Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.v.

Marcus J Harrigan

Kwok Pong Chan

Farid Fouad Khouri

James Mitchell White

Gurram Kishan

Balakrishnan Ganesan

Rachel Marie Suffield

Joshua McClellan Croll

Ritesh Mathur

Wenhul Wang

This invention relates to organic salt compositions useful in the preparation of organoclay compositions, polymer-organoclay composite compositions, and methods for the preparation of polymer nanocomposites. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an organoclay composition comprising alternating inorganic silicate layers and organic layers, said organic layers comprising a quaternary phosphonium cation having structure X wherein Ar, Ar, and Arare independently C-Caromatic radicals; Aris a bond or a C-Caromatic radical; 'a' is a number from 1 to about 200; 'c' is a number from 0 to 3; Ris independently at each occurrence a halogen atom, a C-Caliphatic radical, a C-Ccycloaliphatic radical, or a C-Caromatic radical; and Ris a halogen atom, a C-Caliphatic radical, a C-Ccycloaliphatic radical, a C-Caromatic radical, or a polymer chain.

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Marcus J Harrigan