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US 5,512,205 AGranted
UV curable crosslinking agents useful in copolymerization
AssigneeBausch & Lomb Incorporated
InventorYu-Chin Lai
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Abstract
A novel class of compounds are disclosed which may be used as novel crosslinking agents for acrylic-containing, vinyl-containing and/or styrene-containing hydrophilic monomers to prepare novel UV-curable hydrophilic copolymers suitable for use as biomedical articles, especially contact lenses.
Claims14
A composition having at least two different types of ethylenically polymerizable groups and having the schematic representation:
- ##STR15## wherein V denotes a vinyl-containing group having the formula:
- ##STR16## A' denotes an acrylic-containing group having the formula:
- ##STR17## S denotes a styrene-containing group having the formula:
- ##STR18## wherein R.sub.1' is an alkyl radical, polyalkylene oxide, poly(perfluoro) alkylene oxide, dialkyl-capped polydimethylsiloxane, dialkyl-capped polydimethylsiloxane modified with fluoroalkyl or fluoroether groups;
- R.sub.2' -R.sub.10' are independently H, or alkyl of 1 to 5 carbon atoms;
- Q is an organic group containing aromatic moieties having 6-30 carbon atoms;
- X, Y, and Z are independently O, NH or S;
- v' is 1, or higher;
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- a', s' are independently greater than or equal to 0, and a'+s' is greater than or equal to 1.
7 more elements
The compound methacryloxyethyl vinyl carbonate.
The compound methacryloxyethyl vinyl carbamate.
The compound methacryloxyethyl vinyl urea.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.