Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Helmut Doerfel

Claus Cordes

Herbert Naarmann

Klaus Penzien

Albrecht Eckell

Eduard Heil

Friedrich Mertes

A process for the preparation of acetylene copolymers by catalytic polymerization of a mixture of acetylene and dialkynes or polyalkynes, using Ziegler catalysts. The novel polymers may be used as colored pigments, as colored coatings for metal, glass or plastics, and for the production of electrical or magnetic components.

Preparation of acetylene copolymers

An improved process for the continuous manufacture of polyamides by continuously conveying the aqueous solution of a salt of essentially equivalent amounts of a diamine, or of a mixture of several diamines, and of a dicarboxylic acid, or of a mixture of several dicarboxylic acids, or of mixtures of such salts with lactams and/or aminocarboxylic acids, through several reaction zones under polyamide-forming conditions, wherein the mixture of starting materials is heated, in a first reaction zone, to from 200.degree. to 300.degree. C, preferably from 220.degree. to 280.degree. C, at pressures which are above the corresponding saturation vapor pressure of water and prevent the formation of a vapor phase, the pressure action on the polycondensation mixture is released in a second reaction zone and condensation of the mixture, to form high molecular weight polyamides, is then completed in further reaction stages. According to the invention,

Continuous manufacture of polyamides

A process for continuous production of polyamides by continuous transport of a mixture of one or more lactams and from 1 to 15% and preferably from 3 to 8% of water and optionally other polyamide-forming compounds such as the salts of dicarboxylic acids and diamines or aminocarboxylic acids through a number of reaction zones under polyamide-forming conditions, said mixture of starting materials being heated in a first reaction zone to temperatures of from 210.degree. to 330.degree. C and preferably from 220.degree. to 280.degree. C, whereupon the polycondensation mixture is adiabatically vented in a further reaction zone and is then polymerized to completion in yet another reaction state to form high molecular weight polyamides. The process is characterized in that

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