Polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition having less coloration from melt processing and having high aging stability of the melt viscosity comprising a polyvinyl alcohol-based rein having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and having an absorbance of 0.1 to 0.3 of 280 nm in an ultraviolet absorbance spectrum as a 4 mass % aqueous solution, a carboxylic acid and an alkaline (earth) metal salt, wherein when an aqueous solution of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition is prepared so as to have a content of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin of 4 mass %, the pH of the aqueous solution at 20° C. is from 5.5 to 7: wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group, X represents a single bond or a bonding chain, and R 4 , R 5 and R 6 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group.
1. A polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition comprising:
a water soluble polyvinyl alcohol-based resin which comprises a structural unit represented by formula (1), and has an absorbance of 0.1 to 0.3 of 280 nm in an ultraviolet absorbance spectrum when a 4 mass % aqueous solution thereof is prepared;
a carboxylic acid; and
at least one of an alkaline metal salt and an alkaline-earth metal salt,
wherein, when an aqueous solution of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition is prepared so as to have a content of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin of 4 mass %, the pH of the aqueous solution at 20° C. is from 5.5 to 7
wherein formula (I) is:
in which R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group, X represents a single bond or a bonding chain, and R 4 , R 5 , and R 6 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group.
2. The polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition according to claim 1 ,
wherein the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin comprising the structural unit represented by formula (1) is obtained by saponification of a copolymerization product which is produced by copolymerizing a vinyl ester-based monomer and a compound having a 1,2-diol structure represented by formula (2) or a derivative thereof, using an organic peroxide having a half-life at 60° C. of 10 to 300 minutes as a polymerization initiator
wherein formula (2) is:
in which R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group, X represents a single bond or a bonding chain, and R 4 , R 5 , and R 6 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group.
3. A water soluble polyvinyl alcohol-based resin composition, in which a YI value as an extruded product obtained using an extruder under a condition of a resin temperature of 210° C. and a residence time of 3 minutes is 50 or less, and a ratio of a torque at 60 minutes after the start of kneading to a torque after 10 minutes is 3 or less when melt-kneaded at a resin temperature of 230° C. with a plastograph.