Nippon Oil Fats Co., Ltd.

Yuji Okada

Nobuyoshi Suzuki

Kenji Kato

Yasuo Moriya

Kazuyoshi Aoshima

Motoyuki Sugiura

A novel peroxydicarbonate containing a non-conjugate type unsaturated bond, represented by the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 stands for a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and n for an integer of the value of 1 or 2) is particularly useful as a polymerization initiator.

Peroxydicarbonate containing non-conjugate type unsaturated bond

An ethylene-acrylic acid ester copolymer can be easily grafted in a high graft efficiency with a peroxy group-containing block copolymer consisting of segments of copolymer A, which is a copolymer of a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer or its mixture with a radically copolymerizable monomer, with a radically copolymerizable peroxycarbonate, and segments of (co)polymer B, which is different from copolymer A in the monomer composition and does not contain a monomer unit of the radically copolymerizable peroxycarbonate. The grafted ethylene-acrylic acid ester copolymer can be effectively used as a compatibilizing agent in a polymer blend of polyolefin with styrene (co)polymer, as an emulsifying agent in an emulsion of high polymer, or as an adhesive at the interface of polyolefin and styrene (co)polymer.

Method for producing a grafted ethylene-acrylic acid ester copolymer

A block copolymer consisting of segments of copolymer A, which is obtained by copolymerizing an aromatic vinyl monomer with a radically copolymerizable peroxycarbonate and has peroxy groups in its main polymer chain, and segments of (co)polymer B, which is different from copolymer A in the monomer composition and does not contain peroxy groups, can modify matrix resin without deteriorating the mechanical property of the resin.

Block copolymer

A random copolymer comprising specific groups represented by the general formula: ##STR1## and specific peroxycarbonate structural units represented by the general formula: ##STR2## is produced by a method which comprises causing a compound of the formula: ##STR3## to react with a compound of the formula: ##STR4##

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