US 4,472,564 AGrant
Method for Making an Enoxy Stabilized Room Temperature Vulcanizable Organopolysiloxane Composition Which Resists Color Change Upon Aging
Issue Date:1984-09-18
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Abstract
A method is provided for making a room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane composition which is stabilized with an enoxy containing scavenger for hydroxy radicals which is used in combination with certain cure accelerators. The room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane compositions can be allowed to age over an extended period of time under ambient conditions without any significant change in color occurring in the resulting room temperature vulcanizable composition.
Metadata
Assignee
- General Electric Company
Inventor
- Thomas P. Lockhart
Application Information
Application Number:US 4815262
Filing Date:1983-04-01
Priority Date:1983-04-01
Art Unit:151
Classifications
IPC:
C08G 7704C08L 8304
Field of Search:
52818;21;23;33;34;901
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Description
In order that those skilled in the art will be better able to practice the invention, the following examples are given by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. All parts are by weight.
Example 1
A room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane composition was prepared by blending together under substantially anhydrous conditions, 100 parts of a polydimethylsiloxane having terminal methyldimethoxysiloxy units and a viscosity of about 20,000 centipoise at 25.degree. C., 0.2 part of dibutyltindiacetate, 2 parts of an enoxy stabilizer and 0.3 to 1 part of a cure accelerator. A 5% chloroform solution of the above room temperature vulcanizable composition was prepared and measured for absorbance value at 380 nm and 420 nm using a 1 centimeter diameter quartz sample cell in a Varian Cary 219 spectrophotometer. The absorbance value of the polydimethylsiloxane was found to be approximately 0.001 at 380 nm and about 0.001 at 420 nm. The RTV composition when initially prepared has approximately the same value when measured immediately after preparation.
The above RTV organopolysiloxane solutions were then placed in tightly closed screwed cap vails and were heat aged at 100.degree. C. for 43 hours in a silicone oil bath in a dry box under an inert atmosphere. After heat aging, the heat aged polymer solutions were then measured for possible change in absorbance following the same procedure as previously described. In addition, aliquots of the solutions were also removed and exposed to the atmosphere in a 58% humidity chamber to determine tack-free times. The following results were obtained, where the scavenger is isopropenylacetate (IPA), or methyldimethoxyisopropenoxysilane (MDIS), "hex.sub.2 NH" is dihexylamine, "colored"means that a 0.5% solution in chloroform of the heat aged RTV organopolysiloxane solution had an absorbance of greater than 0.015 at 380 nm, "colorless" means that the heat aged RTV organopolysiloxane solution had an absorbance value of less than 0.011 at 380 nm and "TFT" is tack-free time in minutes after the 43 hour, 100.degree. C. heat age:
The above results show that substantially colorless or very faint yellow room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane compositions can be made in accordance with the practice of the present invention which are stable after an extended shelf period at ambient temperatures or its equivalent accelerated heat age at 100.degree. C. for 43 hours. It was further found that the colored heat aged RTV compositions using dihexylamine as an accelerator were an unacceptable deep yellow. Substantially similar color results were obtained when solutions of the same RTV compositions were examined at 450 nm.
An additional evaluation was made to determine the extent of color occurring using various nitrogen organic bases which are affective cure accelerators for room temperature vulcanizable compositions in accordance with the practice of the present invention. Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane was used in place of the methyldimethoxy siloxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane of Example 1 as the base polydimethylsiloxane polymer. There was used 100 parts of the aforementioned cyclic polydimethylsiloxane with 2 parts of scavenger, 0.2 part of dibutyltindiacetate, and 0.6 part of nitrogen base accelerator. Identical mixture were prepared to which 0.5-1.0. equivalents of methanol were added. The various solutions were heat aged at 95.degree..+-.5.degree. C. in glass vials in a dry box. The following results were obtained, where the term "colorless" is as previously defined, "very faint yellow" has an absorbance value below 0.012, while light yellow and yellow exceed an absorbance value of 0.015 at 380 nm:
The above results further establish the unique aspects of the present invention with respect to making room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane compositions having an enoxy functional stabilizer and the employment of particular cure rate accelerators with respect to their ability to provide substantially colorless room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane compositions after an extended shelf period under ambient conditions or equivalent accelerated heat aging.
Although the above examples are directed to the use of only a few of the very many enoxy containing scavengers, cure accelerators, condensation catalysts, and alkoxy terminated polydiorganosiloxane polymer, it should be understood that the present invention is directed to a much broader variety of such ingredients as shown in the description preceding these examples. For example, in instances where silanol terminated polydiorganosiloxane is used to make RTV compositions, there can be used from about 0.001 to about 0.1 part of alkoxy silane of formula (4) per part of the silanol terminated polydiorganosiloxane.
Claims
What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. A method of making a room temperature vulcanizable organopolysiloxane composition utilizing a cure rate accelerator and a material having an enoxy functional group as a scavenger for chemically combined hydroxy radicals, which RTV organopolysiloxane composition is substantially colorless and exhibits an ability to resist a substantial change in color over an extended shelf period under moisture free conditions at ambient temperatures, which comprises, (1)agitating under substantially anhydrous conditions at a temperature in the range of from 0.degree. C. to 180.degree. C., a mixture of ingredients comprising by weight, (A) an alkoxy terminated polydiorganosiloxane of the formula, ##STR7## (B) an effective amount of a condensation catalyst, (C) from 0 to 0.1 part per part of the alkoxy terminated polydiorganosiloxane of a polyalkoxysilane of the formula, ##STR8## (D) an effective amount of a cure accelerator selected from the class consisting of a diorganosulfoxide and a nitrogen base free of reactive =NH functional groups selected from the class consisting of sterically hindered secondary amines, imidazoles, aminopyridines and tertiary amines and (E) an effective amount of a scavenger having enoxy functionality selected from the class consisting of organo silanes and alkenyl carboxylates, (2) allowing the resulting mixture of ingredients of (1) to age at ambient conditions over an extended period of time, where n is an integer having a value of from 50 to about 2500, R is a C.sub.(1-13) monovalent substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical, R.sup.4 is a C.sub.(1-8) aliphatic organic radical selected from alkyl radicals, alkylether radicals, alkylester radicals, alkylketone radicals and alkylcyano or a C.sub.(7-13) aralkyl radical, R.sup.5 is a monovalent radical selected from enoxy radicals of the formula ##STR9## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 can be the same or different monovalent radicals selected from hydrogen, C.sub.(1-8) alkyl, alkenyl, and alkoxy or C .sub.(6-13) aryl and aryloxy, a is a whole number equal to 0 to 2 inclusive and b is a whole number equal to 0 or 1.
2. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the enoxy scavenger is isopropenylacetate.
3. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the enoxy scavenger is methyldimethoxyisopropenoxysilane.
4. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the cure accelerator is dimethylsulfoxide.
5. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the cure accelerator is N-methylimidazole.
6. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the cure accelerator is N,N-dibutylaminopyridine.
7. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the cure accelerator is dicyclohexylamine.
8. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the condensation catalyst is dibutyltindiacetate.
9. A method in accordance with claim 1, where the alkoxy terminated polydiorganosiloxane is a methyldimethoxypolydimethylsiloxane.
10. A method for making a room temperature vulcanizable composition which resists color change upon aging comprising, (1) agitating under substantially anhydrous conditions at a temperature in the range of from 0.degree.C. to 180.degree. C., a mixture of ingredients comprising by weight (A) a silanol terminated polydiorganosiloxane (B) an effective amount of a condensation catalyst (C) 0.001 to 0.1 part per part of the silanol terminated polydiorganosiloxane of a cross-linking polyalkoxysilane (D) an effective amount of a cure accelerator selected from the class consisting of a diorganosulfoxide and a nitrogen base free of reactive .dbd.NH functional groups selected from the class consisting of sterically hindered secondary amines, imidazoles, aminopyridines and tertiary amines and (E) an effective amount of a scavenger having enoxy functionality selected from the class consisting of organo silanes and alkenyl carboxylates, (2) allowing the resulting mixture of ingredients of (1) to age at ambient conditions over an extended period of time.
11. A method for making a room temperature vulcanizable composition which resists color change upon aging comprising, (1) agitating under substantially anhydrous conditions at a temperature in the range of from 0.degree. C. to 180.degree. C., a mixture of ingredients comprising by weight (A) a silanol terminated polydiorganosiloxane (B) an effective amount of a condensation catalyst (C) an effective amount of a cure accelerator selected from the class consisting of a diorganosulfoxide and a nitrogen base free of reactive .dbd.NH functional groups selected from the class consisting of sterically hindered secondary amines, imidazoles, aminopyridines and tertiary amines and (D) an effective amount of a scavenger having the formula, ##STR10## (2) allowing the resulting mixture of ingredients of (1) to age at ambient conditions over an extended period of time, where X is an enoxy functional group of the formula, ##STR11## R is a C.sub.(1-13) monovalent substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 can be the same or different monovalent radicals selected from hydrogen, C .sub.(1-8) alkyl, alkenyl, and alkoxy or C.sub.(6-13) aryl and aryloxy, R.sup.4 is a C.sub.(1-8) aliphatic organic radical selected from alkyl radicals, alkylether radicals, alkylester radicals, alkylketone radicals and alkylcyano or a C.sub.(7-13) aralkyl radical, c is equal to 0 to 3 inclusive, d is 0 or 1, and c+d is equal to 0 to 3 inclusive.
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