Energy sensitive element having crosslinkable polyester

Claim 1

An energy-sensitive element having a substrate with a coating on at least one side thereon, said coating comprising an energy-curable polyester, said polyester being crosslinkable and having heterocyclic moieties and backbone alpha-methylene groups and repeating units of the general formula: ##STR10## wherein R is a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and optionally one catenary oxygen; R 1 is hydrogen, ##STR11## wherein R 3 is alkenyl or alkyl having 2 to 5 carbon atoms and can be substituted by phenyl or carboxyl and R 4 is aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbyl having up to 8 carbon atoms; R 2 is hydrogen or methyl; W is a divalent group that is required to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, wherein W is ##STR12## and wherein R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , and R 8 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; Q is the divalent or trivalent residue of hydrocarbyl di- or tri-carboxylic acids, said residue formed by the removal of active hydrogens from the caroboxylic acid groups and containing up to 40 carbon atoms and optionally containing catenary oxygen atoms; and a is zero or one, but can be one for no more than 20 mole percent of the carboxylic acids, and Z is ##STR13##