Hard waxes comprising terpolymers of ethylene with unsaturated carboxylic acids and unsaturated carboxylic acid esters

US4406705A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Dieter Oeder · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Wolfram Dietsche · Bischofswerda, DE
• Stefan Weiss · Trostberg, DE
• Walter Ziegler · Trier, DE
• Albert Hettche · Heßheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 1982
• Grant date: Sep 27, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08F210/02
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Water-emulsifiable hard waxes consisting of homogeneous terpolymers of ethylene with--based on weight of terpolymer--from 1 to 8% by weight of C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids and from 0.5 to 10% by weight of C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl esters of such unsaturated carboxylic acids and having a Staudinger index, determined according to DIN 53,728, of from 5 to 55, an acid number of from 8 to 62 and a Hoppler hardness, measured by DFG standard method M-III-9a(57), at 23.degree. C., of from 250 to 800 bar, are obtained by copolymerizing ethylene with olefinically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -carboxylic acids and esters of such acids with C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkanols in a continuous process in the presence of a free radical initiator at from 150.degree. to 300.degree. C. under a pressure of from 1,000 to 3,000 bar, using a weight ratio of ethylene:acid:acrylate of from 500:1:1 to 20:1:1, in a one-phase polymerization medium in which the monomers are soluble, in the presence of from 0.01 to 8% by weight, based on the sum of the monomers, of a regulator, from 3 to 25% by weight of the ethylene being converted and the copolymer formed being removed continuously from…