Alkoxylated/cationically modified amide-containing polymers

A water-soluble polymer having a molecular weight of at least 500 represented by the structure:

• ##STR75## wherein R' is a multivalent hydrocarbonaceous bridging group having from 1-20 carbon atoms and which may be linear or branched alkyl;
• aryl;
• alkaryl, cyclic,, and mixtures thereof;
• X is represented by:
• ##STR76## wherein R" is a hydrocarbonaceous group chosen, at each occurrence, from linear or branched alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, cyclic,, or two R" groups taken together to form a ring, and alkoxyl groups represented by ##STR77## and mixtures thereof, provided that when n is zero, at least one R" is an alkoxyl group represented by ##STR78## , and
• wherein
• p is from 0 to 1, provided that when p is one, an electroneutralizing gegenion is equivalently present;
• Y is chosen, at each occurrence, from the group consisting of --OR"', ##STR79## and mixtures thereof;
• and
• R is individually chosen, at each occurrence, from hydrogen or a lower alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) group, and
• q individually, at each occurrence, ranges between 1-50;
• and
• m is from 0-20
• n is from 0-20, provided the sum, m+n, is 1, and wherein;
• R"' is chosen, at each occurrence, from hydrocarbonaceous groups having from one to twenty carbon atoms and being linear or branched alkyl groups, aryl and alkaryl, and cyclic groups, and mixtures thereof;
• and wherein
• M is chosen, at each occurrence, from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) groups, alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, ammonium, primary, secondary, and tertiary amines, and quaternary ammonium groups, and mixtures thereof;
• and wherein
• (a+b+d), the sum, is sufficient to achieve a molecular weight of at least 500;
• and wherein the following relations exist:
• the fraction a/b ranges between 0 to 100;
• the fraction a/d ranges between 0 to 100;
• the fraction (a+b)/d ranges between 0.01 to 100;
• and
• the fraction b/d ranges between 0.01 to 100,
• and wherein each mer unit defined by a, b, or d is randomly distributed within the polymer.

A water-soluble polymer represented by:

• ##STR80## wherein R is hydrogen or a lower alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) group;
• R' is a multivalent hydrocarbonaceous bridging group having from 2-12 carbon atoms and being chosen from the group consisting of linear and branched alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, cyclic and heterocyclic groups, and mixtures thereof;
• X is represented by:
• ##STR81## where p is 0 or 1, and where R" is individually chosen, at each occurrence, from a hydrocarbon substitutent having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms and being from the group consisting of linear and branched alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, cyclic groups;
• and further, R" may also be an alkoxyl group represented by:
• ##STR82## where q ranges from 1-50, and R"' is individually chosen, at each occurrence from a linear or branched alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkaryl group, a cyclic group, and mixtures thereof;
• and
• Y is chosen from the group --OR"', ##STR83## and mixtures thereof;
• m is from 0 to 10
• n is from 0 to 10, provided the sum (m+n) is from 1 to 12;
• and further wherein
• (a+b+d), the sum, is sufficient to achieve a molecular weight of from about 1,000 to 20,000,000, and
• the fraction a/b ranges from 0 to 100;
• the fraction a/b ranges from 0 to 100;
• the fraction a+b/d ranges from 0.01 to 100;
• the fraction b/d ranges from 0.01 to 100;
• and wherein the mer units described by a, b, or d are randomly distributed within the polymer;
• and M is chosen from the group H, lower alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) groups, alkali metal ions, ammonium ions, and mixtures thereof.

The water-soluble polymer represented by:

• ##STR84## wherein R is chosen, at each occurrence, from hydrogen or lower alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) groups;
• R' is a multivalent hydrocarbonaceous bridging group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms and which is linear or branched alkyl, aromatic, cyclic and mixtures thereof;
• X is represented by:
• ##STR85## where p is 0 or 1;
• and provided when p is 1, an electroneutralizing gegenion is equivalently present;
• and
• R" is individually chosen, at each occurrence, from a hydrocarbon substituent group having from 1-6 carbon atoms and an alkoxylate substituent represented by ##STR86## and mixtures thereof, and where
• q ranges from 1-50;
• and
• Y is ##STR87## and R"' is individually chosen, at each occurrence, from hydrocarbonaceous groups having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms and being linear or branched alkyl groups, aryl and alkaryl, and cyclic groups, and mixtures thereof;
• M is chosen from H, Li, Na, K, NH.sub.4, and mixtures thereof;
• and
• n is from 0 to 8;
• m is from 0 to 8, provided the sum, m+n, is from 1-10;
• and the sum, a+b+d, is sufficient to achieve a molecular weight of at least 1,000, and further that
• the fraction a/d is from 0 to 100;
• the fraction a/b is from 0 to 100;
• the fraction (a+b)/d is from 0.1 to 100;
• the fraction (b/d) is from 0.01 to 100;
• and the repeating mer units described by a, b, and d are randomly distributed within the polymer.

The polymer, having a molecular weight of at least 500, represented by:

• ##STR98## wherein R is individually chosen, at each occurrence, from the group consisting of hydrogen and lower alkyl groups having from one to four carbon atoms;
• and wherein R"' is chosen at each occurrence from C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl groups, and
• q is from 0 to 50;
• and,
• the sum, a+b+d, is sufficient to achieve a molecular weight of from 1,000-20,000,000.