Toyo Soda Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Mitsutaka Saito

Nobuo Morishita

Masaru Uemura

Yujiro Kosaka

Shinichi Imura

Yuji Suzuki

Ethyleneglycol or a mixture of ethyleneglycol and propyleneglycol is produced by an electrolysis of formaldehyde in an alkaline solution by using a carbon type electrode as a cathode.

Process for producing glycol

Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers are carboxylated by copolymerizing an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or anhydride thereof with at least one vinylidene monomer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X and Y can be the same or different, and each represents hydrogen, chlorine, alkyl, acetoxy, carboxylic acid ester group or cyano; with an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer in the presence of a polymerization initiator in a reaction medium of a ketone compound or a mixture of a ketone compound and an acetic acid ester, wherein the reaction is conducted in a heterogeneous state.

Process for carboxylation of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers

Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers or saponified copolymers are carboxylated by copolymerizing an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or anhydride thereof with or without at least one vinylidene monomer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X and Y can be the same or different, and each represents hydrogen, chlorine, alkyl, acetoxy, carboxylic acid ester group or cyano; with an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or a saponified copolymer thereof in the presence of a polymerization initiator in a reaction medium of an acetic acid ester or a mixture of an acetic acid ester and a lower alcohol, wherein the reaction is conducted in a heterogeneous state.

Process for carboxylation of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers or

Substrates are bonded by applying to a substrate a graft copolymer of 0.1 - 20 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or anhydride, 1 - 40 parts by weight of a vinyl monomer containing at least one chlorine atom in the presence of 99 - 40 parts by weight of an ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer.

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Mitsutaka Saito