The purpose of this paper is to investigate correlations of the composition of butylated guanamine coating resins with their preparation conditions and properties, in addition, to gain a knowledge about the mechanism of the reaction when they are baked.
Guanamines used in this study are benzoguanamine (BG) and acetoguanamine (AG).
The preparation of resins, determination of their composition and methods of investigation of their hardening were the same as reported in the previous paper.
A summary of the results is shown below.
(1) When the molar ratio of HCHO to BG increased higher than 4, variation of composition was little, and degree of condensation increased with a decrease of the molar ratio of n-C
4H
9OH to BG.
(2) Fo.r mineral spirit tolerance (MST) the same measure as we used for butylated melamine (M) resins was applicable to BG resins, that is, butoxy group had a positive effect for MST of the resin solution (in n-C
4H
9OH), while free hydroxymethyl and imino groups had rather a negative effect, the former being more effective of the two.
(3) The stability of guanamine-alkyd resin solution estimated by the viscosity rising was not so markedly influenced according to the difference of the composition of guanamine resins, and generally more stable than M resins.
(4) It was apparently recognized that in the baking of BG resins at 130-170°C, the isolation of n-C
4H
9OH as well as HCHO occurred.
It was estimated that free hydroxymethyl group played a major role in the hardening of BG resins and reacted with other hydroxymethyl, imino and butoxy groups.
-N-CH
20H+-CH
2OH→-N-CH
2-+ CH
20+ H
20
-N-CH
20H+-H-H→-N-CH
2-N-+ H
20
-N-CH
2OH +-N-CH
20C
4H
9→-N-CH
2-N-+C
4H
90H+ H
2O
(5) In the case of guanamine resin alone, hardness of the film obtained was affected by hydroxy-methyl and butoxy groups, whereas in the case of guanamine-alkyd resins such a difference of hardness was small.
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