Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Polyplastics Co., Ltd.

Kureha Kagaku Kogyo K.k.

Toshio Hosokawa

Yo Iizuka

Takayuki Katto

Toshiya Mizuno

Ken Kashiwadate

Shunzo Endo

Kenichi Katase

Kazuo Kusida

Shinji Yamamoto

Yoshinobu Itoh

Zenya Shiiki

Yukichika Kawakami

Kunizoh Kidoh

Makoto Fukuda

Hidetora Kashio

Katsumi Suzuki

Hiroshi Hagiwara

Sirou Suzuki

The present invention discloses a process for producing a granular polyarylene sulfide which has a high melt viscosity and a high degree of cross-linkage, becomes gel under melting and is easy to handle in the production and the fabrication thereof. The process disclosed herein comprises (1) a step (A) an initial-stage polymerization step for obtaining a polyarylene sulfide by reacting an alkali metal sulfide, a dihaloaromatic compound and a polyhaloaromatic compound, having three or more halogen substituents in a molecule, in the presence of water in an amount of 0.5 to 2.9 moles per mol of said alkali metal sulfide at a temperature in the range of 180.degree. to 235.degree. C. until the total conversion ratio of said dihalo- and polyhaloaromatic compounds reaches 50 to 98% and the melt viscosity of a polyarylene sulfide obtained at the end of the step becomes 5 to 5,000 poise, measured at 310.degree. C. and a shear rate of 1,200/second; (2) a step (B) a temperature raising step in which while adjusting an amount of water to be 2.5 to 7 moles per mol of fed alkali metal sulfide, a temperature raising condition from the temperature of step (A) to 240.degree. C. is controlled so that the melt viscosity of a polymer obtained at 240.degree. C. reaches 300 to 10,000 poise, measured at 310.degree. C. and a shear rate of 1,200/second and the temperature raising rate between 240.degree. C. and a temperature of the following step (C) is further controlled to be within the range of 10.degree. to 100.degree. C./hour; and (3) a step (C) a second-stage polymerization step for further continuing the reaction at a temperature of 245.degree. to 290.degree. C. until a melt viscosity of the final product reaches not lower than 1.times.10.sup.5 poise, measured at 330.degree. C. and a shear rate of 2/second. The present invention also discloses a granular cross-linked polyarylene sulfide produced by the process described above.

Process for the preparation of cross-linked polyarylene sulfide

The present invention discloses a process for producing a granular polyarylene sulfide which has a high melt viscosity and a high degree of cross-linkage, becomes gel under melting and is easy to handle in the production and the fabrication thereof. The process disclosed herein comprises (1) a step (A) an initial-stage polymerization step for obtaining a polyarylene sulfide by reacting an alkali metal sulfide, a dihaloaromatic compound and a polyhaloaromatic compound, having three or more halogen substituents in a molecule, in the presence of water in an amount of 0.5 to 2.9 moles per mol of said alkali metal sulfide at a temperature in the range of 180.degree. to 235.degree. C. until the total conversion ratio of said dihalo- and polyhaloaromatic compounds reaches 50 to 98% and the melt viscosity of a polyarylene sulfide obtained at the end of the step becomes 5 to 5,000 poise, measured at 310.degree. C. and a shear rate of 1,200/second; (2) a step (B) a temperature raising step in which while adjusting an amount of water to be 2.5 to 7 moles per mol of fed alkali metal sulfide, a temperature raising condition from the temperature of step (A) to 240.degree. C. is controlled so that the melt viscosity of a polymer obtained at 240.degree. C. reaches 300 to 10,000 poise, measured at 310.degree. C. and a shear rate of 1,200/second and the temperature raising rate between 240.degree. C. and a temperature of the following step (C) is further controlled to be within the range of 10.degree. to 100.degree. C./hour; and (3) a step (C) a second -stage polymerization step for further continuing the reaction at a temperature of 245.degree. to 290.degree. C. until a melt viscosity of the final product reaches not lower than 1.times.10.sup.5 poise, measured at 330.degree. C. and a shear rate of 2/second. The present invention also discloses a granular cross-linked polyarylene sulfide produced by the process described above.

A graft copolymer is formed by graft-polymerizing 10-95 wt. parts of a vinyl monomer onto 5-90 wt. parts of the rubber polymer which comprises 40-99 wt. % of butadiene and 1-60 wt. % of an aromatic polycyclic vinyl monomer represented by the following formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The graft copolymer is characterized by the rubber polymer having a high refractive index as well as a low glass transition temperature due to the use of the aromatic polycyclic vinyl monomer. Accordingly, the graft copolymer per se may be used as a thermoplastic resin having good transparency and impact resistance at a low rubber polymer content and may also be added to a transparent thermoplastic resin inclusive of a vinyl chloride resin and a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer resin to provide the thermoplastic resin with an improved impact resistance while retaining a good transparency.

Impact-resistant graft copolymer and thermoplastic resin composition

Disclosed herein are a polymer alloy prepared by polymerizing 0.1 to 100 parts by weight of at least one radically polymerizable monomer to 100 parts by weight of polyarylene thioether having a repeating unit of ##STR1## as a main constituent and at least a part of said radically polymerizable monomers is polymerized within inner pores of the polyarylene thioether particles and a process for producing the polymer alloy. The polymer alloy of polyarylene thioether according to the present invention has the fine particles of the radically polymerized monomer uniformly dispersed in the said polymer alloy, and accordingly, the polymer alloy of polyarylene thioether according to the present invention is excellent in various physical properties, such as, good impact strength and improved anti-flash property.

Polymer alloy of polyarylene thioether and a process for producing the

A film having high lubricity and excellent dielectric strength characteristics and containing few fish eyes is obtained by biaxially-stretching a resin composition which has been obtained by radical polymerization of 0.5-80 parts by weight of a monomer component composed principally of a styrene monomer in the presence of 100 parts by weight of particles of a substantially straight-chain poly(arylene sulfide) having a melt viscosity of at least 1,000 poises.

High-lubricity film

Disclosed herein are (1) a composition which is prepared by combining 0.2 to 90 parts by weight of a cross-linked polyarylene thioether having a melt viscosity of 5.times.10.sup.5 to 1.times.10.sup.9 poise, which becomes gel under melting, with 100 parts by weight of a resin consisting of polyarylene thioether, which has a repeating unit of ##STR1## as the main constituent, having a melt viscosity of 10 to 5.times.10.sup.4 poise and (2) a composition of polyarylene thioether for molding, which is prepared by combining not more than 400 parts by weight of a fibrous filler and/or an inorganic filler with 100 parts by weight of the above-mentioned composition (1), is excellent in an antiflash property, is high in a mechanical strength and a thermal stability and is easily processed on melt molding and can easily recycle its molded scraps.

Polyarylene thioether composition for molding

A process for suspension polymerization of vinyl chloride or a mixture of vinyl chloride and a monomer copolymerizable therewith in an aqueous medium in the presence of an oil-soluble polymerization catalyst is improved by the use of a suspending agent comprising a well known protective colloid and a saccharose alkyl ester.

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