Studies on the Reaction between Thiocarbamylsulfenamides and Diebenzothiazyl Disulfide

Abstract

Abstract The use of binary systems as accelerators in the vulcanization of rubber has received considerable attention, since many of them in suitable combinations, have been shown to provide efficient vulcanization systems. Dogadkin and co-workers and Skinner and Watson reported mutual activation with a number of popular accelerator combinations. It was suggested that the mutual activation occurs by the interaction of the accelerators to form intermediate complexes which decompose to produce free radicals responsible for initiating the various reactions involved in the vulcanization process. Recently Krymowski and Taylor studied the reaction between N-oxydiethylenethiocarbamyl-N′-oxydiethylenesulfenamide (OTOS) and N-oxydiethylene-2-benzothiazylsulfenamide (OBTS), a synergistic accelerator system, in tetrachloroethane at 142°C, and identified the various products formed. Many of these reaction products themselves are familiar as vulcanization accelerators and thus may contribute to the synergistic activity observed with the OTOS-OBTS system. In the present investigation, we have studied the reaction between thiocarbamylsulfenamides and dibenzothiazyl disulfide (MBTS) in the solid phase in order to get an insight into the mutual activity provided by this system in filled and gum vulcanizates of NR.