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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1995
Menno A Van Dijk, Amsterdam, NL;
Jacqueline M Veurink, Amsterdam, NL;
Birgitte M Van de Vliet, Amsterdam, NL;
Jeroen Van Westrenen, Amsterdam, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Block copolymers of the structure A-B-C-D of improved processability derived from a vinyl aromatic monomer and a conjugated diene, having a total bound vinyl aromatic content in the range of from 10 to 40 wt. %, wherein the conjugated diene has been polymerized in a 1,2 or 3,4 addition in an amount of from 1 to 20% of the total bound conjugated diene, and wherein A represents a predominantly poly(vinylaromatic)block, B represents a predominantly poly(conjugated diene), D represents a predominantly poly(vinylaromatic)block, and C represents a tapered block of the conjugated diene occurring in the block B and a the vinyl aromatic occuring in the block D, wherein the tapering in block C shows an increasing content of vinyl aromatic monomer in the direction to block D, wherein the weight ratio of the conjugated diene occurring in block B and the conjugated diene occurring in block C is in the range of from 5:5 to 9:1, and wherein the total apparent molecular weight of which is in the range of from 130,000 to 300,000.