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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1981
Ismael Colon, Middlesex, NJ (US);
Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
Described herein is an integrated process for the preparation of substantially linear high molecular weight thermoplastic polymers derived from aryl polyhalide monomers. Aryl polyhalide monomers are first prepared by the reaction of an alkali metal salt of a phenol compound, e.g., dipotassium salt of bisphenol A, with a dihalobenzenoid compound, e.g., 4,4'-dichlorophenylsulfone, in a liquid phase of an aprotic solvent and an azeotrope former, e.g., toluene. Water is removed from the reaction mass as an azeotrope until substantially anhydrous conditions are attained. The aryl polyhalide monomers are then coupled by contacting the monomers with a catalyst mixture of a nickel compound and a ligand in the presence of a reducing metal, e.g., zinc, and an aprotic solvent under substantially anhydrous conditions to form substantially linear high molecular weight thermoplastic polymers.