Air stable and latent single-component curing of epoxy/anhydride resins catalyzed by thermally liberated N-heterocyclic carbenes

S Naumann, M Speiser, R Schowner, E Giebel…

Index: Naumann, Stefan; Schmidt, Friedrich Georg; Speiser, Maria; Boehl, Margit; Epple, Stefan; Bonten, Christian; Buchmeiser, Michael R. Macromolecules, 2013 , vol. 46, # 21 p. 8426 - 8433

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Abstract

Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) is cured thermally using phthalic acid anhydride (PhA) or hexahydrophthalic anhydride (HHPA) as hardener in the presence of different protected N- heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), from which the catalytically active NHCs are generated in situ