Patent ID: 6900279
Filing Date: 2005-05-31
Classification: B05D,C08F,C08G,C08L,C09D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A composition comprising a non-gelled copolymer comprising one or more residues of a first polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer that contains a pendant amide, ester or carboxylic acid group, wherein the nearest neighboring monomer residues of the majority of the first monomer residues along the copolymer molecule do not contain pendant carbonyl functional groups, the amide, ester or carboxylic acid group of the residues of the first monomer being the post polymerization transesterification, transamidification or hydrolysis reaction product of a C 1 -C 4 alkyl ester group in the unreacted first monomer with a compound selected from amine functional compounds and hydroxy functional compounds, the reacted copolymer being substantially free of cyclical structures resulting from the transesterification, transamidification or hydrolysis reaction, wherein the composition is substantially free of transition metals and Lewis acids.