FIELD: manufacturing technology.
SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to production of caoutchouc, as well as rubber based thereon. Described is a method of producing caoutchouc by anionic polymerisation of a conjugated diene and/or copolymerisation of a conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic compound in an organic solvent medium in the presence of an electron donor and lithium organozincate of general formula R4ZnLi2 as an initiator. Electron donor used is 2,2-bis(2-oxolanyl)propane (ditetrahydrofurylpropane, DTHFP) in a hydrocarbon solvent and an inert medium. Invention also relates to rubber obtained using said method and to rubber compositions containing said caoutchouc.
EFFECT: improved hysteresis characteristics of caoutchouc based rubbers.
13 cl, 2 dwg, 4 tbl, 7 ex
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Dates
2019-12-18—Published
2016-07-22—Filed