VULCANIZATION OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC RUBBERS FROM HALOGEN FREE DIENES

1385748 s-Triazine derivatives DEUTSCHE GOLDUND SILBER-SCHEIDEANSTALT 29 June 1972 [9 July 1971] 30423/72 Heading C2C [Also in Division C3] s-Triazine compounds of the general formula in which R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic radical with 1 to 18 carbon atoms which may be substituted by one or more non-adjacent hydroxyl groups, an araliphatic radical with 7 or 8 carbon atoms, a cycloaliphatic radical with 5 to 7 carbon atoms which may optionally be substituted by 1 to 3 aliphatic side chains each containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl radical which may optionally be substituted with 1 to 3 aliphatic side chains each containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or R1 and R2 may form, together with the nitrogen atom, a heterocyclic ring system, with a total of 5 to 7 ring atoms which optionally contains one further hetero atom which is oxygen or nitrogen, X is the group -SCN or the group where R1 and R2 are as defined above, are used as vulcanization accelerators in the vulcanization of natural or synthetic rubbers of halogenfree dienes or mixtures thereof in the presence of sulphur and/or sulphur donors under the effect of heat and, optionally, pressure. The monothiocyanato-s-triazines can be prepared from the corresponding monomercaptotriazines by reaction with cyanogen chloride or cyanogen bromide in the presence of a hydrogen halide acceptor. The bis-thiocyanato-s-triazines can be prepared either by reaction of the corresponding chlorotriazines with potassium, sodium or ammonium thiocyanate in organic solvents, or by reacting the correspondingly substituted dimercaptotriazines with cyanogen chloride or cyanogen bromide in the presence of a hydrogen halide acceptor.