摘要:
A process for simply and inexpensively producing a conjugated diene polymer with a narrow molecular weight distribution and a high cis-bond content at a low cost is provided. The process comprises a polymerization step, wherein a conjugated diene polymer having a cis-1,4-bond content of 98.5 mass % or more and a ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn) measured by gel permeation chromatography of 2.5 or less is obtained by carrying out a polymerization reaction in conjugated diene compounds using a catalyst composition containing a rare earth element-containing compound or a reaction product of the rare earth element-containing compound with a Lewis base, an aluminoxane and/or organoaluminum compound, and an iodine-containing compound.
摘要:
A method for producing a polymer for oil-resistant rubber, which comprises adding, to an aqueous dispersion of an unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene copolymer (component A), a monomer composition (component B) containing at least one kind of monomer selected from the group consisting of a nitrile group-containing monomer (component B-1), a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer (component B-2) and an aromatic vinyl compound monomer (component B-3), and conducting a polymerization reaction in a state that the ratio of the conjugated diene monomer present in the system, to the total monomers present in the system is controlled at 10 mol % or less.
摘要:
An objective of the invention is to provide a conjugated diene-based rubber having a specific composition and a method of producing the same, an oil extended rubber using the same, as well as a rubber composition capable of being converted into a vulcanized rubber which has a low rolling resistance, an excellent wearing resistance and the like, and is useful, for example, as a tire or the like. A conjugated diene-based rubber in the invention has a glass transition point of −60 to 0° C., an olefinically unsaturated nitrile monomer unit randomly contains in its molecular chain, its repeating units consists of 9 to 30% by mass of an olefinically unsaturated nitrile monomer unit such as acrylonitrile, 10 to 50% by mass of an aromatic vinyl monomer unit such as styrene and 20 to 81% by mass of a conjugated diene monomer unit such as 1,3-butadiene, and its Mooney viscosity [ML1+4(100° C.)] is 20 to 200. An oil extended rubber in the invention comprises 100 parts by mass of the conjugated diene-based rubber and 10 to 60 parts by mass of an extending oil. A rubber composition in the invention comprises a rubber component containing a conjugated diene-based rubber, and an inorganic filler such as a silica and/or a carbon black.
摘要:
Conjugated diolefin-based copolymer rubber of a conjugated diolefin and an aromatic vinyl compound, wherein (1) the content of amino groups bound to the rubber (nitrogen content value) is 0.0025 to 0.20 mmol/g of copolymer rubber, (2) the content of the polymerization units of the aromatic vinyl compound is 5 wt % or more and less than 30 wt % based on the copolymer rubber, and the content of vinyl bonds in the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin (the total content of a 1,2-bond and a 3,4-bond) is 55 mol % or more based on the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin, or the content of the polymerization units of the aromatic vinyl compound is 30 to 50 wt % based on the copolymer rubber and the content of vinyl bonds in the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin is 25 to 55 mol % on the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin and (3) the molecular weight distribution is polymodal.
摘要:
A process for simply and inexpensively producing a conjugated diene polymer with a narrow molecular weight distribution and a high cis-bond content at a low cost is provided. The process comprises a polymerization step, wherein a conjugated diene polymer having a cis-1,4-bond content of 98.5 mass % or more and a ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn) measured by gel permeation chromatography of 2.5 or less is obtained by carrying out a polymerization reaction in conjugated diene compounds using a catalyst composition containing a rare earth element-containing compound or a reaction product of the rare earth element-containing compound with a Lewis base, an aluminoxane and/or organoaluminum compound, and an iodine-containing compound.
摘要:
A method for producing a modified conjugated diene polymer includes a modification step (A) that subjects a conjugated diene polymer having a cis-1,4-bond content of 98.5% or more and possessing an active end to a modification reaction to introduce an alkoxysilane compound having two or more reactive groups including an alkoxysilyl group into the active end of the conjugated diene polymer, and a condensation step (B) that subjects the residue of the alkoxysilane compound introduced into the active end to a condensation reaction in the presence of a condensation catalyst that includes at least one element among the elements of the groups 4A, 2B, 3B, 4B, and 5B in the periodic table. The method can produce a modified conjugated diene polymer that exhibits low heat build-up and excellent wear resistance.
摘要:
A process for producing a modified conjugated diene polymer includes subjecting an active terminal of a conjugated diene polymer having a vinyl content of less than 10% and a cis-1,4 bond content of 75% or more to a modification reaction with an alkoxysilane compound, and subjecting the alkoxysilane compound (residue) to a condensation reaction in an aqueous solution at a pH of 9 to 14 and a temperature of 85 to 180° C. in the presence of a condensation accelerator including a compound containing titanium. The modified conjugated diene polymer exhibits low heat build-up and increased reinforcing properties when used for a rubber composition, and exhibits excellent wear resistance, mechanical characteristics, and processability.
摘要:
Disclosed are a method for producing a modified conjugated diene polymer improved in quality stability, more enhanced in low heat buildup and reinforcing ability when used in a rubber composition, excellent in wear resistance, mechanical characteristics and processability, and improved in cold flow; and a rubber composition using the same. The method includes a step of modifying an active end of an active end-containing conjugated diene polymer having a cis-1,4-bond content of 75% or more with an alkoxysilane compound containing at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of (a) an epoxy group, (b) an isocyanate group and (c) a carboxyl group, and a step of adding a condensation accelerator to conduct condensation reaction of the alkoxysilane compound (residue) in an aqueous solution having a pH of 9 to 14 and a temperature of 85 to 180° C.
摘要:
An objective of the invention is to provide a rubber composition which has satisfactory processability and dimension stability, and the like, gives a vulcanized rubber exhibiting excellent wearing resistance and tensile strength, and the like, and thus is useful in a belt, a hose and a tire and the like, as well as a crosslinked rubber particle for obtaining such rubber composition. A rubber composition of the invention comprises [1] a crosslinked rubber particle comprising as repeating units (a) 30 to 94.89% by weight of a conjugated diene unit, (b) 5 to 69.89% by weight of an aromatic vinyl unit, (c) 0.01 to 10% by weight of a monomer unit having at least two polymerizable unsaturated group, (d) one polymerizable unsaturated group and an amino group, a hydroxyl group and an epoxy group and (e) 0.1 to 30% by weight of a monomer unit having one polymerizable unsaturated group and a carboxylic group and having a particle size of 10 to 500 nm and a toluene-insolubles of 80% by weight or more and [2] a non-crosslinked rubber component whose toluene-insolubles is less than 20% by weight.
摘要:
The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a diene-based rubber/inorganic compound complex capable of allowing a silicic acid compound including silica and the like to be dispersed uniformly and allowing a reinforcing effect to be exerted sufficiently, and a rubber composition containing said complex. A latex comprising a diene-based rubber such as styrene-butadiene copolymeric rubber, butadiene-styrene-isoprene copolymeric rubber and the like is mixed with an aqueous solution of a silicate in which an alkaline salt of silicic acid such as sodium silicate, potassium silicate and the like is dissolved, and then the resultant mixture is further mixed with an aqueous solution of electrolytes containing [1] a cationic substance which has an affinity to the diene-based rubber including a cationic polymer coagulating agent such as poly(meth)acrylic ester or the like and a cationic surfactant such as alkylamine acetate or the like and [2] a salt of an acid such as hydrochloric acid, nitric acid and the like with a multivalent metal such as calcium, magnesium and the like, to form a co-coagulated material, which is followed by a drying, whereby obtaining a diene-based rubber/inorganic compound complex.