Polymerization processes using aliphatic maleimides

US6034150A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• The University of Southern Mississippi · US
• First Chemical Corporation

Inventors

• Charles E. Hoyle · Hattiesburg, US
• Shan Clark · Hattiesburg, US
• E. Sonny Jonsson · Stockholm, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 7, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08F2/50
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Aliphatic maleimides and methods using the same are disclosed. Polymerization of compositions which include the compounds of the invention may be activated by irradiating the composition with radiation in the absence of a photoinitiator.