DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Polymers containing ethylenic unsaturation can be prepared by copolymerizing one or more polyolefins, particularly a diolefin, by themselves or with one or more alkenyl aromatic hydrocarbon monomers.
The copolymers may, of course, be random, tapered, block or a combination of these, as well as linear, star or radial.
The polymers containing ethylenic unsaturation or both aromatic and ethylenic unsaturation may be prepared using anionic initiators or polymerization catalysts.
Such polymers may be prepared using bulk, solution or emulsion techniques.
In any case, the polymer containing at least ethylenic unsaturation will, generally, be recovered as a solid such as a crumb, a powder, a pellet or the like, but it also may be recovered as a liquid such as in the present invention.
Polymers containing ethylenic unsaturation and polymers containing both aromatic and ethylenic unsaturation are available commercially from several suppliers.
In general, when solution anionic techniques are used, copolymers of conjugated diolefins and alkenyl aromatic hydrocarbons are prepared by contacting the monomer or monomers to be polymerized simultaneously or sequentially with an anionic polymerization initiator such as group IA metals, their alkyls, amides, silanolates, napthalides, biphenyls or anthracenyl derivatives.
It is preferred to use an organo alkali metal (such as sodium, lithium, or potassium) compound in a suitable solvent at a temperature within the range from about -150.
degree.
C.
to about 300.
degree.
C.
, preferably at a temperature within the range from about 0.
degree.
C.
to about 100.
degree.
C.
Particularly effective anionic polymerization initiators are organo lithium compounds having the general formula: RLi.
sub.
n wherein R is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or alkyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms and n is an integer of 1 to 4.
Conjugated diolefins which may be polymerized anionically include those conjugated diolefins containing from about 4 to about 24 carbon atoms such as 1,3-butadiene, isoprene, piperylene, methylpentadiene, phenylbutadiene, 3,4-dimethyl-1,3-hexadiene, 4,5-diethyl-1,3-octadiene and the like
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