Stable ambient-curing composition
AssigneeRohm and Haas Company
InventorRobert M. Blankenship
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Abstract
A method for preparing a stable ambient-curing composition containing an active methylene-functional compound and an active methylene-reactive component is provided. A first component bearing at least two active methylene-functional groups is prepared and adjusted to a pH higher than about 7 with a permanent base, after which the pH of the first component is adjusted to a pH lower than about 4 with a volatile acid. Finally an active methylene-reactive component is admixed with the pH-adjusted first component at certain ratios to provide the stable ambient-curing composition.
Claims6
A method for preparing a stable ambient-curing composition comprising:
- (a) forming an aqueous emulsion-polymerized polymer comprising from about 0.5% to 100%, by weight based on the weight of said polymer, of at least one copolymerized monomer selected from the group consisting of acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate, acetoacetoxyethyl acrylate, acetoacetoxypropyl methacrylate, allyl acetoacetate, acetoacetoxybutyl methacrylate, 2,3-di(acetoacetoxy)propyl methacrylate, and N-cyanoacetyl-N-methylaminoethyl methacrylate, said polymer having a molecular weight higher than about 1000;
- (b) adjusting the pH of said polymer to a pH higher than about 7 with a base, said base being substantially nonvolatile under storage, application, and curing conditions;
- (c) adjusting the pH of said base-adjusted polymer to a pH lower than about 4 with an acid, said acid being substantially volatile under curing conditions;
- and,
- (d) admixing an aldehyde, wherein the ratio of the number of equivalents of active methylene functionality in said copolymerized monomer to the number of equivalents of aldehyde is from about 10 to 1 to about 1 to 1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.