Abstract:
A process is disclosed for preparing a composition having improved solvent power for sulfur wherein a composition comprising a sulfide having the general formula RSS a SR′ wherein R and R′ are defined carbon-containing radicals and a is 0 to 3, and a catalyst for improving the ability of said composition to take up sulfur is treated, either before, during or after the addition of said catalyst to said composition, with a primary or secondary amine in an effective amount and for an effective time period.
Abstract:
An accelerometer (10) comprising a piezoelectric polymer body (16) as a transducer element is disclosed. The piezoelectric polymer body (16), with the appropriate electrodes (14), is disposed on a rigid dielectric substrate (12). An inertia mass (22) is disposed over the piezoelectric polymer body (16) such that when the substrate (12) is accelerated, an electrical output is produced between the electrodes (14, 26). The design of the accelerometer (10) allows it to be fabricated into a very small, lightweight package which allows for vibration testing to be carried out on virtually any vibrating element.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a compound having the formula: wherein R¹, R², R³ and R⁴ are, e.g., alkyl of 1 to 10 carbons or hydroxy, X is, e.g., -O- or -S-, R⁵ is, e.g., alkylene of 1 to 10 carbons or alkenylene of 2 to 10 carbons, Y is, e.g., -C(=O)- or -S(=O)₂-, R⁶ is, e.g., hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 10 carbons, R¹² is, e.g., alkylene of 2 to 5 carbons or alkenylene of 2 to 3 carbons and n is 1 or 2, which compound incorporates both o-hydroxybenzophenone and hydrazide functional groups. Such compounds are useful as ultraviolet light absorbers and heat stabilizers for plastics.
Abstract:
Flame retardancy of polyphenylene ether resins is increased by blending with the resin a flame retarding amount of a halophenyl hydrocarbyl ester. The ester is preferably the reaction production of a halogenated phenol, preferably a bromophenol, and a hydrocarbyl acid, acid chloride or acid anhydride. The polyphenylene ether resin may include homopolymers or copolymers of polyphenylene ethers or blends of polyphenylene ethers with vinyl aromatic resins such as styrene polymers and copolymers. The flame retarding halophenyl esters are also effective as processing aids in improving the flowability and moldability of the polyphenylene ether resins during melt processing.
Abstract:
Alkanesulfonic acids and alkanesulfonyl chlorides, free of undesirable side products arising from side-chain chlorination, are prepared by oxidation with hydrogen peroxide of the corresponding alkanethiol, dialkyldisulfide or alkyl alkanethiolsulfonate mixed with aqueous hydrochloric acid.
Abstract:
What is described herein is a liquid U.V. stabilizer composition and process for effectively surface modifying a PVC resinous body to provide a stabilizing amount of U.V. stabilizer within the surface region of the body within a predetermined solution contact time without leaving an appreciable amount of solvent therein or stabilizer on the surface of the body, and without affecting the surface appearance of the modified surface of the body. In one form of the invention, the U.V. stabilizer composition comprises about 10 to 50 wt/vol%, preferably 15 to 35 wt/vol%, of a U.V. stabilizer dissolved in a mixture of methylene chloride and a liquid fluorochloro hydrocarbon. Suitably the methylene chloride component of the solvent mixture comprises about 40 to 99%, preferably about 50 to 85%, and the fluorochloro hydrocarbon component comprises about 1 to 60%, preferably about 15 to 50%, of the solvent mixture. A preferred fluorochloro hydrocarbon is 1,1,2-trifluoro-1,2,2-trichloroethylene.
Abstract:
Ultraviolet light stabilizers are chemically bound to anhydride containing polymers or copolymers. The polymeric stabilizers are prepared by the reaction of primary amino or hydrazido-substituted UV absorbers with some or all of the anhydride groups of the polymer or copolymer to form polymers with recurring units selected from the formulas
or
or both in which the units occur, e.g., in the polymer backbone and wherein x is 0 or 1, R 1 and R 2 are, e.g., hydrogen or phenyl and G is, e.g.,
wherein R 3 and R 4 are, e.g., hydrogen or R 3 or R 4 is a connecting group X 1 which is, e.g., a direct bond. The polymer bound stabilizers are not lost from the polymer system by volatilization, migration, or extraction, even at high temperature. The polymer of this invention may be used as they are or as concentrates to stabilize other polymer systems.
Abstract:
There are provided phenolic antioxidant hydrazides of the formula wherein R¹ is a tertiary alkyl of 4 to 8 carbons, R² is, e.g., hydrogen or t-alkyl of 4 to 8 carbons, R³, R⁴, R⁵, R⁶, and R⁷ are independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 6 carbons, and phenyl, y is an integer of from 0 to 6, and z is an integer of from 0 to 10, which are useful to stabilize organic materials (such as synthetic polymers) which are subject to oxidative degradation.
Abstract:
A composition, useful for dissolving sulfur, which comprises a major amount of a disulfide or polysulfide and a catalyst comprising one or more polyalkyleneoxyamines or polyamines, and methods for using the composition in a system to prevent sulfur-plugging, are disclosed.
Abstract:
Described is a fungicide product comprising microcapsules containing a phytotoxic compound of the formula: where X is -O- or -S- and R is alkyl, alkoxy, alkylamino, halo, nitro or hydrogen wherein the alkyl group or radical has from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, said microcapsules having walls of a resinous polycondensate selected from the group consisting of crosslinked polyurea, crosslinked polyamide and crosslinked polyamide-polyurea wherein the degree of crosslinking ranges from about 25 to 100%, said walls being about 10 to about 30% of the total weight of said microcapsules, and said microcapsules having an average size ranging from about 7 to about 25 microns in diameter.