申请人:The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
公开号:US05405815A1
公开(公告)日:1995-04-11
The subject invention relates to a technique for synthesizing rubbery non-tapered, random, copolymers of 1,3-butadiene and isoprene. These rubbery copolymers exhibit an excellent combination of properties for utilization in tire sidewall rubber compounds for truck tires. By utilizing these isoprene-butadiene rubbers in tire sidewalls, tires having improved cut growth resistance can be built without sacrificing rolling resistance. Such rubbers can also be employed in tire tread compounds to improve tread wear characteristics and decrease rolling resistance without sacrificing traction characteristics. This invention more specifically discloses a process for the synthesis of isoprene-butadiene rubbers which comprises copolymerizing isoprene monomer and 1,3-butadiene monomer in an organic solvent in the presence of a catalyst system which is made by the sequential steps of (1) mixing (a) an organoaluminum hydride, (b) a member selected from the group consisting of aliphatic alcohols, cycloaliphatic alcohols, aliphatic thiols, cycloaliphatic thiols, trialkyl silanols, and triaryl silanols, and (c) optionally, 1,3-butadiene in an organic solvent to produce a modified organoaluminum catalyst component; (2) adding an organometallic compound which contains a metal from Group III-B of the Periodic System to the modified organoaluminum catalyst component to produce a Group III-B metal containing catalyst component; and (3) adding a compound which contains at least one labile halogen atom to the Group III-B metal containing catalyst component.
本发明涉及一种合成1,3-丁二烯和异戊二烯的橡胶非锥形随机共聚物的技术。这些橡胶共聚物在卡车轮胎侧壁橡胶复合材料中展现出优异的性能组合。通过在轮胎侧壁中使用这些异戊二烯-丁二烯橡胶,可以制造出具有更好的抗切割性能的轮胎,而不会牺牲滚动阻力。这些橡胶还可以用于轮胎胎面复合材料,以改善胎面磨损特性并降低滚动阻力,而不会牺牲牵引特性。本发明更具体地揭示了一种合成异戊二烯-丁二烯橡胶的过程,其中包括在有机溶剂中存在催化剂体系的情况下,共聚合异戊二烯单体和1,3-丁二烯单体。该催化剂体系由以下步骤制成:(1)将(甲)有机铝氢化物、(乙)选自脂肪族醇、环状脂肪族醇、脂肪族硫醇、环状脂肪族硫醇、三烷基硅醇和三芳基硅醇的成员以及(丙)可选的1,3-丁二烯在有机溶剂中混合,以产生改性有机铝催化剂组分;(2)向改性有机铝催化剂组分中添加含有周期表III-B族金属的有机金属化合物,以产生含有III-B族金属的催化剂组分;(3)向含有III-B族金属的催化剂组分中添加至少含有一个活性卤素原子的化合物。