Tonen Chemical Corporation

Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated

Tonen Chemical Company

Osamu Komiyama

Hidenori Yamanaka

Yoichi Imai

Kazuhiro Ichikawa

Takashi Tsuda

Masaru Miyoshi

Satoshi Inoue

Toshiyuki Hirano

Naohiro Mikawa

Yoshitaka Anazawa

Process for the preparation of polyarylene sulfide

A resin composition is provided which composition comprises 100 parts by weight of (A) polyarylene sulfide, and 0.01 to 5.0 parts by weight of (B) a product compound of an element selected from the group consisting of group IIA and group IIB of the periodic table, wherein said product compound has such alkalinity that a mixture of said product compound with a 20-fold weight of ultrapure water of grade A4 specified in the Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) K0557 has a pH of from 10.0 to 12.0. The composition is particularly suited to be used for an optical instrument part such as an object lens driving unit and the like.

Polyarylenesulfide resin composition

A particle size of polyarylene sulfide obtained in polymerization is controlled by a process characterized in that a gaseous phase part of a reactor is cooled or heated after starting decreasing a temperature of a reaction system o an end of precipitation of polyarylene sulfide formed In an embodiment, a water content in the reaction system is 0.8 to 1.7 moles per mole of the alkali metal sulfide; the gaseous phase part of the reactor is cooled in a polymerization stage to thereby condense a part of a gaseous phase in the reactor and the condensed liquid is refluxed to a liquid phase in the reactor; and the gaseous phase part is only cooled after starting decreasing the temperature of the reaction system, whereby high molecular weight polyarylene sulfide suitable for powder coating is formed, which has a weight average molecular weight of at least 30,000 and an average particle size of 50 to 80 &mgr;m, wherein particles of 40 to 150 &mgr;m account for at least 90% by weight of the whole particles in a particle size distribution, and the amount of particles of 180 &mgr;m or more is 0.5% lby weight or less.

Process for controlling a particle size of polyarylene sulfide and polyarylene sulfide thus produced

A simple and convenient process is provided to introduce a sufficient quantity of functional groups to a main chain or terminals of the chain of a polyarylene sulfide resin to improve properties of the resin. The invention provides a process for heat oxidation crosslinking a polyarylene sulfide resin, characterized by conducting the heat oxidation crosslinking reaction in the presence of at least one organic compound having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group or at least one organic compound having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group and a group derived from an active hydrogen containing group by substituting an active hydrogen of the active hydrogen containing group with an alkali metal, to thereby prepare a functional group-containing polyarylene sulfide resin.

Process for the preparation of a functional group-containing polyarylene

Polyarylene sulfide and a composition thereof

A polyarylene sulfide in which a ratio of terminal --SX groups to a total of the terminal --SX groups and --SZn-- groups is less than 20 mole %, wherein X represents an alkali metal or a hydrogen atom, and which has a melt viscosity, V.sub.6 of 100 to 2,000 poises. Also disclosed are a composition comprising 100 parts of the above polyarylene sulfide, 0.01 to 20 parts of zeolite and 0.01 to 20 part of silica, and a process for the preparation of the above polyarylene sulfide.

Polyarylene sulfide, a process for the preparation thereof and a

A tubular extrusion molding product comprising a high molecular weight polyarylene sulfide having a melt viscosity of from 3,100 poise to 60,000 poise produced by reacting an alkali metal sulfide and a dihaloaromtic compound in the presence of an organic amide solvent, cooling a gaseous phase part in the reaction zone during the reaction thereby condensating at least a part of the gaseous phase and refluxing the resultant condensate to a liquid phase in the reaction zone. A tubular extrusion molding product having further improved impact resistance can be provided by copolymerizing from 0.2 mol % to 1 mol % of a polyhaloaromatic compound to the alkali metal sulfide. A tubular extrusion molding product of improved impact resistance is provided by further applying a heat treatment of the polyarylene sulfide intermediate product thereby increasing the melt viscosity.

Method of maufacturing a tubular extrusion molding product comprising a

A particle size of potyarylene sulfide obtained in polymerization is controlled by a process characterized in that a gaseous phase part of a reactor is cooled or heated after starting decreasing a temperature of a reaction system o an end of precipitation of polyarylene sulfide formed In an embodiment, a water content in the reaction system is 0.8 to 1.7 moles per mole of the alkali metal sulfide; the gaseous phase part of the reactor is cooled in a polymerization stage to thereby condense a part of a gaseous phase in the reactor and the condensed liquid is refluxed to a liquid phase in the reactor; and the gaseous phase part is only cooled after starting decreasing the temperature of the reaction system, whereby high molecular weight polyarylene sulfide suitable for powder coating is formed, which has a weight average molecular weight of at least 30,000 and an average particle size of 50 to 80 .mu.m, wherein particles of 40 to 150 .mu.m account for at least 90% by weight of the whole particles in a particle size distribution, and the amount of particles of 180 .mu.m or more is 0.5% by weight or less.

Process for controlling a particle size of polyarylene sulfide and

High molecular weight polyarylene sulfide prepared by reacting an alkali metal sulfide with a dihaloaromatic compound in an organic amide solvent, wherein a gaseous phase part of a reactor is cooled to thereby condense a part of a gaseous phase in the reactor, and the condensed liquid is refluxed to a liquid phase in the reactor. Higher molecular weight is attained by copolymerization with 0.005 to 1.5 mole percent, based on the alkali metal sulfide, of a polyhaloaromatic compound.

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Osamu Komiyama