Ciba-geigy Ag

Franz R Widmer

Alfred Renner

Heinz Rembold

Klaus D Leifels

A coating composition for paper is provided, which composition consists of an aqueous preparation containing at least a polymeric binder, an inorganic pigment, and a water-insoluble urea-formaldehyde polycondensation product from 1 mole of urea and 1.3 to 2 moles, of formaldehyde, which product is in a highly dispersed form and has a mean particle diameter of 3 to 6 microns, and a specific BET surface urea of 3 to 12 m.sup.2 /g. Papers coated with these compositions exhibit, in addition to an enhanced degree of whiteness and equally good gloss and improved opacity and smoothness, above all better printability.

Coating compositions for the manufacture of coated papers

New halogenated bis(cyclopentadienyl) compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which X represents a halogen atom having an atomic number of at most 35, that is to say a fluorine, bromine or preferably chlorine atom, R.sub.1 and R.sub.1 ' each represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and n = 1, 2, 3 or 4. The monomer of the formula (I) undergoes spontaneous dimerization or oligomerization respectively after it is formed. The oligomer has the formula ##STR2## WHERE P IS 2 TO 20.

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Franz R Widmer