US 12,037,435 B2
Method for preparing conjugated diene-based polymer and method for preparing graft copolymer comprising the same
Jin Hyoung Lee, Daejeon (KR); Young Min Kim, Daejeon (KR); Su Jeong Han, Daejeon (KR); Yoo Vin Kim, Daejeon (KR); Young Hwan Jeong, Daejeon (KR); Jae Min Suk, Daejeon (KR); Chang Hong Bak, Daejeon (KR); and Jae Won Heo, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to LG CHEM, LTD., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 17/051,517
Filed by LG CHEM, LTD., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Sep. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/011985
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/060147, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0111802 (KR), filed on Sep. 18, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0113658 (KR), filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0221935 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. C08F 279/04 (2006.01); C08F 2/26 (2006.01); C08F 36/06 (2006.01); C08F 136/06 (2006.01); C08K 5/098 (2006.01); C08L 55/02 (2006.01)
CPC C08F 279/04 (2013.01) [C08F 2/26 (2013.01); C08F 36/06 (2013.01); C08K 5/098 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
 
1. A method for preparing a conjugated diene-based polymer, the method comprising:
batch-adding conjugated diene-based monomers to a reactor before an initiation of polymerization; and
preparing a conjugated diene-based polymer by initiating and carrying out polymerization while continuously adding conjugated diene-based monomers to the reactor,
wherein an emulsifier is dividedly added before the initiation of the polymerization and when a polymerization conversion rate of 31% to 80% is reached, and
wherein a weight ratio of the batch-added conjugated diene-based monomers and the continuously added conjugated diene-based monomer is 1:99 to 35:65,
wherein the emulsifier includes a salt of a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1:

OG Complex Work Unit Chemistry
wherein, in Chemical Formula 1,
X is a C1-C20 tetravalent or higher aliphatic hydrocarbon with or without an unsaturated bond
R1 to R4, which are the same or different from each other, are each independently hydrogen, a C1-C20 monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon, or *-L3-COOH,
L1 to L3, which are the same or different from each other, are each independently a direct bond or a C1-C20 divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon, and
l and m, which are the same or different from each other, are each independently 0 to 6.