UV absorber-containing urethane acrylate

1. A UV absorber-comprising urethane acrylate of formula (I):

wherein

R 1 is a hydrogen or a methyl radical,

Q is a linker of hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate selected from the group consisting of 2-hydroxyethyl (meth)acrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl (meth)acrylate, 4-hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate, and 3-hydroxy-2,2-dimethylpropyl (meth)acrylate,

T is a nucleus of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanates T(NCO) m which have cyclic isocyanurate, uretdione, iminooxadiazinedione or oxadiazinetrione structures, as well as branched biuret structures in the case of cycloaliphatic polyisocyanates,

m corresponds to the original average NCO functionality of the polyisocyanate used and is equal to or greater than 2,

A represents an optionally substituted linear or branched linker from carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus and/or silicon in the chain,

and

x represents an average molar content of the bonded UV absorber radical and is less than m.

2. The UV absorber-comprising urethane acrylate according to claim 1 , wherein the urethane acrylate has the structure according to formula (I-1):

wherein

Z represents an optionally substituted linear or branched C 1-20 -alkylene radical or C 1-20 -alkylene ether radical, and

T, Q, m, x and R 1 have the meanings given above for the compounds of formula (I).

3. A process for the preparation of a UV absorber-comprising urethane acrylate, comprising the steps:

a) reacting a compound of the formula:

wherein X represents branched or unbranched C 1-20 -alkyl and R′ represents branched or unbranched C 1-20 -alkyl, C 4-12 -cycloalkyl, or C 6-12 -aryl optionally substituted by C 1-12 -alkyl, C 1-12 -alkoxy, CN and/or by halogen with an at least difunctional alcohol;

b) reacting the product obtained in step a) with

bi) an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic, isocyanate group-comprising urethane acrylate which has cyclic isocyanurate, uretdione, iminooxadiazinedione or oxadiazinetrione structures or, in the case of a cycloaliphatic urethane acrylate, can further have branched biuret structures,

and/or with

bii) an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic, isocyanate group-comprising polyisocyanate which has cyclic isocyanurate, uretdione, iminooxadiazinedione or oxadiazinetrione structures or, in the case of a cycloaliphatic polyisocyanate, can further have branched biuret structures,

wherein the reaction in step b) further takes place in the presence of a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and/or after the reaction in step b) the resulting product is further reacted with a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate.

4. The process according to claim 3 , wherein in step a) in formula X represents CH(CH 3 ).

5. The process according to claim 3 , wherein in step a) in formula R′ represents n-octyl or isooctyl.

6. The process according to claim 3 , wherein in step a) the at least difunctional alcohol is selected from the group 2-butyl-2-ethyl-1,3-propanediol, 2,2-diethyl-1,3-propanediol, 2-methyl-1,3-propanediol and/or 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol.

7. The process according to claim 3 , wherein the product obtained from step a) is selected from:

8. The process according to claim 3 , wherein in step b) the isocyanate group-comprising urethane acrylate is obtainable by reacting a 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate isocyanurate with a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate.

9. The process according to claim 3 , wherein in and/or after step b) the hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate is selected from the group 2-hydroxyethyl (meth)acrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl (meth)acrylate, 4-hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate and/or 3-hydroxy-2,2-dimethylpropyl (meth)acrylate.

10. A coating composition comprising the UV absorber-comprising urethane acrylate according to claim 1 .

11. The coating composition according to claim 10 , comprising:

i) UV absorber-comprising urethane acrylate according to claim 1 in an amount of from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight,

ii) from 12 to 70 parts by weight of at least one C 2 -C 12 -diol diacrylate or C 2 -C 12 -diol dimethacrylate, wherein C 2 -C 12 represents a linear alkylene radical which can optionally be substituted by a methyl group or can be interrupted by one or more oxygen atom(s) and optionally substituted by one or more methyl group(s),

iii) from 12 to 40 parts by weight of an alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated, mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, penta- or hexa-acrylate or alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated, mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, penta- or hexa-methacrylate,

iv) from 0 to 40 parts by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group comprising pentaerythritol triacrylate, pentaerythritol tetraacrylate, dipentaerythritol tetraacrylate, dipentaerythritol pentaacrylate, dipentaerythritol hexaacrylate, pentaerythritol trimethacrylate, pentaerythritol tetramethacrylate, dipentaerythritol tetramethacrylate, dipentaerythritol pentamethacrylate, dipentaerythritol hexamethacrylate and possible reaction products thereof with aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanates,

v) from 5 to 60 parts by weight of at least one further mono-, di- or tri-acrylate or mono-, di- or tri-methacrylate,

wherein the sum of the parts by weight of components i) to v) is 100 parts by weight, and the coating composition additionally comprises at least

vi) from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of at least one photoinitiator.

12. A method for coating a substrate, comprising the steps:

applying the coating composition according to claim 10 to a substrate,

curing the applied coating composition by irradiation with UV light.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the substrate is a thermoplastic substrate.

14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the substrate is a polycarbonate substrate.

15. A coated substrate obtained by a method according to claim 12 .