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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1984
Adolf Echte, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Hermann Gausepohl, Mutterstadt, DE;
Juergen Hambrecht, Neckargemuend-Dilsberg, DE;
Karl Gerberding, Wachenheim, DE;
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, , DE;
Abstract
A process for the continuous preparation of rubber-modified polymers of vinyl-aromatics, wherein a mixture which contains a monomeric aromatic vinyl compound and from 3 to 30% by weight, based on the monomer, of an elastomeric polymer, with or without a solvent, is polymerized, in the presence of a free radical initiator and in the presence or absence of a mercaptan as chain transfer agent, at from 80.degree. to 180.degree. C., with stirring, in a cascade of two or more isothermally operated reaction zones and of one or more additional reaction zones which can be operated isothermally or with a rising temperature profile in such a way that the residence time of the reactants in the first reaction zone is .ltoreq.35 minutes. The polymer obtained is freed from vinyl-aromatic monomer, and from any solvent, in a devolatilization zone. The product is useful for the production of injection moldings.