Process for preparing modified polyolefin waxes
AssigneeNippon Oil Co., Ltd.
InventorNobuo Yokoyama
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Abstract
A process for the preparation of a modified polyolefin wax having improved hardness and gloss, which comprises reacting a waxy polyolefin with maleic anhydride to produce a maleinised polyolefin wax, reacting at 100.degree. - 180.degree. C the thus-produced maleinised wax with water in an amount of 2 - 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the maleic anhydride reacted with the waxy polyolefin and, if desired, distilling off from the reaction system an excess of the water remaining therein after the end of the hydrolytic reaction, at a temperature of 100.degree. - 180.degree. C under atmospheric or a reduced pressure.
Claims4
A process for preparing a modified polyolefin wax having improved hardness and gloss, comprising reacting a waxy polyolefin having a molecular weight of 400 - 5,000 with maleic anhydride at a temperature of 120.degree. -300.degree. C to obtain a maleinised wax and then reacting the thus-obtained maleinised wax with water in an amount of 2 - 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the maleic anhydride reacted with the waxy polyolefin, at a temperature of 100.degree. - 180.degree. C.
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