The Dow Chemical Company

William E Broxterman

Frederick L Brown

Donald L Schmidt

Demetrius Urchick

Clayton W Hoornstra

A wood-polymer composite is prepared by impregnating a wood substrate with a liquid dicyclopentenyl acrylate or methacrylate monomer of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl, R' and each R' are independently hydrogen, chloride or bromide, n is 0 or 1, and the dashed line is an optional chemical bond with the provisoes that when the dashed line is present, n is 0, and when the dashed line is absent, n is 1, and curing the resulting monomer-impregnated wood substrate by either heating same in the presence of a catalytic amount of a thermal initiator, such as a peroxide, or by exposing same to high-energy radiation, such as .gamma.-rays. The wood-polymer composite is relatively hard and shows good resistance to hydrocarbon attack.

Process of making wood-polymer composite containing a dicyclopentenyl

Wood-polymer composite containing a dicyclopentenyl acrylate or

AR-Cyclic sulfonium, fused polynuclear areneoxides exemplified by the structural formula: ##STR1## polymerize readily upon exposure to ultraviolet light and/or heat to yield water-insoluble resins useful as adhesives, coatings, films and the like. Fused polynuclear zwitterions containing more than one areneoxide and cyclic sulfonium group per molecule crosslink under such conditions.

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Midland, MI, United States of America

William E Broxterman