The Dow Chemical Company

Hershel B Prindle

George E Ham

Epoxy resins are cured with salicyloyl hydrocarbyl amines such as N,N'-disalicyloyl-1,2-propylenediamine. The cured resins have an improvement in one or more properties such as color, tensile strength and flexural strength or improved pot life when compared to amine curing agents such as methylene dianiline.

Epoxy resins cured with salicyloyl hydrocarbylamines

A process for the preparation of phenol-phthalein wherein phenol and phthalic anhydride are reacted in the presence of a crosslinked sulfonic cation exchange resin in the acid form and wherein the water content of the reaction mixture is reduced by the use of aryl phosphites. The sulfonic cation exchange resin can be in the macroporous form or in the gel form. The range of useful crosslinking is 4-40 percent for the macroporous resin and 2-16 percent for the gel resin.

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Hershel B Prindle