United States Steel Corporation

Allied Chemical Corporation

Omer E Curtis, Jr

Harold W Tuller

Ralph W Nussbaum

Charles T O'Neill

The invention disclosed is for a method of preparing unsaturated polyester resins containing high amounts of dicyclopentadiene. These polyester resins are useful in curable liquid compositions containing them together with a monomeric copolymerizable component. Such compositions may be used at ambient or elevated temperature, in casting, laminating or molding techniques known to the polyester resin art.

Dicyclopentadiene polyester resins

Polyanhydrides are produced by a novel bulk polymerization procedure from maleic monomers and alkyl styrenes. The polyanhydrides, of low molecular weight and containing maleic monomer to alkyl styrene in a ratio greater than 1 to 1, are particularly useful as hardeners for epoxy resin-containing compositions and give rise to epoxy compositions which result in cured products exhibiting high heat distortion temperatures and excellent electrical and shelf life properties.

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Morristown, NJ, United States of America

Omer E Curtis, Jr