Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser – Synthetic resins – Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-21
2002-03-26
Wilson, D. R. (Department: 1713)
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser
Synthetic resins
Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...
C525S070000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06362278
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to stabilising plastics and plastic compositions (virgin materials or recyclates, optionally blended with virgin materials) while at the same time improving the mechanical properties by incorporating specific compatibilisers.
The preparation of polymer blends is an established method for producing plastics having novel properties. As is known, however, polymers of different structures usually cannot be blended with each other, i.e. processing two different plastics gives a macroscopical mixture having insufficient mechanical properties. To improve the compatibility and therefore also the properties of the plastic blends, so-called compatibilisers are commercially available. These compatibilisers are polymers which prevent or reduce the separation of two- or multi-component systems or which improve the dispersion, thereby producing a homogeneous blend of different plastics which has good mechanical properties.
The known compatibilisers are predominantly based on polymers of polar and nonpolar structures which are produced by customary polymerisation reactions.
Compatibilisers are used in virgin plastic compositions and also, increasingly, in recyclates. In this case, the production process, or the used plastics collection, often results in plastic compositions the mechanical properties of which are only adequate for new applications if compatibilisers are added to them. In
Kunststoffe
83 (1993), 10, 820-822 and in
Kunststoffe
85 (1995) 4, 446-450, K. Hausmann discusses the problem of recycling incompatible plastics such as polyethylene/polyethylene terephthalate (PEIPET) and polyamide/polyethylene (PA/PE). For recycling, compatibilisers are used. In
Kunststoffe
83 (1993) 5, 369-372 R.-E. Grützner, R. Gärtner and H.-G. Hock published research on similar systems (PE/PA composite foils). R. Mühlhaupt and J. Rösch report on phase compatibilisers for polypropylene/polyamide (PP/PA) alloys in
Kunststoffe
84 (1994) 9, 1153-1158. In
Kunststoffe
83 (1993) 11, 926-929, G. Obieglo and K. Romer also describe compatibilisers for use in plastic recycling. In
Recycle '
91, 8/5-1 and
Recycle '
95, 6/4-3, S. Fuzessery presents compatibilisers and polymer modifiers for virgin and recycled thermoplastics. It is known to bind stabilisers to a polymer to obtain a better blend in the product to be stabilised and to prevent the stabiliser from migrating therefrom. This has been suggested, inter alia, by M. Minagawa in
Polymer Degradation and Stability
25 (1989), 121-141 or by H. Yamaguchi, M. Itoh, H. Ishikawa and K. Kusuda in
J.M.S.—Pure Appl. Chem.,
A30(4), (1993), 287-292. In
Die Angewandte Makromolekulare Chemie
158/159 (1988), 221-231, in
Advances in Polmer Science
101, pages 65-167, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1991 and in Jan Pospísil, Peter P. Klemchuck,
Oxidation Inhibition in Organic Materials, Vol.
1 (1989), 193-224, Jan Pospísil presents a survey of “functionalised” polymers, i.e. polymers containing an effective antioxidant, antiozonant, metal deactivator, light stabiliser or bio-stabiliser group. EP-A 306 729 discloses antioxidants bound to polymers, said polymers being obtained by reacting an anhydride-functionalised polymer with a hydrazide-functionalised antioxidant or with a copolymer consisting of N-substituted imides of cyclic &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydrides (with antioxidant function) and ethylenic or vinylic aromatic monomers.
Stabilising plastic compositions against heat and light poses a special problem because, depending on the polarity of the components, a nonuniform distribution of the stabiliser compounds is obtained in the polyphase polymer system (stabiliser partitioning). This is described, inter alia, by D. M. Kulich, M. D. Wolkowicz and J. C. Wozny in
Makromol. Chem., Macromol. Symp.
70/71, 407-418 (1993). The distribution equilibrium of the stabilisers is additionally influenced by the compatibilisers used which are moreover often the least stable component of the composition. Thermal or photooxidative damage of the compatibiliser then results in a very rapid breakdown of the entire composition because the compatibilising component is impaired.
Accordingly, it is desirable to provide compounds which improve the compatibility of the components in polymer blends as well as the mechanical properties and which also ensure protection against oxidative and photooxidative damage.
It has now been found that specific polymers with corresponding stabiliser side groups possess these properties.
Accordingly, this invention relates to a process for stabilising and at the same time phase compatibilising plastics or plastic compositions by incorporating polymeric compounds obtainable by reacting a compound selected from the group consisting of the sterically hindered phenols, sterically hindered amines, lactones, sulfide, phosphites, benzotriazoles, benzophenones and 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3,5-triazines, which compounds contain at least one functional reactive group, with a compatibiliser.
Suitable sterically hindered phenols which contain at least one reactive group and which are reacted with the compatibiliser compound are compounds of formula I
R
1
and R
2
are each independently of the other hydrogen, C
1
-C
25
alkyl, phenyl-C
1
-C
3
alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted once or several times at the aromatic ring by OH or/and C
1
-C
4
alkyl, unsubstituted or C
1
-C
4
alkyl-substituted C
5
-C
12
cycloalkyl, or phenyl; n is 1, 2 or 3;
E is OH, SH, NHR
3
, SO
3
H, COOH, —CH═CH
2
,
m is 0 or 1;
R
3
is hydrogen or C
1
-C
9
alkyl;
R
4
is C
1
-C
12
alkyl, or phenyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or several C
1
-C
4
-alkyl, halogen or/and C
1
-C
18
alkoxy;
A if E is OH, SH or —CH═CH
2
, is —C
x
H
2x
—, —CH
2
—S—CH
2
CH
2
—, —C
q
H
2q
—(CO)—O—C
p
H
2p
—, —C
q
H
2q
—(CO)—NH—C
p
H
2p
— or —C
q
H
2q
—(CO)—O—C
p
H
2p
—S—C
q
H
2q
—;
x is a number from 0 to 8;
p is a number from 2 to 8;
q is a number from 0 to 3;
R
1
and n are as defined above; or
A if E is —NHR
3
, is —C
x
H
2x
— or —C
q
H
2q
—(CO)—NH—C
p
H
2p
—, wherein x,p and q have the meanings cited above; or
A if E is COOH or SO
3
H, is —C
x
H
2x
—, —CH
2
—S—CH
2
— or —CH
2
—S—CH
2
CH
2
—, wherein x has the meaning cited above; or
A if E is
is a direct bond, —C
q
H
2q
—(CO)
m
—O—CH
2
— or —C
x
H
2x
—S—CH
2
—, wherein q, m, x, R
1
and R
2
are as defined above;
A if E is
C
1
-C
25
alkyl is linear or branched and is typically C
1
-C
20
-, C
1
-C
18
-, C
1
-C
12
- , C
1
-C
9
-, C
1
-C
6
- or C
1
-C
4
alkyl. Typical examples are methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, sec-butyl, iso-butyl, tert-butyl, pentyl, 1,1-dimethylpropyl, hexyl, heptyl, 2,4,4-trimethyl-pentyl, 2-ethylhexyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl, tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, octadecyl, nonadecyl, icosyl, docosyl or pentacosyl.
C
1
-C
9
Alkyl and C
1
-C
4
alkyl have, for example, the meanings cited above up to the corresponding number of carbon atoms.
C
2
-C
6
Alkenyl radicals can be mono- or polyunsaturated and are typically allyl, methallyl, 1,1-dimethylallyl, 1-butenyl, 3-butenyl, 2-butenyl, 1,3-pentadienyl or 5-hexenyl. Allyl is preferred. R
3
defined as C
2
-C
6
alkenyl is, for example, C
2
-C
4
alkenyl.
C
1
-C
4
Alkoxy is a linear or branched radical and is methoxy, ethoxy, propoxy, isopropoxy, n-butyloxy, sec-butyloxy, iso-butyloxy or tert-butyloxy.
Phenyl-C
1
-C
3
alkyl is typically benzyl, phenylethyl, &agr;-methylbenzyl or &agr;,&agr;-dimethyl-benzyl. Benzyl is preferred.
C
5
-C
12
Cycloalkyl is typically cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, cyclooctyl, cyclododecyl, in particular cyclopentyl and cyclohexyl, preferably cyclohexyl. C
1
-C
4
Alkyl-substituted C
5
-C
12
cycloalkyl is typically 1-methylcyclohexyl.
Halogen is fluoro, chloro, bromo and iodo, in particular chloro and bromo, preferably chloro.
Mono- or polysubstituted phenyl is typically substituted one to five times, for example one, two or three times, preferably one or two times, at the phenyl ring.
Substituted phenyl is, for example, substituted by lin
Evans Samuel
Herbst Heinz
Hoffmann Kurt
Pfaendner Rudolf
Steinmann Alfred
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
Crichton David R.
Hall Luther A. R.
Wilson D. R.
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