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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1991
Paul D Davis, Centerville, OH (US);
Jacqueline G Truini, Dayton, OH (US);
David A Hutchings, Centerville, OH (US);
The Mead Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A photohardenable composition comprising a free radical addition polymerizable or crosslinkable compound, an ionic dye/reactive counter ion complex capable of absorbing actinic radiation and producing free radicals which initiate free radical polymerization or crosslinking of the polymerizable or crosslinkable compound, and a disulfide represented by the structure ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of S and O except in a specific case in which the disulfide is derived from one or more tetrazolyl groups; n represents 0 or 1; A represents the residue of the ring containing the N, C and X atoms, the ring containing five or six members and, in addition, said ring members may be fused to an aromatic ring; and R.sup.5 is an aromatic radical selected from the group consisting of (i) phenyl, (ii) benzothiazolyl, (iii) benzoxazolyl, (iv) tetrazolyl, (v) pyridinyl, (vi) pyrimidinyl, (vii) thiazolyl, (viii) oxazolyl, (ix) quinazolinyl, and (x) thiadiazolyl, each of which may have a substituent on one or more C or N atoms of the ring.