EP0003210A1 - Hochelastische, flexible Polyurethanschaumstoffe, verschäumbare Mischungen und Verfahren zur Herstellung der Schaumstoffe - Google Patents

Hochelastische, flexible Polyurethanschaumstoffe, verschäumbare Mischungen und Verfahren zur Herstellung der Schaumstoffe Download PDF

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EP0003210A1
EP0003210A1 EP78101124A EP78101124A EP0003210A1 EP 0003210 A1 EP0003210 A1 EP 0003210A1 EP 78101124 A EP78101124 A EP 78101124A EP 78101124 A EP78101124 A EP 78101124A EP 0003210 A1 EP0003210 A1 EP 0003210A1
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  • a flexible, highly resilient, cold-cure, closed-mold polyurethane foam can be produced by reacting a foamable mixture comprising an organic isocyanate, water and a polyol.
  • the foams of the invention are preferably prepared from a mixture of a hydroxyl-terminated graft copolymer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyoxyalkylene polyether in the presence of a co-catalyst mixture of at least one tertiary amine catalyst and at least one metal-containing basic catalyst.
  • Said catalyst is selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal hydroxide, an alkaline earth metal hydroxide, an inorganic basic salt thereof derived from the reaction of said hydroxides with a weak inorganic acid, a metal organic basic salt catalyst derived from the reaction of at least one of said hydroxides with an organic acid and mixtures thereof.
  • Useful metal organic catalysts are selected from the group consisting of the alkali and alkaline earth metal carboxylates, alkoxides and phenates.
  • Useful inorganic basic metal salt catalysts are sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate.
  • the present invention relates to the manufacture of cold-cure, closed-mold, flexible, high resilience, foamed polymeric materials by reacting a polyol with an organic polyisocyanate.
  • the foam can be stripped from the mold within 3 to 10 minutes subsequent to pouring, resulting in a considerable saving in processing time over the 15- to 20-minute mold time required using the prior hot molding conditions wherein the mold is heated to a temperature of 300 to 350°F.
  • the high resilience, flexible foams produced by the cold-cure methods possess improved flex fatigue characteristics and inherently better flame retar- dance as well as improved load-bearing characteristics; the sag factor approaching that of a conventional rubber latex foam.
  • an inorganic basic compound such as sodium hydroxide or the salt of a strong inorganic base and a weak inorganic acid as illustrated by sodium carbonate
  • an inorganic basic compound such as sodium hydroxide or the salt of a strong inorganic base and a weak inorganic acid as illustrated by sodium carbonate
  • polyether polyols and polyesters are disclosed in U.S. 3,108,975 as useful in combination with a polyisocyanate and water in the formation, by a hot-cure process, of a flexible, resilient foam.
  • Either a strong inorganic base or certain inorganic salts of a strong base and a weak acid are disclosed as catalysts for the reaction.
  • Japanese 51,109,100 there is disclosed the use of an amine and/or an organic tin compound as a catalyst (for the production of polyurethane foam from the reaction of polyols and isocyanates) in combination with (1) a water-containing alkali metal compound, i.e., the sodium salt of carbonic acid, and (2) a special granular inorganic material which foams on heating.
  • a water-containing alkali metal compound i.e., the sodium salt of carbonic acid
  • a special granular inorganic material which foams on heating.
  • U.S. 3,112,281 there is disclosed the preparation of a polyurethane foam by the reaction of a polyisocyanate with a polyhydric polyether having within the molecule a tertiary amine. It is noted that the polyether is supplied at a pH of about 8 to about 11 and can contain residual amounts of sodium hydroxide.
  • polyurethane foams having superior physical properties can be prepared therewith using the co-catalysts disclosed herein.
  • compositions are disclosed suitable for the preparation of flexible, high resilience, closed molded polyurethane foam.
  • foams are preferably prepared by the catalyzed reaction as described herein, of a polyol such as a hydroxyl-terminated, ethylenically unsaturated polyester or polyether-graft copolymer dispersion with an organic polyisocyanate, for instance, an organic polyisocyanate containing a blend of toluene diisocyanate and polymethylene polyphenyl isocyanate such that the polyisocyanate blend contains a small amount of trifunctionality.
  • an organic polyisocyanate for instance, an organic polyisocyanate containing a blend of toluene diisocyanate and polymethylene polyphenyl isocyanate such that the polyisocyanate blend contains a small amount of trifunctionality.
  • the foam is catalyzed using as co-catalysts a tertiary amine catalyst such as triethylene diamine and at least one metal-containing basic catalyst selected from the group consisting of alkali metal hydroxides, preferably sodium, potassium and lithium, and alkaline earth metal hydroxides, preferably calcium, strontium and barium and basic salts of both alkali metal and alkaline earth metal hydroxides formed by reaction with weak inorganic acids such as boric acid, phosphoric acid and carbonic acid. Especially useful are the alkali metal and alkaline earth metal carbonate. and bicarbonate salts.
  • Metal organic catalysts selected from the group consisting of the alkaline earth and alkali metal carboxylates, phenates and alkoxides are also useful in combination with a tertiary amine catalyst.
  • FIGURE 1 is a graph showing the relationship of the height of polyurethane foam produced after the foam has been cured at various time intervals at a temperature of 200°F. and subsequent to crushing the foam.
  • Curve A corresponds to a foam prepared following the procedure of Example 1 in which a co-catalyst combination of the invention, i.e., sodium bicarbonate and triethylene diamine, is utilized.
  • Curves B and C are plotted from data obtained in comparative Examples 2 and 3 and illustrate foams prepared utilizing respectively triethylene diamine or sodium bicarbonate as the single catalyst component.
  • FIGURE 2 is a graph illustrating the polyurethane foam height results obtained indicating completeness of cure.
  • a foam prepared as described in Example 4 using a co-catalyst combination of sodium bicarbonate and triethylene diamine the results obtained are plotted as curve D.
  • Foam height results obtained with a similar composition described in comparative Example 5 utilizing only triethylene diamine as the single cure catalyst are plotted as curve E, the data being obtained from Comparative Example 5.
  • the catalyst systems of the invention provide resilient, flexible foam compositions which can be partially cured rapidly to a desirable green strength allowing removal from the mold in a shorter period than is possible with prior art catalyst systems. Not only is the faster curing speed of the catalyst systems of the invention shown in practice by the fact that the foams can be removed from the mold in a shorter period, but lower cure temperatures can be used to promote the reaction when the catalyst systems of the invention are utilized. At certain proportions, the co-catalyst systems of the invention promote the improved moldability referred to above by causing a delayed catalysis during the initial flow and expansion of the polymer mixture in the mold and subsequently promote the cure at a faster rate during part of the cure cycle than conventional catalyst systems. This faster cure rate is achieved unexpectedly without foam shrinkage. Thus the usual crushing procedure to break the cell walls is unnecessary.
  • the uniqueness of the co-catalyst system of the invention lies not only in the apparently faster cure rate which provides improved green strength of the foam produced but in the delayed action effect of the co-catalyst system.
  • the catalyst system of the invention allows improved flow of the foam-forming reaction mixture in the mold prior to the ultimate cure of the foam. This catalyst action permits the preparation of a foam without j the usual flaws obtained using other high resilient foam catalyst systems, for instance, a tertiary amine catalyst as the sole catalyst.
  • a tertiary amine catalyst is used as the sole catalyst and it is required to improve the flow in the mold of the foam-forming reaction mixture, the proportion of the amine catalyst can be decreased, thus making a slower reacting system.
  • the foam produced at the end of a reasonable time would not be sufficiently cured to remove from the mold.
  • a foam of higher density would be obtained which is undesirable.
  • both comparatively poor compression set and fatigue properties would be obtained as the result of the use of the lower catalyst concentration where a tertiary amine catalyst is used as the only catalyst.
  • tertiary amine catalyst in order to improve the green strength or ease of removing the foam from the mold results in several other problems, for instance, the cure speed can . become unduly fast resulting in difficulty closing the lid of the mold subsequent to the filling operation. Under-filled molds, physical imperfections of the molded part and inability of the foam-forming material to fill out the mold and tendency to trap air and show shear lines, etc., can also result where higher levels of tertiary amine catalysts are utilized in an attempt to obtain improved green strength.
  • the delayed action effect is such that catalyzation of the polymerization reaction is at first slow in taking place while the foam-forming material flows and expands to fill the mold and, subsequently the polymerization cure rate becomes faster than could be obtained using a practical amount of a tertiary amine catalyst such that satisfactory flow of the foam-forming material takes place.
  • Laboratory experiments with free rise foams have confirmed that when using equal (equivalent) amounts of catalyst, a sodium bicarbonate catalyzed foam is much slower rising than a foam catalyzed with an equal (equivalent) amount of tertiary amine catalyst. It was thus unexpected to find that use of the co-catalyst combination of the invention provides a polyurethane foam exhibiting higher green strength.
  • trimerization reaction can be considered to be a type of "in situ" crosslinking reaction so that the polyurethane foams produced by the process of the invention are characterized by a greater number of crosslinks per unit length of the polymer chain as compared to prior art tertiary amine cured polyurethane foams.
  • Foamed high resilience, cold-cure foams are obtained generally by reacting a polyol in a single-stage process with an organic polyisocyanate and water in the presence of catalysts, surface active agents or other auxiliary agents. In the process, it is believed that a substantially simultaneous interaction occurs between the isocyanate, the water and the polyol to give the foam product.
  • surface active agents are used primarily to regulate the size of the cells of the foam and stabilize the foam during the initial formation stage. Surface active agents also promote intimate contact of the ingredients of the foam and stabilize the foam during the initial stages of formation.
  • the organic polyisocyanate and polyol reactants are used in amounts such that the isocyanate index is of a normal value, for example in the range of about 100 to about 110. However, isocyanate index values outside this range can be used.
  • the cell struts or outlines of the individual cells are of sufficient strength so that foam collapse does not occur.
  • the cell “windows" located between these cell struts must be of such strength for foam formation to occur and yet not so strong that rupture cannot take place at the time of maximum gas evolution.
  • Strong closed cells in a high resilience foam are not desirable. Even if such cells were strong enough so that they would resist the external pressure exerted upon them as the gas inside each cell cools, a foam with strong closed cells would have a character referred to in the art as "pneumatic". Such foam would resist compression in the same way that a rubber balloon resists compression and this characteristic is undesirable in comparison with the desirable compression characteristics of foams made of natural rubber latex which are predominantly open cell foams.
  • the polyurethane foams of the invention are prepared using hydroxyl-containing graft copolymer dispersions in saturated or unsaturated polyols containing primary hydroxyl groups in a single-stage process.
  • the process of 'the invention is applicable to the cure of isocyanates with other hydroxyl-containing compounds irrespective of the presence of a graft copolymer dispersion or primary or secondary hydroxyl group-containing polyols.
  • the preferred hydroxyl-containing graft copolymer dispersions can be prepared by the in situ polymerization of vinyl monomers in a polyol having from about 0.10 to 0.70 mole of unsaturation per mole of polyol.
  • Such graft copolymer dispersions can be obtained by the simultaneous addition of a vinyl monomer and a free radical catalyst to an unsaturated polyol at an elevated temperature.
  • the unsaturated polyols employed in the preparation of the graft; copolymer dispersions are prepared by the reaction of a conventional polyol with an organic compound having both ethylenic unsaturation and a hydroxyl, carboxyl or epoxy group, or alternatively the unsaturated polyols can be prepared by employing an organic compound having both ethylenic unsaturation and hydroxyl, carboxyl, or an epoxy group as a reactant in the preparation of the polyol.
  • Representative organic compounds include unsaturated polycarboxylic acids and anhydrides such as maleic acid and anhydride and unsaturated polyhydric alcohols such as 2- butene-l,4-diol, trimethylolpropane allyl ether and un- saturated epoxides such as butadiene monooxide.
  • unsaturated polycarboxylic acids and anhydrides such as maleic acid and anhydride
  • unsaturated polyhydric alcohols such as 2- butene-l,4-diol, trimethylolpropane allyl ether and un- saturated epoxides such as butadiene monooxide.
  • the carboxyl groups must be. replaced with hydroxyl groups prior to use in the preparation of the graft copolymer dispersion by reacting the unsaturated polyol with an alkylene oxide such as ethylene or propylene oxide.
  • the ethylenically unsaturated monomer or mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers used to prepare the graft copolymer dispersion include butadiene, isoprene,l,4-pentadiene, styrene, ⁇ -methylstyrene, acrylic and substituted acrylic monomers such as acrylonitrile, acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, vinyl esters and vinyl ethers such as vinyl acetate and vinylmethyl ether and the like.
  • the amount of ethylenically unsaturated monomer used is generally 1% to 30% based upon the weight of the unsaturated polyol.
  • the hydroxyl-containing compounds can be any conventional polyol having at least two hydroxyl groups on each molecule which can include polyhydroxyl-containing polyesters, polyesteramides, polyalkylene polyether polyols, polyhydroxyl-containing phosphorus compounds and alkylene oxide adducts of polyhydric polythioethers, polyacetals, aliphatic polyols and thiols, amines including aromatic and aliphatic amines as well as mixtures thereof.
  • Any suitable polyhydroxyl-containing polyester can be used such as are obtained from polycarboxylic acids and polyhydric alcohols.
  • Any suitable polycarboxylic acid can be used to prepare said polyesters such as oxalic acid, malonic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, pimelic acid, suberic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, brassylic acid, thapsic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid, glutaconic acid, a-hydromuconic acid, 6-hydromuconic acid, a-butyl-a-ethyl-glutaric acid, ⁇ - ⁇ -diethylsuccinic acid, isophthalic acid, terephthalic acid, hemimellitic acid, and 1, 4 -cyclohexane-dicarboxylic acid.
  • Any suitable polyhydric alcohol can be used to prepare said polyesters including both aliphatic and aromatic alcohols such as ethylene glycol, 1,3-propylene glycol, 1,2-propylene glycol, 1,4-butylene glycol, 1,3-butylene glycol, 1,2-butylene glycol, 1,5-pentane diol, 1,4-pentane diol, 1,3-pentane diol, 1,6-hexane diol, 1,7-heptane diol, glycerol, 1,1,1-trimethylolpropane, 1,1,1-trimethylolethane, hexane-1,2,6-triol, a-methyl glycoside, pentaerythritol, and sorbitol.
  • polyhydric alcohol also included within the term "polyhydric alcohol” are compounds derived from phenol such as 2,2-bis(4,-hydroxyphenol) propane, commonly known as Bisphenol A.
  • the hydroxyl-containing polyester can also be a polyesteramide such as is obtained by including some amine or substituting an amino alcohol for the polyol reactant in the preparation of the above polyesters.
  • polyester amides can be obtained by condensing an amino alcohol such as ethanolamine with the polycarboxylic acids set forth above or they can be made using the same components that make up the hydroxyl-containing polyester with only a portion of the components being a diamine such as ethylene diamine.
  • Any suitable polyalkylene polyether polyol can be used such as the polymerization product of an alkylene oxide or of an alkylene oxide with a polyhydric alcohol having from 2 to about 6 hydroxyl groups. Any suitable polyhydric alcohol can be used such as those disclosed above for use in the preparation of the hydroxyl-containing polyesters. Any suitable alkylene oxide can be used to prepare said polyol such as ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, butylene oxide, amylene oxide, and heteric or block copolymers of these oxides.
  • the polyalkylene polyether polyols also can be prepared from other starting materials such as tetra hydro- furan and alkylene oxide-tetrahydrofuran copolymers.
  • Epihalohydrins such as epichlorohydrin as well as aralkylene oxides such as styrene oxide are useful.
  • the polyalkylene polyether polyols can have either primary or secondary hydroxyl groups and, preferably, are polyethers prepared from alkylene oxides having from two to about six carbon atoms.
  • the polyalkylene polyether polyols can be prepared by any known process such as, for example, the process disclosed by Wurtz in 1859 and Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Vol. 7, pp. 257-262, published by Interscience Publishers, Inc. (1951) or in U.S. Patent No. 1,922,459.
  • Polyethers which are preferred include the alkylene oxide addition products of trimethylolpropane, glycerine, pentaerythritol, sucrose, sorbitol, propylene glycol, and 2,2-bis-(4,-hydroxyphenol)propane and blends thereof having equivalent weights of from 250 to 5000.
  • Useful polyalkylene-polyether polyols are the hydroxyl-terminated copolymer polyols disclosed in U.S. Patent 3,823,201, incorporated herein by reference, which are graft copolymer dispersions prepared by the in situ polymerization in the presence of a free radical catalyst of a vinyl monomer in a polyol containing an essential amount of unsaturation. Methods for the use of said polyols in the preparation of polyurethane foams are also described. These dispersions are low viscosity liquids and are advantageously employed to improve the load bearing properties of the high resilience, flexible, cold-cure polyurethane foams of the invention.
  • Polyhydroxyl-containing phosphorus compounds which can be used include those compounds disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 3,639,542.
  • Preferred polyhydroxyl-containing phosghorus compounds are prepared from alkylene oxides and acids of ! phosphorus having a P 2 0 S weight equivalency of from about 72% to about 95%.
  • Suitable polyhydric polythioesters which can be condensed with alkylene oxides include the condensation product of thiodiglycol or the reaction product of a dihydric alcohol such as is disclosed above for the pre i paration of the hydroxyl-containing polyesters with any other suitable thioether glycol.
  • Polyhydroxyl-containing polyacetals can be used. These can be prepared by condensing aldehydes with alkylene oxides and also include the reaction product of formaldehyde or other suitable aldehyde with a dihydric alcohol as well as an alkylene oxide such as those disclosed above.
  • Suitable aliphatic polyols have been described above.
  • Suitable aliphatic thiols which can be condensed with alkylene oxides include alkane thiols containing at least two --SH.groups such as 1,2-ethane dithiol, 1,2-propane dithiol, 1,3-propane dithiol, and 1,6-hexane dithiol; alkene thiols such as 2-butene-1,4-dithiol; and alkyne thiols such as 3-hexyne-l,6-dithiol.
  • Suitable amines which can be condensed with alkylene oxides include aromatic amines such as aniline, o-chloroaniline, p-amino aniline, 1,5-diamino naphthalene, methylene dianiline, the condensation products of aniline and formaldehyde, and 2,4-diamino toluene and aliphatic amines such as methyl amine, triisopropanolamine, ethylene diamine, 1,3-propylene diamine, 1,4-butylene diamine, and 1,3-butylene diamine.
  • aromatic amines such as aniline, o-chloroaniline, p-amino aniline, 1,5-diamino naphthalene, methylene dianiline, the condensation products of aniline and formaldehyde, and 2,4-diamino toluene and aliphatic amines such as methyl amine, triisopropanolamine,
  • the catalyst systems for the production of the flexible, resilient polyurethane foam disclosed herein utilize a metal-containing basic catalyst in mixtures with an organic amine catalyst.
  • basic metal-containing catalysts suitable for use in the process of the present invention include alkali and/or alkaline earth metal, hydroxides, carbonates, carboxylates and bicarbonates.
  • metal containing catalysts include salts of the aforesaid metals obtained by the reaction of said alkali or alkaline earth metal hydroxides with acids having an acid strength less than that of hydrochloric acid, for instance, alkali or alkaline earth metal carboxylates, alkoxides (methoxides, ethoxides, propoxides, butoxides) and phenoxides.
  • Said phenoxides can have alkyl substitution such as methyl, ethyl, tertiary butyl, dodecyl and halogen substituents such as chloro and bromo or nitro groups.
  • the preferred metal-containing basic catalysts are the basic salts of sodium and potassium, carbonate and bicarbonate.
  • Suitable amine catalysts can be any tertiary amine as illustrated by triethylene diamine, N-methyl morpholine, N-ethyl morpholine, diethyl ethanolamine, l-methyl-4-dimethylamine ethyl piperazine, 3-methoxy-N-dimethyl propyl amine, N-dimethyl-N'-methyl isopropyl propylene diamine, N,N-diethyl-3-diethyl amino propyl amine, dimethyl benzyl amine, and the like.
  • the proportions of amine catalyst used in the catalyst blends of the invention generally can be about 0.05% to about 5.0%, preferably about 0.25% to about 2.5% and most preferably about 0.1% to about 1.5%, all by weight based upon the weight of the hydroxyl-containing polymer.
  • the proportions of the metal-containing basic catalyst employed in the catalyst blends of this invention can be about 0.01% to about 1%, preferably about 0.01% to about 0.5% and most preferably about 0.01% to about .05% all by weight based upon the weight of the hydroxyl-containing polymer.
  • the proportion of metal-containing catalyst utilized also depends to some extent upon its basicity.
  • organic polyisocyanates which can be employed for the preparation of high resilient, cold-cure polyurethane foams are more fully described in the prior art. These include aromatic, aliphatic and cycloaliphatic polyisocyanates and combinations thereof.
  • diisocyanates such as m-phenylene diisocyanate, tolylene-2,4-diisocyanate, tolylene-2,6-diisocyanate, tetramethylene-1,4-diisocyanate, cyclohexane-l,4-diisocyanate, hexahydrotolylene diisocyanate (and isomers), naphthylene-l,5-diisocyanate, 1-methoxyphenyl-2,4-diisocyanate, diphenylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate, 4,4'-biphenyl diisocyanate, 3,3'-dimethyl-4,4'-biphenyl diisocyanate, and 3,3'-dimethyldiphenylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate; the triisocyanates such as 4,4',4'-triphenylmethane triisocyanate
  • Crude polyisocyanate may also be used in the compositions of the present invention, such as crude toluene diisocyanate obtained by the phosgenation of a mixture of toluene diamines or crude diphenylmethane isocyanate obtained by the phosgenation of crude diphenylmethyl diamine.
  • Preparation of the flexible, high resilience closed molded foams of the invention generally involves the preparation of a two part foamable mixture where as component A, an organic isocyanate, is mixed with component B, water, a polyol and catalyst just prior to deposition of the mixture: into the mold.
  • Water is generally used as a blowing agent in the proportion of about 1% to about 10%, preferably about 2% to about 8% and most preferably about 3% to about 5%, all by weight, based upon the hydroxyl-containing material.
  • the use of water promotes the production of carbon dioxide as well as polymer formation by reaction with the organic polyisocyanate.
  • a fluorocarbon is also desirable as a blowing agent either alone or in combination with water to produce the flexible, resilient, cold-cure foams of the invention.
  • fluorocarbons are used, there is less tendency for shrinkage of the foams presumably because of the solvating and thus weakening effect of the fluorocarbon on the cell walls.
  • a fluorocarbon is utilized in combination with water in the preparation of. the foams of the invention, amounts of about 1 to about 10% by weight are used based upon the hydroxyl-containing material.
  • adjuvants which can be utilized in the usual amounts in the preparation of the flexible, high resilience molded foams of the invention are nonionic surface active agents, silicone oils, foam stabilizing agents, for example, ethyl cellulose, low molecular weight polyhydroxy compounds, such as trimethylolpropane, pigments, coloring matter, plasticizers, for example, dialkyl phthalates such as dioctyl phthalate, fireproofing agents, for example, tri( ⁇ -chloroethyl phosphate, antimony compounds, and fillers such as magnesium carbonate, wood cellulose talc, calcium silicate, mica, hydrated calcium silicate'and calcium carbonate.
  • foam stabilizing agents for example, ethyl cellulose, low molecular weight polyhydroxy compounds, such as trimethylolpropane, pigments, coloring matter, plasticizers, for example, dialkyl phthalates such as dioctyl phthalate, fireproofing agents, for example, tri( ⁇ -chloroethyl phosphate
  • This example illustrates the preparation of a flexible, highly resilient, cold-cure, closed mold polyurethane foam utilizing a co-catalyst mixture of the invention.
  • the foamable mixture was prepared utilizing a commercial mixing and dispersing machine in which the polyol, water and co-catalyst mixture is separately combined and just prior to deposition of the foam mixture into the mold, an 80/20 mixture of 2,4-, 2,6-toluene diisocyanate is mixed therewith.
  • polyol A a trimethylol propane-based polyoxypropylene polyol capped with polyoxyethylene groups and having an equivalent weight of 2200, 60 parts by weight, polyol B, a graft copolymer dispersion in a polyol having a hydroxyl number of 26 and a vinyl polymer content of 20 percent by weight prepared by the in situ polymerization of a mixture of styrene and acrylonitrile in a polyol wherein said polyol is prepared by the sequential addition of a mixture of propylene oxide and allyl glycidyl ether and ethylene oxide to glycerol as initiator.
  • toluene diisocyanate 40 parts by weight, water, 2.8 parts by weight, triethylene diamine, 0.15 parts by weight, sodium bicarbonate, 0.15 parts by weight, and an 80/20 by weight mixture of toluene diisocyanate and polymethylene polyphenyl isocyanate, the toluene diisocyanate being an 80/20 by weight mixture respectively of 2,4-, 2,6-toluene diisocyanate, 34.8 parts by weight.
  • Example 1 was repeated except that sodium bicarbonate in the amount of 0.3 part by weight was used to replace the mixture of triethylene diamine and sodium bicarbonate used in Example 1. Completeness of cure was measured in the same way as in Example 1 and the data obtained are shown in Table II below and are graphically shown in FIGURE 1, curve C.
  • Example 1 In order to provide a further comparison with the foams prepared in Example 1, a foam mixture was prepared as in Example 1 except that triethylene diamine was utilized in the amount of 0.3 parts by weight to replace the co-catalyst combination of triethylene diamine and sodium bicarbonate.
  • a foamable mixture was prepared by mixing the following parts by weight: polyol A, 60, polyol B, 40, water 2.8, sodium bicarbonate 0.04, triethylene diamine, 0.16, dimethylethanolamine 0.30, a non-hydrolyzable organosilicone block copolymer surfactant sold as L-5303 by the Union Carbide Corporation, 1.5 and the diisocyanate mixture used in Example 1 in the amount of 35.2 parts by weight.
  • the diisocyanate is combined with the other components just prior to dispensing the foamable mixture into the mold.
  • Example 4 is repeated except that 0.16 parts by weight of triethylene diamine is used to substitute for the co-catalyst combination of sodium bicarbonate and triethylene diamine used in Example 4.
  • the completeness of cure was measured as in Example 4 and results are shown in the following Table V. In FIGURE 2, curve E, these results are plotted.

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