PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYACETALS, THEIR USE AND THE POLYACETALS PRODUCED

摘要

A process for the production of polyacetals by the copolymerisation of glyoxylic acid esters with cyclic formals derived from dioles, homopolymers of formaldehyde, trioxepane or mixture of these compounds, in which up to 50 wt % of this group of monomers may be replaced by other conventional copolymerisable monomers like epoxides, aldehydes with at least 2 C atoms, tetrahydrofurane and/or C2 to C4 olefines, in the presence of anionic or cationic polymerisation initiators and possibly the hydrolysis of the glyoxyl acid esters polymerised into the copolymer, use of the polyacetal carboxylates thus obtainable as an additive in low-phosphate and phosphate-free washing and cleaning agents, as a water treatment agent and as a dispersant for finely divided substances, and polyacetals which are obtainable by the anionically or cationically initiated copolymerisation of glyoxyl acid esters with cyclic formals derived from diols and possibly the introduction of stable final groups and possibly hydrolysis of the ester groups of the glyoxyl acid esters polymerised into the copolymers.