Bichromophoric benzoxazole-styrene ester and amide ultraviolet stabilizers and their use in organic compositions

Claim 1

An organic composition susceptible to ultraviolet light degradation stabilized against such degradation with a stabilizing amount of at least one bichromophoric compound having the formula: A--B--C wherein A is a group having the structure ##STR7## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are hydrogen, chloro, bromo, lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, lower alkylaryl, aryl-substituted-aryl, alkoxy, substituted amino, cyano, carboalkoxy and the substituents R 1 and R 2 , R 2 and R 3 , and R 3 and R 4 , combined with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, are joined alkylene groups completing a carbocyclic ring, which ring can also be substituted with one or more of the substituents listed above for R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 ; I is the same as R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 and is present on all positions of the benzenoid ring, except the carbon atom attached to the heterocyclic ring and the carbon atom attached to the B group connecting the heterocyclic aromatic A group with the aromatic C group, wherein B is a linking group connecting A and C and can be oxy, oxycarbonylalkyleneoxy, alkyleneoxy, alkyleneoxyalkyleneoxy, oxyalkylenearylenealkyleneoxy, thio, thioalkyleneoxy, aminocarbonylalkyleneoxy, N-alkylaminocarbonylalkyleneoxy, N-arylaminocarbonylalkyleneoxy, N-alkylamino, N-arylamino, N-arylaminoalkyleneoxy, N-alkyleneaminoalkyleneoxy, oxyalkyleneoxy, oxyaryleneoxy; and wherein C is a group having the formula ##STR8## where I is the same substituent as listed above and said I substituents can all be one of the substituents listed above or different listed substituents and R 5 is an alkyl group containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms and R 6 is cyano, carboxamido, alkanoyl or alkylsulfonyl.