Claims
- 1. A polyester/polyurethane coating composition containing essentially no volatile organic components, the composition comprising:(a) at least one polyester prepolymer which comprises the reaction product of (i) at least one substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer having the formula wherein R1 and R1′ are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, n is a number from 0 to about 10, and R2, R3, R4, and R5 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms; and (ii) at least one ester of a polycarboxylic acid; and (b) at least one polyurethane prepolymer which comprises the reaction product of (i) at least one substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer having the formula wherein R1, R′1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and n are as defined above; and (ii) at least one isocyanate or polyisocyanate having the formula R6(NCO)p wherein R6 is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alkyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms or an aromatic group and p is at least 1, or at least one isocyanate-endcapped aliphatic urethane prepolymer having the formula wherein R7, R8 and R9 are independently an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alkyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbons; and (c) at least one catalyst to initiate polymerization of the polyester and polyurethane prepolymers to form a coating.
- 2. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the at least one catalyst comprises at least one of cobalt, aluminum, zinc or peroxide initiator.
- 3. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the at least one catalyst comprises cobalt and aluminum and excludes zinc.
- 4. A coating composition according to claim 3, wherein the at least one catalyst further comprises at least one peroxide initiator.
- 5. A coating composition according to claim 2, wherein the peroxide initiator comprises benzoyl peroxide, dibenzoyl peroxide, 2-butano peroxide (MEEP), methyl ethyl ketone peroxide, hexane t-butyl peroxy benzoate (TBPB), or 2,5-dimethyl 2,5 di(t-butylperoxy).
- 6. A coating composition according to claim 1, further comprising a solubility enhancer.
- 7. A coating composition according to claim 6, wherein the solubility enhancer comprises dimethyl aniline.
- 8. A coating composition according to claim 3, wherein the at least one catalyst comprises cobalt at up to about 1.0% by weight and aluminum at up to about 0.6% by weight.
- 9. A coating composition according to claim 3, wherein cobalt is present at from about 0.01 to about 0.5% weight % an aluminum is present at from about 0.01 to about 0.6 weight %.
- 10. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the at least one catalyst comprises no more than about 1.5 % by weight.
- 11. A coating composition according to claim 2, wherein the peroxide initiator is present from about 0.1 to about 5.0 weight %.
- 12. A coating composition according to claim 6, wherein the solubility enhancer is present at from about 0.1 to about 1.0 weight %.
- 13. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyester prepolymer the substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer is 2-vinyl-4-hydroxymethyl- 1,3-dioxolane (HMVD) or 2-vinyl-4-hydroxybutyl- 1,3-dioxolane (HBVD) or a blend thereof.
- 14. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyester prepolymer the substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer is HBVD or HMVD and the ester is dimethyl adipate or dimethyl 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxalate.
- 15. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the coating composition is sprayable.
- 16. A coating composition according to claim 1, further comprising at least one reactive diluent.
- 17. A coating composition according to claim 16, wherein the reactive diluent comprises a vinyl group containing composition.
- 18. A coating composition according to claim 17, wherein the reactive diluent comprises trimethyl propane triacylate ethylene glycol diacrylate (DGD or DEGDA).
- 19. A coating composition according to claim 16, wherein the reactive diluent comprises at least one substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer having the formula: wherein R10 is a branched or unbranched, saturated or unsaturated alkyl or alkoxy aliphatic group having from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms.
- 20. A coating composition according to claim 19, wherein R10 further comprises at least one urethane, ester, or amide linkage.
- 21. A coating composition according to claim 19, wherein the reactive diluent is HMVD or HBVD or a blend thereof.
- 22. A coating composition according to claim 16, wherein the reactive diluent comprises an ester.
- 23. The polyester coating composition of claim 1, wherein in the polyester prepolymer the ester of the polycarboxylic acid comprises, at least one ester of a polycarboxylic acid having the formula: wherein R6 is a branched or unbranched, saturated or unsaturated, alkyl or alkoxy group having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms; and R7 and R8 are the same or independently selected from —CH3 or an alkyl group having up to about 10 carbon atoms; and R9 is —H or is a branched or unbranched alkyl or alkoxy group having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms.
- 24. A coating composition according to claim 23, wherein R6 comprises at least one amide linkage.
- 25. A coating composition according to claim 6, wherein the solubility enhancer comprises at least one of tert-butyl peroxy benzoate or dimethyl aniline.
- 26. The coating composition of claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer the polyisocyanate is at least one of hexamethylene diisocyanate, 4,4-bis(cyclohexyl)methane diisocyanate, bis(4-isocyanatocyclohexyl)methane, isophorone diisocyanate, 1-methylcyclohexane-2,4-diisocyanate, 4,4′,4″-tricyclohexylmethane triisocyanate, toluene diisocyanate (TDI), methylene-bis-diphenylisocyanate (MDI), nathalene diisocyanate and isophorme diisocyanate.
- 27. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer the polyisocyanate is at least one of 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate or tetra methyl xylene diisocyanate.
- 28. A coating composition according to claim 27, wherein the 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate has a viscosity at 23° C. of from about 90 to about 250 mPa·s.
- 29. A coating composition according to claim 27, wherein the 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate is DESMODUR N3400 or DESMODUR N3200.
- 30. A coating composition according to claim 27, herein the 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate has a viscosity at 25° C. of from about 1,300 to about 2,200 mPa·s.
- 31. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer the isocyanate end-capped aliphatic urethane prepolymer is a prepolymer prepared from at least one hexamethylene diisocyanate aliphatic polyester polyol or polyether polyol.
- 32. A coating composition according to claim 27, wherein the 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate has a viscosity at 25° C. of 1300-2200 mPa·s or at 25°°C. of from about 5,000 to about 10,000 mPa·s.
- 33. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer the viscosity of the polyisocyanate at about 25° C. is in the range of from about 90 to about 10,000 mPa·s.
- 34. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer p is at least two.
- 35. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer n is a number from 1 to 4 and R2, R3, R4 and R5 are hydrogen.
- 36. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer the substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer of is HBVD and the polyisocyanate is a 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate.
- 37. A coating composition according to claim 15, wherein the viscosity is from about 10 to about 150 mPa·s.
- 38. A coating composition according to claim 37, wherein the viscosity is from about 20 to about 150 mPa·s.
- 39. A coating composition according to claim 1, wherein in the polyurethane prepolymer the vinyl dioxolane is HBVD and the polyisocyanate is a 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate based polyisocyanate having a viscosity at 23° C. of from about 90 to about 250 mPa·as.
- 40. A coating composition according to claim 15, wherein the viscosity of the isocyanate or polyisocyanate at 23° C. is from about 90 to about 250 mPa·s.
- 41. A coating composition according to claim 16, wherein the reactive diluent is present at from about 1 to about 50% by weight.
- 42. A coating composition according to claim 41, wherein the reactive diluent is present at from about 5 to about 30% by weight.
- 43. A coating composition according to claim 42, wherein the reactive diluent is present at from about 5 to about 15% by weight.
- 44. A coating in accordance with claim 1, wherein the polymerization catalyst is cobalt octanoate, cobalt naphthenate, or a stannous composition.
- 45. A method to reduce the viscosity of ester/urethane based polymeric coating compositions in the absence of volatile organic components, the method comprising reacting at least one isocyanate-endcapped urethane prepolymer having the formula: wherein R7, R8 and R9 are independently an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alkyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbons with at least one substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer, wherein the substituted vinyl dioxolane monomer has the formula: wherein R1 is an alkyl group, n is a number from 0 to about 10, and R2, R3, R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms to produce oligomers having a viscosity of from about 16 to about 150 mPa·s.
- 46. The method of claim 45, further comprising the step of adding a reactive diluent.
Parent Case Info
This invention is a continuation in part of U.S. Ser. No. 08/717,192, filed Sep. 23, 1996, now abandoned and Ser. No. 08/961,110, filed Oct. 30, 1997, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,977,269.
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST
Funding for the present invention was obtained from the Government of the United States by virtue of Contract No. 68D70049 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Thus, the Government of the United States has certain rights in and to the invention claimed herein.
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