Zhenli Wei, Jialong Wu, Qinmin Pan
Nov 14, 2005
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Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Abstract
Hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber is a high-performance elastomer that has found important applications in the automobile industry and petroleum fields. A new catalytic process has been investigated for producing hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber by direct hydrogenation of the rubber in latex form using RhCl(PPh 3 ) 3 as catalyst. The reactions were achieved without the addition of any organic solvents. This is the first time that the direct catalytic hydrogenation of an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber latex has been successfully realized in the absence of any organic solvent with a conversion of higher than 95% without cross-linking of the polymer.