PREPARATION OF FINELY DIVIDED, GEL-LIKE, WATER-SWELLABLE COPOLYMERS

    公开(公告)号:CA2004331A1

    公开(公告)日:1990-06-24

    申请号:CA2004331

    申请日:1989-11-30

    Applicant: BASF AG

    Abstract: O.Z. 0050/4043 Finely divided, gel-like, water-swellable copolymers are prepared by copolymerizing (a) 100 parts by weight of water-soluble, monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, (b) from 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of monomers containing two or more ethylenically unsaturated double bonds and (c) from 0 to 20 parts by weight of water-insoluble, monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in 20-80% strength by weight aqueous solution in the presence of a polymerization initiator and from 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on the monomers used in the copolymerization, of a surfactant, by a process in which the monomers are copolymerized in the presence of initially from 0 to 50% by weight of the amount of surfactant to a conversion of not less than 60%, the remaining amount of surfactant is then added to the reaction mixture and the copolymerization is completed and the resulting gel particles dried.

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