Diallylamine monomers and network polymers obtained therefrom

The present invention relates to monomers which are useful in the production of polymers, and in particular to network polymers, to the polymers obtained therefrom and to methods of producing these polymers, in particular using radiation curing, for example ultraviolet or thermal radiation. Compounds of the formula: having two double bonds which are activated so that they will take part in a polymerization reaction, the double bonds being sufficiently close together to ensure that cyclopolymerization will preferentially occur. These compounds are used as monomers which preferentially are cyclopolymerized under the influence of ultraviolet or thermal radiation in the production of network polymers, for example coatings or binders.