Rohm Gmbh

Juergen Jakob

Horst Pennewiss

Hermann Plainer

Juergen Masanek

Peter Quis

Hans Trabitzsch

What is disclosed is a method for the free-radical polymerization, at a temperature between 0.degree. C. and 100.degree. C. using ultraviolet light, of a material to be polymerized which comprises at least one unsaturated monomer, which method comprises adding an ultraviolet absorber which is only weakly effective or is inert as a free-radical initiator to the material to be polymerized, initiating polymerization of the material in an initiation phase by irradiation thereof with ultraviolet light, controlling the further course of the polymerization in a polymerization phase by increasing the intensity of the irradiating ultraviolet light with time, and concluding the polymerization by irradiation with ultraviolet light in a terminal phase, said ultraviolet absorber absorbing in the wavelength region of the irradiating ultraviolet light.

Polymerization method using ultraviolet light

A method for polymerizing or copolymerizing water-soluble monomers, in a layer thickness between 2 and 100 mm, and at a temperature between 0.degree. C. and 100.degree. C., by irradiation with ultraviolet light in the presence of atmospheric oxygen, wherein the material to be polymerized contains at least 1 ppm of a water-soluble anthraquinone unsubstituted in the 1,4,5, and 8-positions and at least 10 ppm of dissolved chloride ions.

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Lorsch, Germany

Juergen Jakob