Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Cur- ing Agents for Surface Coatings Based on

The acrylamide based curing agents (ACAs) were prepared from methyl methacry-late-acrylamide copolymers by further methylolation and subsequent etherificationwith butanol. These were characterized for their various physico-chemical charac-teristics. Various sets of these ACAs were blended with hydroxyl functional acrylic resin to prepare the stoving compositions. After stoving the films were studied for their various properties and compared with the conventional melamine-formaldehyde based curing agent (CMFCA) containing compositions. The films were also characterized by thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) and IR-spectra. The result reveals that the properties of cer-tain compositions based on ACAs were remarkably better than those of CMFCA based coatings