Aliphatic copolymer, production process, aliphatic polyester resin composition, various uses, coating composition, and agricultural or horticultural particulate composition comprising degradable coating film

Abstract

In the present invention, there are obtained aliphatic polyesters having a controlled thermal decomposing property, hydrolizability, and biodegradability, in which OH terminals and COOH terminals are decreased to 50% and 30%, respectively, through a ring-opening polymerization of a lactone and lactide by a mono alcohol having a high boiling point or a metal alkoxide, or by further decreasing both terminals through combining produced polymer terminals with a diisocyanate and, from a composition containing the polyesters, there is obtained a particle-state composition for agriculture and gardening in which a duration period of a fertilizing effect can be controlled, and which is not remained in soil by decomposition. From a resin primarily containing fatty acid cellulose ester derivatives, there are obtained a base film for a marking film which does not include a problem such as volatilization and migration of a plasticizer and a picture image formable heat-sensitive transfer recording material which is excellent in strippability, coloring concentration, and brightness, a conductive coating composition which is excellent in storage stability, adhesion, and conductivity, a single-liquid type coating and a moisture-curable graft copolymer, and a coating composition which have a non toxicity and nonirritating property and which are excellent in dryability. A copolymer in which average chain length in lactone and lactide units are controlled is excellent in heat resistance and impact resistance.