The Dow Chemical Company

Michael J Elwell

Henri J Grunbauer

Camiel F Bartelink

Martin Moller

Hanno R Van Der Wal

Disclosed is a urethane-based composition of value in surface coating applications, including treatment of glass or textiles, in adhesives and in the manufacture of a stabilized latex. The composition comprises a polyfunctional liquid urethane-containing adduct wherein said adduct contains as a first functional group at least one isocyanate moiety per molecule, and a second functional group per molecule which is not an isocyanate moiety and which is not reactive towards isocyanate functionality. The second functional group can comprise ester, nitrile, halogen, halocarbon, siloxyl, silyl, alkyne or alkene, or combinations of two or more thereof.

Polyfunctional liquid urethane composition

Disclosed is an acid-funtionalized polyurethane adduct and a process for the preparation of such adduct. The adduct having a linear or preferably branched structure comprises a plurality of internal urethane linkages and one or more terminal carboxylic acid groups per molecule. Such acid-funtionalized polyurethane adducts find value in the manufacture of crosslinked aqueous rubber latexes such as might be used in paint compositions.

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IJzendijke, Netherlands

Michael J Elwell