Covestro Deutschland Ag

Bayer Intellectual Property Gmbh

Covestro LLC

Covestro Intellectual Property Gmbh & Co. Kg

Muhammad Afzal Subhani

Walter Leitner

Christoph Gürtler

Thomas Ernst Müller

Burkhard Köhler

Jörg Hofmann

Matthias Wohak

Burkhard Koehler

Rick L Adkins

Jack R Reese

Christoph Guertler

Thomas Ernst Mueller

Urs Rauwald

Maurice Cosemans

Verena Jakoby

Aurel Wolf

Kai Laemmerhold

Carsten Koopmans

Ilja Peckermann

Christoph Gurtler

Michael Pohl

Rene Boltersdorf

Daniela Cozzula

Thomas Ernst MÜLLER

This invention relates to novel macromers containing dithiocarbonate (or xanthate) groups, novel preformed stabilizers comprising macromers, and novel polymer polyols comprising the novel macromers and/or novel preformed stabilizers. This invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these materials. Other aspects of this invention include foams comprising the novel polymer polyols and a process for preparing foam comprising the novel polymer polyols.

Dithiocarbonate containing polyols as polymer polyol stabilizers

A process for preparing a phosphorus-functional polyethercarbonate polyol, comprising reacting a polyethercarbonate polyol having unsaturated groups with a phosphorus-functional compound of formula (Ia): wherein X=O or S; and wherein Rand Rare selected from the group consisting of C1-C22 alkyl, C1-C22 alkoxy, C1-C22 alkylsulfanyl, C6-C70 aryl, C6-C70 aryloxy, C6-C70 arylsulfanyl, C7-C70 aralkyl, C7-C70 aralkyloxy, C7-C70 aralkylsulfanyl, C7-C70 alkylaryl, C7-C70 alkylaryloxy, C7-C70 alkylarylsulfanyl, or wherein Rand Rare bridged to one another directly and/or via heteroatoms and are selected from the group consisting of C1-C22 alkylene, oxygen, sulfur, and NR, wherein Ris hydrogen, C1-C22 alkyl, C1-C22 acyl, C7-C22 aralkyl, or C6-C70 aryl radical. A process for preparing a phosphorus-functional polyurethane polymer is disclosed. Phosphorus-functional polyethercarbonate polyol, phosphorus-functional polyurethane polymer, flame-retardant adhesion promoter, filler-activator, flame retardant, flame-retardant coating, foam, sealing compound, thermoplastic, thermoset, rubber, and a moulded body are disclosed.

Flame-retardant phosphorus-functional polyether carbonate polyol and method for production thereof

The present invention relates to a method for producing a prepolymer that contains carbon-carbon multiple bonds, a polyol component A) being reacted with component B) that contains isocyanate groups and the polyol component comprising a polyether carbonate polyol that contains carbon-carbon multiple bonds.

Method for producing a multiple bond-containing prepolymer as elastomer precursor

The present invention relates to a method for producing an organooxysilyl-crosslinked polymer by reacting a polyether carbonate polyol which contains carbon-carbon double bonds with a polysiloxane compound in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Suitable polysiloxane compounds have at least two Si&#x2014;H bonds. This invention also relates to organooxysilyl-crosslinked polymers which are formed by this process.

Method for producing a polymer which contains double bonds as an elastomer precursor

The invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols by agglomeration of alkyl oxides and carbon dioxide on carboxylic acid in the presence of a double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst, wherein one or more carboxylic acids are continually added to the reactor during the reaction, characterized in that the carboxylic acid is at least difunctional and has a pKa value greater than or equal to 1.5, and the adding of the one or more carboxylic acids occurs such that, at any time in the method according to the invention, the molar concentration of unconverted carboxylic acid in the reaction mixture does not exceed a value in the amount of 0.001 mol/g multiplied by the mass of the catalyst used per liter of reaction mixture, specified in grams, and two carboxylic acid groups present in the same molecule are separated from each other at least by one carbon atom. The method further relates to the polyether carbonate polyols obtained according to the invention.

Method for producing polyether carbonate polyols

The present invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonates containing alkoxysilyl groups in which (a) an unsaturated polyether carbonate polyol is reacted with (b) an alkoxysilane compound of formula (II) Si(X)(R1)(R2)(II), where X&#x2550;H, Y&#x2014;S&#x2014;H and Y=C1-C22 alkylene, C6-C14 arylene, C7-C14 aralkylene, C7-C14 alkylarylene; R1=C1-C8 alkoxy, C7-C20-aralkoxy, C6-C14 aroxy, C7-C20 alkylaroxy; R2=C1-C22 alkyl, C6-C14 aryl, C7-C14 aralkyl, C7-C14 alkylaryl, and m and n represent, independently of one another, an integer &#x2265;1, o is zero or an integer &#x2265;1 and m+n+o=4. The invention further relates to the production of a polyurethane polymer using such a polyether carbonate, a cross-linked, siloxane group containing polymer and a molded part containing or consisting of said cross-linked polymer.

Moisture-curing polyether carbonate containing alkoxysilyl groups

The present invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols, the polyether carbonate polyols having electron-poor and electron-rich double bonds, said method preferably comprising the steps of (a) providing a suspending agent and/or an H-functional starter compound and a DMC catalyst, 03) adding at least one epoxide and (y) adding carbon dioxide, an epoxide that does not contain an unsaturated group, and at least two unsaturated compounds, the unsaturated compounds in method step (y) being selected from the group comprising unsaturated epoxides and unsaturated cyclic anhydrides, and one of the unsaturated compounds having an electron-rich double bond and one of the unsaturated compounds having an electron-poor double bond. The invention also relates to the crosslinking of polyether carbonate polyols, the polyether carbonate polyols having electronpoor and electron-rich double bonds, and to the crosslinked polyether carbonates obtainable therefrom.

Radical crosslinking of polyether carbonate polyols that have electron-poor and electron-rich double bonds

The present invention relates to a method for producing higher functional polyether carbonate polyols, said method preferably comprising the steps of ([alpha]) providing a DMC catalyst and; ([alpha][alpha]) a suspending agent that does contain any H-functional groups and/or ([alpha][beta]) an H-functional starter compound ([beta]) adding carbon dioxide and at least one alkylene oxide ([gamma]) adding carbon dioxide and at least two alkylene oxides, wherein these alkylene oxides can be the same as or different from the alkylene oxide or alkylene oxides added in step ([beta]), and ([delta]) adding carbon dioxide and at least one alkylene oxide, wherein this alkylene oxide or these alkylene oxides can be the same as or different from the alkylene oxides added in steps ([beta]) and ([gamma]), at least one of the alkylene oxides in step ([gamma]) having an epoxy functionality of &#x3e;=2 and, in addition, in the case that no H-functional starter compound is provided in ([alpha]), step ([delta]) includes the addition of an H-functional starter compound.

Higher functional polyether carbonate polyols obtained using branching molecules

The present invention provides a method for producing low viscosity polyether carbonate polyols having side chains. A double metal cyanide catalyst and a suspension medium, with or without an H-functional starter compound, are initially introduced as a reaction mixture, and alkylene oxides are metered into the reaction mixture in two steps. The difference between the molecular weights of the lightest and the heaviest of the alkylene oxides metered in the two steps is greater than or equal to 24 g/mol, and the lightest alkylene oxide is a C2-C4 alkylene oxide. The alkylene oxides metered in the two steps can be the same or different. The invention also relates to the low viscosity polyether carbonate polyols produced by the method and to the use thereof.

Low viscosity polyether carbonate polyols having side chains

The present invention relates to a process for preparing mercapto-crosslinked polyethercarbonate and sees polyethercarbonate polyols containing double bonds being reacted with polyfunctional mercaptans and/or sulfur with the involvement of initiator compounds.

Cross-linking of polyether carbonate polyols containing double-bonds, by adding mercapto-compounds

The invention relates to a method for producing polyether ester carbonate polyols by attaching at least one alkylene oxide, at least one cyclical anhydride, and carbon dioxide to one or more H-functional starter substances in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst. The method is characterized in that (&#x3b1;) a suspension agent, which does not contain H-functional groups, is provided in a reactor, and (&#x3b3;) one or more H-functional starter substances are continuously metered into the reactor during the reaction process, and the one or more alkylene oxides, the cyclical anhydride, and optionally the carbon dioxide are metered simultaneously or sequentially.

Method for producing polyether ester carbonate polyols

The invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols by attaching alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide to one or more H-functional starters in the presence of a double-metal cyanide catalyst, characterized in that (alpha) a suspending agent which contains no H-functional groups and is selected from among one or more compounds from the group consisting of aliphatic lactones, aromatic lactones, lactides, cyclic carbonates comprising at least three optionally substituted methylene groups between the oxygen atoms of the carbonate group, aliphatic cyclic anhydrides, and aromatic cyclic anhydrides, is provided in a reactor; (ss) optionally, a moiety of alkylene oxide is added to the mixture from step (alpha) at temperatures of 90 to 150 DEG C., and the addition of the alkylene oxide compound is then interrupted; and (gamma) one or more H-functional starters are continuously metered into the reactor during the reaction.

Polyether carbonate polyol production method

The present invention relates to a process for the activation of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts and to a process for the preparation of polyethercarbonate polyols from one or more H-functional starter compounds, one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst, characterized in that

Method for activating double metal cyanide catalysts for producing polyether polyols

The present invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols by way of the catalytic addition of carbon dioxide and alkylene oxides to H-functional starter compounds in the presence of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyzer that was activated in the presence of cyclic anhydride.

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Muhammad Afzal Subhani