Nitrile imines

Claim 1

A compound selected from the group consisting of a polyfunctional nitrile imine having the formula selected from the group consisting of R--C.tbd.N.sup.⊕ --N.sup.⊖ --R').sub.x and R--N.sup.⊖ --N.sup.⊕ .tbd.C--R").sub.x wherein R is a radical selected from the group consisting of alkylene radicals selected from methylene, dimethylene, trimethylene, tetramethylene, pentamethylene, hexamethylene, octamethylene, dodecamethylene, and octadecamethylene radicals; cycloalkylene radicals selected from cyclobutylene, cyclopentylene, cyclohexylene, and cyclooctylene; arylene radicals selected from o-phenylene, m-phenylene, p-phenylene, biphenylene, and naphthylene; arylene-dialkylene radicals selected from o-xylylene, m-xylylene, p-xylylene, o-phenylene-diethylene, m-phenylene-diethylene and p-phenylene-diethylene; alkylene-diarylene radicals selected from methylene bis(o-phenyl), methylene bis(m-phenyl), methylene bis(p-phenyl), dimethylene bis(o-phenyl), dimethylene bis(m-phenyl) and dimethylene bis(p-phenyl); and cycloalkylene-dialkylene radicals selected from 1,2-cyclohexane-dimethylene, 1,3-cyclohexane-dimethylene, 1,4-cyclohexane-dimethylene, 1,2-dyclopentane-dimethylene and 1,3-cyclopentane-dimethylene; R' is a radical selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C 1 -C 20 alkyl radicals, C 5 -C 12 cycloalkyl radicals, aryl radicals having 1 to 3 rings, alkaryl radicals having C 1 -C 20 alkyl groups and 1 to 3 rings and aralkyl radicals having 1 to 3 rings and C 1 -C 20 alkyl groups; R" is a radical selected from the group consisting of C 1 -C 20 alkyl radicals, C 5 -C 12 cycloalkyl radicals, aryl radicals having 1 to 3 rings, alkaryl radicals having C 1 -C 20 alkyl groups and 1 to 3 rings and aralkyl radicals having 1 to 3 rings and C 1 -C 20 alkyl groups; and x is an integer from 2 to 10.