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Agfa-gevaert Ag

Gunter Kolb

Friedhelm Muller

Gunter Sackmann

Joachim Probst

Wilfried Lobach

Heinz Baumgen

Wolfgang Lehmann

Gunther Cramm

Janos Muszik

Wulf Von Bonin

Peter Haas

Adolf Schmidt

Wolfgang Himmelmann

Michael Sonntag

Gerhard Balle

Udo-Winfried Hendricks

Franz Alfes

Werner Clarenz

Wolfgang Sauerteig

Franz Weider

Diez Heine

Leo Tork

Wolfgang Hohne

Reinhard Kaiser

Bernhard Morcher

Rolf Bruck

Heinz Fischer

Hans-Ludwig Honig

Peter Kruck

Guter Sackmann

Low-foam surface sizing agents for paper in the form of aqueous or aqueous-alcoholic alkali metal, amine or ammonium salt solutions of copolymers containing carboxylic acid semi-amide groups obtainable by reacting copolymers of maleic acid anhydride and diisobutylene and/or terpolymers of maleic acid anhydride, diisobutylene and a vinyl monomer copolymerizing with maleic acid anhydride, with from 5 to 50 mole percent, based on maleic acid anhydride groups, of a primary aliphatic or aromatic monoamine. The solutions may optionally contain urea or derivatives of urea.

Low-foam surface sizing agents for paper which contain copolymeric

The present invention relates to new water-soluble polyquaternary compounds which are obtained by imidation of (A) specific alternating copolymers of maleic anhydride and olefines with (B) specific amines and (C) subsequent alkylation of the reaction product AB, the components (A) and (B) having the meaning given in the text of the Application. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of these water-soluble polyammonium compounds and their use as agents for improving the wet and dry tear strength of paper. The invention also relates to new intermediate products for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention.

Polyquaternary ammonium compounds, their preparation, their use in the

The aqueous solution of a statistical terpolymer containing quaternized amino groups and having a regular chemical structure of

Cationic sizing agents for paper

Aqueous dispersions of polymers containing (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester units which contain the polymer in the form of relatively large, non-agglomerated, spherical particles (=main spheres) and relatively small, non-agglomerated, spherical particles (=filler spheres), wherein the smaller filler spheres have an average particle diameter d.sub.F measured using an electron microscope of from 50 to 150 nanometers (nm) and the average diameter of the large main spheres d.sub.H is from 1.35 to 3.5 times larger than the average particle diameter d.sub.F, provided that d.sub.H is at least 140 nm, and wherein the ratio of the total mass of the polymer composed of main spheres M.sub.H to the total mass of the polymer composed of filler spheres M.sub.F is

Aqueous dispersions based on (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester polymers

Non-crosslinking, water-soluble polyamines which can be obtained by reacting

Polyamines containing urea groups prepared from lactam or

Non-crosslinking, water-soluble polyamines which can be obtained by reacting (A) basic polyureas which have been prepared by condensation of ureas with polyamines containing at least three amino groups, of which at least one is a tertiary amino group, or with mixtures of these polyamines with aliphatic, araliphatic, cycloaliphatic or heterocyclic polyamines containing two primary or two secondary amino groups or one primary or one secondary amino group, and optionally with .omega.-aminocarboxylic acids containing at least three carbon atoms, or lactams thereof, (B) polyalkylenepolyamines of the general formula ##STR1## in which R denotes H or CH.sub.3, the indices y are in each case identical or different and denote the number 0 or 1 and

Polyamines containing urea groups

A reaction product of an acrylate resin containing glycidyl groups and secondary mono-amines containing hydroxyl groups, obtained by reacting of said acrylate resin of copolymerized, statistically distributed units of

Low molecular weight acrylate resins containing hydroxyl and tertiary

For the production of matted outer layers of photographic silver halide recording materials particles of a copolymer of maleic acid anhydride and a C.sub.2 -C.sub.8 monoolefin are dispersed in an aqueous solution of a hydrophilic colloid and the dispersion thus formed is applied to one or both surfaces of the photographic recording material and the layer is dried.

Process for the production of matting layers

In a process for preventing the contact spots formed by contact of the back coating of photographic material with the emulsion side an aqueous polymer dispersion obtained by polymerization of halogen-free compounds and polyvinyl alcohol or partially acetylated polyvinyl alcohol in the presence of an anionic emulsifier are added to the casting composition applied as outermost back coating and/or as uppermost layer.

Method of preventing the formation of contact spots on photographic

Pigment preparations containing 2-70 % by weight, relative to the total preparation, of an inorganic or organic pigment dispersed in a solution of 10 to 49% by weight, relative to the total preparation, of a water-insoluble copolymer in an organic solvent, the copolymer containing 40-60% by weight of acrylic acid ethyl ester, 30-50% by weight of methacrylic acid methyl ester and 5-15 % by weight of acrylic acid hydroxyethyl and/or hydroxypropyl ester or methacrylic acid hydroxyethyl and/or hydroxypropyl ester and being prepared at 50.degree.-170.degree. C. in the presence of 0.5-5.0% by weight, relative to the sum of the monomers, of an organic per-compound or an azo compound which supplies free radicals at 50.degree.-170.degree. C., in an organic solvent, and their use for pigmenting dressing agents for leather and imitation leathers.

Pigment preparations

Linear telechelic diene polymers with molecular weights of about 300 to about 20,000 which contain hydrazide end groups and to a process for their preparation as well as to their use for synthesizing high molecular weight polymers.

Difunctional polymers with terminal hydrazide groups

A chlorinated colorless polyolefin, preferably a chlorinated colorless isotactic polypropylene, soluble in carbon tetrachloride and having a chlorine content of from 60% to 70% by weight and an average degree of polymerization of from 2000 to 6000, produced by chlorinating polyolefins having a degree of polymerization of from 2000 to 20,000 in suspension or solution or in suspension and solution at 40 to 60.degree. C. in the presence of a halogen transfer agent, a chlorination catalyst and from 0.2 to 0.5% by weight, based on polyolefin, of at least one compound corresponding to the general Formula (I):

Chlorination of polyolefins in the presence of complex formers

Anionic sizes for paper or a paper-like material. Substantially equimolecular copolymers of maleic acid anhydride and diisobutylene are esterified to form the corresponding semi-esters. From 10 to 100 mol-% of the anhydride groups are reacted with an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alcohol. At least 50 mol-% of the formed carboxylic groups are neutralized with alkali, ammonia or aliphatic amines.

Paper-sizing agents

An improved process for the production of a substantially equimolecular copolymer of maleic acid anhydride and diisobutylene in which from 10 to 100 mole % of the anhydride groups are esterified with linear or branched aliphatic monoalcohols containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms or with cycloaliphatic monoalcohols containing from 5 to 6 carbon atoms to form the corresponding semiesters, wherein shortly before or after the end of the solution or suspension copolymerization of maleic acid anhydride and diisobutylene a monomer corresponding to the general formula ##STR1## in which R=H, CH.sub.3, C.sub.2 H.sub.5, --OR.sub.2, --O--CO--CH.sub.3, ##STR2## --CH.sub.2 OH, --CH.sub.2 O--C--CH.sub.3, R.sub.1 =H , CH.sub.3 and

Process for the production of a substantially equimolecular copolymer of

Stable aqueous emulsions comprising a resinic acid isocyanate, a non-ionic and/or anionic emulsifier and an optionally chlorinated hydrocarbon are used as sizing agents for paper or paper-like materials.

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Gunter Kolb