Abstract:
IMPACT-RESISTANT POLYMERS WHICH HAVE LOW PERMEABILITY TO GASES AND VAPORS ARE PREPARED BY POLYMERIZING AN OLEFINIC NITRILE, SUCH AS ACRYLONITRILE, WITH A VINYL ETHER, SUCH AS BUTYL VINYL ETHER, TO AT LEAST ABOUT 50% CONVERSION, AND THEN INTRODUCING INTO THE POLYMERIZATION REACTION MEDIUM A CONJUFATED DIENE MONOMER, SUCH AS BUTADIENE-1,3, AND COMPLETING THE POLYMERIZATION REACTION IN THE PRESENCE OF SAID DIENE MONOMER.
Abstract:
IMPACT-RESISTANT POLYMERS WICH HAVE EXCELLENT PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ARE PREPARED BY POLYMERIZING METHYL METHACRYLATE AND OPTIONALLY A COMONOMER COPOLYMERIZABLE THEREWITH TO AT LEAST ABOUT 70% CONVERSION, AND THEN INTRODUCING INTO THE POLYMERIZATION REACTION MEDIUM A CONJUGATED DIENE MONOMER, SUCH AS BUTTADIENE-1,3, AND COMPLETING THE POLYMERIZATION REACTION.
Abstract:
ACRYLONITRILE AND STYRENE ARE COPOLYMERIZED IN THE PRESENCE OF A PREFORMED ELASTOMER SUCH AS A BUTADIENEACRYLONITRILE COPOLYMER IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THE MOLE RATIO OF ACRYLONITRILE TO STYRENE IN THE POLYMERIZATION MIXTURE IS MAINTAINED IN A PREDETERMINDE RANGE AND THE RESULTING COPOLYMER IS COMPOSED OF A PREDETERMINED MOLE RATIO OF POLYMERIZED ACRYLONITRILE TO STYRENE.
Abstract:
Interpolymers having high impact strength, high softening temperature and other excellent properties result from the polymerization of an olefinic nitrile such as acrylonitrile, a vinyl aromatic monomer such as styrene, and maleimide in the presence of a conjugated diolefin elastomer.