Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

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Loren D Albin

David B Olson

Nusrallah Jubran

David R Whitcomb

Robert E Kolb

Roger A Mader

David R Boston

Daryle Hadley Busch

Norman P Sweeny

Robert J Lokken

Jacqueline M Furlong

Wayne O Otteson

Derek R Callaby

Martha Jacobsen

David R Whitecomb

Martha Jacobson

This invention relates to improved imaging systems based on the formation of yellow colored coordination compounds of transition metals with certain ligands. These coordination compounds have been found to provide excellent yellow colors when used in pressure sensitive carbonless copy-papers wherein the image is formed by the reaction of a color-forming compound with transition metal salts such as those of nickel, cobalt, iron, copper, and similar materials. These yellow color-formers have the advantage of high solubility in encapsulation solvents and have less color on Zn.sup.2+ containing CB sheets. Use of these yellow color-formers with other metal complex color-formers such as N-(monosubstituted)dithiooxamide color-formers and N,N'-(disubstituted)dithiooxamides results in the formation of black images.

Yellow color-formers

This invention concerns monosubstituted dithiooxamides, and a preferred class comprises those wherein the substituent is such that the resulting dithiooxamide derivative is substantially nonvolatile at about room temperature. Preferred materials are those for which when the monosubstituent dithiooxamide is complexed with a transition metal cation, the resulting polymer is substantially a dark, i.e., preferably blue or blue-black color. Carbonless paper constructions involving use of N-(monosubstituted)dithiooxamides to advantage are described.

Monosubstituted dithiooxamide compounds and their use

Pressure sensitive imaging materials are colorless until pressure addressed, but thereafter provide an intense dark image. The materials comprise white ferric organophosphate, ferric organophosphinate, or ferric organophosphonate and a colorless chelate. The choice of substituents on the chelate nucleus can give images with both good discrimination visually and to near infrared radiation (NIR).

Pressure sensitive carbonless imaging system incorporating uncolored

Pressure sensitive imaging materials are stable until pressure addressed, but thereafter provide an intense dark image. The materials comprise colorless ferric organophosphate, ferric organophosphinate, or ferric organophosphonate and a colored chelate.

A scorch-resistant, curable, fluorinated elastomer gum composition is provided. A free-radically curable, fluorinated elastomer gum is compounded with an aliphatically unsaturated, diorganosulfur compound in which at least one of the organo moieties contains a .beta.,.gamma.-aliphatically unsaturated moiety having at least one hydrogen atom bonded to the .alpha. carbon atom of said moiety, said carbon atom being bonded to a sulfur atom of the compound. The diorganosulfur compound reduces the tendency of the compounded fluorinated elastomer gum to scorch, i.e. begin curing prematurely, in the presence of a free-radical curing agent during compounding and shaping of the gum at elevated temperatures below the intended cure temperature. Specific examples of said compounds include 2,5-dihydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide, 2,5-dihydrothiophene-1-oxide, and diallylsulfide. Methods of compounding a fluorinated elastomer gum composition and of shaping and curing such a composition to obtain a fluorinated elastomeric article are also provided.

Scorch-resistant, curable fluorinated elastomer

Peroxide-curable fluorocarbon elastomers having interpolymerized units derived from a cure site monomer containing bromine or iodine. The fluorocarbon elastomer gums are prepared by copolymerizing with the principal monomers normally used in preparing fluorocarbon elastomers, e.g. vinylidene fluoride, hexafluoropropene, and (optionally) tetrafluoroethylene, a small amount of a novel cure site monomer which is a vinyl ether in which at least one of the two vinylic (or double-bonded) carbon atoms thereof is bonded to at least one bromine or iodine atom, e.g. CF.sub.3 CH.sub.2 OCF.dbd.CFBr. The cured fluorocarbon elastomers of this invention have useful properties normally associated with fluorocarbon elastomers, such as acid resistance, thermal stability, and high tensile strength. These properties of shaped articles made from these fluorocarbon elastomers are not adversely affected upon exposure to high temperatures for extended periods.

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Oakdale, MN, United States of America

Loren D Albin