Patent ID: 8796484

Claim:
A polymer polymerized from a monomer composition comprising at least one dimethicone copolyol macromer selected from formulae III and IV below in combination with one or more monomers selected from: a) at least one non-ionic vinyl monomer; b) at least one acidic vinyl monomer; c) at least one cationic vinyl monomer; d) at least one associative vinyl monomer; e) at least one semihydrophobic vinyl monomer; f) at least one crosslinking monomer; and mixtures thereof wherein in formula III R and R′ independently represent hydrogen and a cyclic anhydride residue, subject to the proviso that R and R′ do not both represent hydrogen at the same time, R 1 and R 2 independently represent a radical selected from C 1 to C 30 alkyl, C 1 to C 20 halo substituted alkyl, C 3 to C 8 cycloalkyl, C 6 to C 14 aryl, and C 2 to C 20 alkenyl, E represents a divalent ethylene radical, P independently represents a divalent propylene radical, a, b, and c are independently 0 to 100; and n is 0 to 200, E taken together with the oxygen atom to which is attached represents an ethylene oxide residue (EO or OE) and P taken together with the oxygen atom to which it is attached represents a propylene oxide residue (PO or OP) wherein the EO/PO and OE/OP residues can be arranged in random, non-random, or blocky sequences; wherein in formula IV R 1 and R 2 , E, P, a, b, and c are as defined above, R 3 represents a radical selected from C 1 to C 30 alkyl, C 1 to C 20 halo substituted alkyl, C 3 to C 8 cycloalkyl, C 6 to C 14 aryl, and C 2 to C 20 alkenyl, R 4 represents a radical selected from C 1 to C 30 alkyl, C 6 to C 14 aryl, and C 2 to C 20 alkenyl, x is 0 to 200, y is 1 to 200, z≦y; and wherein said cyclic anhydride residue in formulae III and IV is represented by the formula: wherein R 5 and R 6 are independently selected from hydrogen and methyl, subject to the proviso that R 5 and R 6 do not both represent methyl at the same time.