GRAFT POLYMERS FROM POLYMERS CONTAINING VINYL ESTER AND/OR VINYL ALCOHOL UNITS AND ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS, PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION AND THEIR USE

摘要

Graft polymers obtainable by the radically initiated polymerisation of (A) monomers or monomer mixture of (a) 1 to 100 wt.% N-vinyl carboxylic acid amides of the formula (I) in which R<1>, R<2> = H and C1 to C6 alkyl, (b) 0 to 99 wt.% other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers copolymerisable with the monomers (a), and (c) 0 to 5 wt.% of at least two ethylenically unsaturated monomers with unconjugated double bonds in the molecule; in the presence of (B) polymers containing units of vinyl esters of saturated C1 to C4 carboxylic acids and/or vinyl alcohol units, or mixtures containing these polymers and polymers containing at least 3 alkylene oxide units or polytetrahydrofurane; in the ratio by weight (A) : (B) of (95 to 10) : (5 to 90), possibly followed by the separation of the group (II) from the polymerised monomers (I) of the graft polymer, with the formation of units of the formula (III); process for the production of the graft polymers and use of the graft polymers described above in the production of paper, paperboard and cardboard as a dry and wet strengthening agent, as a retention and dewatering agent and as a promoter in diketene gumming and as a starch cationisation agent, as a dispersant for pigments and as a creping auxiliary in the production of tissue papers.