Cure accelerators for anaerobic curable compositions

1. An anaerobic curable composition, comprising:

(a) a (meth)acrylate component; and

(b) an anaerobic cure-inducing composition comprising an anaerobic cure accelerator compound within structure I

wherein R appears up to five times on the phenyl ring and is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkenyl, or sulfonato; R 1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkenyl, aralkyl, carbonyl or carboxyl; and R 2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkenyl, aralkyl, nitrogen, carbonyl and carboxyl.

2. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the (meth)acrylate component is represented by H 2 C═CGCO 2 R 1 , wherein G is a member selected from the group consisting of H, halogen and alkyl having from 1 to about four carbon atoms, and R 1 is a member selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, alkaryl, and aryl groups having from 1 to about 16 carbon atoms, with or without substitution or interruption by a member selected from the group consisting of silane, silicon, oxygen, halogen, carbonyl, hydroxyl, ester, carboxylic acid, urea, urethane, carbamate, amine, amide, sulfur, sulonate and sulfone.

3. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the (meth)acrylate component is a member selected from the group consisting of silicone (meth)acrylates, polyethylene glycol di(meth)acrylates, bisphenol-A-(meth)acrylates, ethoxylated bisphenol-A-(meth)acrylates, bisphenol-F-(meth)acrylates, ethoxylated bisphenol-F-(meth)acrylates, tetrahydrofuran (meth)acrylates and di(meth)acrylates, hydroxypropyl (meth)acrylate, hexanediol di(meth)acrylate, and trimethylol propane tri(meth)acrylate.

4. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the anaerobic cure accelerator is a member selected from the group consisting of N-phenyl glycine, N-methyl-N-phenyl glycine, ethyl-4-(dimethylamino) benzoate, and combinations thereof.

5. The composition according to claim 1 , further comprising an additional accelerator.

6. The composition according to claim 1 , further comprising a peroxide compound.

7. The composition according to claim 5 , wherein the additional accelerator is saccharin.

8. A method of preparing an anaerobic curable composition, comprising the step of:

mixing together:

a (meth)acrylate component, and

an anaerobic cure inducing composition comprising an anaerobic cure accelerator compound in accordance with claim 1 .