Process for the Preparation of Random Radical Copolymers, and Active Substance Compositions Obtainable Therefrom

• Main Authors: BOHRMANN HANS-GUENTER, KOLTZENBURG SEBASTIAN, TUERK HOLGER, DIELEMAN CEDRIC
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.04.2015
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRAPPING

A process for the preparation of random radical copolymers which comprises a) at least one olefinically unsaturated sulfonic acid of the formula (I), where n is 0 to 10; X is O or NR5; R1 is hydrogen or methyl; R2, R3 independently of one another are hydrogen or C1- to C6-alkyl and R5 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, alkoxyaryl, hydroxyalkyl, (di)alkylaminoalkyl, (di)alkylaminoaryl, (di)arylaminoalkyl, alkylarylaminoalkyl or alkylarylaminoaryl, it being possible for the aryl radicals to be monosubstituted or polysubstituted, salts thereof or mixtures of acid and salts and b) at least two structurally different olefinically unsaturated monomers of the formula (II), where Y is O or NR7; R5 is hydrogen or methyl; R6 is alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, (di)alkylaminoalkyl or (di)alkylaminoaryl and R7 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, alkoxyaryl, hydroxyalkyl, (di)alkylaminoalkyl, (di)alkylaminoaryl, (di)arylaminoalkyl, alkylarylaminoalkyl or alkylarylaminoaryl, it being possible for the aryl radicals to be monosubstituted or polysubstituted, and c) if appropriate, one or more olefinically unsaturated monomers which differ structurally from components (a) and (b), d) at least one initiator being dissolved either (i) in a solvent mixture comprising water and a water-soluble organic solvent with a boiling point of less than 140° C. or (ii) being dissolved in one or more pure alcohols by heating, and being polymerized in solution, where the polymer formed remains in solution. The copolymers which are obtainable by the process are suitable as formulation adjuvants in agrochemical active substance compositions.