The Chlorination of Disaggregated Rubber
Abstract 1. Methods of production of chemical derivatives of rubber must be based upon the use of old, disaggregated raw material. The application of this principle to the production of chlorinated rubber has been firmly established, and thus offers the possibility, upon the basis of our first experiments, of developing methods for the production of chlorinated rubber. 2. The investigation of the process of chlorination of rubber disaggregated by means of copper compounds completely supports the authors' point of view concerning the character of the action of copper compounds on the rubber. The authors view this action as a disaggregation of the rubber, which destroys its elastic structure and transforms the rubber compounds into forms which are chemically reactive. 3. The process of chlorination of disaggregated rubber by the means of copper compounds proves the authors' hypothesis about the mechanism of this disaggregation, which leads to the formation of cyclic compounds of rubber.