申请人:Morton Thiokol, Inc.
公开号:US04806613A1
公开(公告)日:1989-02-21
A method of preparing a thermoplastic elastomer having A blocks and at least one B block, wherein said A blocks are crystalline at temperatures below about 60.degree. C. and said B block(s) is amorphous at temperatures above about -20.degree. C., said A blocks each being polyethers derived from monomers of oxetane and its derivatives and/or tetrahydrofuran and its derivatives, the method comprising providing hydroxyl terminated A blocks which are crystalline at temperatures below about 60.degree. C. and separately providing hydroxyl terminated B blocks which are amorphous at temperatures above about -20.degree. C., end-capping said A blocks and said B blocks by separately reacting each of said A blocks and B blocks with a diisocyanate in which one isocyanate moiety is at least about five times as reactive with the terminal hydroxyl groups of each of the blocks as the other isocyanate moiety, whereby the more reactive isocyanate moiety tends to react with terminal hydroxyl groups of the blocks, leaving the less reactive isocyanate moiety free and unreacted, mixing said end-capped A blocks and said end-capped B blocks together at approximately the stoichiometric ratios that they are intended to be present in the thermoplastic elastomer, and reacting said mixture with a linking compound having two isocyanate-reactive groups which are sufficiently unhindered to react with the free isocyanate groups of said end-capped polymer.
一种制备热塑性弹性体的方法,该热塑性弹性体具有A块和至少一个B块,其中所述A块在约60℃以下的温度下为结晶体,所述B块在约-20℃以上的温度下为非晶体,所述A块均为由氧杂环丙烷及其衍生物和/或四氢呋喃及其衍生物的单体衍生的聚醚,所述方法包括提供在约60℃以下的温度下为结晶体的羟基末端的A块,以及单独提供在约-20℃以上的温度下为非晶体的羟基末端的B块,通过分别使用一种二异氰酸酯对A块和B块进行端基封闭,其中一个异氰酸酯基团对每个块的末端羟基反应活性至少是另一个异氰酸酯基团的5倍,因此更具反应性的异氰酸酯基团倾向于与块的末端羟基反应,留下较不具反应性的异氰酸酯基团自由未反应,将端基封闭的A块和端基封闭的B块以它们预期在热塑性弹性体中存在的计量比混合在一起,并使用具有两个异氰酸酯反应性基团的连接化合物反应该混合物,这些基团足够不受阻碍以与所述端基封闭聚合物的自由异氰酸酯基团反应。