Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
Transparent materials consisting of hydrogenated products of ring-opened metathetical polymers with polar substituents
 Hydrogenation products of copolymers prepared by ring-opening metathetical polymerisation of a cyano-substituted norbornene and at least one multicyclic olefin, which contains 95.5 to 5 wt. % of the cyano-substituted norbornene incorporated in the polymer and in which at least 60% of the initially present olefinic double bonds have been saturated by hydrogenation and the preparation of the new hydrogenation products by polymerisation in the presence of a catalyst and optionally a chain transfer agent at -20.degree. C. to 100.degree. C. at atmospheric pressure in an inert solvent, followed by hydrogenation in the presence of a homogeneous or heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst at 0.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. under a hydrogen pressure of 2 to 200 bar in an inert solvent. 
Bayer AG
C
C08G
inventional
Johann Ralf Friedrich-Karl Yun
Rechner Dujardin Bruder Chen