US 4,049,590 AGranted

Manufacture of polyurethane compositions

AssigneeBASF SE

InventorsGeorg Falkenstein, Dieter Stein, Franz Haaf, Gerhard Heinz, Ernst Schoen

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Abstract

Polyurethane compositions -- which may or may not be foamed -- having improved mechanical properties are manufactured from organic polyisocyanates, polyhydroxy compounds and one or more at least partially crosslinked, particulate polymers of particle size from 500 to 5,000 A, of which polymer from 1 to 40% by weight are dispersed in the polyhydroxy compound.

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A method for the manufacture of polyurethanes which comprises:

I. mixing
1. a polyhydroxy compound (B) having a molecular weight of from about 500 to 7000 and a hydroxyl number of from 20 to 1000 and selected from the group consisting of polyether-polyols and polyester-polyols, with
2. an aqueous polymer dispersion containing a crosslinked particulate polymer (C) having a particle size of from 500 to 5000 A and a gel content of not less than 5% and comprising homopolymers, copolymers, graft polymers or mixtures thereof, said crosslinked polymer (C) being obtained by the emulsion or suspension polymerization of
a. unsaturated compounds selected from the group consisting of styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, vinyl-toluene, o-, p- and m-ethylstyrene, tert.-butylstyrene, o-chlorostyrene, 2,4-dichlorostyrene, o-bromostyrene, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, vinyl bromide, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl pivalate, esters of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, itaconic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid and crotonic acid with aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alcohols of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, lauryl acrylate, lauryl methacrylate, vinyl-glycol, but-2-ene-1,4-diol, butenol, allyl alcohol, esters of acrylic acid, substituted acrylic acids, crotonic acid, fumaric acid and itaconic acid with straight-chain or branched polyhydric alcohols of mean molecular weights from 50 to 6000, in which at least one OH group of the polyhydric alcohol is not esterified, unsaturated copolymerizable polyols with mean molecular weights of from 200 to 6000, acrylamide, methacrylamide, butadiene, isoprene, piperylene and chloroprene, and
b. crosslinking agents incorporated in the polymerized form in an amount of from 0.1 to about 20% by weight and selected from the group consisting of divinylbenzene, diallyl maleate, diallyl fumarate, diallyladipate, allyl acrylate, allyl methacrylate, diacrylates and dimethacrylates of polyhydroxyalcohols and butadiene,
wherein said homopolymers and copolymers have a glass transition temperature of from 40.degree. to 130.degree. C and said graft polymers have two glass transition temperatures, one of from -40.degree. to 90.degree. C and the other of from 40.degree. to 130.degree. C;
Ii. removing the water from the mixture to produce a dispersion of 1 to 40% by weight of polymer(s) (C) in 99 to 60% by weight of polyhydroxy compound (B);
and
Iii. reacting the resultant mixture of (B) and (C) with an organic polyisocyanate (A) to form the polyurethanes, the ratio of the NCO equivalent of polyisocyanate to radicals of said mixture (B) and (C) which are reactive with isocyanato radicals being in the range of about 0.7-1.3:1.

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Abstract

A method for the manufacture of polyurethanes which comprises:

I. mixing
1. a polyhydroxy compound (B) having a molecular weight of from about 500 to 7000 and a hydroxyl number of from 20 to 1000 and selected from the group consisting of polyether-polyols and polyester-polyols, with
2. an aqueous polymer dispersion containing a crosslinked particulate polymer (C) having a particle size of from 500 to 5000 A and a gel content of not less than 5% and comprising homopolymers, copolymers, graft polymers or mixtures thereof, said crosslinked polymer (C) being obtained by the emulsion or suspension polymerization of
a. unsaturated compounds selected from the group consisting of styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, vinyl-toluene, o-, p- and m-ethylstyrene, tert.-butylstyrene, o-chlorostyrene, 2,4-dichlorostyrene, o-bromostyrene, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, vinyl bromide, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl pivalate, esters of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, itaconic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid and crotonic acid with aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alcohols of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, lauryl acrylate, lauryl methacrylate, vinyl-glycol, but-2-ene-1,4-diol, butenol, allyl alcohol, esters of acrylic acid, substituted acrylic acids, crotonic acid, fumaric acid and itaconic acid with straight-chain or branched polyhydric alcohols of mean molecular weights from 50 to 6000, in which at least one OH group of the polyhydric alcohol is not esterified, unsaturated copolymerizable polyols with mean molecular weights of from 200 to 6000, acrylamide, methacrylamide, butadiene, isoprene, piperylene and chloroprene, and
b. crosslinking agents incorporated in the polymerized form in an amount of from 0.1 to about 20% by weight and selected from the group consisting of divinylbenzene, diallyl maleate, diallyl fumarate, diallyladipate, allyl acrylate, allyl methacrylate, diacrylates and dimethacrylates of polyhydroxyalcohols and butadiene,
wherein said homopolymers and copolymers have a glass transition temperature of from 40.degree. to 130.degree. C and said graft polymers have two glass transition temperatures, one of from -40.degree. to 90.degree. C and the other of from 40.degree. to 130.degree. C;
Ii. removing the water from the mixture to produce a dispersion of 1 to 40% by weight of polymer(s) (C) in 99 to 60% by weight of polyhydroxy compound (B);
and
Iii. reacting the resultant mixture of (B) and (C) with an organic polyisocyanate (A) to form the polyurethanes, the ratio of the NCO equivalent of polyisocyanate to radicals of said mixture (B) and (C) which are reactive with isocyanato radicals being in the range of about 0.7-1.3:1.

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