Monsanto Company

Flexsys America L.p.

Ppg Industries, Inc.

Horng-Jau Lin

Otto W Maender

Roger Keranen Rains

James A Schwindeman

Rabindra Nath Datta

Charles J Rostek, Jr

David J Sikora

Sharen B Carroll

A vulcanizable composition comprising a sulfur vulcanizable rubber, a sulfur vulcanizing agent, an accelerating agent selected from the group consisting of non-thiazole sulfenamide accelerators in an amount effective to not substantially inhibit vulcanization and an amount effective to improve the hardness stabilization of said rubber upon vulcanization of a hardness stabilization agent comprising a pyrimidine derivative. A method of improving the hardness stabilization of a composition comprising a sulfur vulcanizable rubber by adding to said composition the accelerators and pyrimidine derivative.

Pyrimidine derivatives as hardness stabilizers

The invention comprises a vulcanizable composition comprising a sulfur vulcanizable rubber, a sulfur vulcanizing agent, an accelerating agent in an amount effective to accelerate vulcanization and sufficient to not substantially inhibit vulcanization, and an amount effective to improve the hardness stabilization of said rubber upon vulcanization of a pyrimidine derivative. The invention also comprises a method of improving the hardness stabilization of a composition comprising a sulfur vulcanizable rubber by adding the above accelerating agent and pyrimidine derivative to the composition.

Thiols, or thiolate salts, disulfides and sulfenamides of certain pyrazines are effective accelerators in the sulfur vulcanization of rubber. These compounds, based on 2-pyrazine, show improved rates of vulcanization compared with known sulfenamide accelerators.

Rubber compositions containing 2-pyrazine sulfenamides

An improved process for producing N-alkyl or N-cycloalkyl-2-benzothiazole sulfenimides uses aliphatic hydrocarbons as a reaction medium in converting N-alkyl or N-cycloalkyl-2-benzothiazole sulfenamides to the corresponding sulfenimides by reaction with an acid.

Process for preparing benzothiazole sulfenimides using an aliphatic

The invention relates to certain herbicidally active substituted diphenyl ether derivatives, herbicidal compositions of the same and the use thereof for preemergence and postemergence control of noxious plants, i.e., weeds.

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