Esterified glycidyl ether addition products and their use

Claim 1

An esterified glycidyl ether addition product prepared by esterification of the components consisting essentially of (1) a diol compound of the following formula Ia ##STR8## which a is a number from 2 to 40 and R 1 is H or CH 3 and can also assume both meanings within the chain of the polyoxyalkylene radical, located in blocks or randomly, or of the following formula Ib HO--R.sup.2 --OH in which R 2 is an acyclic divalent hydrocarbon radical, and, or a propoxylated addition product (2) an addition product of 1 mol of OH function of a polyether block copolymer of the following formula II ##STR9## in which R 3 is methyl or ethyl, n and m are numbers which are chosen so that the polyethylene oxide content is 10 to 80% of the molecular weight of the total molecule and p is a number from 10 to 100, and 0.3 to 1 mol of epoxide function of a glycidyl ether of the following formula III ##STR10## in which R 4 can be identical or different and is hydrogen, C 1 to C 4 --alkyl or halogen, A is a direct bond, a sulfonyl or cyclohexyl group or a group of the formula ##STR11## R 5 and R 6 are hydrogen, methyl or phenhyl and x is a number from 0 to 10, or 0.1 to 1.5 mol of epoxide function of a glycidyl ether of the following formula IV ##STR12## in which y is a number from 1 to 10, which (3) a dicarboxylic acid, the reaction components (1), (2) and (3) being employed in an equivalent ratio of 1:0.1 to 1.5:0.5 to 2.