derivative thereof. The cure monitor is a latent fluorophore which reacts under the cure conditions to form a UV-detectable fluorophore.The invention also provides a method for measuring degree of cure of a polymeric material which can be a coating or an article.

Abstract: Initiator compositions for materials which can be polymerized cationically are described, these containingi) an anhydride of a polycarboxylic acid, a polyisocyanate, a cyclic carbonate, a lactone or a mixture of such compounds, and dissolved thereinii) at least one compound of the formula I[M.sup.+n (L).sub.x ].sup.n+ nX.sup.- (I)in which n is 2 or 3, M is a metal cation selected from the group consisting of Zn.sup.2+, Mg.sup.2+, Fe.sup.2+, Co.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+, Cr.sup.2+, Ru.sup.2+, Mn.sup.2+, Sn.sup.2+, VO.sup.2+, Fe.sup.3+, Al.sup.3+ and Co.sup.3+, X.sup.- is an anion which is selected from the group consisting of AsF.sub.6.sup.-, SbF.sub.6.sup.-, BiF.sub.6.sup.- and derivatives derived from these anions in which a fluorine atom is replaced by hydroxyl groups, or in which up to 50% of the anions X.sup.-, based on the total amount of anions, can also be any desired anions, L is water or an organic .sigma.

Abstract: Micro-suspension polymerization is a technique that it is widely used on a commercial basis for the polymerization of vinyl chloride monomer into polyvinyl chloride. This invention reveals a greatly improved redox initiator system for use in such polymerizations. The redox initiator systems of this invention are comprised of (a) a free radical generator, such as a peroxide, and (b) a reducing agent selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, isoascorbic acid, and certain derivatives of ascorbic acid. The initiator systems of this invention do not require the utilization of water-soluble metal salts. However, water-soluble metal salts can be utilized in such initiator systems in catalytic amounts wherein the ratio of the water-soluble metal salt to the free radical generator is less than 0.09.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for preparing clusters of infusible, inherently tacky, elastomeric, solvent-insoluble, solvent-dispersible polymeric microparticles by aqueous emulsion polymerization. The invention also pertains to an adhesive comprising the polymeric microparticles and to a repeatedly reusable pressure sensitive sheet material having the elastomeric microparticles coated thereon.

Abstract: In a process for producing cis-1,4-polybutadiene by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene in an inert organic solvent in the presence of a catalyst comprising a halogen-containing organoaluminum compound, a transition metal compound and water, the improvement wherein a necessary amount of water is passed through a porous filter having a pore diameter of 5 microns or less, and then dispersed in the inert organic solvent or an inert organic solvent of 1,3-butadiene.

Abstract: Polymers are prepared from olefinically unsaturated monomers in an aqueous medium using a free radical initiator system which is soluble in this medium and consists of an oxidizing agent, a reducing agent and an iron salt, by a process in which a corresponding redox initiator system which contains a vanadium salt is used in addition to this iron-containing redox initiator system, and the content of olefinically unsaturated residual monomers in aqueous polymer mixtures or solutions is reduced by this process.

Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a highly water absorptive polymer, which comprises making up a mixture (A) comprising an aqueous solution of (a) a partially neutralized product of acrylic acid with 20% or more of carboxylic groups being neutralized to an alkali metal salt or ammonium salt, (b) a crosslinking agent having two or more copolymerizable vinyl groups in one molecule, (c) a basic vinyl monomer in a quantity of 20 mol % or less based on said partially neutralized product of acrylic acid, (d) a nonionic surfactant with HLB of 7 or more and (e) an oxidative radical polymerization initiator, said mixture (A) being maintained at a temperature of 50.degree. C. or lower, and a mixture (B) comprising an amine or a reducing agent dissolved in water or in said mixture (A) from which at least the component (e) is removed, and mixing both the mixtures to cause polymerization.

Abstract: Crystallizable 3,4-polyisoprene can be synthesized in organic solvents to quantitative yields after short polymerization times by utilizing the catalyst systems of this invention. The 3,4-polyisoprene made utilizing this catalyst system is strain crystallizable and can be employed in tire treads which provide improved traction and improved cut growth resistance. This invention specifically discloses a process for the synthesis of 3,4-polyisoprene which comprises polymerizing isoprene monomer in an organic solvent at a temperature which is within the range of about -10.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C. in the presence of a catalyst system which is composed of (a) an organoiron compound, (b) an organoaluminum compound, (c) a chelating aromatic amine, and (d) a protonic compound; wherein the molar ratio of the chelating amine to the organoiron compound is within the range of about 0.

Abstract: Pure syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene is a thermoplastic resin which has double bonds attached in an alternating fashion to its polymeric backbone. Films, fibers and molded articles can be made utilizing syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene. It can also be blended into rubbers and cocured therewith. Syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene can be made by solution, emulsion or suspension polymerization. It typically has a melting point which is within the range of about 195.degree. C. to about 215.degree. C. However, it is often desirable for the syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene to have a melting point of less than about 195.degree. C. This invention discloses a process for preparing syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene having a melting point of less than about 195.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention relates to homopolymers and copolymers of acrylonitrile with very low Fikentscher K values of 34-15 and a total content of sulfonate and sulfate end groups, which do not originate from correspondingly substituted comonomers, of 250 to 1,000 milliequivalents per kilogram of polymer, 180 to 900 milliequivalents per kilogram being in the form of sulfonate end groups, and to suitable semi-continuous or continuous precipitation polymerization processes for their preparation by means of a redox system in an aqueous medium.The resulting polymers can be extruded to shaped articles. In particular, after hydrolysis, they can be used as emulsifiers and deep bore auxiliaries.

Abstract: Toner for developing electrostatic latent images is produced by dispersing an anionic inorganic dispersant in an aqueous medium; generating cationic inorganic particles in the aqueous medium which are hard to dissolve in water so as to produce a dispersant medium of the anionic inorganic dispersant and the cationic inorganic particles; dispersing a monomer composition including at least polymerizable monomer and a cationic material into the dispersant medium and generate particles of the monomer composition; and suspension-polymerizing the monomer composition particles and produce toner.

Abstract: A process is provided for the polymerization of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives. The process involves the ring opening metathesis of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives, preferably using water as the solvent. Such materials may be homopolymerized or, alternatively, copolymerized with other cyclic olefins such as norbornene. The resulting polymers are also novel.

Abstract: A process is provided for the polymerization of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives. The process involves the ring opening metathesis of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives, preferably using water as the solvent. Such materials may be homopolymerized or, alternatively, copolymerized with other cyclic olefins such as norbornene. The resulting polymers are also novel.

Abstract: A process is provided for the polymerization of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives. The process involves the ring opening metathesis of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives, preferably using water as the solvent. Such materials may be homopolymerized or, alternatively, copolymerized with other cyclic olefins such as norbornene. The resulting polymers are also novel.

Abstract: A water-soluble salt of monoallylamine is polymerized in an aqueous reaction medium at a temperature of about 30.degree.-80.degree. C. in the presence of a polymerization initiator comprising about 3-15% by weight of hydrogen peroxide and about 1-700 ppm of a multi-valent metal ion, based on the weight of the monomer charge. The hydrogen peroxide is preferably introduced continuously or periodically during a substantial portion of the polymerization reaction. Preferred sources of the metal ion are water-soluble iron salts, such as ferric or ferrous chloride.

Abstract: This invention reveals a technique for preparing syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene latex. It more specifically discloses a process for synthesizing syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene latex by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene in an aqueous medium in the presence of (1) at least one emulsifier, (2) a catalyst emulsion composition which is prepared by a microfluidization or microemulsification process, and (3) at least one member selected from the group consisting of carbon disulfide and phenyl isothiocyanate. Such syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene latices can be utilized in preparing blends of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene with rubbers which are prepared by emulsion polymerization.

Abstract: A process is provided for the polymerization of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives. The process involves the ring opening metathesis of 7-oxanorbornene and its derivatives, preferably using water as the solvent. Such materials may be homopolymerized or, alternatively, copolymerized with other cyclic olefins such as norbornene. The resulting polymers are also novel.

Abstract: Water-soluble polymers or copolymers of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid which contain at least 50 base mole percent of these acids and as end groups hydrogen atoms, hydroxyl groups and moieties of a water-soluble mercaptan or moieties with a sulfoxide group formed therefrom are produced in a readily reproducible manner and free of mercaptan odor in aqueous solution by polymerization with an initiator system consisting of hydrogen peroxide, a water-soluble mercaptan and an iron salt and used as calcium-binding additives or as dispersants in aqueous systems.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of polymer particles each consisting essentially of (a) a syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene having 70% or more of unsaturated hydrocarbon groups in the side chains and having a melting point of 70.degree. C. or higher, (b) a polymer mixture of said polybutadiene (a) and other polymer in the form that (a) and (b) co-exist in the same particle, or (c) a copolymer obtained by graft-polymerizing a conjugated diene and/or other polymerizable monomer on said polybutadiene (a), each of said particles having an average diameter of 10 .mu.m or less.

Abstract: In a process for producing a polymer or copolymer of a vinyl chloride monomer with or without a comonomer by aqueous suspension polymerization or copolymerization in the presence of a suspension stabilizer and a polymerization initiator which is insoluble or sparingly soluble in water and soluble in the monomer; the improvement wherein the polymerization or copolymerization is carried out in the presence of, as said suspension stabilizer, a hydrotalcite compound of the following formulaM.sub.1-x.sup.2+ M.sub.x.sup.3+ (OH).sub.2 A.sub.x/n.sup.n-.mH.sub.2 O (1)wherein M.sup.2+ is at least one divalent metal cation, M.sup.3+ is at least one trivalent metal cation, A.sup.n- is an anion having a valence of 1 to 4, and x and m represent numbers satisfying the following expressions0<x<0.5 and 0.ltoreq.m<2.

Abstract: Free radical polymerization processes employing cobalt(II) chelates of vicinal iminohydroxyimino compounds, dihydroxyimino compounds, diazadihydroxyiminodialkyldecadienes and diazadihydroxyiminodialkylundecadienes as catalytic chain transfer agents for controlling the molecular weight of the homopolymers and copolymers produced.

Abstract: A method of treating a subterranean formation comprising contacting the formation with an aqueous composition of desired viscosity. The aqueous composition is prepared by polymerizing water-soluble monomers in an aqueous solvent with a free radical initiator comprising a reduction-oxidation couple between cobaltous amine complex and an alkali metal or ammonium salt of peroxydisulfate.

Abstract: Very small amounts of certain metal ions promote copolymerization of aliphalic dicarboxylic acids with .alpha.,.beta.-ethylentically unsaturated monomers in an aqueous solution system maintained at a given pH range, whereby the amount of unreacted dicarboxylic acid monomer is significantly reduced while control of molecular weight of the resulting compolymers is maintained.

Abstract: Tetrafluoroethylene fine powder resins are described which have surprisingly high extrusion pressures and molecular weights which make them useful in post-paste extruded stretching operations. The resins are made by using a manganese triacetate/selected reducing agent polymerization initiator and controlling its rate of addition.

Abstract: This invention discloses a process for the polymerization of acrylamide and for the copolymerization of acrylamide with other monomers. It employs a ferrous/hydroperoxide redox initiator system that greatly enhances the molecular weight of the polymer formed. These high molecular weight acrylamide polymers offer outstanding advantages in enhanced oil recovery as injection water viscosifiers.

Abstract: Process for the polymerization of vinyl chloride in aqueous suspension or microsuspension using an organo-soluble free-radical-yielding initiator wherein the initiator is progressively activated during polymerization by the progressive reduction of a non-initiator-activating water-soluble metal chelate complex to an initiator-activating form of the complex (which is otherwise substantially stable under the polymerization conditions) in which the metal is in a lower oxidation state, preferably a one- or two lower oxidation state.

Abstract: A 1,2-polymerization of 1,3-butadiene is carried out in a polymerization solvent in the presence of a 1,2-polymerization catalyst consisting essentially of a cobalt compound soluble in the polymerization solvent, an organic aluminum halide, an organic magnesium compound, and carbon disulfide and/or phenyl isothiocyanate and in the presence or absence of a cis-1,4-polymerization product of 1,3-butadiene.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for the aqueous solution or emulsion polymerization of acrylamide monomer to produce homopolymers of very high molecular weight using mixtures of water and monomer at least one of which can be contaminated with small amounts of polymerization inhibiting components. In the process, a minimum effective amount of a redox catalyst is utilized in order to obtain very high molecular weight by incrementally adding one member of a redox pair to a solution of the monomer containing a second redox pair number. The process can be initiated at ambient temperatures and pressures, and polymerization is effected without providing additional heat to the reaction mass. Utilizing monomer concentrations of about 10 to about 50 percent by weight, molecular weights of about 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 can be obtained.

Abstract: A suspension polymerization process which comprises suspension polymerizing a mixture of monovinyl monomer and a polyvinyl monomer using carboxymethyl cellulose as a dispersing agent, the improvement wherein at least one metal compound of metal selected from the group consisting of iron, zinc and copper is present in the polymerization system in an amount of 0.5 to 10 wt %, calculated as the metal, based on the weight of the carboxymethyl cellulose.

Abstract: Polymer mobility control agents useful in supplemental oil recovery processes, which give improved reciprocal relative mobilities, are prepared by initiating the polymerization of a monomer containing a vinyl group with a catalyst comprising a persulfate and ferrous ammonium sulfate. The vinyl monomer is an acrylyl, a vinyl cyanide, a styryl and water soluble salts thereof.

Abstract: A process for preparing copolymers of acetylene and conjugated diene compounds by copolymerization of acetylene with at least one conjugated diene compound in the presence of a catalyst composition in a reactor, characterized in that the catalyst composition comprises a dialkyl aluminum halide, an organic nickel compound and an active hydrogen compound, of which the molar concentrations have the following relationships:[Al]=2[Ni]+[H][Al]/[Ni]>4wherein [Al], [Ni] and [H] represent respectively the molar concentrations of the dialkyl aluminum halide, of the organic nickel compound and of the active hydrogen compound, whereby the copolymer was obtained in a good yield without by-production of any gel material.

Abstract: A process for preparing high molecular weight polymeric ketoximes and aldoximes is disclosed which comprises providing a solution of a monomeric ketoxime or aldoxime in an aqueous acidic solvent system, the solution having a pH of up to about pH 1.5, and polymerizing the dissolved monomeric ketoxime or aldoxime in the presence of an aqueous acid-soluble polymerization initiating agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a chemically uniform acrylonitrile vinyl chloride copolymer in an aqueous emulsion in the presence of a redox catalyst and with a fluctuating concentration of at least one iron salt in the reaction medium wherein the polymerization reaction is carried out at a pH value of from 2 to 6 in the presence of a mixture of an iron salt and a complex former, the complex former having certain apparent stability constants of the iron-II-complex and of the iron-III-complex.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of homo- and co-polymers of vinyl chloride by polymerization in seeded microsuspension, which comprises effecting polymerization in the presence of one or more seeding products in the form of dispersions of particles of polymers, the particles of at least one of the seeding products containing the initiator required for polymerization and said initiator being activated by an organosoluble metal complex and nitric acid.

Abstract: In producing an aqueous latex the reactor pressure and free monomers content in the aqueous phase of the reactor are controlled. This control is achieved by selective addition of the monomers mixture to the reactor in response to pressure variation and the maintenance of a monomer unsaturated condition in the reactor.

Abstract: Cationic polyelectrolytes in water-soluble powder form, applicable to the flocculation of municipal sludge comprise copolymers of acrylamide and of quaternized or salified dimethylamino-ethyl acrylate, containing in molar proportions 10 to 50% of cationic units distributed regularly along the copolymer chains. They have an intrinsic viscosity higher than 6 and a measured cationicity higher than 90% of the theoretical cationicity.

Abstract: Substantially linear and gel-free cis-1,4-polybutadiene is produced by polymerizing butadiene in the presence of a catalyst comprising a mixture of a cobalt compound, at least one organoaluminum compound and water, the improvement being the use of a cycloalkane having 5 to 8 carbon atoms in the ring and from 0.01 to 2 percent of a tetramethylbenzene or pentamethylbenzene as a polymerization regulator.

Abstract: In the production of a dried acrylamide polymer by polymerizing, in an aqueous medium, acrylamide alone or a monomer mixture comprising 50 mole % or more of acrylamide and at least one monomer copolymerizable therewith with a radical initiator, and then drying the resulting hydrous acrylamide polymer, the allowing of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole to be present in the drying step or a step prior thereto enables the dried acrylamide polymer having a high molecular weight and a good dissolvability in water to be obtained.

Abstract: Substantially gel-free cis-1,4-polybutadiene is prepared by an improved process comprising adding in any order to the polymerization vessel butadiene, a cobalt catalyst, water and a solvent, provided that if the solvent is an aromatic or a chlorinated solvent at most 15 percent by weight based on the weight of butadiene is added at that stage. Thereafter is added either the entire amount of an aromatic or a chlorinated solvent, or the remainder of such a solvent if part of it was added earlier. Then an aluminum catalyst, comprised of one or more organoaluminum compounds, is added and the polymerization is carried out.

Abstract: A process is described that results in the production of a hydrophilic air-drying polymer system suitable for increasing the inter-fiber bonding in a fibrous substrate material. The process comprises passing air through a monomer maintained at a temperature below about 30.degree. C., said monomer having at least two activated unsaturations, until a desired viscosity increase has been achieved.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for the aqueous polymerization of acrylamide to produce polymers of high molecular weight utilizing mixtures of water and monomer, at least one of which can be contaminated with small amounts of polymerization inhibiting components. In the process of the invention, a minimum amount of a redox pair catalyst is utilized in order to obtain the desired high molecular weight polymer. The minimum amount of catalyst is automatically provided to the polymerization mixture by adding a first member of a redox pair to the polymerization mixture and intimately combining a second member of the redox pair catalyst with an organic polymer capable of forming a colloidal dispersion in an aqueous medium and adding this intimate mixture to the mixture of water, acrylamide monomer, and a first member of the redox pair catalyst.

Abstract: Propylene and tetrafluoroethylene are copolymerized at the low temperature of 0.degree.-50.degree. C. in an aqueous medium in the presence of a specific redox catalyst system. The specific redox catalyst system comprises (1) a water soluble inorganic persulfate, (2) a water soluble thiosulfate or bisulfite and (3) a water soluble iron salt, and preferably further comprises a reducing sugar and a water soluble pyrophosphate. The propylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having high molecular weight and low Mooney viscosity can be prepared at high copolymerization reaction rates.

Abstract: Macromonomers are obtained by successively reacting an oligomer or polymer containing at least one hydroxyl group with a cyclic carboxylic anhydride in an amount of at least one mole of the anhydride per hydroxyl group, and reacting the product with a compound containing a single epoxide group and a single polymerizable double bond, in such proportions as to esterify all carboxyl groups in that product. Graft copolymers which are useful as steric stabilizers for dispersions of polymer particles can be made by copolymerizing the macromonomers with other polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: Residual acrylonitrile dissolved in acrylonitrile copolymers and/or water in which acrylonitrile polymers are polymerized or processed such as a latex thereof or from acrylonitrile processes can be substantially reduced by adding to polymer-water mixtures for example, after at least 90% of the monomers have been polymerized, additional catalyst and an amount of comonomer in excess of the amount of free acrylonitrile present.

Abstract: In the preparation of 1,2-polybutadiene with a vinyl content of at least 70% by contacting 1,3-butadiene with a catalyst consisting of:(A) a cobalt compound,(B) an organic phosphine compound,(C) a trialkylaluminum compound, and(D) water in an amount of 0.1 to 1.2 moles per mole of said trialkylaluminum,in the presence of a molecular weight regulator,(E) an alkylaluminum halide compound is used as the molecular weight regulator in an amount of at least 0.01 mole per mole of the trialkylaluminum compound (C), whereby 1,2-polybutadiene with a regulated molecular weight can be produced without causing decreased polymerization activity and change of vinyl content and crystallinity of the produced polymer. The alkylaluminum halide compound (E) is preferably used in an amount of 0.05 to 1.0 mole per mole of the trialkylaluminum compound (C).