Patent ID: 7867570

Claim:
A method of producing a coating composition comprising: forming a film-forming material by reaction of a mixture comprising: a resin, wherein the resin has at least one group reactive with an electrophile, and an electrophilic ligand, wherein the electrophilic ligand has the formula: X 5 —R 5 —X 6 wherein, X 5 is an epoxide or halide monovalent radical; R 5 is an alkylene or arylene divalent radical having a molecular weight from about 90 g/mol to about 5000 g/mol and a nonionic metal coordinating structure comprising at least two electron-rich functional groups independently selected from the group consisting of oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur, silicon, unsaturated carbon, ester, ketone, ether and hydroxyl; and X 6 is a hydrogen, epoxide, or halide monovalent radical, wherein at least X 5 reacts to bond the nonionic metal coordinating structure to the resin via an ether linkage and wherein the reaction product comprises the formula: wherein, X 1 and X 2 are independently hydrogen, hydroxyl, epoxide, or amine functional monovalent radicals; each R 1 and R 2 is independently an alkylene or arylene divalent radical; n is a number from 1 to about 12; m is a number from 0 to about 12; and p is a number from 1 to about 12; and combining a crosslinker and the film-forming material.