Non-opaque flame retardant polycarbonate composition

Claim 2

a non-opaque flame retardant aromatic carbonate polymer composition comprising in admixture an aromatic carbonate polymer and from 0.001 to about 2.0 parts per hundred part of the aromatic carbonate polymer of an additive selected from the group consisting of a metal salt of a monomeric substitued aromatic sulfonic acid and a polymeric substituted aromatic sulfonic acid and/ or mixtures thereof, and wherein said metal salts thereof are selected from the group consisting of the alkali metal salts and the alkali earth metal salts, and mixtures thereof, and said substituent on the metal salts of the substituted aromatic sulfonic acid is selected from the group consisting of an electron withdrawing radical and mixtures thereof; said aromatic carbonate polymer and additive having a refractive index in the range of 1.54 to 1.65.

Claim 3

A shape article having a refractive index in the range of 1.54 to 1.65 comprising in admixture an aromatic carbonate polymer and from 0.001 to about 2.0 parts per hundred parts of the aromatic carbonate polymer of an additive selected from the group consisting of a metal salt of a monomeric substituted aromatic sulfonic acid and a polymeric substituted aromatic sulfonic acid and/or mixtures thereof, and wherein said metal salts thereof are selected from the group consisting of the alkali metal salts and the alkali earth metal salts, and mixtures thereof, and said substituent on the metal salts of the substituted aromatic sulfonic acid is selected from the group consisting of an electron withdrawing radical and mixtures thereof.

Claim 4

A shape article having a refractive index in the range of 1.54 to 1.65 comprising in admixture an aromatic carbonate polymer and from 0.001 to about 2.0 parts per hundred parts of the aromatic carbonate polymer of an additive selected from the group consisting of a metal salt of a monomeric substituted aromatic sulfonic acid and a polymeric substituted aromatic sulfonic acid and/or mixtures thereof, and wherein said metal salts thereof are selected from the group consisting of the alkali metal salts and the alkali earth metal salts, and mixtures thereof, and said substituent on the metal salts of the substituted aromatic sulfonic acid is selected from the group consisting of an electron withdrawing radical and mixtures thereof.

Claim 5

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt of the substituted monomeric aromatic sulfonic acid has the following formula: [A].sub.0-1 [R].sub.0-1 [B] herein R is selected from the group of organic radicals consisting of halogen substituted and unsubstituted alkyl, aralkyl, alkaryl, aralkenyl, aryl, arylene, alkylidene, aralkylidene, alkenylidene and aralkenylidene radicals of 1-20 carbon atoms, and wherein A and B are independently selected from the following formula: R'.sub.x (SO.sub.3 M).sub.y R" wherein M is a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metal and alkali earth metal, R' is an electron withdrawing radical, R" is an aryl radical of 1 to 4 aromatic rings, x is an integer of 0-17, y is an integer of 0-10, provided that the sum of x must equal at least 1 and the sum of y must equal at least 1 and whrein R is O and A is 1, the R" radicals of [A] and [B] are directly linked.

Claim 6

The shaped article of claim 3 wherein the metal salt is: [R'.sub.x (SO.sub.3 M).sub.y R"] [R] [R'.sub.x (SO.sub.3 M).sub.y R"] and the sum of x's equals 6 and the sum of y's equals 4.

Claim 7

The shaped article of claim 3 wherein the metal salt is: ##STR4##

Claim 8

The shaped article of claim 5 wherein M is sodium.

Claim 9

The shaped article of claim 3 wherein the metal salt is: ##STR5##

Claim 10

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt of the substituted polymeric aromatic sulfonic acid has the following formula: [A].sub.m [R.sub.1 ].sub.m+n [B].sub.n wherein R 1 is selected from the group of organic radicals consisting of halogen substituted and unsubstituted arylene, alkylene, aralkylene, alkenylene, aralkenylene, alkylidene, aralkylidene, alkenylidene and aralkenylidene radicals of 1-20 carbon atoms and wherein A and B are independently selected from the following formula: R'.sub.x (SO.sub.3 M).sub.y R" wherein M is a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metal and alkali earth metal, R' is an electron withdrawing radical, R" is an aryl radical of 1-4 aromatic rings, x is an integer of 0-17, y is an ineger of 0-10, provided that the sum of x must equal at least 1 and the sum of y must equal at least 1; and further wherein m is an integer of from 0-2000 and n is an integer from 0-2000 provided, however, that the sum of m and n must equal at least 4.

Claim 11

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the electron withdrawing radical is selected from the group consisting of halogen, nitro, trihalomethyl and cyano and mixtures thereof.

Claim 12

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the electron withdrawing radical is a chlorine.

Claim 13

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the electron withdrawing radical is trifluoromethyl.

Claim 14

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt of the substituted monomeric aromatic sulfonic acid is the sodium salt of the sulfonic acid derived from ortho dichlorobenzene.

Claim 15

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt of the substituted monomeric aromatic sulfonic acid is the sodium salt of pentachlorobenzenesulfonic acid.

Claim 16

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt of the substituted monomeric aromatic sulfonic acid is the disodium salt of 2,5-dichlorobenzene1,3-disulfonic acid.

Claim 17

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt of the substituted polymeric aromatic sulfonic acid is the sodium salt of sulfonated poly(chlorostyrene).

Claim 18

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt is sodium trichlorobiphenyl sulfonate.

Claim 19

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt is sodium heptachlorobiphenyl sulfonate.

Claim 20

The shaped article of claim 2 wherein the metal salt is sodium 1,1-bis (4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-dichloroethylene-3-sulfonate.

Claim 21

The shaped article of claim 2 in the form of a sheet.

Claim 22

The shaped article of claim 2 in the form of a particle.