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US 5,410,014 AGranted
Method of preparing aliphatic-aromatic polycarbonates
AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWilfried Haese, Ralf Pakull, Gerhard Fennhoff, Jurgen Kirsch
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Abstract
A method of preparing aliphatic-aromatic polycarbonate resin is disclosed. Accordingly, the method entails reacting an oligocarbonate of diphenol having chlorocarbonic acid ester terminal groups, with an aliphatic diol, in a non-aqueous solvent. The amount of solvent is such that the oligocarbonate is about 10-40% relative to the total weight of solvent, oligocarbonate and diol.
Claims7
A method of preparing aliphatic-aromatic polycarbonate resin having a weight average molecular weight of 9,000 to 190,000 comprising
- (a) reacting at a temperature of 160.degree. to 170.degree. C. in the presence of a catalyst
- (i) an oligocarbonate of diphenol having chlorocarbonic acid ester terminal groups, with
- (ii) an aliphatic diol,
- in a non-aqueous neutral solvent, said solvent being in an amount such that said oligocarbonate is present in an amount of about 10-40% relative to the total weight of the mixture of said solvent, (i) and (ii) and
- (b) expelling from said mixture gaseous hydrochloric acid formed in the reaction, and
- (c) isolating a the resulting polycarbonate from said non-aqueous solvent said catalyst selected from the group consisting of tertiary aliphatic amines and nitrogen heterocycle, said catalyst being present in an amount of 0.5 to 5 percent relative to the weight of said oligocarbonate, said solvent being at least one member selected from the group consisting of chlorinated hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons, said molecular weight being determined by gel chromatography.
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