Isoprene and Rubber. Part 28. The Fractionation and Cracking of Hydrorubber

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The Fractionation of Hydrorubber According to the investigations of Geiger, treatment of rubber with hydrogen in the presence of nickel at 270° brings about a reduction with simultaneous cracking of the macromolecules of the rubber. The hemi-colloidal hydrorubber thus formed ought not to consist of uniform long molecules, but of a mixture of homologous polymers; because in other similar cases mixtures of homologous polymers were obtained when macromolecular substances are decomposed, e. g., in the acetolytic decomposition of polyoxymethylenes and of cellulose. According to the views of Pummerer, on the other hand, if rubber consists of relatively small molecules, there would be no decomposition by cracking during its reduction, but only a saturation of individual primary valence chains with breaking up of the micellar structure, with formation of a hydrorubber whose molecules are uniformly long. Pummerer and Koch believed that they had obtained such a substance. To prove whether hydrorubber consists of a mixture of homologous polymers, it was split up into five fractions by fractional precipitation with alcohol from its ethereal solution, and the viscosities of the individual fractions were determined in 0.5 molar carbon tetrachloride solution (Table I).

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