Residual monomer content of aqueous polymer dispersions is reduced

    公开(公告)号:DE19859249A1

    公开(公告)日:1999-06-10

    申请号:DE19859249

    申请日:1998-12-22

    Applicant: BASF AG

    Abstract: A process for the reduction in the residual monomer content of aqueous polymer dispersions is carried out by the addition of a radical redox initiator system. A process for the reduction of the non-chemically bound residual content of an aqueous polymer dispersion (I) that contains compounds having ethylenically unsaturated groups (residual monomers), comprises the post treatment of the dispersion (I) with a radical redox initiator system (II). (II) contains (A) an oxidising agent consisting of compounds liberating hydrogen peroxide and compounds of formula (1); and (B) a reducing agent consisting of alpha -hydroxycarboxylic acids containing a hydroxymethine group and corresponding salts. R = H, 1-8C alkyl or 6-12C aryl. The addition of (II) to (I) is such that (i) at least a portion of (B) is added to (I) followed by the simultaneous but spatially separate addition of the remainder of (B) with the total amount of (A); or (ii) at least a portion of (A) is added to (I) followed by the simultaneous but spatially separate addition of the remainder of (A) with the total amount of (B); or (iii) the simultaneous but spatially separate addition of the total amounts of (A) and (B).

    Reducing residual monomer content in aqueous polymer dispersion

    公开(公告)号:DE19741187A1

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-25

    申请号:DE19741187

    申请日:1997-09-18

    Applicant: BASF AG

    Abstract: The residual monomer content of aqueous polymer dispersions is reduced by further treatment with an initiator system containing a peroxide, a saturated alpha - hydroxycarboxylic acid and, optionally, multivalent ions of a variable-valency metal. A method for reducing the residual monomer content in aqueous polymer dispersions comprises post-treatment by addition of an initiator system essentially containing: (a) 0.01-5 wt% (based on total amount of monomers used to make the dispersion) of a compound of formula: R -O-O-R (a1), and/or a compound which liberates hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in aqueous medium (a2); (b) 0.01-30 wt% alpha -hydroxy- carboxylic acid with no polymerisable carbon-carbon double bonds or a salt thereof; and (c) 0-1000 ppm multivalent metal ions of variable valency. R and R = H, 1-8 C alkyl or 6-12 C aryl, at least one of these groups being H;

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