STUDYING THE POSSIBILITY OF USE OF BETULIN AS AN ANTIOXIDANT OF NITRILE BUTADIENE RUBBER
Abstract
Comparative tests of phenolic compounds of various structures (2,6-ditert-butyl-phenol (ionol) and betulin (betulinol, lup-20(29)-en-3, 28-diol), which belongs to pentacyclic triterpene alcohols of the lupane series in as antioxidants of emulsion nitrile rubber.The outer layer of birch bark (bark) contains up to 35-40% of pentacyclic triterpenoids, among which betulin predominates.It has been shown that the use of betulin will not only reduce unproductive losses of antioxidants in the process of synthesis of butadiene-nitrile rubbers, but and will reduce the negative burden on the environment by reducing the concentration of phenols in industrial effluents sent to treatment facilities.It has been established that in the process of thermal-oxidative aging, betulin, in comparison with ionol, provides more effective protection for vulcanizates based on butadiene-nitrile rubber. solubility preservation of nitrile rubber containing its ionol and betulin, as well as the nature of the change in the rheological properties of rubber and the elastic-strength properties of compositions based on it, showed the possibility of using betulin as an antioxidant for carbochain polymers.