Ppg Industries, Inc.

Gerald W Gruber

Rostyslaw Dowbenko

Charles B Friedlander

Robert R Zwack

Victor G Corrigan

Michael A Polack

William H McDonald

Byron M Humke

An electrodepositable primer composition having improved delamination resistance with regard to automotive topcoats is disclosed. The composition is particularly useful in conjunction with topcoats which transmit ultraviolet radiation. The composition includes an ionic resin and a hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) which is preferably a hindered aminoether light stabilizer. A preferred hindered aminoether light stabilizer is bis-(1-octyloxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)sebacate. The invention also includes a process for coating a substrate by applying the above-described primer composition and subsequently applying a topcoat. The process can alternatively include applying a standard primer composition to a substrate and subsequently applying a HALS compound to the electrodeposited substrate.

Photodegradation-resistant electrodepositable primer compositions

Radiation polymerizable acrylyloxy-containing reaction products are provided from Michael addition reaction of an amide acrylate material with a primary or secondary amine. The resulting amine adducts of the amide acrylate compounds possess high cure rates in air.

Radiation curable Michael addition amine adducts of amide acrylate

Radiation-curable coating compositions are disclosed which contain one or more amide acrylate compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein X, Y and Z may each independently be H, alkyl, aryl, acrylyloxyalkyl, acrylyloxy aliphatic ester or acrylyloxy aliphatic ether, provided that X, Y and Z together have two, three or four acrylyloxy groups. The compositions are highly radiation-sensitive and very fast curing and form mar-resistant protective and decorative film coatings which are particularly useful as UV-cured overprint varnishes.

Radiation-curable coating compositions containing amide acrylate

Radiation curable compounds are disclosed comprising an amide moiety, a urethane moiety and an ethylenically unsaturated functional group, typically an acrylate functional group. The compounds comprise the reaction products of an amide-containing compound having at least one hydroxy functional group, a polyisocyanate and a polyfunctional compound having a hydroxy functional group reactive with an isocyanato group of the polyisocyanate, which polyfunctional compound provides an ethylenic functional group in the reaction product. Coating compositions containing these radiation curable reaction products cure at relatively high rates to form films having high abrasion resistance and improved tensile strength and elongation properties as compared to conventional urethane acrylate coating compositions.

Amide-modified urethane acrylate radiation curable compounds and coating

Coatings of actinic light polymerizable coating compositions containing organic polymerizable material containing a plurality of sites of ethylenic unsaturation, phenanthrenequinone and ultraviolet light absorbing pigment are polymerized by exposing them to actinic light of a wavelength where absorption by the pigment is insubstantial.

Pigmented actinic light polymerizable coating compositions containing

An aromatic ketone photopolymerization activator is present in an actinic light curable composition containing organic polymerizable material containing a plurality of sites of ethylenic unsaturation. The composition is polymerized by exposing it to actinic light.

Actinic light polymerizable coating compositions

A photocatalyst system comprising an aromatic ketone photopolymerization activator having a triplet energy in the range of from about 54 kilocalories per mole to about 72 kilocalories per mole and phenanthrenequinone is present in an actinic light polymerizable coating composition containing organic polymerizable material containing a plurality of sites of ethylenic unsaturation and ultraviolet light absorbing hiding pigment. Coatings of the coating composition are polymerized by exposing them to actinic light of a wavelength where absorption by the pigment is substantial and to actinic light of a wavelength where absorption by the pigment is insubstantial.

Photocatalyst system and pigmented actinic light polymerizable coating

The oxygen inhibition of the photopolymerization of acrylic resins is reduced by employing a photocatalyst system containing an aromatic ketone and/or aromatic aldehyde photosensitizer having a triplet energy in the range of from about 54 kilocalories per mole to about 72 kilocalories per mole and which promotes polymerization through bimolecular photochemical reactions of the energy donor type and an aromatic ketone photoinitiator which generates a radical pair by way of unimolecular homolysis resulting from photoexcitation. An exemplary photocatalyst system is benzophenone and isobutyl benzoin ether.

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Sewickley, PA, United States of America

Gerald W Gruber