Allied Chemical Corporation

Allied Corporation

Gordhanbhai N Patel

Ray H Baughman

Anthony F Preziosi

Granville G Miller

Kwok C Yee

Ronald Richard Chance

Robert G Denkewalter

Gary A Harpell

Bruce E Kurtz

Rustom P Poncha

Dawn M Ivory

Adam L Skovrinski

Albert A Birkmaier

James M Lesco

Lester T Lee

Himangshu R Bhattacharjee

Water-soluble polyacetylenic alkali metal salts from monomers and polymers of carboxymethyl urethanes of di-, tetra-, and hexayne diols, or from the corresponding diacids; useful in thermal and irradiation exposure indicators and/or in detection and/or removal of nonalkali metal ions dissolved in aqueous media.

Metal salts of polyacetylenic compounds and uses thereof

Indicator device using metal salts of polyacetylenic compounds

Process of detecting the presence of certain gases, including certain pollutants, in small concentrations; or to cause partial polymerization of certain polyacetylene compositions for use in time/temperature history indicators or radiation dosage indicators. The process involves contacting a reactive gas, such as a nitrogen oxide, a halide or ozone, with a crystalline substituted acetylenic monomer containing at least two conjugated triple bonds and substituents having at least one atom of oxygen or nitrogen. In particular the acetylenic compound is 2,4-hexadiyne-1,6-bis(phenylurethane) crystallized from tetrahydrofuran or acetone.

Coloration of acetylenic monomers by gases

This invention relates to a process for conditioning the surfaces of natural and synthetic plastic materials for electroless plating of a metal coating thereon by exposing such materials to an atmosphere comprising an effective amount of ozone and thereafter contacting said exposed materials with an effective amount of a conditioning solvent, such as an aqueous solution of sodium, potassium or lithium hydroxide.

Pretreatment of plastic materials for metal plating

Polydiacetylene gel compositions, comprised of a polydiacetylene and a gel-forming liquid therefor, are described which undergo a change in color and in physical state to a solution when heated to a predetermined temperature. The gel compositions exhibit hysteresis temperature characteristics which allow the original color change to be maintained and recorded until the solution is cooled below the predetermined temperature. Thus, the gel compositions are useful in temperature-indicating devices for reversibly monitoring a wide range of temperatures. A novel class of polydiacetylene compounds is also described, useful in forming the gel compositions, formed from monomeric diacetylenediol bis(alkoxycarbonylmethylurethanes).

Dialkoxycarbonylmethyleneurethane diynes

Polydiacetylene gels

A recording device is described, useful as an integrated time-temperature or radiation-dosage history indicator. The device contains a substrate having deposited thereon at least two indicating units, one being unreacted and representing zero time of exposure and the other unit being pre-reacted. Each unit is comprised of an acetylenic compound containing at least one --C.tbd.C--C.tbd.C-- group, capable of reacting by 1,4-addition polymerization thereby forming an end-point color after an irreversible, progressive color change upon thermal annealing or exposure to actinic radiation. The end-point color represents an integrated time-temperature history of thermal annealing or radiation-dosage history. Each unit is constructed such that the time required to form the end-point color by thermal annealing at a given temperature or for a known thermal history, or exposure to actinic radiation at a given average radiation dosage rate, is predetermined. A process is also described for using the device as well as an article having the device affixed thereto.

Integrated time-temperature or radiation-dosage history recording device

A composition is described comprising at least two co-crystallized acetylenic compounds, of different chemical structures, each containing at least one --C.tbd.C--C.tbd.C-- group and substituents selected from the group consisting of sulfonate, urethane and alcohol radicals, at least one of the compounds capable of ungergoing a contrasting color change upon exposure to actinic radiation or thermal annealing, wherein the composition exhibits a substantially different thermogram than the sum of thermograms of the individual components as obtained by differential scanning alorimetry. A device is also described useful for measuring the time-temperature or radiation-dosage history of an article comprising a substrate having deposited thereon the described composition. A process is also described for producing the composition of this invention.

Co-crystallized acetylenic compounds

Metal salts of polyacetylenic compounds and uses thereof as ion exchange

Certain polyacetylenes exhibit reversible color changes at transition temperatures in the range -180.degree. to 220.degree. C., wherein the thermochromic cycles can be repeated many times with no apparent degradation and little change in spectroscopic properties. These thermochromic polyacetylenes are useful in temperature-indicator and indicia-display device applications. A process for laser-beam recording of images is described employing a thermochromic polyacetylene, in which the hysteresis properties of the polyacetylene can be suitably altered allowing for selectively storing or erasing the formed image.

Tempeature measurement and display of indicia using thermochromic

Acetylenic compounds such as 2,6-hexadiyn-1,6-diol-bis(p-phenylazophenylsulfonate) having a conjugated acetylenic portion capable of polymerization on exposure to actinic radiation and thermal annealing and a chromophoric portion. The color of the chromophoric portion provides a background for distinguishing color variations in the initial polymerization of conjugated acetylenic moieties.

Color changing polyacetylenic compounds

A printing or reproducing or pressure-detecting process comprising producing on a substrate a surface consisting essentially of a colored acetylenic composition of partially polymerized monomer which has at least two triple bonds which are conjugated, and having certain substituents in the molecule; preferably 5,7-dodecadiyn-1,12-bis(p-bromophenyl urethane) monomer. When subjected to impact or pressure, these surfaces change color sharply; e.g. an orange surface comprising the above bromophenyl urethane monomer, partially polymerized, changes sharply and instantly to blue in those precise areas where struck by a typewriter letter-face.

Process of printing by impact and for marking areas where impact or

An improved process and device are described, for monitoring time-temperature histories of perishable articles, utilizing an inactive form of a diacetylene compound, incapable of undergoing a color change upon thermal annealing, but capable of conversion to an active form upon contacting an activating vapor. The active form is capable of undergoing a color change upon thermal annealing, as a result of solid state polymerization wherein the resulting color change is representative of the time-temperature history of thermal annealing. Specific active and inactive forms of diacetylenes useful in the improved process and device are also described.

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Morris Plains, NJ, United States of America

Gordhanbhai N Patel