Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahiro Sasagawa

Takashi Sato

Shigeki Takayama

Katsumi Suzuki

Toshinori Shiraki

Shigeru Sasaki

Takahiro Hisasue

Shigeo Nakajima

Kazuo Moritou

Toshikazu Hoshina

Katsunori Nitta

Hideo Kinoshita

Sigeru Sasaki

Shinichi Nakajima

Satoru Hirota

Jurgen Hofmans

Marcel Van Beylen

Jae Yeon Lee

Dae Shik Kim

Jun Choi Pil

Tomohiro Iihara

Suk Hun Sur

Masao Sato

Takasi Sato

Suk Hun 7-1106 Kukje Backyang Apt Sur

The present invention provides a process for producing a block copolymer in high productivity, by anionic polymerization by use of a lithium initiator, and also to provide the block copolymer and a hydrogenated product thereof, the block copolymer having a conjugated diene block portion with a high vinyl bond content and a vinyl aromatic block portion with a narrow molecular weight distribution and exhibiting a narrow molecular weight distribution and high strength. A conjugated diene monomer and a vinyl aromatic monomer by use of a lithium initiator, are block copolymerized by making a tertiary amine compound and (2) sodium alkoxide coexist, wherein (2)/(1) (a molar ratio)=from 0.01 or more to less than 0.1.

Process for producing block copolymer, and block copolymer or hydrogenated product thereof

A hydrogenated copolymer obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the hydrogenated copolymer containing at least one hydrogenated copolymer block (B) which is obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated random copolymer block comprised of conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics: the hydrogenated copolymer has a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 40% by weight to less than 95% by weight; at least one peak of loss tangent (tan &#x3b4;) is observed at &#x2212;10 to 80&#xb0; C. in a dynamic viscoelastic spectrum obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer; and substantially no crystallization peak ascribed to the copolymer block (B) is observed at &#x2212;20 to 80&#xb0; C. in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) chart obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer.

Hydrogenated copolymer and composition containing the same

A hydrogenated copolymer-containing laminate comprising a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, and a hydrogenated copolymer composition layer which is laminated on and bonded to the substrate layer through the adhesive layer, the hydrogenated copolymer composition layer comprising a hydrogenated copolymer (I), and a rubbery polymer (II), wherein the hydrogenated copolymer (I) is obtained by hydrogenating a conjugated diene/vinyl aromatic compound copolymer, the hydrogenated copolymer (I) having the following characteristics (1) to (4): (1) a vinyl aromatic monomer unit content of from more than 50% by weight to 90% by weight, (2) a content of a vinyl aromatic polymer block of not more than 40% by weight, (3) a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000, and (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 70% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in conjugated diene monomer units.

Hydrogenated copolymer-containing laminate

An asphalt composition comprising from 0.5 to 50 parts by weight of a hydrogenated conjugated diene copolymer (a) and 100 parts by weight of asphalt (b), wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene copolymer (a) comprises a polymer block (A) comprising vinyl aromatic monomer units and at least one hydrogenated copolymer block (B) obtained by hydrogenation of a non-hydrogenated random copolymer block comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the hydrogenated conjugated diene copolymer (a) having the following characteristics (1) to (5):

Asphalt composition containing hydrogenated conjugated diene copolymer

Hydrogenated copolymer and composition thereof

A modified hydrogenated copolymer comprising a hydrogenated copolymer and a functional group-containing modifier group bonded to the hydrogenated copolymer, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the unhydrogenated copolymer having at least one polymer block (H) of the vinyl aromatic monomer units, and wherein the modified hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics (1) to (4): (1) a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 60% by weight to less than 90% by weight, based on the weight of the hydrogenated copolymer, (2) a content of the polymer block (H) of from 0.1 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of the unhydrogenated copolymer, (3) a weight average molecular weight of from more than 100,000 to 1,000,000, and (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 70% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in the conjugated diene monomer units.

Modified hydrogenated copolymer

The present invention relates to a hydrogenated polymer which is a hydrogenation product of a conjugated diene polymer having an average vinyl bond content of 20% by weight or more and less than 50% by weight and a weight average molecular weight of 60,000 to 600,000 to a degree such that 85% or more of the residual double bonds in the conjugated diene units are hydrogenated, and which has a molecular weight and a number of terminal methyl group carbons as measured by GPC/FTIR analysis satisfying relationship (1):&#x2267;0.03&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)wherein Va, Vb and Vc represent the number of terminal methyl group carbon atoms per 1000 carbon atoms contained in a polymer whose molecular weight is twice the peak top molecular weight, half the peak top molecular weight, and the peak top molecular weight, respectively.

Hydrogenated polymer and process for producing the same

Disclosed is a hydrogenated copolymer obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the unhydrogenated copolymer having at least one polymer block (H) of vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics (1) to (5): (1) a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 60% by weight to less than 90% by weight, based on the weight of the hydrogenated copolymer; (2) a content of the polymer block (H) of from 1 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of the unhydrogenated copolymer; (3) a weight average molecular weight of from more than 100,000 to 1,000,000; (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 85% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in the conjugated diene monomer units; and (5) substantially no crystallization peak observed at &#x2212;50 to 100&#xb0; C. in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) chart obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer.

Hydrogenated copolymer

Block copolymer and composition containing the copolymer

The invention is to provide a thermoplastic resin composition rich in heat resistance, oil resistance, and thermal aging resistance and excellent in tensile elongation characteristics, by adding a specific partially hydrogenated block copolymer to a styrene resin and/or poly(phenylene ether) resin and an olefin resin. The invention relates to a thermoplastic resin composition which comprises (A) from 95 to 5% by weight of styrene resin and/or poly(phenylene ether) resin, (B) from 5 to 95% by weight of olefin resin, and (C) a partially hydrogenated block copolymer in an amount of from 2 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the sum of ingredients (A) and (B), wherein (C) is a partially hydrogenated block copolymer obtained from a block copolymer which has at least one polymer block X mainly comprising a vinylaromatic compound and at least one polymer block Y mainly comprising a conjugated diene compound and has a combined vinylaromatic compound content of from 30 to 80% by weight and in which the vinyl bond amount in the polymer block Y mainly comprising a conjugated diene compound is from 20% by weight to less than 65% by weight, by hydrogenating from 35% to less than 70% of the double bonds derived from the conjugated diene compounds.

Thermoplastic resin composition

Hydrogenated polymer

A block copolymer having narrow molecular weight distribution and excellent symmetrical property or a telechelic polymer having, equally at both terminals thereof, a functional group can be produced by using a polymerization initiator solution which comprises a dilithium polymerization initiator having an average number of functional groups of 1.8 to 2.0/molecule and a solvent selected from aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds and alicyclic compounds and is free of a polar substance.

Solution of dilithium polymerization initiator

Conjugated diene polymer composition and rubber-reinforced styrene resin

Impact resistant methacrylic resin containing a partially hydrogenated,

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Yokohama, Japan

Masahiro Sasagawa