Abstract: Aliphatically modified rosin resins are prepared by reacting rosin esters with aliphatic monomers. These aliphatically modified rosin resins are compatible with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins and other aliphatic base polymers and are used as tackifiers in combination with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins and other aliphatic base polymers to form adhesive compositions for hot melt and pressure sensitive applications.

Abstract: Methods for forming rosin-derived cationic compounds are provided. The method can include attaching a cationic group to a conjugated diene on a hydrophenathrene-based ring of a resin acid (e.g., levopimaric acid, abietic acid, dehydroabietic acid, or a mixture thereof) to form a rosin-derived cationic compound. Attaching the cationic group to the conjugated diene on the hydrophenathrene-based ring of the resin acid can be achieved via a Diels-Alder reaction of a dienophile with the hydrophenathrene-based ring of the resin acid. Rosin-derived cationic compounds are also provided. The rosin-derived cationic compound can include a cationic group attached to a conjugated diene on a hydrophenathrene-based ring of a resin acid, wherein the rosin-derived cationic compound further comprises a carboxylic acid group.

Abstract: Methods for forming rosin-derived cationic compounds are provided. The method can include attaching a cationic group to a conjugated diene on a hydrophenathrene-based ring of a resin acid (e.g., levopimaric acid, abietic acid, dehydroabietic acid, or a mixture thereof) to form a rosin-derived cationic compound. Attaching the cationic group to the conjugated diene on the hydrophenathrene-based ring of the resin acid can be achieved via a Diels-Alder reaction of a dienophile with the hydrophenathrene-based ring of the resin acid. Rosin-derived cationic compounds are also provided. The rosin-derived cationic compound can include a cationic group attached to a conjugated diene on a hydrophenathrene-based ring of a resin acid, wherein the rosin-derived cationic compound further comprises a carboxylic acid group.

Abstract: A polyester for a toner, obtainable by polycondensing an alcohol component and a carboxylic acid component containing a fumaric acid-modified rosin; and a toner containing the polyester for a toner. The polyester for a toner of the present invention is usable as a resin binder for a toner usable in, for example, developing electrostatic latent images formed in electrophotography, electrostatic recording method, electrostatic printing method or the like.

Abstract: Oxidized and maleated derivative compositions, such as chemically modified oxidized and maleated tall oil fatty acid compositions, can be prepared and used in a variety of industrial applications, including as emulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, concrete admixtures, and in reverse flotation mining applications.

Abstract: A method for preparing pimaric acid type resin acids includes the following steps: step (1) adding refined resin acid, turpentine, or rosin along with maleic anhydride at a mass ratio of 1:0.3-1.5 into a reaction bottle, dissolving the ingredients into a C1-C10 lower fatty acid solvent, the mass ratio of the C1-C10 low fatty acid to refined resin acid is 0.05-30:1, then carrying out additional reaction by heating directly or with assistance of a microwave, subsequently cooling, crystallizing, filtering, and washing; and step (2) combining the filtrates collected in step (1), stripping the solvent by vacuum distillation to obtain pimaric acid type resin acid coarse product, dissolving the resulting coarse product in NaOH aqueous solution to prepare aqueous solution of pimaric acid type resin acid salt, adjusting the pH level to 6-14 with a mineral acid or an organic acid while stirring, and either directly purifying or acidifying followed by purifying, the resulting precipitation to obtain the final product.

Abstract: The specification describes a process for making gelled ink resins which exhibit improved properties such as lower viscosity under low shear and less viscosity decrease with increasing shear. In a preferred embodiment, a rosin-based or hydrocarbon-based resin is mixed with an organic solvent and reacted with a polyamine reactant, such as melamine-formaldehyde resin or hexamethylene diamine, under conditions sufficient to produce a substantially covalently cross-link gelled resin. The resulting gelled resin resists viscosity breakdown under high shear conditions and may be used directly for making ink compositions, obviating the need for further gelation and avoiding the use of conventional organo-metallic gelling agents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to terpene derivative compounds and rosins and sizing compositions comprising such compounds. Compounds of Formula (I) are disclosed in addition to rosins and sizing compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I). Fiber glass strands comprising a plurality of glass fibers at least partially coated with sizing compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I) are also disclosed.

Abstract: An acrylated resin prepared by mixing a hydroxyalkyl acrylate and an isocyanate and reacting said mixture with a resin containing one or more hydroxyl functional groups and derived from a natural product.

Abstract: An ink formulation comprising an acrylated resin prepared by mixing a hydroxyalkyl acrylate and an isocyanate and reacting said mixture with a resin containing one or more hydroxyl functional groups and derived from a natural product.

Abstract: A method of acrylating a resin containing one or more hydroxyl functional group and derived from a natural product, comprising preparing a mixture of a hydroxyalkyl acrylate and an isocyanate; and reacting said mixture with said resin.

Abstract: The present invention provides lipidized conjugates comprising an amino group-containing biologically active substance and a lipophilic group capable of penetrating a biological membrane. Under neutral or mildly acidic conditions, including those found in vivo, the free amino group-containing biologically active substance is released from the conjugate by hydrolysis of an amide bond. The present invention is also directed to methods of preparing lipidizing agents and lipidized conjugates, pharmaceutical compositions comprising lipidized conjugates and methods of increasing the delivery of amino group-containing substances into a cell. Preferred amino group-containing substances include peptides, proteins and derivatives thereof.

Abstract: A two-step method for introducing acrylic functions into high molecular weight natural resins, under mild conditions, without the risk of gellation, wherein an acrylated natural resin ester is prepared by esterifying one or more of the sterically hindered hydroxy groups of the natural resin ester in an inert solvent with a 3-halopropionic acid, to form a 3-halopropionate ester of the natural resin ester and dehydrohalogenated the 3-halopropionate ester by reacting it with an organic base.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rosin modified succinamic acid which is useful in lowering the rebound values of rubber and increases the traction of tires containing said compound in the tread. The rosin modified succinamic acids are prepared by reacting abietylamine and/or dehydroabietylamine with succinic anhydride.

Abstract: Novel Polygala senega saponin pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed. The P. senega saponins are useful as immunological adjuvants to enhance immune responses to a co-administered antigen.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel phenolic rosin resin compositions. In particular, the invention relates to novel phenolic rosin resin compositions and dienophile-modified phenolic rosin resin compositions which exhibit properties that make them useful in formulating vehicles for lithographic printing inks and other coating applications.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel rosin-based resins and the process for preparing them. In particular, the invention relates to elastomeric-modified pigment binder compositions which exhibit properties that make them useful in formulating vehicles for lithographic printing inks and other coating applications.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel phenolic rosin resins and the process for preparing them. In particular, the invention relates to novel phenolic rosin resin compositions which exhibit properties that make them useful in formulating vehicles for lithographic printing inks and other coating applications.

Abstract: A modified resinate prepared by reactingA) rosins or rosin acids withB) aldehyde components and optionallyC) .alpha.,.beta.-olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids or anhydrides thereof, subsequently reacting the resultant adduction products withD) phenols and optionallyE) alcohols containing at least two hydroxyl groups and subsequently forming resinates withF) basic compounds of divalent metals, useful as resin binders of high viscosity in low solid printing inks for intaglio printing of illustrations.

Abstract: The specification describes a process for making highly functionalized rosin ester resins; i.e., partially esterified rosin based resins. The resins are produced by reacting fortified rosin with a polyol at superatmospheric pressure in a closed reaction vessel while retaining at least a portion of the water formed during the esterification step in the reaction vessel, thereby limiting the reaction to a desired degree of partial esterification so that a relatively high degree of residual acid functionality is achieved in the final ester product. The process enables large scale production of resins with precise control of the degree of functionality of the resins thus produced. The products are particularly useful as binders in ink formulations.

Abstract: This invention relates to rosin carboxypyrrolidinone adducts. In particular, this invention relates to water-soluble resins derived from the reaction product of a modified rosin with a hydroxyl-containing carboxypyrrolidinone derivative. These resins can be used to make acrylic latex compositions which can, in turn, be utilized to produce water-based flexographic and gravure ink formulations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sizing agent which exerts excellent sizing efficiency even under severe conditions, namely, at an elevated temperature in the papermaking step, or at high conditions with a limited aluminum sulfate addition.The sizing agent for paper of the present invention is derived from i) dehydration condensation of an alkenylsuccinic anhydride and an organic carboxylic acid with a polyalkylene polyamine and ii) saponification of the remaining carboxyl groups with alkali following the dehydration condensation. More particularly, the present invention relates to a water-soluble sizing agent which is obtained by mixing an alkenylsuccinic anhydride with 1 to 20 times by molar equivalent, based on said alkenylsuccinic anhydride, as much as an organic carboxylic acid, adding 0.1 to 2.0 times by molar equivalent, based on said alkenylsuccinic anhydride, as much as a polyalkylene polyamine thereto so as to perform dehydration condensation.

Abstract: The invention is ink pigment grinding resins for waterbased printing inks which are produced by the amidation of maleated or fumarated rosin with a polyamine containing a primary amine group to produce the water soluble polyaminoamidoimide resin. The resulting rosin resin may be employed over a wide range of pH values to produce stable low or high viscosity grind bases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rosin monomaleimides which are useful as a total or partial replacement for extender or processing oil in rubber formulations. Addition of the rosin monomaleimides improve peel adhesion in rubber compositions. The rosin monomaleimides are prepared by reacting abietylamine and/or dehydroabietylamide with maleic anhydride.

Abstract: A rosin based condensation product produced by reacting in a multistage process the following reactants, rosin, phenolic compounds, formaldehyde, unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 dicarboxylic acid or maleic anhydride, monounsaturated or polyunsaturated aliphatic monohydric or dihydric alcohol or amine or a monounsaturated or polyunsaturated C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 aminoalcohol or C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkanediol or C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 aminoalcohol, monounsaturated or polyunsaturated C.sub.8 C.sub.40 fatty acid.

Abstract: Copolymerization of isoterpinolene with maleic anhydride, preferably in the presence of a free radical initiator such as AIBN, to form high molecular weight (weight average molecular weight over 1000) polymers is disclosed. The polymerization may be conducted at a temperature up to about 190.degree. C., preferably in the range of about 40.degree. to 130.degree. C., preferably in the presence of a polar solvent.

Abstract: Copolymerization of beta-phellandrene with maleic anhydride, preferably in the presence of a free radical initiator such as AIBN, to form high molecular weight polymers (weight average molecular weight over 1,000) is disclosed. The polymerization may be conducted at a temperature up to about 190.degree. C., preferably in the range of about 40.degree. to 130.degree. C., preferably in the presence of a polar solvent.

Abstract: Copolymerization of maleic anhydride with the resin acids present in rosin, especially abietic-type resin acids (e.g., abietic acid and neoabietic acid), to form high molecular weight copolymers is disclosed. The polymerization is carried out in the presence of a free radical initiator such as AIBN. The temperature can range up to about 190.degree. C. and a solvent such as THF can also be present.