Noncatalytic ketonization of a nitrile-butadiene rubber (21 mol% acrylonitrile units) by nitrous oxide was shown to yield polymeric products functionalized with carbonyl (mainly ketone) groups. The reaction was conducted in a benzene solvent at 180-230° and pressure of 3-6 MPa. An assumed ketonization mechanism includes a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of N2O to C{double bond, long}C bonds in butadiene units. According to the NMR and GPC data, the main route of the reaction (ca. 85%) proceeds without cleavage of the C{double bond, long}C bonds and yields ketone groups in the polymer backbone. The minor route (ca. 15%) includes the cleavage of C{double bond, long}C bonds resulting in fragmentation of the macromolecules that leads to a decrease in their molecular weight. The nitrile (-CN) groups remain untouched. The resulting product is a bifunctional low-molecular rubber containing, in addition to originally present nitrile groups, a regulated amount of new ketone groups randomly distributed along the polymer backbone. The results for nitrile-butadiene rubber are compared with the earlier studied ketonization of butadiene and isoprene rubbers. The molecular structure of monomeric units was shown to be an important characteristic of a parent rubber affecting the reaction rate, degree of fragmentation, and consistency (rubber-like, plastic, or liquid) of the resulting material. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Semikolenov, S. V., Dubkov, K. A., Ivanov, D. P., Babushkin, D. E., Matsko, M. A., & Panov, G. I. (2009). Ketonization of a nitrile-butadiene rubber by nitrous oxide: Comparison with the ketonization of other type diene rubbers. European Polymer Journal, 45(12), 3355–3362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.10.007
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