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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
May. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Duane Jenkins, Hurricane, WV (US);
David Robinson Bassett, Charleston, WV (US);
Gregory Dean Shay, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
560181 ; 556437 ; 560199 ; 564123 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to polymers, especially emulsion polymers, and their use for the thickening of a variety of aqueous systems, to methods of thickening utilizing the polymers, to enhancement of such thickening by the addition of surfactants, solvents or non-solvents, and to other aspects including coating compositions and other aqueous systems thickened with the polymers. This invention also relates to new complex hydrophobe-containing oligomers and their use in producing the polymers of this invention.