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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 1984
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
John C Richardson, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08G / ; C08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
528176 ; 528125 ; 528126 ; 528128 ; 528173 ; 528190 ; 528191 ; 528193 ; 528194 ; 528271 ;
Abstract
Thermotropic polyesters consisting essentially of units derived from diphenols and aromatic dicarboxylic acids are prepared via monocarboxylic acid esters of the diphenols by acidolysis in two steps. The first step is a melt prepolymerization to form a prepolymer of inherent viscosity in the range of 0.12 to 0.16 dl g.sup.-1. The second step is a melt polymerization by a single pass through a wiped film reactor, in which the film of polymer melt is subjected to a high rate of shear and to a temperature in the range within which the polyester forms an anisotropic melt phase. The polyester product has an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.5 dl g.sup.-1.