Copolymers based on ethylene and unsaturated carboxylic esters and their use as mineral oil additives

Abstract

Copolymers based on ethylene and unsaturated carboxylic esters and their use as mineral oil additives. The invention relates to copolymers of low olefins and vinyl esters, containing a) from 85 to 97 mol % of bivalent structural units of the formula 1 —CH2—CR1R2—  1 in which R1 and R2, independently of one another, are hydrogen or methyl, and b) at least 3 mol % of bivalent structural units of the formula 2 in which R3 is saturated, branched C6-C16-alkyl which has a tertiary carbon atom, wherein R3 is bonded by its tertiary carbon atom to the carboxyl function. The copolymers according to the invention are used as flow improvers for mineral oil distillates.

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