Vinyl acetate copolymer emulsions stabilized by poly(ethylene glycol)-diepoxide adducts

摘要

This invention relates to improved vinyl acetate-based polymers which are formed by emulsion polymerizing vinyl acetate and other comonomers under conditions of free radical polymerization. The improvement resides in the stabilizer system, the stabilizer being a condensation product of a polyol having a weight average molecular weight of from 500 to 10,000 reacted with a diepoxide. An example is the reaction product of polyethylene glycol and the diglycidyl ether of Bisphenol A.