Abstract:
The present invention provides for compatibilized elastomer blend compositions based on a preferred mixture of a copolymer of a C4 to C7 isoolefin, such as isobutylene, copolymerized with a para-alkyl styrene comonomer, such as para-methyl styrene wherein at least some of the alkyl substituent groups present in the styrene monomer units contain halogen, and at least one dissimilar elastomer, said blend composition further containing, as a compatibilizer, minor amounts of a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate or a copolymer of ethylene, a lower alkyl acrylate or methacrylate and, optionally, a third comonomer based on acrylic or methacrylic acid.
Abstract:
A process for the production of block copolymers of ethylene and an alpha -olefin such as propylene by using an ionic catalyst system including a metallocene component and a component having a cation capable of donating a proton and a compatible non-coordinating anion. Novel block copolymers are produced.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method for hydrogenation of poly(alkenyl aromatic) polymers or poly(alkenyl aromatic)/polydiene block copolymers that provides hydrogenated polymers with 99.5 % or greater unsaturation and an MWD of less than about 3. Hydrogenated polymers and adhesives comprising the hydrogenated polymers and tackifier are also provided.
Abstract:
Solid calcium superbase soaps in the form of calcium carbonate and calcium carboxylates, the carboxylic acids consisting of a mixture or otherwise of saturated organic carboxylic acids containing from 7 to 13 carbon atoms, having the following characteristics: a linear acid content of between 0 and 40 % by weight, a content of acids which are branched on carbon 2 of between 0 and 20 % by weight, and a content of acids which are mono- or polysubstituted on carbon 3 and/or on the carbons of higher rank, which is equal to or greater than 50 % by weight their preparation and use as lubricant additives.
Abstract:
A method for separating a noble metal catalyst from a crude reaction product of a noble metal-catalyzed hydroformylation reaction which comprises: (a) contacting the crude reaction product under perstraction conditions with a membrane capable of allowing a substantial portion of unreacted olefin feed and hydroformylation reaction product to pass therethrough as permeate while retaining a substantial portion of the catalyst as retentate; (b) removing the permeate by sweeping it away from the membrane by means of a sweep stream which is the same as the olefin feed used in the hydroformylation reaction; and (c) retaining the catalyst as retentate.
Abstract:
A living carbocationic catalyst composition comprising an initiator of a tertiary alkyl halide, a tertiary aralkyl halide or polymeric halide, a co-initiator of an alkyl aluminum or alkyl boron, a proton scavenger and a solvent medium with a dielectric constant between 2.5 and 3.25 is used to produce narrow molecular weight distribution polymers particularly isobutylene polymers.
Abstract:
A fuel oil composition comprises a major proportion of a liquid hydrocarbon middle distillate fuel having a sulphur concentration of 0.2 % or less by weight based on the weight of the fuel, and a minor proportion of a wear-reducing additive comprising an ester for increasing the lubricity of the fuel.
Abstract:
A method for producing a potassium para-diphenyl phosphino sulfonate ligand which comprises reacting potassium diphenyl phosphide with a lithium salt of para-chloro benzenesulfonic acid in the presence of tetrahydrofuran at elevated temperatures.
Abstract:
A process for the catalytic or non-catalytic esterification of acids or anhydrides with a mono-alcohol or a polyhydroxy compound which comprises the steps of adding the reagents to a reaction vessel to form a reaction mixture, and heating the reaction mixture and maintaining a pressure sufficient to obtain boiling of the reaction mixture thereby causing esterification and removing water as vapor while continuously mixing the reaction mixture in the reactor vessel such that at least about 2.5 to about 20 volumes of reaction mixture are internally recirculated per minute, whereby the rate of conversion is enhanced.
Abstract:
Gel-free dispersant additives for lubricating and fuel oil compositions comprise at least one adduct of (A) alpha -olefin homopolymer or interpolymer of 700 to 10,000 M &cir& NOt n, free radically grafted with an average of from 0.5 to 5 carboxylic acid producing moieties per polymer chain, and (B) at least one non-aromatic nucleophilic post-treating reactant selected from: (i) amines containing only a single reactive amino group per molecule, (ii) alcohols containing only a single hydroxy group per molecule, (iii) polyamines containing at least two reactive amino groups per molecule, (iv) polyols containing at least two reactive hydroxy groups per molecule, (v) aminoalcohols containing at least one reactive amino group and at least one reactive hydroxy group per molecule, and (vi) mixtures of (i) to (v); provided that when said post-treating reactant includes one or more of (iii), (iv) or (v), the reaction between ( A) and (B) is conducted in the presence of sufficient chain-stopping or end-capping co-reactant (C) to ensure that the grafted and post-reacted product mixture is gel-free.