Abstract:
Surface-coating binders based on a copolymer which contains carboxyl groups, blocked isocyanate groups, hydroxyl groups and ether groups, and which, due to partial or complete salification with ammonia or with an organic base, is water-soluble or water-dispersible. This copolymer contains, as copolymerized units, one or more alpha , beta -olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids of 3 to 5 carbon atoms or one or more half-esters of an alpha , beta -olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid of 3 to 5 carbon atoms, an N-(1-alkenyl) isocyanate blocked with a CH-, OH- or NH-acidic blocking agent, an adduct of an epoxy resin, based on bisphenol A and epichlorohydrin and having a molecular weight of from 380 to 3,500, with an olefinically unsaturated alcohol of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and one or more other copolymerizable olefinically unsaturated compounds, and has a mean molecular weight of from 1,000 to 20,000 and an acid number of from 35 to 150 mg of KOH/g. The novel surface-coating binder is useful for the anodic electrocoating of metallic articles.