Graft polymer and method for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10189931-B2
Application number	US-201515120799-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2015
Priority date	Mar 24, 2014
Publication date	Jan 29, 2019
Grant date	Jan 29, 2019

Abstract

Provided are: a graft copolymer which can be safely and stably produced with simple operation, while maintaining the characteristics of an amine, and which is lower in the introduction cost than conventional graft copolymers; and a method for producing the graft copolymer.
A polyamine graft polymer that is obtained by polymerizing a polyamine derivative, which is obtained by reacting a polymer compound (a) having at least one amino group with a compound (b) having at least one epoxy group, with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c). A method for producing a polyamine graft polymer, which comprises a step for adding, for polymerization, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c) and a radical polymerization initiator to a polyamine derivative, which is obtained by reacting a polymer compound (a) having at least one amino group with a compound (b) having at least one epoxy group, in a polar solvent.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A polyamine graft polymer obtained by polymerizing a polyamine derivative obtained by a reaction between (a) a polymer compound having at least one amino group and (b) a compound having at least one epoxy group; and (c) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer,
wherein the polymer compound having at least one amino group (a) is selected from the group consisting of an ethyleneimine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (1), a vinylamine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (2), an allylamine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (3), a diallylamine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (4), and an acrylic amine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (5) (in the following general formulae, n is an integer of from 10 to 200000, m is an integer of from 5 to 18000, 1 is an integer of from 5 to 15000, o is an integer of from 10 to 10000, and p is an integer of from 1 to 100)

and wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c) is selected from the group consisting of a vinyl monomer, a styrene monomer, a methacrylate monomer, an acrylate monomer, an acrylamide monomer, an allyl monomer, a diallyl monomer, and an unsaturated carboxylic acid.

2. A polyamine graft polymer obtained by polymerizing a polyamine derivative obtained by polymerizing a modified allylamine monomer obtained by a reaction between (a′) an allylamine monomer having at least one allyl group and at least one amino group and (b) a compound having at least one epoxy group; and (c) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer,
wherein the allylamine monomer (a′) is diallylamine.

3. The polyamine graft polymer according to claim 1 , wherein the compound having at least one epoxy group (b) is a compound represented by general formula (6) (R in general formula (6) is a substituted or unsubstituted by hydrocarbon group)

4. The polyamine graft polymer according to claim 1 , wherein the compound having at least one epoxy group (b) is a compound represented by general formula (7) and selected from the group consisting of (1) ethylene oxide in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each a hydrogen atom, (2) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon group having a hydroxy group in the chain and having 1 to 8 carbon atoms (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (3) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (4) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon group having an ether bond in the chain and having 1 to 8 carbon atoms (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (5) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (6) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or an unsaturated hydrocarbon group (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (7) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group containing an alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a cyclic hydrocarbon group having an unsaturated bond (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (8) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group containing an aromatic ring or a heterocyclic ring (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (9) a polyfunctional epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group containing an epoxy ring (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (10) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon group containing an alkoxysilyl in the chain and having 3 to 12 carbon atoms (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (11) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group containing a fluorine atom in the chain (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (12) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group containing a carboxyl group in the chain (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), (13) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon group containing an ester bond or an amide bond in the chain and having 1 to 12 carbon atoms (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms), and (14) an epoxy compound in which R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 in the formula are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group containing a sulfonate group in the chain (not all of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are hydrogen atoms)

5. A method for producing a polyamine graft polymer comprising the step of adding (c) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a radical polymerization initiator to a polyamine derivative obtained by a reaction between (a) a polymer compound having at least one amino group and (b) a compound having at least one epoxy group to polymerize in a polar solvent,
wherein the polymer compound having at least one amino group (a) is selected from the group consisting of an ethyleneimine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (1), a vinylamine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (2), an allylamine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (3), a diallylamine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (4), and an acrylic amine (co)polymer having a structure represented by general formula (5) (in the following general formulae, n is an integer of from 10 to 200000, m is an integer of from 5 to 18000, 1 is an integer of from 5 to 15000, o is an integer of from 10 to 10000, and p is an integer of from 1 to 100)

6. A method for producing a polyamine graft polymer, comprising the step of adding (c) and ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a radical polymerization initiator to a polyamine derivative obtained by polymerizing a modified allylamine monomer obtained by a reaction between (a′) an allylamine monomer having at least one allyl group and at least one amino group and (b) a compound having at least one epoxy group to polymerize in a polar solvent.

7. The method for producing a polyamine graft polymer according to claim 6 , wherein the allylamine monomer (a′) is diallylamine.

8. The method for producing a polyamine graft polymer according to claim 5 , wherein the radical polymerization initiator is selected from the group consisting of an azo initia

Assignees

• Nitto Boseki Co Ltd

Inventors

• Watanabe Koji
• Bunya Masaru

Classifications

• C08F271/00 Primary

  Macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerising monomers on to polymers of nitrogen-containing monomers as defined in group C08F26/00 · CPC title

• C08F283/00

  Macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerising monomers on to polymers provided for in subclass C08G · CPC title

• C08F291/12

  on to nitrogen-containing macromolecules · CPC title

• C08K5/23

  Azo-compounds · CPC title

• C08K5/14

  Peroxides · CPC title