Patent ID: 7741413

Claim:
A curable composition comprising: (A) at least one cyclic ether of general formula (I), wherein R 1 and R 2 are the same or different within (I) and independently denote hydrogen, an aliphatic or heteroaliphatic group, an araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic group, a cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic group, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic group, and n is 2 or 3; (B) at least one cyclic thiocarbonate of general formula (II), wherein R 3 and R 4 are the same or different within (II) and independently denote hydrogen, an aliphatic or heteroaliphatic group, an araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic group, a cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic group or an aromatic or heteroaromatic group, X and Y denote oxygen or sulfur, and m is 2 to 5; (C) at least one amine of general formula (III) NR 5 R 6 R 7 (III) wherein R 5 , R 6 and R 7 are the same or different within (III) and independently denote hydrogen, an aliphatic or heteroaliphatic group, an araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic group, a cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic group, an aromatic or heteroaromatic group, or two of R 5 , R 6 or R 7 form together a heterocycloaliphatic group, with the proviso that one or two of R 5 , R 6 and R 7 denote hydrogen; (D) at least one carboxylic acid of general formula (IV), R 8 —COOH (IV) wherein R 8 denotes an aliphatic or heteroaliphatic group, an araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic group, a cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic group, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic group; and whereby instead of or in addition to (A) and (B) a hybrid compound (AB) of general formula (V) can optionally comprise part of the curable composition, wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , m and n are defined as above and A denotes a bridging group selected from the group consisting of aliphatic and heteroaliphatic groups; araliphatic and heteroaraliphatic groups; cycloaliphatic and heterocycloaliphatic groups; and aromatic and heteroaromatic groups; and whereby instead of or in addition to (C) and (D) a hybrid compound (CD) of general formula (VI) HOOC—B—NR 5 R 6 (VI) can optionally comprise part of the curable composition, wherein R 5 and R 6 are as defined above and B denotes a bridging group selected from the group consisting of aliphatic or heteroaliphatic groups; araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic groups; cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic groups and aromatic or heteroaromatic groups.