Abstract: Molding or fiber grade condensation polymer having copolymerized therein a total of from 1.0 to about 5,000 ppm of at least one methine moiety having one or more methine units defined as "the group >C.dbd.C< conjoined with a conjugated aromatic system," said moiety absorbing in the range of from about 350 nm to about 650 nm, and being nonextractable from said polymer and stable under the polymer processing conditions. The moieties preferably have molecular weights of from about 200 to about 600 although lower and higher molecular weights are also operable and are derived from reactants (monomers) having one or more groups such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, carboxylic ester, acid halide, amino and the like which condense during condensation or polycondensation to enter the moiety into the polymer chain.

Abstract: Polyester compositions useful in formed articles such as beverage bottles and having condensation reacted therein at least one UV-absorbing compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein: R is hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, or alkenyl;R.sup.1 is hydrogen, or alkyl, aryl, or cycloalkyl, all of which may be substituted;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, or alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, all of which may be substituted;R.sup.3 is hydrogen or 1-3 substituents; andP is cyano or a group such as carbamoyl, aryl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, alkanoyl or aroyl, all of which groups may be substituted;whereby the polyester composition has maximum light radiation absorbance within the range of from about 320 nm to about 380 nm.

Abstract: Disclosed are polyesterether bonding compositions comprising repeating units from trans-1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid, a difunctional sulfomonomer, a polyetherglycol, 1,4-butanediol or 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol and ethylene glycol.

Abstract: Norbornyl modified unsaturated polyester and polyesteramide resins are further modified by inclusion of 9-thiabicyclononane groups. Upon curing, these resins provide shorter gel and cure times plus substantial reductions in the maximum exotherm temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed are polyesters prepared from hetero-atom-containing dicarboxylic acids and hetero-atom-containing diols. These polyesters have low permeability to oxygen and carbon dioxide and are useful in packaging applications such as for food and beverages.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel polyesteramides and containers having improved gas barrier properties formed therefrom. The novel polyesteramides comprise the reaction product of a diamine having 2 to about 20 carbon atoms, a diol containing up to about 24 carbon atoms, and a dicarboxylic acid component. The dicarboxylic acid component consists essentially of about 5 to 100 mole % of a specified first, heteroatom-containing dicarboxylic acid, and 0 to about 95 mole % of a second dicarboxylic acid containing up to about 24 carbon atoms. In the polyesteramide, the diamine component comprises about 10 to 90 mole % of the total diamine and diol components. The present invention further provides containers, such as molded containers, films, coextruded articles, laminated articles, etc., formed from the polyesteramides of the present invention.

Abstract: A process for the production of para ordered aromatic heterocyclic polymer is provided. The process comprises heating a first reactant with the dichloride derivative of at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid in polyphosphoric acid at a temperature within the range of approximately 100.degree. C. to 250.degree. C. until the polymerization reaction is complete. The first reactant comprises at least one aromatic diaminodiol or at least one aromatic diaminodithiol, wherein each amine group is paired with a hydroxy group or a thiol group upon adjacent carbon atoms of the aromatic nucleus. Preferably, the process of the present invention is employed in the production of para ordered aromatic polybisoxazoles wherein the first reactant comprises at least one aromatic diaminodiol.

Abstract: Disclosed are colored polyesters having copolymerized therein anthraquinone derivative colorants containing one or more sulfonamido groups. The colored polymers are fast to light and the colorant moieties are not extractable therefrom, rendering from the colored polymers particularly suitable for use in food containers such as molded beverage bottles. The inherent viscosities of these polymers can be varied widely as is well known in the art for different applications. The copolymerizable colorants have the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each hydrogen or 1-3 substituents independently selected from alkyl, alkoxy, and the like; and T represents 1-4 independently selected radicals of the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3 is hydrogen or 1-3 substituents such as alkyl, alkoxy and the like; Z is a divalent linking group such as --NH--, --S--, --O--, and alkoxycarbonyl; and Q is hydroxy, carboxy or alkoxycarbonyl.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the telomerization of water-soluble monomers in an aqueous phase. More particularly, this invention is directed to a process for the telomerization of water-soluble monomers and water-insoluble telogens in aqueous phase, wherein the water-insoluble telogens are solubilized by the addition of an effectively solubilizing amount of surface-active compounds.

Abstract: An acrylic resin emulsion which comprises an aqueous medium and particles of an acrylic resin emulsified and dispersed therein by the use of the emulsifier comprising as an essential component a polyester comprising in the molecule an amino-sulfonic acid type amphoionic group of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a straight or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylene group, a phenylene group or a substituted phenylene group.

Abstract: Disclosed are colored polyester compositions containing copolymerized anthraquinone dyes as colorants, which compositions may be used, for example, for food packaging and to mold colored beverage bottles. The copolymerized dyes are thermally stable at the processing temperatures, and are colorfast and nonextractable. The useful dyes have the general formula: ##STR1## wherein either or both of rings A and B may contain in any position thereon one or two groups of the formula ##STR2## R and R.sup.3 each is hydrogen, lower alkyl or lower hydroxyalkyl; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each is hydrogen or 1-3 substituents such as lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, phenyl, Cl, Br, or the like; X is --S-- or --NH--; n is 1 or 2; m is 0, 1, or 2.

Abstract: Electrically photosensitive materials and elements comprising an electrically photosensitive polymeric compound of the structure: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, which are the same or different, represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group;R.sub.2 and R.sub.4, which are the same or different, represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group;R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, which are the same or different, represent hydrogen or an electron withdrawing group;R.sub.7 and R.sub.

Abstract: An alkyd resin containing ampho-ionic groups of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylene or a phenylene group, is disclosed. Said resin is prepared by reacting a polyol, a polybasic acid and an ampho-ionic compound of the formula: ##STR2## wherein A is as defined above, R.sub.1 is a hydroxyalkyl, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are H or alkyl optionally containing sulfo and/or hydroxyl group.

Abstract: Fast crystallizing polyester compositions obtained by reacting a polyester having an intrinsic viscosity of greater than 0.3 which polyester comprises aromatic or cycloaliphatic residues obtained from diacids and/or hydroxyacids and aliphatic, aromatic or cycloaliphatic residues of diols with an ionizable metal salt of a compound containing a group of the formula >NH, preferably selected from compounds of the formula: ##STR1## and acid amides, lactams, polyamides and sulphonamides.

Abstract: Disclosed are linear, water-dissipatable polyesters and polyesteramides derived from at least one dicarboxylic acid, at least one glycol of which at least 85 mole percent is a polyoxyethylene glycol, and a disulfonamido compound. The polyesters may also contain an unsaturated acid and a difunctional hydroxycarboxylic acid, an aminocarboxylic acid or a diamine. Such polymers are especially useful as adhesives, coatings, films, textile sizes and the like.

Abstract: Disclosed are linear, water-dissipatable polyesters and polyesteramides derived from at least one dicarboxylic acid, at least one glycol, and at least one polycarboxylic acid or polyhydric alcohol which contains a sulfonic acid salt moiety derived from a nitrogen-containing base having an ionization constant in water at 25.degree. C. of 10.sup.-3 to 10.sup.-10. The polyesters may also contain an unsaturated acid and a difunctional hydroxycarboxylic acid, an aminocarboxylic acid or a diamine. Such polymers are especially useful as adhesives, coatings, films and the like.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are heat-activatable adhesive compositions containing a water-dispersible polyester which comprisesA. an acid component comprising:(1) from about 8 to about 16 mole percent of units derived from at least one dicarboxylic acid having an ionic iminosulfonyl moiety containing a monovalent cation as an imino nitrogen substituent;(2) from about 40 to about 70 mole percent of units derived from at least one dicarboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of aliphatic dicarboxylic acids having the formula HOOC--(CH.sub.2).sub.

Abstract: Thermotropic, wholly aromatic polythiolesters exhibit an anisotropic melt. The polythiolesters may be prepared from monomers selected such that all or substantially all of the repeating groups are thiolester groups. Alternatively, the monomers can be selected such that sufficient thiolester groups are present to impart processability to a normally non-tractable polyester. Preparation of the polythiolesters is typically accomplished by melt polymerization of an esterified aromatic mercaptan compound, either alone or with other copolymerizable monomers. The polythiolesters may be melt processed into fibers, films or other types of shaped articles.

Abstract: An essentially linear polymer having a plurality of amide, imide and ester groups therein, which is the condensation product of (1) at least one polycarboxylic acid imide-forming reactant, (2) at least one ethylenically unsaturated polycarboxylic acid carboxypyrrolidone-forming reactant, (3) at least one polycarboxylic acid ester-forming reactant, (4) at least one glycoly, (5) at least one other polyfunctional hydroxyl compound, and (6) at least one polyfunctional amino compound having at least one primary amine group thereon. The equivalent molar ratio of the functional hydroxyl groups of the glycols and hydroxyl compounds to the functional ester-forming carboxyl groups of the acid reactants is from about 1.0 to 1 to about 3.0 to 1.

Abstract: An acetal resin composition comprising an admixture of 100 parts by weight of an acetal resin and 0.01 to 15 parts by weight of a petroleum resin, said petroleum resin being prepared by polymerizing a cracked petroleum fraction boiling between -15.degree. C. and 200.degree. C. and containing unsaturated hydrocarbons, and having a molecular weight in the range of 400 to 2500 and a second order transition temperature in the range of 35.degree. to 90.degree. C.

Abstract: A wire coating powder is prepared by first formulating a solventless, aromatic polyester-amide-imide which is the reaction product of an aromatic diamine, an aromatic compound consisting of trimellitic anhydride, acid, or acid halide, and about 35 to about 100 mole % in excess of the stoichiometric amount needed to react with said aromatic compound of polyol.A coating powder is prepared by hot melt mixing, cooling, and grinding a mixture of the polyester-amide-imide with straight polyester and a reactive solid or liquid aromatic monomer or prepolymer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are heat-activatable adhesive compositions comprising a water-soluble condensation polymer which is characterized by having a glycol component comprising one or more diols, preferably one of which is 1,4-bis(2-hydroxyethoxy)cyclohexane; and an acid component comprising greater than 15 and up to about 35 mole percent of at least one diacid or diester monomer having an iminodisulfonyl salt moiety, and from about 65 to about 85 mole percent of one or more other diacids or diesters. These adhesives are further characterized as having high bonding strengths at temperatures above 50.degree. C. They have been found useful in a variety of photographic materials, and particularly in image transfer film units.

Abstract: Hair-treatment agents having a content of branched copolyesters dispersible or soluble in water and an apparent molecular weight of 600 to 5000, and having a content of SO.sub.3 M groups, wherein M represents an alkali metal ion or ammonium ion or the cationic radical of an organic amine.

Abstract: Disclosed is the preparation of water-dissipatable polyesters and polyesteramides wherein at least a part of one of the monomeric components from which it is derived is a polycarboxylic acid or polyhydric alcohol which contains a sulfonic acid salt moiety derived from a nitrogen-containing base having an ionization constant in water at 25.degree. C. of 10.sup.-3 to 10.sup.-10. Also disclosed is the use of such polymers as sizes for fibers of glass, ceramics, etc., where the size is removed by burning and little or no ash residue is important.