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US 7,452,955 B2Granted
One part organopolysiloxane gel composition
AssigneeShin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
InventorsMiyuki Tanaka, Kazuyasu Sato, Masayuki Ikeno
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Abstract
In a one part organopolysiloxane gel composition comprising an alkenyl-containing branched organopolysiloxane, an SiH-termined organohydrogenpolysiloxane, and an addition reaction catalyst, the catalyst is obtained by heat aging a mixing of a platinum complex having an alkenyl-containing silane or organosiloxane as a ligand, a phosphite, and an organohydrogenpolysiloxane at 30-120° C. and an organic peroxide is concomitantly used. The composition inhibits addition reaction at room temperature, maintains storage stability over a long period, yet can cure rapidly at moderate temperature.
Claims5
A method of preparing one-part organopolysiloxane gel composition comprising the steps of:
- heating and aging a mixture of components (C-1) to (C-3) at a temperature of 40° C. to 120° C. for about 1 hour to about 200 hours to prepare (C) an addition reaction catalyst:
- (C-1) a platinum complex having an alkenyl group-containing silane or alkenyl group-containing organosiloxane as a ligand, in an amount of 1 equivalent of platinum atoms in the platinum complex,
- (C-2) a phosphite having the general formula (2):
- P(OR2)3 (2)
- wherein R2 is independently at least one group selected from the class consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group and a group of the formula:
- —R3-[O—P(OR6)2]x wherein R6 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group, x is an integer of 1 to 3, R3 is a di- to tetra-valent C2-C 20 hydrocarbon group which may have an ether-bonding oxygen atom in the chain, or the general formula (2′):
- wherein R2 is as defined above, R4 is a tetravalent C1—C20 hydrocarbon group which may have an ether-bonding oxygen atom in the chain, in an amount of 1 to 10 equivalents of phosphorus atoms, and
- (C-3) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the average compositional formula (3):
- R5cHdSiO(4-c-d)/2 (3)
- wherein R5 is a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group free of aliphatic unsaturation, c is a positive number of 0.7 to 2.2, d is a positive number of 0.001 to 1.0, and c+d is from 0.8 to 3.0, said organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least one hydrogen atom bonded to a silicon atom, in an amount of 1 to 100 equivalents of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms, and
- mixing the following components (A) to (D):
- (A) 100 parts by weight of an organopolysiloxane consisting of 80.0 to 97.0 mol% of R2SiO units, 1.0 to 10.0 mol% of RSiO1,5 units, 0.1 to 4.0 mol% of(CH3)2(CH2═CH)SiO0.5 units, and 0.5 to 10.0 mol% of(CH3)3SiO0.5 units, a total of these units being 100 mol%, wherein R is methyl, phenyl or a group of the formula:
- RfCH2CH2-, Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group which may have an ether-bonding oxygen atom in the chain, a plurality of R's in one molecule may be the same or different,
- (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the average compositional formula (1):
- R1aHbSiO(4-a-b)/2 (1)
- wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group free of aliphatic unsaturation, a is a positive number of 0.7 to 2.2, b is a positive number of 0.001 to 1.0, and a+b is from 0.8 to 3.0, said organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least one hydrogen atom directly bonded to a silicon atom at an end of the molecular chain, in an amount to provide 0.1 to 5 silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per vinyl group in component (A),
- (C) the addition reaction catalyst obtained as set forth above in an amount to provide 0.1 to 1,000 ppm of platinum atoms based on the total weight of components (A) and (B), and
- (D) an organic peroxide in an amount of at least 2 equivalents per equivalent of the phosphite in component (C).
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A method of preparing an organopolysiloxane gel cured product, comprising preparing a one-part organopolysiloxane gel composition by the steps of:
- heating and aging a mixture of components (C-1) to (C-3) at a temperature of 40° C. to 120° C. for about 1 hour to about 200 hours to prepare (C) an addition reaction catalyst:
- (C-1) a platinum complex having an alkenyl group-containing silane or alkenyl group-containing organosiloxane as a ligand, in an amount of 1 equivalent of platinum atoms in the platinum complex,
- (C-2) a phosphite having the general formula (2):
- P(OR2)3 (2)
- wherein R2 is independently at least one group selected from the class consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group and a group of the formula:
- -R3-[O-P(OR6)2x wherein R6 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group, x is an integer of 1 to 3, R3 is a di- to tetra-valent C2- C20 hydrocarbon group which may have an ether-bonding oxygen atom in the chain, or the general formula (2′):
- wherein R2 is as defined above, R4 is a tetravalent C1-C20 hydrocarbon group which may have an ether-bonding oxygen atom in the chain, in an amount of 1 to 10 equivalents of phosphorus atoms, and
- (C-3) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the average compositional formula (3):
- R5cHdSiO(4-c-d)/2 (3)
- wherein R5 is a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group free of aliphatic unsaturation, c is a positive number of 0.7 to 2.2, d is a positive number of 0.001 to 1.0, and c+d is from 0.8 to 3.0, said organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least one hydrogen atom bonded to a silicon atom, in an amount of 1 to 100 equivalents of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms, and
- mixing the following components (A) to (D):
- (A) 100 parts by weight of an organopolysiloxane consisting of 80.0 to 97.0 mol% of R2SiO units, 1.0 to 10.0 mol% of RSiO1.5 units, 0.1 to 4.0 mol% of(CH3)2(CH2=CH)SiO0.5 units, and 0.5 to 10.0 mol% of (CH3)3SiO0.5 units, a total of these units being 100 mol%, wherein R is methyl, phenyl or a group of the formula:
- RfCH2CH2-, Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group which may have an ether-bonding oxygen atom in the chain, a plurality of R′s in one molecule may be the same or different,
- (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the average compositional formula (1):
- R1aHbSiO(4-a-b)/2 (1)
- wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group free of aliphatic unsaturation, a is a positive number of 0.7 to 2.2, b is a positive number of 0.001 to 1.0, and a+b is from 0.8 to 3.0, said organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least one hydrogen atom directly bonded to a silicon atom at an end ofthe molecular chain, in an amount to provide 0.1 to 5 silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per vinyl group in component (A),
- (C) the addition reaction catalyst obtained as set forth above in an amount to provide 0.1 to 1,000 ppm of platinum atoms based on the total weight of components (A) and (B), and
- (D) an organic peroxide in an amount of at least 2 equivalents per equivalent of the phosphite in component (C), and
- heating and curing said organopolysiloxane gel composition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.