Degussa Aktiengesellschaft

Hermann Piana

Klaus Huthmacher

Peter Werle

Martin Trageser

Use of isophoronediamine isomer mixtures containing more than 40%, preferably more than 50 up to 70%, of the trans-isomer and less than 60%, preferably less than 50 down to 30%, of the cis-isomer as reactant in polyaddition resins selected from epoxy, polyurethane and polyurea resins. As curing agents in epoxy resins compared with previously known isomer mixtures, the isomer mixtures containing more than 40% of the trans-isomer and less than 60% of the cis-isomer unexpectedly lead to an extended pot life with simultaneously reduced maximum curing temperature and therefore reduced shrinkage problems. The isomer mixtures are also surprisingly suitable as amine components with reduced reactivity for the chain extension of polyurethane/polyureas.

Use of isophoronediamine isomer mixtures in polyaddition resins

Aqueous solutions can be doped in a simple, safe and economic manner with acrolein in biocidally effective concentration by converting acrolein acetals in aqueous phase in the presence of a strongly acidic deacetalation catalyst into acrolein, cleaving the alcohol component, constantly removing the formed acrolein from the decetalation mixture and transferring it by means of an inert gas stream or a liquid jet pump with the aqueous solution to be doped as jet fluid into the aqueous solution to be doped.

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