Blocked polyisocyanates formed from a polyisocyanate containing biuret groups and from an acetoacetic acid alkyl ester

Claim 1

Process for the manufacture of a completely or partially blocked compound having the formula ##STR11## wherein R denotes the radical ##STR12## and one to three units of R are present in the compound and wherein, in the case wherein one or two units of R having this meaning are present, the remaining radical R denotes the radical --NCO, and wherein R 1 denotes the methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, tert.-butyl, isobutyl, sec.-butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl or dodecyl radical, characterized in that an acetoacetic acid alkyl ester in which the alkyl radical consists of the methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, tert.-butyl, isobutyl, sec.-butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, or dodecyl, is reacted, by warming, in the presence of zinc acetoacetonate as catalyst, with an about 75 percent strength by weight solution of a triisocyanate containing biuret groups having an NCO content of 16.5 to 17.0 percent by weight and which triisocyanate has been obtained by reacting three moles of hexamethylene diisocyanate with one mol of water, and for every NCO group to be blocked in the ratio of acetoacetic acid ester: NCO of 1 to 1.1:1, to obtain a compound of formula I.