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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1985
Merrill Goldenberg, Teaneck, NJ (US);
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY (US);
Abstract
Organic aprotic solvent insoluble polymers which are derivatives of a polyvinyl alcohol, having a weight average molecular weight of at least about 2,000, and containing from about 0.5 to about 90 percent, based on the number of hydroxyl groups in said polyvinyl alcohol, of an addition reaction product of units of the formula ##STR1## with a vinylic monomer, wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently alkylene, arylene, cycloaliphatic, aralkylene or aralkarylene, n is 0 or 1, A.sub.1 is a carbamoyloxy or ureido linking group, A is an oxa, imino or ureido group, R.sub.3 is hydrogen or methyl, R.sub.4 is hydrogen, or when R.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl or also --COOR.sub.5 where R.sub.5 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, and hydrogel contact lenses made therefrom and their preparation.