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US 9,353,201 · App. 14/405,213 · Granted May 31, 2016

Hydrogenated block copolymer and method for producing same

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,353,201
App. No.
14/405,213
Filed
Dec 3, 2014
Granted
May 31, 2016
Kind
B2
Art Unit
1762
USPC
525/321
Abstract

The present invention relates to a hydrogenated block copolymer including a polymer block (A) containing a constitutional unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a polymer block (B) containing from 1 to 100% by mass of a constitutional unit (b1) derived from farnesene and from 99 to 0% by mass of a constitutional unit (b2) derived from a conjugated diene other than the farnesene, in which 50 mol % or more of carbon-carbon double bonds in the polymer block (B) are hydrogenated.

Claims (13)

1. A hydrogenated block copolymer comprising a polymer block (A) and a polymer block (B), wherein the polymer block (A) comprises a constitutional unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and the polymer block (B) comprises from 1 to 100% by mass of a constitutional unit (b1) derived from farnesene and from 99 to 0% by mass of a constitutional unit (b2) derived from a conjugated diene other than the farnesene, and wherein 50 mol % or more of carbon-carbon double bonds in the polymer block (B) are hydrogenated,

wherein the polymer block (B) comprises a hydrogenation rate of carbon-carbon double bonds of 70 to 100 mol %.

2. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the farnesene is β-farnesene.

3. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the polymer block (B) comprises a hydrogenation rate of carbon-carbon double bonds of 90 to 100 mol %.

4. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated block copolymer comprises a mass ratio [(A)/(B)] of the polymer block (A) to the polymer block (B) of 5/95 to 80/20.

5. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated block copolymer comprises a peak top molecular weight (Mp) of 4,000 to 1,500,000.

6. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated block copolymer comprises a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1 to 4.

7. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the aromatic vinyl compound is styrene.

8. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the conjugated diene other than the farnesene is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of isoprene, butadiene and myrcene.

9. The hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated block copolymer has a loss tangent (tan δ) of 0.1 or more as determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity thereof at a temperature of from −60 to 0° C.

10. A process for producing the hydrogenated block copolymer according to claim 1 , comprising:

obtaining a block copolymer comprising the polymer block (A) and the polymer block (B) by anionic polymerization; and

hydrogenating 50 mol % or more of carbon-carbon double bonds in the polymer block (B) present in the block copolymer.