Polymer impregnated wood and process for preparing the same

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Novel polymer impregnated wood is provided herein. The polymer impregnated wood is prepared by impregnating the wood with a mixture containing an organic compound selected from the group consisting of monomers prepolymers and mixtures thereof having aliphatic multiple bonds which, is capable of free radical polymerization and a crosslinkable organopolysiloxane having from 0.5 to 2 Si-bonded organic radicals and halogenated monvalent hydrocarbon radicals and Si-bonded functional groups selected from the class consisting of Si-bonded hydrogen atoms Si-bonded hydroxyl, groups and SiOC-bonded alkyl groups and thereafter polymerizing and crosslinking the impregnated mixture in the wood. Such …