Transaminated dialkylaminoalkylphenol-3° and 1° amine-containing compound

The present invention relates to compounds that are active as accelerators for curable epoxy and polyurethane systems. The invention relates especially to new compounds that are obtained as reaction products of Mannich bases described hereinbelow with selected amines by means of transamination and that can be used as accelerators in curable epoxy and polyurethane systems. Compounds active as accelerators for curable epoxy and polyurethane systems, those compounds having been prepared by means of a transamination reaction by reacting (a) a substituted phenolic compound (Mannich base) having at least one substituent of formulawherein Rand Rare each independently of the other linear or branched Calkyl and Ris hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or phenyl, with (b) a compound of formulawherein Rand Rare each independently of the other C-Calkyl or together form a radical of formula -(CH)- or -(CH)-O-(CH)-, n is an integer from 2 to 5 and q is zero, 1, 2 or 3, and the compound obtained or the compounds present in the mixture obtained has/have on average, per molecule, at least one substituent of formulaand the use of those compounds as accelerators in curable systems, preferably in curable epoxy and polyurethane systems.