Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Air Products Polymers, L.p.

Other

Rohm and Haas Company

Celanese International Corporation

Robert K Pinschmidt, Jr

Ta-Wang Lai

Andrew Francis Nordquist

William F Burgoyne, Jr

Ning Chen

Walter L Renz

Dale D Dixon

Mark L Listemann

Khalil Yacoub

William Eamon Carroll

John G Smigo

Lloyd Mahlon Robeson

Joel Erwin Goldstein

Ronald Pierantozzi

Christian Leonard Daniels

Bheema R Vijayendran

George Davidowich

Thomas P McAndrew

Kien Van Phung

John Joseph Rabasco

John Anthony Thomas Norman

Christine A Costello

Barton Milligan

John G Iacoviello

Chung-Ling Mao

Finn L Marten

John Richard Boylan

Richard A Bafford

Donald P Eichelberger

Peng Zhang

Chao-fong Tien

Carrington Duane Smith

Eric Howard Klingenberg

Francis Peter Petrocelli

Timothy L Pickering

Lawrence K Wempe

Thomas M Santosusso

Melanie K Perez

Samuel F Reed

W Eamon Carroll

Evelyn Jennifer Lin Paulsen

Gerald R Cook

Gregory Paul Dado

Yin Pang Tsui

Dilip R Abayasekara

Larry A Wasowski

Novel copper alkoxide compound based ink formulations and their chemical syntheses are disclosed. The method of using the ink formulations to print conducting copper metal lines with standard ink jet printing and curing at &#x3c;150&#xb0; C. is also disclosed.

Low temperature thermal conductive inks

This invention provides water-based compositions, particularly coating, ink, adhesive, fountain solution and agricultural compositions, manifesting reduced equilibrium and dynamic surface tension by the incorporation of a surface tension reducing amount of a mixture of a non-fluorinated anionic compound and a non-fluorinated weak base cationic compound, the mixture demonstrating a dynamic surface tension (DST) which is less than the DST of the individual anionic and cationic compounds and less than 45 dynes/cm, at a concentration of &#x2266;5 wt % in water at 23&#xb0; C. and 20 bubbles/second or less than 40 dynes/cm at a concentration of &#x2266;0.03M in water at 23&#xb0; C. and 0.1 bubbles/second according to the maximum-bubble pressure method.

Cationic-anionic blends for dynamic surface tension reduction

The reaction of unsaturated carbonates such as vinyl ethylene carbonate with N-aminoethylimidazolidone (TAM) under mild conditions generates a mixture of two vinyl and hydroxy functional imidazolidone carbamates which polymerize readily into acrylate or vinyl acetate based emulsion polymers. The polymers show enhanced wet adhesion (wet scrubbability) in latex paints and coatings.

Wet adhesion monomer and derived copolymers for latex paints

Oligomers of vinyl esters, preferably of vinyl acetate, are provided in which the molecules contain a single terminal sulfonate group, thereby making these products useful as surface-active agents. These oligomers can be converted by hydrolysis to sulfonate-terminated vinyl alcohol oligomer which is also a surface-active agent. The number average molecular weight of the vinyl ester oligomer is not over 17,000 and not over 7,500 for the vinyl alcohol oligomer. These products are made by polymerizing the vinyl ester in the presence of a bisulfite chain transfer agent in water, preferably with a cosolvent such as methanol. The vinyl ester is delay fed to the polymerization, molecular weight is controlled with the bisulfite, and the system is maintained in a virtual single phase with any organic phase present swollen with water or water and cosolvent.

Sulfonate-terminated oligomers of vinyl esters and their vinyl alcohol oligomer derivatives

A family of piperidone functionalized polymers based on polymers containing a plurality of hydroxyl groups. Piperidone or piperidone derivatives form a cyclic ketal linkage with hydroxyl groups contained on adjacent or alternating carbon atoms of the base polymer. Preferred compositions are piperidone functionalized poly(vinyl alcohol) having the following general formulae: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.6 are each independently hydrogen, methyl, or a C.sub.2 to C.sub.4 saturated or unsaturated alkyl groups, R.sub.7 is O.cndot. or OR.sub.8, wherein R.sub.8 is hydrogen or a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl or C(.dbd.O)alkyl group; X.sup.- is a salt; x ranges from 50 to 99 mol %; y ranges from 0 to 30 mol %; and z ranges from 1 to 20 mol %. The compounds are useful in ink jet paper coating applications.

Piperidone functionalized poly(vinyl alcohol)

This invention describes an integrated process for making ethylidene bisformamide in high yield wherein water, which is formed as a reaction by-product, is readily removed from the reaction product mixture without adversely affecting the efficiency of the overall process. The process contemplates isolating the reaction zone from the separation zone and comprises circulating a stream of formamide through a reaction zone containing a solid acidic catalyst and a separation zone; introducing acetaldehyde into the circulating stream of formamide to form a reaction mixture and contacting the reaction mixture with the solid acidic catalyst under reaction conditions sufficient to form a product mixture comprising ethylidene bisformamide and water; and separating water from the product mixture in the separation zone to form a water-depleted product mixture containing ethylidene bisformamide.

Process for preparing ethylidene bisformamide

N-vinyl compositions comprising 3-(N-vinylformamido)propionamides and 2-methyl-3-(N-vinylformamido)propionamides containing terminal amino, hydroxyl or a second N-vinyl group are obtained by amidation of the corresponding propionate ester with appropriate alkylamines. The invention also describes a process for preparing these compounds. The subject materials are useful as monomers in free radical polymerization as well as precursors in the preparation of unsaturated resins.

Functional N-vinylformamides

A process is provided for the synthesis of N-vinylformamidopropionates by the reaction of NVF with acrylic and methacrylic acid esters in the presence of a metal hydride catalyst. This process allows for the improved production of mono-functional monomers and also for the synthesis of new multi-functional monomers which are useful as crosslinkers and chain extenders in photo-cure applications.

N-vinylformamidopropionates and process for their synthesis

This invention pertains to aqueous emulsions containing water insoluble, vinyl polymer particles containing polymerized Michael adduct units of N-vinylformamide and to emulsions of vinyl acetate polymers containing said Michael adducts. These latex dispersions are prepared by the emulsion polymerization of a Michael adduct of N-vinylformamide, optionally with other ethylenically unsaturated monomers, e.g., vinyl acetate. The Michael adducts of N-vinylformamide are represented by the formula: ##STR1## where R is H or CH.sub.3, X=CN, O=CR.sub.1, O=COR.sub.1 or other electron withdrawing group such as SO.sub.3 M, SO.sub.3 R.sub.1 and NO.sub.2 wherein R.sub.1 is a linear or branched alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclic, arylalkyl, alkyloxy or aryl group containing between 1 and about 20 carbon atoms and substituted derivatives thereof and M is an ion. The preferred Michael adduct N-vinyl amide monomers are unsaturated monomers consisting of the alkl 3-N-vinylformamidopropionates and alkyl 2-methyl-3-N-vinylformamidopropionates and represented by the formula: ##STR2## where R is hydrogen or methyl, and R.sup.1 is a linear or branched alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclic, arylalkyl, alkyloxy or aryl group containing between 1 and about 20 carbon atoms.

Aqueous polymeric emulsions incorporating polymerized units of michael

Novel unsaturated compounds comprising the 3-(N-vinylformamido)propionates and 2-methyl-3-(N-vinylformamido)propionates, or the corresponding propionamides, are obtained by the Michael addition reaction of N-vinylformamide with an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester. These compounds are useful as monomers in free radical polymerizations, particularly as components of photocurable coatings.

N-vinylformamide/alkyl acrylate Michael adducts

A class of unsaturated resins which are suitable for use in radiation curable coatings has been developed. The resins comprise N-vinyl-N-acyl oligomers made by reacting a secondary N-vinylamide with a polyisocyanate monomer which is reacted with at least one mono- or polyhydric alcohol to form a urethane linkage.

N-vinyl-n-acyl urea resins

Amine functional polymers are prepared by polymerization of vinylamides with vinyl ester monomers. The resultant polymers are hydrolyzed under acid conditions and subsequently at least partially basified to the free-base amine. Byproduct salts are removed by precipitation or by extraction into an immiscible phase. The polymers made by this method are crosslinkable through reaction of the amine groups and are useful in high performance coatings, adhesives, binders and the like.

Synthesis of amine functional co-and terpolymers

Novel unsaturated compounds comprising the 3-(N-vinylformamido)propionates and 2-methyl-3-(N-vinylformamido)propionates are obtained by the Michael addition reaction of N-vinylformamide with an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester. These compounds are useful as monomers in free radical polymerizations, particularly as components of photocurable coatings.

Michael adducts of N-vinylformamide and acrylic and methacrylic esters

A compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a C.sub.3 -C.sub.24 olefinically unsaturated organic radical having functionality which renders the nitrogen atom electron deficient, the olefinic unsaturation functionality being polymerizable,

Polymers of self- and diol reactive formaldehyde-free crosslinking

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Robert K Pinschmidt, Jr