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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1993
William M Lamanna, Stillwater, MN (US);
Michael C Palazzotto, St. Paul, MN (US);
Robert J DeVoe, Oakdale, MN (US);
Fred B McCormick, Maplewood, MN (US);
Jeffrey M Olofson, Woodbury, MN (US);
Allen R Siedle, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Peggy S Willett, Stillwater, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Salts having a cationic portion of either a mono-, polyvent metal center, onium salts or organometallic salts and a nonnucleophilic anion are useful as catalysts and initiators that may be photochemically or thermally-activated, and polymerizable compositions containing such catalysts and initiator salts and at least one of a cationic or free-radical addition polymerizable monomers, or catalyzed step-growth polymerizable monomers.