PROCESS FOR PREPARING CROSS-LINKED POLYMERS BY CATIONIC POLYMERISATION OF UNSATURATED BICYCLIC IMIDES

• Main Author: RENNER, ALFRED
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; German
• Published: 23.08.1989
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CABLES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; CHEMISTRY; COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES ORLACQUERS; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; CONDUCTORS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; DYES; ELECTRICITY; FILLING PASTES; INKS; INSULATORS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PAINTS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; POLISHES; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING ORDIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR; WOODSTAINS

Crosslinked polymers which can be obtained by heating imides of the formula I (I) in which E is allyl or methallyl, G is hydrogen or methyl, R is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, benzyl, alkylene or arylene and n is 1 or 2, in the presence of a catalyst suitable for cationic polymerization. The use of the catalyst makes it possible to carry out curing at relatively low temperatures and within short reaction times. The polymers can be used, in particular, for the preparation of heat-resistant composite materials and they can also be used as electrical insulating materials and whirl-sintered powder paints.