The Dow Chemical Company

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Dow Corning Corporation

Katherine S Clement

David A Babb

W Frank Richey

Bobby R Ezzell

Louis L Walker

Robert E Hefner, Jr

Richard Michael Wehmeyer

Robert H Whitmarsh

Donald J Perettie

Larry D Bratton

Alvin P Kennedy

Eric S Moyer

David Craig Molzahn

Marlin E Walters

Emmett L Tasset

Marius W Sorenson

Zdravko P Jezic

David E Laycock

William P Dianis

Eckel R Lane

Wanda Wells Rauscher

Lenin J Petroff

Edward R Peterson

Paul M Puckett

Steven L Brewster

Kenneth Michael Lee

John W Weston

V Rao Durvasula

Lance L Black

Richard J Elwell

Hong A Nguyen

David B Babb

Eckel Lan

Son T Nguyen

Zdravko Jezie

Robert Whitmarsh

Kenneth Lee

There are disclosed silicone polyether compositions, methods for making them and their uses. The compositions are based on polyethers initiated by non-isomerizing alkenyl or alkynyl alcohols.

Certain silicone polyethers, methods for making them and uses

Ethoxylations of various initiator compounds are performed in the presence of metal cyanide catalysts. The catalysts surprisingly form a wide variety of polyether products that in most cases contain only small amounts of high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide).

Polymerization of ethylene oxide using metal cyanide catalysts

The terminal glydidyl groups of a diglycidyl ether of a hydroxyaliphatic bisphenol is optionally reacted with (meth)acrylic acid to obtain a vinyl ester. The internal hydroxyaliphatic groups are reacted with (meth)acrylic acid or cyanoacrylic acid to prepare a diglycidyl and/or (meth)acrylate-terminated (meth)acrylate or urethane acrylate.

Epoxy (urethane) (Meth)acrylate from hydroxyaliphatic bisphenol epoxy resin

A poly(ethylene oxide) polymer having low and high molecular weight fractions is fractionated by dissolving the polymer in a solvent for the low molecular weight fraction. A good separation of the low and high molecular weight fractions can be obtained. When the poly(ethylene oxide) polymer contains a metal cyanide catalyst, this process also provides a good separation of the catalyst from the low molecular weight fraction. In this instance, the catalyst remains active and the high molecular weight fraction containing the catalyst can be recycled into subsequent polymerization processes.

Method for fractioning poly (ethylene oxide) formed using a metallic cyanide catalyst

The present invention relates to the preparation of substituted or unsubstituted 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-hydroxyaliphatics such as 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-hydroxypropanes by reacting substituted or unsubstituted 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-halogen substituted aliphatics such as 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-chloropropanes in the presence of a base and water.

Preparation of 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-hydroxypropanes

Certain alcohol initiators containing unconjugated carbon-carbon double bonds can be alkoxylated with excellent efficiency and low production of by-products using a metal cyanide catalyst.

Polymerization of alkylene oxides using metal cyanide catalysts and unsaturated initiator compounds

The present invention concerns hydroxyaliphatic functional diglycidyl ethers of bisphenols (epoxy resins); curable (thermosettable) mixtures of at least one hydroxyaliphatic functional epoxy resin and at least one curing agent and/or catalyst therefor, as well as cured (thermoset) compositions prepared therefrom; and derivatives prepared therefrom. The bisphenol precursor to the diglycidyl ether contains a hydroxyaliphatic group linkage between the two aromatic rings of the bisphenol.

Epoxy resin and epoxy di (meth)acrylate from hydroxyaliphatic bisphenol

A is a process for removing water from an alkanesulfonic acid such as methanesulfonic acid or ethanesulfonic acid by mixing an azeotropic excess of a phenolic compound with water and the alkanesulfonic acid, then boiling off substantially all of the water, and leaving as a remnant substantially all the alkanesulfonic acid and some of the phenol. This process is particularly useful for recycling an alkanesulfonic acid for a reaction which requires the phenolic compound as one of the reagents. One such reaction is the alkanesulfonic acid catalyzed condensation reaction of a phenolic compound with an .alpha.haloketone to form a chlorinated intermediate of a dihydroxy-.alpha.-alkylstilbene such as 4,4'-dihydroxy-.alpha.-alkylstilbene (DHAMS).

Recovery of anhydrous acids

A laminate has at least two layers, at least one of which comprises a polymer having more than one perfluorocyclobutane group. Such polymers impart qualities of environmental or protection, chemical and solvent resistance, hydrolytic stability, lubricity, low dielectric, hydrostatic stability, weatherability, flame resistance, chemical resistance, hydrolytic stability, lubricity, environmental protection, scratch resistance, solvent resistance, surface passivation, water repellancy, lower surface refractive index, lower surface coefficient of friction, fluid barrier properties, oil repellancy, thermal stability, and/or reduced moisture pick-up. Additionally, the coatings are optically clear, easy to apply either neat, in a solvent or otherwise, have relatively low cure temperatures for their temperature resistance, and exhibit insulating and planarizing capabilities.

Resin transfer molding process for composites

Preparation of dihydroxy-.alpha.-alkylstilbenes with reduced undesirable by-products can be achieved by carrying out dehydrohalogenation of a substantially uniform dispersion of a halogenated intermediate of the desired product in the presence of water and a polar protic solvent.

Preparation of 4,4'-dihydroxy-'alkylstiblbene with reduced dimer

Compounds having acidic protons and a molecular structure which can delocalize the electron density of the conjugate base (target compounds) are chlorinated by contacting such compounds with a perchloroalkane and aqueous base in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst which is an tetraalkylammonium hydroxide. Chlorinated products, preferably gem-dichloro compounds, are produced. The gem-dichloro compounds are useful for alkylation of aromatic compounds. For instance fluorene is chlorinated to form 9,9-dichlorofluorene which is reacted with such compounds as phenol or aniline to form such compounds as 9,9-bis(hydroxyphenyl)fluorene, 9,9-bis(aminophenyl)fluorene, or 9-aminophenyl-9-chlorofluorene.

Chlorination process, alkylation of products of said process and some

A polymer has at least one photoactive site and more than one perfluorocyclobutane group. New monomers containing photoactive sites or photoactive precursors and at least one perfluorovinyl group are useful for making such polymers. Processes of making such polymers and the monomers from which they are made are disclosed. The polymers are useful in coatings, photoresists, and the like.

Photodefinable polymers containing perfluorocyclobutane groups

A laminate has at least two layers, at least one of which comprises a polymer having more than one perfluorocyclobutane group. Such polymers impart qualities of enviornmental or protection, chemical and solvent resistance, hydrolytic stability, lubricity, low dielectric, hydrostatic stability, weatherability, flame resistance, chemical resistance, hydrolytic stability, lubricity, environmental protection, scratch resistance, solvent resistance, surface passivation, water repellancy, lower surface refractive index, lower surface coefficient of friction, fluid barrier properties, oil repellancy, thermal stability, and/or reduced moisture pick-up. Additionally, the coatings are optically clear, easy to apply either neat, in a solvent or otherwise, have relatively low cure temperatures for their temperature resistance, and exhibit insulating and planarizing capabilities.

Laminates of polymer shaving perfluorocyclobutane rings

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