SUCCINIMIDE CONTAINING POLYMERS AND LATTICES PREPARED FROM SAME

摘要

Water-insoluble, noncrosslinking, nonporous copolymers are provided which have recurring units derived from: (a) from 80 to about 99.9 mole percent of one or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable oleophilic monomers which provide hydrophobicity to said copolymer, provided that none of said monomers are crosslinking monomers, (b) from about 0.1 to 20 mole percent of one or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers having a succinimidoxycarbonyl group, and (c) from 0 to about 10 mole percent of one or more ionic or polar hydrophilic ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers. These copolymers have a variety of uses, including diagnostic assays.