Curable rubber compositions with amino acids

Abstract

A curable composition consisting essentially of (A) at least one rubber selected from the group consisting of a styrene-butadiene rubber, an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, a polybutadiene rubber, an acrylonitrile-isoprene rubber, an alfin rubber, a butadiene-methyl methacrylate rubber, a polyisoprene rubber, an acrylonitrile-butadiene-isoprene rubber, a carboxylated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, a propylene oxide rubber, a propylene-butadiene rubber, and natural rubber, (B) at least one curing agent selected from the group consisting of sulfur and sulfur donors, and (C) at least one compound, as a vulcanization accelerator not requiring an activator, selected from the group consisting of arginine, lysine, hydroxy-lysine, ornithine, proline, hydroxyproline, leucine, isoleucine, histidine, tryptophan, threonine, serine, homoserine, alanine, phenylalanine, valine, methionine, citrulline, tyrosine, asparagine, aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid, and salts of these amino acids.

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