Alliedsignal Inc.

Bruce T DeBona

Dusan C Prevorsek

Sajal Das

Raj K Sharma

Raymond John Swedo

George David Green

William B Bedwell

A continuous process for the production of a phenolic-based cyanate ester resin is provided and includes the steps of: feeding a phenolic organic compound, a trialkylamine and a cyanogen halide into a continuous, plug-flow type reactor; causing the reactants to flow through and react in the reactor over a period of time defined as a residence time; continuously reacting the phenolic organic compound, the triallckylamine and the cyanogen halide in the reactor; and maintaining a temperature in the reactor of between about -75.degree. C. to about 0.degree. C. The reactor has a length which is equal to or greater than ten times its internal diameter. The mol equivalent concentration of the cyanogen halide is greater than the mol equivalent concentration of the trialkylamine, and the mol equivalent of the trialkylamine is greater than the mol equivalent of the phenolic organic compound. The reactants are resident for a long enough time in the reactor to achieve at least substantial conversion of the phenol groups to cyanate ester groups, but for short enough a time to substantially suppress undesirable side reactions. The phenolic-based cyanate ester resins prepared by the continuous process may contain as much as 95 percent by weight or more cyanate ester groups.

Process for the production of cyanate ester resins having unique

The present invention is flame resistant article and related method, made of phenolic triazine resin derived from a cyanato group containing phenolic resin of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: n is a positive whole number greater than or equal to 1;

Flame resistant article made of phenolic triazine and related method

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Randolph, NJ, United States of America

Bruce T DeBona