Production of self extinguishing plastics materials

    公开(公告)号:GB1049333A

    公开(公告)日:1966-11-23

    申请号:GB774164

    申请日:1964-02-25

    Applicant: BASF AG

    Abstract: A self-extinguishing material containing at least 2% of chemically combined chlorine and 0.05-5% of a complex compound of formula MxeAry(CO)z, where Me is a transition metal of Group VIB, VIIB or VIII of the Periodic System, Ar is an aromatic system, x is 1-3, y is 0-3, z is 0-12 and y + z is 2-9, is produced by polymerizing (a) a mixture of an olefinically unsaturated monomer containing chlorine and an olefinically unsaturated monomer free from chlorine, or (b) a mixture of an olefinically unsaturated monomer free from chlorine with an organic compound which does not copolymerize with the monomer which contains chlorine and which contains at least 4 carbon atoms, the polymerization being carried out in the presence of the complex compound, and of a dialkyl and/or ketone peroxide, an alkyl hydroperoxide and/or an ester of an acyl peroxide as a polymerization initiator. 2-20% of a gaseous or liquid expanding agent may be added to the material. The polymer may be a copolymer of methyl methacrylate and vinylidene chloride, of vinyl chloride and vinyl isobutyl ether, or a homo-polymer of methyl methacrylate or styrene. The complex compound may be dicyclopentadienyl iron (ferrocene) Polymerization may be carried out in bulk using as initiator tert-butyl perethyl hexamic acid ester, tetraglycidyl ether of pentaerythritol, tert-butyl hydroperoxide, ditert-butyl peroxide, methyl ethyl ketone peroxide, cumene, hydroperoxide or in emulsion with water using sodium pyrophosphate and polyvinyl pyrrolidone. The material may be in the form of beads. The chlorine compound may be a chloroparaffin or a chlorinated polyethylene. The expanding agent may be pentane.

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