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  • C09D—COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR
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• the present invention relates to novel electrocoat (EC) materials comprising bismuth compounds.
• the present invention also relates to the preparation of novel EC materials comprising bismuth compounds.
• the present invention further relates to the use of the novel EC materials comprising bismuth compounds for producing electrocoats.
• EC materials comprising bismuth compound catalysts are known.
• the bismuth compounds include a lower toxicity as compared with the tin compounds, as well as a high activity.
• DE 25 41 234 describes salts (carboxylates), among others, of bismuth as curing catalysts for electrocoat materials.
• EP 0 509 437 discloses electrocoat materials which crosslink by way of blocked isocyanate groups and which comprise at least one dialkyl salt of aromatic carboxylic acids and at least one bismuth compound or zirconium compound.
• European patent application EP 0 690 106 A1 discloses compositions which comprise water-soluble bismuth compounds, which are suitable as catalysts for the curing of EC materials. They include an epoxy-amine adduct in an amount such that the ratio of the number of bismuth atoms to the number of beta-hydroxyamine groups in the epoxy-amine adduct is from 1:10 to 10:1.
• the acid used for preparing the bismuth compounds is employed in an amount such that there are between 0.1 and less than 2 mol of dissociable protons per mole of bismuth.
• the numerous acids which can be used include salicylic acid. Further details, however, are lacking; in the examples, only dimethylolpropionic acid is used.
• European patent EP 0 739 389 describes a simplified process for preparing a corrosion protection coating by electrocoating, in which the electrocoat material comprises bismuth lactate or bismuth dimethylolpropionate.
• the electrocoat material comprises bismuth lactate or bismuth dimethylolpropionate.
• bismuth compounds including bismuth salicylate, are mentioned, but the document lacks further details; in particular, only the salts of lactic acid and dimethylolpropionic acid are used in the examples.
• Bismuth subsalicylate is not mentioned.
• the invention accordingly provides the novel electrocoat (EC) materials comprising bismuth compounds and further comprising
• the EC materials of the invention were easy to prepare, were stable on storage, featured an optimum particle size of the dispersed constituents, and possessed very good filterability. Their electrophoretic deposition on electrically conductive substrates was easy and trouble-free. The resultant electrocoats were very even, were free from surface defects and inhomogeneities, and afforded outstanding corrosion protection and edge protection.
• the deposited but uncured or only part-cured films of the EC materials of the invention can be overcoated wet on wet with aqueous coating materials, such as waterborne primers or waterborne surfacers, without defects and then baked together with said aqueous coating materials.
• the EC materials of the invention preferably have a solids content of from 5 to 50% by weight, more preferably from 5 to 35% by weight. Solids here are the fraction of an EC material which makes up the electrocoat produced from it.
• the EC materials of the invention comprise at least one binder (A).
• the binders (A) may be self-crosslinking and/or externally crosslinking.
• Self-crosslinking binders (A) contain reactive functional groups which are able to undergo thermal crosslinking reactions with themselves and/or with complementary reactive functional groups in the self-crosslinking binders (A).
• Externally crosslinking binders (A) contain reactive functional groups which are able to undergo thermal crosslinking reactions with complementary reactive functional groups in crosslinking agents (B).
• At least one externally crosslinking binder (A) in combination with at least one crosslinking agent (B).
• the binder (A) contains potentially cationic and/or cationic groups. Binders (A) of this kind are used in cathodically depositable electrocoat materials.
• Suitable potentially cationic groups which can be converted into cations by neutralizing agents and/or quaternizing agents are primary, secondary or tertiary amino groups, secondary sulfide groups or tertiary phosphine groups, especially tertiary amino groups or secondary sulfide groups.
• Suitable cationic groups are primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary ammonium groups, tertiary sulfonium groups or quaternary phosphonium groups, preferably quaternary ammonium groups or tertiary sulfonium groups, but especially quaternary ammonium groups.
• Suitable neutralizing agents for the potentially cationic groups are inorganic and organic acids such as sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, formic acid, acetic acid, lactic acid, dimethylolpropionic acid or citric acid, especially formic acid, acetic acid or lactic acid.
• binders (A) for cathodically depositable electrocoat materials are known from documents EP 0 082 291 A1, EP 0 234 395 A1, EP 0 227 975 A1, EP 0 178 531 A1, EP 0 333 327, EP 0 310 971 A1, EP 0 456 270 A1, U.S. Pat. No.
• amine numbers preferably between 20 and 250 mg KOH/g and a weight-average molecular weight of from 300 to 10 000 daltons.
• amino (meth)acrylate resins amino epoxy resins, amino epoxy resins with terminal double bonds, amino epoxy resins with primary and/or secondary hydroxyl groups, amino polyurethane resins, amino-containing polybutadiene resins or modified epoxy resin-carbon dioxide-amine reaction products.
• the binder (A) may comprise anionic and/or potentially anionic groups. Binders (A) of this kind are used in anionically depositable electrocoat materials.
• Suitable potentially anionic groups which can be converted into anions by neutralizing agents are carboxylic, sulfonic or phosphonic acid groups, especially carboxylic acid groups.
• Suitable anionic groups are carboxylate, sulfonate or phosphonate groups, especially carboxylate groups.
• Suitable neutralizing agents for the potentially nonionic groups are ammonia, ammonium salts, such as ammonium carbonate or ammonium hydrogen carbonate, for example, and also amines, such as trimethylamine, triethylamine, tributylamine, dimethylaniline, diethylaniline, triphenylamine, dimethylethanolamine, diethylethanolamine, methyldiethanolamine, triethanolamine, and the like.
• binders (A) for anionically depositable electrocoat materials are known from German patent application DE 28 24 418 A1. They are preferably polyesters, epoxy resin esters, poly(meth)acrylates, maleate oils or polybutadiene oils having a weight-average molecular weight of from 300 to 10 000 daltons and an acid number of from 35 to 300 mg KOH/g.
• the amount of neutralizing agent is generally chosen such that from 1 to 100 equivalents, preferably from 50 to 90 equivalents, of the potentially cationic or potentially anionic groups of a binder (A) are neutralized.
• Suitable reactive functional groups are hydroxyl groups, thiol groups, and primary and secondary amino groups, especially hydroxyl groups.
• Suitable complementary reactive functional groups are blocked isocyanate groups, hydroxymethylene and alkoxymethylene groups, preferably methoxymethylene and butoxymethylene groups, and especially methoxymethylene groups. Preference is given to using blocked isocyanate groups.
• suitable blocking agents are those described below.
• the EC materials used are preferably cathodic.
• the amount of the above-described binders (A) in the EC materials of the invention is guided inparticular by their solubility and their dispersibility in the aqueous medium and by their functionality with regard to the crosslinking reactions with themselves or with the constituents (B), and may therefore be determined readily be the skilled worker on the basis of his or her general art knowledge, where appropriate with the assistance of simple preliminary tests.
• Suitable crosslinking agents (B) include all customary and known crosslinking agents which contain suitable complementary reactive functional groups.
• the crosslinking agents (B) are preferably selected from the group consisting of blocked polyisocyanates, melamine-formaldehyde resins, tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazines, and polyepoxides.
• the crosslinking agents (B) are more preferably selected from the group consisting of blocked polyisocyanates and highly reactive melamine-formaldehyde resins. With particular preference the blocked polyisocyanates are used.
• the blocked polyisocyanates (B) are prepared from customary and known paint polyisocyanates containing aliphatically, cycloaliphatically, araliphatically and/or aromatically attached isocyanate groups.
• paint polyisocyanates having from 2 to 5 isocyanate groups per molecule and having viscosities of from 100 to 10 000, preferably from 100 to 5000, and in particular from 100 to 2000 mPas (at 23° C.).
• the paint polyisocyanates may have been given a conventional hydrophilic or hydrophobic modification.
• paint polyisocyanates are described, for example, in “Methoden der organischen Chemie”, Houben-Weyl, Volume 14/2, 4 th edition, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1963, pages 61 to 70, and by W. Siefken, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, Volume 562, pages 75 to 136.
• paint polyisocyanates are polyisocyanates containing isocyanurate, biuret, allophanate, iminooxadiazinedione, urethane, urea, carbodiimide and/or uretdione groups, which are obtainable from customary and known diisocyanates.
• diisocyanates it is preferred to use hexamethylene diisocyanate, isophorone diisocyanate, 2-isocyanatopropylcyclohexyl isocyanate, dicyclohexylmethane 2,4′-diisocyanate, dicyclohexylmethane 4,4′-diisocyanate or 1,3-bis(isocyanatomethyl)cyclohexane (BIC), diisocyanates derived from dimer fatty acids, 1,8-diisocyanato-4-isocyanatomethyloctane, 1,7-diisocyanato-4-isocyanatomethylheptane, 1-isocyanato-2-(3-isocyanatopropyl)cyclohexane, 2,4- and/or 2,6-tolylene diisocyanate, 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, naphthalene diisocyanate or mixtures of these
• the EC materials of the invention comprise a water-insoluble pulverulent bismuth subsalicylate (C) of empirical formula C 7 H 5 O 4 Bi. It has a bismuth content according to DAB [German Pharmacopeia] 7 of from 56.5 to 60% by weight.
• Bismuth subsalicylate (C) is a commercial compound and is sold, for example, by MCP HEK GmbH, Lubeck, Germany. Based on their solids, the EC materials of the invention contain preferably from 0.05 to 5%, more preferably from 0.1 to 4%, and in particular from 0.2 to 3% by weight of bismuth subsalicylate (C).
• the EC materials of the invention may further comprise at least one customary and known additive (D) selected from the group consisting of catalysts other than bismuth Subsalicylate (C); pigments; anticrater additives; polyvinyl alcohols; thermally curable reactive diluents; molecularly dispersely soluble dyes; light stabilizers, such as UV absorbers and reversible free-radical scavengers (HALS); antioxidants; low-boiling and high-boiling (“long”) organic solvents; devolatilizers; wetting agents; emulsifiers; slip additives; polymerization inhibitors; thermolabile free-radical initiators; adhesion promoters; leveling agents; film-forming auxiliaries; flame retardants; corrosion inhibitors; flow aids; waxes; siccatives; biocides, and flatting agents, in effective amounts.
• D customary and known additive
• Pigments are preferably used as additives (D).
• the pigments (D) are preferably selected from the group consisting of customary and known color pigments, effect pigments, electrically conductive pigments, magnetically shielding pigments, fluorescent pigments, extender pigments, and anticorrosion pigments, organic and inorganic.
• the EC materials of the invention are prepared by mixing and homogenizing the above-described constituents (A), (B), (C) and (D) if desired, using customary and known mixing techniques and apparatus such as stirred tanks, stirred mills, extruders, kneading apparatus, Ultraturrax, inline dissolvers, static mixers, micromixers, toothed-gear dispersers, pressure relief nozzles and/or microfluidizers.
• the pigments are incorporated preferably in the form of pigment pastes or pigment preparations into the EC materials (cf. Römpp Lexikon Lacke und Druckmaschine, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, N.Y., 1998, “Pigment preparations”, page 452).
• a further particular advantage of the bismuth Subsalicylate (C) used in accordance with the invention is that it lends itself outstandingly to incorporation into the pigment pastes and into the EC materials of the invention.
• the EC materials of the invention are applied conventionally by immersing an electrically conductive substrate in an electrocoating bath of the invention, connecting the substrate as the cathode or anode, preferably as the cathode, depositing an EC material film on the substrate using direct current, removing the coated substrate from the electrocoating bath, and subjecting the deposited EC material film to conventional thermal clearing (baking).
• the resulting electrocoat can then be overcoated with a surfacer or with an antistonechip primer and a solid-color topcoat material or, alternatively, with a basecoat material and a clearcoat material by the wet-on-wet technique.
• the surfacer film or antistonechip primer film and also the solid-color topcoat film are preferably each baked individually.
• the basecoat film and the clearcoat film are preferably baked together. This procedure results in multicoat paint systems having outstanding performance properties.
• the multicoat paint systems by wet-on-wet techniques wherein the deposited EC material film is not cured or is only partly cured thermally and is immediately overcoated with the other coating materials, especially aqueous coating materials, after which it is baked together with at least one of the films of the coating materials (EC material film+surfacer film; EC material film+surfacer film+solid-color topcoat film; EC material film+surfacer film+basecoat film, or EC material film+surfacer film+basecoat film+clearcoat film).
• the resulting multicoat paint systems have outstanding performance properties, the production processes being particularly economic and energy-saving. In the course of these processes it is found that the EC material films of the invention lend themselves particularly well to undisrupted overcoating by the wet-on-wet technique.
• electrocoats of the invention are obtained which exhibit very good leveling, are free from surface defects and inhomogeneities, and afford outstanding corrosion protection and edge protection.
• a reactor is charged under nitrogen with 10 462 parts of isomers and higher polyfunctional oligomers based on 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, having an NCO equivalent weight of 135 g/eq (Lupranat® M20S from BASF AG; NCO functionality about 2.7; 2,2′- and 2,4′-diphenylmethanediisocyanate content less than 5%).
• 20 parts of dibutyltin dilaurate are added and 9626 parts of butyl diglycol are added dropwise at a rate such that the product temperature remains below 60° C. After the end of the addition, the temperature is held at 60° C.
• NCO equivalent weight 1 120 g/eq is determined (based on solid fractions).
• 867 parts of melted trimethylolpropane are added at a rate such that the temperature of the product does not exceed 100° C.
• stirring is continued for 60 minutes more.
• the mixture is cooled to 65° C. and diluted simultaneously with 963 parts of n-butanol and 300 parts of methyl isobutyl ketone.
• the solids content is 70.1% (1 h at 130° C.).
• the water of reaction is removed at from 110 to 140° C. from a 70% strength solution of diethylenetriamine in methyl isobutyl ketone.
• the product is subsequently diluted with methyl isobutyl ketone until the solution has an amine equivalent weight of 131 g/eq.
• Vacuum distillation removes the volatile solvents, which are then replaced in equal quantity by water.
• the characteristics of the dispersion are as follows: Solids content: 31.9% (1 hour at 130° C.) Base content: 0.69 meq/g solids Acid content: 0.32 meq/g solids pH: 6.2 Particle size: 113 nm
• an organic-aqueous solution of an epoxy-amine adduct is prepared by in a first stage reacting 2 598 parts of bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (epoxy equivalent weight (EEW): 188 g/eq), 787 parts of bisphenol A, 603 parts of dodecylphenol and 206 parts of butyl glycol in the presence of 4 parts of triphenylphosphine at 130° C. to an EEW of 865 g/eq. While the mixture cools, it is diluted with 849 parts of butyl glycol and 1 534 parts of D.E.R.
• EW epoxy equivalent weight
• the epoxy-amine adduct solution is used below to prepare an aqueous solution and/or dispersion of a grinding resin.
• a stable pigment paste is obtained which does not undergo sedimentation even after storage for two months at 40° C.
• An electrocoating bath is prepared from 2 053 parts by weight of deionized water, 2 348 parts by weight of the dispersion from preparation example 3 and 599 parts by weight of the pigment paste from example 1.
• the resulting electrocoat material has a solids content of about 20% with an ash content of 25%.
• the particle size of the dispersed constituents is optimized to the intended use.
• the filterability of the electrocoat material is very good and it is highly resistant to infestation to microorganisms.

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