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  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
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  • G03F7/004—Photosensitive materials
  • G03F7/027—Non-macromolecular photopolymerisable compounds having carbon-to-carbon double bonds, e.g. ethylenic compounds
  • G03F7/028—Non-macromolecular photopolymerisable compounds having carbon-to-carbon double bonds, e.g. ethylenic compounds with photosensitivity-increasing substances, e.g. photoinitiators
  • G03F7/031—Organic compounds not covered by group G03F7/029
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  • C07C45/00—Preparation of compounds having >C = O groups bound only to carbon or hydrogen atoms; Preparation of chelates of such compounds
  • C07C45/78—Separation; Purification; Stabilisation; Use of additives
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  • C07—ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • C07C—ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
  • C07C49/00—Ketones; Ketenes; Dimeric ketenes; Ketonic chelates
  • C07C49/76—Ketones containing a keto group bound to a six-membered aromatic ring
  • C07C49/82—Ketones containing a keto group bound to a six-membered aromatic ring containing hydroxy groups
  • C07C49/83—Ketones containing a keto group bound to a six-membered aromatic ring containing hydroxy groups polycyclic
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  • C08F2/00—Processes of polymerisation
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  • C08F6/00—Post-polymerisation treatments
  • C08F6/06—Treatment of polymer solutions
  • C08F6/12—Separation of polymers from solutions

Definitions

• the present invention refers to solid mixtures of alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of alpha-methylstyrene oligomers and to their use as photoinitiators in light-induced radical photopolymerisation of acrylic systems.
• the invention refers to the preparation of the solid mixtures, which can be easily handled and which mainly contain one of the dimer isomers. According to a fundamental aspect of the invention it was surprisingly found that the solid mixtures exhibit an higher reactivity than the one expected from the purity of the dimer isomers.
• oligomeric photoinitiators in the photopolymerisation has several advantages in comparison to the use of monomeric photoinitiators, such as a lower migratability of the photoinitiator from the formulation and a reduced amount of volatile compounds derived from their photodecomposition. Those characteristics are important for the industrial use because they reduce the risk of contamination of the finished product with unwanted compounds.
• oligomeric photoinitiators the alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of dimers and trimers of alpha-methylstyrene are known. These photoinitiators are described, for instance, in US 4,987,159. They are mainly constituted by a mixture of dimer and trimer isomers.
• alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of oligomers of alpha-methylstyrene we refer to compounds of Formula I, wherein n is a number equal or greater than 0.
• the alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of oligomers of alpha-methylstyrene are a product with a pour point of from 40 to 50°C. In the present text, this product is indicated as "high viscosity mixture".
• Another aspect of the invention is a process for the precipitation of a solid mixture from said high viscosity mixture.
• the solid mixture obtained by precipitation from the high viscosity mixture mainly consists of the dimer isomers in a modified ratio.
• concentration of dimer isomers 5 and 6 increases from 60-85%
• the solid mixtures of alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of oligomers of alpha- methylstyrene of the present invention are obtained by precipitation from a high viscosity mixture containing at least 60% of the dimer isomers of the above mentioned derivatives.
• Such high viscosity mixture can be prepared as reported for instance in US 4,987,159.
• the process for the preparation of the solid mixtures of alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of oligomers of alpha-methylstyrene of the present invention consists in dissolving the high viscosity mixture of alpha-hydroxycarbonyl derivatives of oligomers of alpha-methylstyrene in a solvent with a polarity between 0.1 and 0.7, preferably between 0.25 and 0.6, with a ratio solvent/high viscosity mixture between 0.2 and 4, preferably between 0.4 and 2.5, keeping the solution at a temperature below 40°C for from 10 to 60 hours and collecting the thus obtained solid mixture.
• the polarity of the solvent corresponds to the absorption energy measured on AI 2 O 3 .
• the ratio of the dimer isomers 5 and 6 being between 2.5 and 7 is disclosed.
• the solid mixtures of the present invention are particularly suitable in photopolymerisation of formulations containing unsaturated compounds of the class of acrylic or methacrylic derivatives, or mixtures thereof, and are preferably used as photoinitiators in low yellowing paints and laquers, in adhesives, in photocrosslinkable compositions for printing plates and in the field of graphic arts.
• the isomer 5 has a higher reactivity than the isomer 6 in photopolymerisation.
• HPLC high performance liquid chromatograpy
• the precipitation of the solid mixture is carried out with toluene as solvent ( ⁇ ° 0.29) using a high viscosity mixture with a dimer content of 85.1 % and a ratio between the dimer isomers 5 and 6 of 1.93.
• This high viscosity mixture (Mixture
• the precipitation of the solid mixture is carried out using ethyl acetate ( ⁇ ° 0.58) as solvent and according to Example 1, using 1000 g of Mixture 1 and 500 g of ethyl acetate, at a dissolution temperature of 75°C, and at a precipitation temperature of 22-24°C for 48 hours.
• a formulation based on 75% (w/w) of Ebecryl 220 (urethane acrylate oligomer from UCB), 12.5% (w/w) of propoxylated glicerol triacrylate and 12.5% (w/w) of hexanediol diacrylate was prepared and 4% (w/w) of Solid Mixture 1 was added under stirring at room temperature.
• a layer of 50 ⁇ m of the photoinitiated formulation was spreaded on a cardboard and cross-linked using a Giardina® apparatus equipped with a medium pressure mercury lamp of 80 W/cm. The maximum speed of cross-linking was 17.0 m/min.
• the photopolymerisation is considered complete when the formulation resists to the surface abrasion (it is not damaged after repeated brushing using a sheet of paper pressed by a thumb).

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