Initiators for radical polymerization

US6177379A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Rainer Koniger · Freinsheim, DE
• Reinhold Schwalm · Monsheim, DE
• Roman Benedikt Raether · Speyer, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 23, 2001
• Expiry date: May 18, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07F7/0814
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of initiating free-radical addition polymerization, which entails effecting a free-radical addition polymerization in the presence of an initiator, which contains, as a structural feature, a Diels-Alder adduct of an azo group (--N.dbd.N--) with a conjugated double bond (diene).