Studies on Formaldehyde-Condensation Resin

Prebiological Formaldehyde Condensation

A definition of the term " l i f e " , if understood as one element in a supposed class of extraterrestrial and prebiological phenomena, is shown to be logically impossible because life is the sole known element of that class. Instead, the properties of the class of "b io ids" , defined as the class of " open systems which can exist in several steady states" (DECKER and SPEIDEL, Chemiedozentent...

Theoretical Confirmation of the Quinone Methide Hypothesis for the Condensation Reactions in Phenol-Formaldehyde Resin Synthesis

The mechanisms for the base-catalyzed condensation reactions in phenol-formaldehyde resin synthesis were investigated by using the density functional theory method. The structures of the intermediates and transition states, as well as the potential energy barriers of the involved reactions, were obtained. The hypothesis of quinine methide (QM) formation was theoretically confirmed. Two mechanis...

dimethylhydantoin-formaldehyde resin and polyvinylpyrrolidone

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Resorcinol-Formaldehyde (R-F) Resin

Structure formation in urea-formaldehyde resin synthesis

The structure formation in acid promoted polycondensation and particularly in alkaline post-treatment with urea was studied by 13C NMR spectroscopy in the three-step synthesis of ureaformaldehyde resins. Trishydroxymethyl urea was identified as the constituent of the mixture of hydroxylmethylated urea derivatives obtained in alkaline conditions. The formation of methylenes linked to secondary o...