Use of tertiary aliphatic monocarboxylic acids as chain terminators for the preparation of polycarbonates and of polyester carbonates
AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsBurkhard K ohler, Wolfgang Ebert, Klaus Horn, Walter Sch afer, J urgen Kirsch, Rolf Dhein
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of special monocarboxylic acids as chain terminators for the preparation of polycarbonates and of polyester carbonates, and to the polycarbonates and polyester carbonates obtainable according to the invention.
Claims16
A process of preparing polycarbonates from diphenyls, chain terminators, phosgene and optionally branching agents, by the two-phase boundary process, characterized in that tertiary aliphatic monocarboxylic acids are used as the chain terminators in amounts from 0.6 mole % to 10 mole %, based on the moles of diphenyls, wherein the tertiary aliphatic monocarboxylic acids have the formula:
- ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently represent C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl radicals.
A process of preparing thermoplastic polyester carbonates from diphenols, chain terminators, phosgene, reactive aromatic dicarboxylic acid dichlorides and optionally branching agents, by the two-phase boundary process, characterized in that tertiary aliphatic monocarboxylic acids are used as the chain terminators in amounts from 0.6 mole %, based on the moles of diphenols used, wherein the tertiary aliphatic monocarboxylic acids have the formula:
- ##STR3## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently represent C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl radicals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.