Patent GB-1513613-A (GB)
Title: Morpholino-modified polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymers
IPC: C08G77/00
Filed: 1976-02-24
Abstract: 1513613 Morpholino-modified polysiloxanepolyoxyalkylene copolymers; polyurethane foams UNION CARBIDE CORP 24 Feb 1976 [25 Feb 1975] 7175/76 Headings C3T and C3R A morpholino-containing polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer contains mono- and difunctional siloxy units, an average of between 2 and 30 Si-bonded polyoxyalkylene blocks and 2-100 Si-bonded morpholino-bearing groups for every 2 moles of monofunctional siloxy units, the morpholino bearing groups having the formula where p is 0, 1-4, q is 0 or 1 provided that q is 1 when p is more than 1, R<1> is a C2-C4-alkylene radical, R<11> is a C2-C6-alkylene radical, and R<1>-R<4> are hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl radicals, the monofunctional and difunctional siloxy units having at least two C1-C10-alkyl radicals and at least one C1-C10 alkyl radical, respectively, bonded to the respective silicon, atoms thereof the remaining Si-bonded organic group of the respective mono- and di-functional siloxy units being a C1-C10-alkyl radical, the said morpholino-bearing group or the said polyoxyalkylene block. The copolymer may be represented by the average Formula (I) where Q is the morpholino-bearing group, X is R2SiO, Y is (Q)RSiO, Z is (E)RSiO, R is a C1-C10 alkyl radical, E is a polyoxyalkylene block of the formula where r is 0 or 1, R‹ is an alkylene group, an alkylene-CO-group or an alkylene-NHCO-group, the free valency of the alkylene unit being bonded to the Si atom, a is 2-4, b is 3-100, G is a monovalent organic capping group, e.g. R,<00>-, R,<00>CO-, or R<00>NHCO, where R<00> is a C1-C12 monovalent hydrocarbon radical, each of t, u, v, w (t+u), (v+w) is 0 or 1, (t+w) and (u+v) are 0, 1 or 2, x is 0, 1-200, y is 2-100 and z is 2-30. From 50-85 wt. per cent of the copolymer may be composed of polyoxyalkylene blocks, E. The copolymers can be prepared (1) by reacting a morpholino-modified polyalkylsiloxane hydride corresponding to the above average Formula (I), except that E is replaced by hydrogen, with a polyether (X) of the formula CeH2e-1(OCaH2a)bOG, or (Y) of the formula HO(CaH2aO)bG; or (2) by reacting a polyalkylsiloxane hydride, e.g. of the formula (Z) with polyether (X) or (Y) and an unsaturated morpholine reactant, e.g. of the formula either together or seuentially; or (3) by condensing a polyalkylsiloxane hydride of Formula (Z) above with an OH-substituted morpholine reactant, e.g. of the formula and polyether (Y). The copolymer can be used as a surfactant in a process for producing flexible polyurethane foam which comprises simultaneously reacting and foaming a reaction mixture containing a polyether polyol or polyester polyol having at least 2-OH groups per molecule, a polyisocyanate, a blowing agent, a catalyst comprising an amine usually a tertiary amine, and as foam stabilizer the said copolymer. The reaction mixture may also comprise a flame retardant numerous examples of which are listed, and as a co-catalyst an organic derivative of a polyvalent metal, e.g. tin. Conventional additives may also be present in the foamforming reaction mixture, examples of which are given. Suitable polyether polyol reactants are poly(oxyalkylene)polyols and polymer/ polyether polyols prepared by polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers dissolved or dispersed in the polyether polyol in the presence of a free radical catalyst. The copolymer surfactant can be used as such or as a solution in a diluent, e.g. of the formula DO(D<1>O)t0D<11> where D and D<11> are hydrogen atoms or a monovalent hydrocarbon group, D<1> is an alkylene group and t<0> is at least 2. In Examples 1-3 a copolymer prepared by reacting a siloxane of the formula with allyl morpholine and the polyether in the presence of toluene and chloroplatinic acid is used as a surfactant in a polyester-based polyurethane foam-formulation comprising a polyester polyol, prepared from adipic acid, diethylene glycol and trimethylolpropane, M.Wt 2000, N-ethyl morpholine, hexadecyldimethylamine, water, tolylene diisocyanate and optionally tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate. In Examples 4-6 a copolymer prepared by reacting with allylmorpholine and is used as a surfactant in a polyether-based polyurethane foam formulation comprising tolylene diisocyanate, water, stannous octoate and either tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate, bis- [2 - N,N - dimethylamino)ethyl]ether and a glycerol/propylene oxide polyether polyol, or trichlorofluoromethane, dimethylethanolamine and a polyether polyol prepared from glycerol, dipropylene glycol, propylene oxide and ethylene oxide. Other examples are described.