Abstract:
POLYACRYLONITRILE SOULTIONS SUITABLE FOR SPINNING ARE ADVANTAGEOUSLY PRODUCED BY SOULTION POLYMERISATION IN A REACTOR HAVING AN AXIAL SHAFT CARRYING DISC SEPARATING THE REACTOR INTO SEPARATE REACTION ZONES, TURBINES FOR STIRRING THE ZONES SEPARATELY, AND SCRAPERS FOR THE UPPER PART OF THE REACTOR.
Abstract:
1,126,302. Polymerization initiator. RHONEPOULENC S.A. 16 May, 1967 [17 May, 1966], No. 22727/67. Heading C3P. A polymerization initiator comprises (a) a peroxy compound, (b) an organic reducing agent and (c) a boron compound. It is used for the polymerization of acrylonitrile, optionally together with a vinyl or vinylidene comonomer, in an organic solvent. Specified peroxy compounds include H 2 O 2 , hydroperoxides, hydroxy hydroperoxides, peroxy acids and esters of such acids. The acid may be formed in situ from H 2 O 2 and the appropriate acid. Suitable reducing agents are glucose, benzoin, dihydroxyacetone, ascorbic, tartaric, lactic or citric acid, and stannous oxalate. The boron compound is e.g. boric oxide, a boric acid or an organic ester of ortho- or meta-boric acid. In Examples 1 to 7 and 11, acrylonitrile is polymerized in dimethyl formamide using as catalyst a combination of ascorbic acid and boric acid with cyclohexyl, t-butyl, cumene, pinane or methyl ethyl ketone hydroperoxide, H 2 O 2 and acetic acid, t-butyl peracetate or t-butyl perbenzoate. In Example 8, dimethyl sulphoxide is used as solvent and the catalyst comprises cyclohexyl, cumyl, t-butyl or pinane hydroperoxide or t-butyl perbenzoate, ascorbic acid and boric acid and in Example 9, dimethyl sulphoxide is the solvent and the catalyst comprises t-butyl perbenzoate, ascorbic acid and methyl or amyl borate, or the solvent is dimethyl formamide and the catalyst comprises t-butyl perbenzoate, ascorbic acid and B 2 O 3 , or cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, ascorbic acid and methyl borate. The catalyst in Example 10 is t-butyl perbenzoate, benzoin and boric acid. In Example 12, a terpolymer of acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate and potassium p-vinyloxy benzene sulphonate is produced in dimethyl formamide using cumene hydroperoxide, ascorbic acid and methyl borate or in dimethyl sulphoxide using t-butyl perbenzoate, ascorbic acid and boric acid; copolymers of acrylonitrile with vinylidene chloride, vinyl acetate or styrene are also formed in dimethyl formamide using as catalyst methyl ethyl ketone hydroperoxide, ascorbic acid and methyl borate.