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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1991
Filed:
May. 07, 1990
Jeremiah P Casey, Emmaus, PA (US);
Richard V Carr, Allentown, PA (US);
George J Wasilczyk, Allentown, PA (US);
Robert G Petrella, Allentown, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
The invention pertains to tertiary amines used as catalysts for the preparation of polyurethane foams prepared via the catalytic reaction of a polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of blowing agents, etc. The tertiary amine catalysts are prepared by reacting an olefinic nitrile with aliphatic polyol having at least secondary hydroxyl functionality in a ratio less than stoichiometric for providing cyanoalkylated polyol having residual hydroxyl functionality. The resulting cyanoalkylated polyol then is reacted with a secondary amine under conditions for effective reductive alkylation. The tertiary amine catalysts, because of residual secondary hydroxyl functionality, provide for uniform dispersion within a polyurethane formulation; they provide for additional or extended pot life in polyurethane formulations at temperatures below reaction condition, and they are bound by reaction on cure.