Volume 38, Issue 2 pp. 237-248
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Influence of the catalyst on the kinetics of a RIM formulation

J. M. Rego

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J. M. Rego

GAIKER, Technological Group of New Materials, Trapaga Elkartegia, 48510 Trapagaran, Bizkaia, Spain

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M. A. Pastor

M. A. Pastor

GAIKER, Technological Group of New Materials, Trapaga Elkartegia, 48510 Trapagaran, Bizkaia, Spain

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J. J. Campo

J. J. Campo

GAIKER, Technological Group of New Materials, Trapaga Elkartegia, 48510 Trapagaran, Bizkaia, Spain

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Issa Katime

Issa Katime

Grupo de Polímeros, Departamento de Química-Física, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao 644, Spain

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First published: 20 July 1989
Citations: 1

Abstract

The influence of three different catalysts [triethylendiamine (TD), stannous octoate (SO), and dibutylindilaurate (DBTDL)] and their blends (TD + SO and TD + DBTDL) on the kinetics of a RIM formulation, based on a high functionality polyether–polyol and a polymeric MDI, has been studied using the adiabatic temperature rise method and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The synergism observed in the DBTDL/TD systems is explained by means of complex formation between the amine-based and metal-based catalysts. Infrared spectroscopy data support this complex formation. The SO/TD systems do not exhibit synergetic behaviour, being the reaction rate controlled by the metal catalyst which complexes the isocyanate group.

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