Dart Industries Inc.

Mobil Oil Corporation

Frederick E Carrock

Edward A Zukowski

Mahendra T Thakker

Peter James Perron

Alfred J Ackerman

An inexpensive yet reliable method for incorporating a minor fraction of a percent by weight of nucleating agent in a propylene polymer is provided in which the nucleating agent is dissolved at a concentration of less than 10% in a homogeneous, alcohol-based, carrier liquid having a normal boiling point of not over about 120.degree. C. The resultant solution is atomized into a full jet spray of fine droplets which is directed with full and even coverage onto a loose pulverulent bed of propylene polymer powder over a period of time and with sufficient agitation of said bed to expose essentially all segments of the bed to direct contact with said spray.

Method for incorporating nucleating agents in propylene polymers

In the process disclosed herein, a latex comprising a diene rubber pregrafted with styrene/acrylonitrile type monomer mixtures, for example, about 5 to 50% by weight styrene/acrylonitrile emulsion-grafted thereon, is added to an aqueous solution of suspending agent. Additional styrene/acrylonitrile type monomers are then added to the dispersion and polymerized onto the suspended rubbery particles with peroxide initiator to produce ABS type polymers containing from about 3 to less than about 30 percent by weight diene rubber.

Graft copolymers by suspension process following emulsion

A catalyst system comprising (1) a cocrystallized titanium trichloride-aluminum chloride modified with phosphorus oxytrichloride, (2) an organo aluminum compound, and (3) an organic trithiophosphite or trithiophosphate for the production of polymers in high yields and of reduced amorphous polymer content.

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Paramus, NJ, United States of America

Frederick E Carrock