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Theo Neukam

Siegfried Korte

Carlhans Suling

Gunther Nischk

Francis Bentz

Ulrich Reinehr

Wolfgang Brauer

Frank Druschke

Gunter Turck

Rudolf J Klee

Wilfried Naunheim

The process for production of polyacrylonitrile hollow threads with a stable, asymmetric pore structure by a dry-wet-spinning process with glycerine-based core liquids, definite draw and after treatment conditions and a treatment with alcohols and drying.

Method of preparing polyacrylonitrile hollow threads with asymmetric

Polymers obtained by radical polymerization and containing (A) from 0.1 to 80 mole percent of polymerized units corresponding to the following formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 represents hydrogen or methyl,

Polymers containing sulphonyl and carboxylic ester groups

The title compounds are obtained by reacting compounds corresponding to the following formula:

Process for the production of .alpha., .beta.-unsaturated carboxylic

Acrylonitrile polymers and copolymers with good affinity for basic dyes without sulfonic acid groups containing comonomers are obtained by polymerizing at a temperature of from 0.degree. to 60.degree. C. in an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a boiling point of from -10.degree. to 80.degree. C. or in a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons having boiling points in the range from -10.degree. to 80.degree. C. using an initiator system comprising from 0.1 to 8.0 mole percent of sulfur dioxide, from 0.1 to 2.0 mole percent of a hydroperoxide which is soluble in the reaction medium and from 0.01 to 1.0 mole percent of an acid which is soluble in the reaction system in that polymerization is carried out continuously and in that an average residence time of from 10 minutes to 2 hours is maintained.

Process for the production of polymers containing acrylonitrile

The invention relates to a homopolymer or copolymer of acrylonitrile which comprises from 0 to 30% by weight, incorporated by polymerization, of comonomer units which are free from ionic groups, said polymers having a K-value of from 50 to 100, a dye absorption capacity for cationic dyes of at least 0.5% by weight, a conductivity, measured in dimethylformamide solution, of at least 10.mu. Siemens, and from 0.2 to 1.5% by weight of sulphur fixed to said polymer as well as to a process for the production thereof.

Acrylonitrile polymerization with organic solvent

The invention relates to a process for the production of polyacrylonitrile or acrylonitrile copolymers, the polymerization being carried out at a temperature of from -40.degree. to +60.degree. C. optionally under pressure in an aliphatic chlorofluorine or fluorine substituted hydrocarbon containing up to 8 carbon atoms and having a boiling point of from -60.degree. to +50.degree. C. or in mixtures thereof having boiling ranges of from -60.degree. to +50.degree. C. and using a starter system comprising a hydroperoxide sulphur dioxide and an acid. The system may also contain aliphatic hydrocarbons in such quantities that a non-inflammable mixture is formed.

Acrylonitrile polymerization in fluorinated hydrocarbons

The invention relates to a process for the production of a stabilized crosslinkable copolymer of acrylonitrile which comprises copolymerizing at least 65% by weight of acrylonitrile with from 0.1 to 3% by weight of an N-methylol acyl ester of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid amide, optionally from 0.5 to 5% by weight of an N-methylol alkyl ether of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid amide and, optionally, at least one other copolymerizable comonomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a redox catalyst and in the presence of at least one water-soluble compound containing a carboxylic acid amide group.

Stabilization of crosslinkable polymers

The invention relates to a process for the production of stabilized, crosslinkable copolymers of acrylonitrile with N-methylol alkyl ethers of unsaturated carboxylic acid amides and optionally other comonomers by polymerizing in the presence of a stabilizer compound containing a carboxylic acid amide group such as amide, urea or lactam.

Stabilizing crosslinkable copolymers comprising acrylonitrile,

The invention relates to a process for the production of crosslinkable polymers of acrylonitrile by polymerising acrylonitrile with a crosslinking component and optionally other comonomers in strongly polar organic solvents and in the presence of a peroxodisulphate and a 1,3-diketone as initiator system.

Spinnable solutions containing crosslinkable copolymers of acrylonitrile

This invention relates to the production of spinnable solutions of acrylonitrile homopolymers or acrylonitrile copolymers in which the polymerization is conducted in an organic solvent containing a catalyst system comprising an acid, e.g., sulfuric acid, a peroxodisulfate, e.g., ammonium peroxodisulfate, and a 1,3-diketone, e.g., acetyl acetone. Polymers having a good natural color and high K-values are obtained in good yields.

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