Diene-modified polymers and elastomers thereform

Claim 1

ESSENTIALLY LINEAR DIENE-MODIFIED ORGANIC POLYMERS HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF AT LEAST 1000 AND WHICH POLYMERS ARE CONVERTIBLE TO HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT ELASTOMERS BY THE DIELS-ALDER REACTION WITH A BIS-DIENOPHILE TAKEN FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALKYLENEBISMALEIMIDES, CYCLOAKYLENEBISMALEIMIDES, ARYLENEBISMALEIMIDES, DIBENNZALACETONE, DIACRYLBENZENE, PHENYLENE-BIS (BATA-ACROLEIN) DIVINYLSULFONE, 1,2-BIS (VINYLSUFONYL) ETHANE, LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT ALKYLENE AND ARYLENE ESTER OF ACRYLIC ACID, FLOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT ALKYLENE AND ARYLENE ESTERS OF METHACRYLIC ACID, LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT AMIDES OF ACRYLIC ACID WITH DIAMINES AND LOW MOLECULES WEIGHT AMIDES OF METHACRYLIC ACID WITH DIAMINES, SAID POLYMERS CONSISTING OF (1) AT LEAST ONE LINEAR POLYMERIC UNIT FORMED BY REMOVING THE TERMINAL FRUCTIONAL GROUPS, X, FROM A POLYMER HAVING THE FORMULA XBX, IN WHICH POLYMER X IS TAKEN FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AMINO, ISOCYANATO, HYDROXY, CARBOXY, CHLOROCARBONYL, AND CHLOROCARBONYLOXY GROUPS, AND IN WHICH POLYMER B IS A LINEAR POLYMERIC UNIT HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF ABOUT 700 TO ABOUT 12,000, SAID B UNIT BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBON RADICALS, CHLOROHYDROCARBON RADICALS, POLYETHER RADICALS RESULTING FROM REMOVING THE TERMINAL HYDROXY GROUPS FROM A LINEAR POLYETHER GLYCOL, SAID POLYETHER GLYCOL BEING TAKEN FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF POLYALKYLENEETHER GLYCOLS, POLYALKYLCNEETHER-THIOETHER GLYCOLS, POLYALKYLENEETHER-ARYLENEETHER GLYCOLS, AND POLYAKYLENEETHER-ARYLENEETHER-THIOETHER GLYCOLS; (2) A PLURALITY OF RADICALS TAKEN FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF MONOVALENT AND DIVALENT RADICALS, SAID RADICALS BEING FORMED BY REMOVING THE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS, Y, FROM A NON-POLYMERIC COMPOUND OF THE FORMULA D(Y)N WHERIN N IS AN INTEGER 1 TO 2, Y IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AMINO, ISOCYANNATO, HYDROXY, CARBOXY, CHLOROCARBONYLOXY, CHLOROCARBONYL, CHLORO-, MERCAPTO-, SULFO-, AND CHLOROSULFONYL RADICALS AND D IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF D'' AND D D'' BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBON RADICALS CONTAINING AN ANTHRACENE NUCULES, A CONJUGATED DIENE SYSTEM IN AN ARCYLIC ALIPHATIC NECULES, A CONJUGATED DIENE SYSTEM IN A CYCLOALIPHATIC NUCLEUS AND A CONJUGATED DIENE SYSTEM IN A MIXED ACYLIC ALIPHATIC-CYCLOALIPHATIC NECLEUS; D IS A HYDROCARBON GROUP OTHER THAN D''SAID HYDROCARBON GROUP BEING FREE OF ALIPHATIC AND CYCLOALIPHATIC CONJUGATED DOUBLE BONDS, THERE BEING AT LEAST TWO D'' GROUPS IN THE FINAL POLYMER AND AT LEAST AN AVERAGE OF ONE OF D'' PER 12,000 MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF THE POLYMER AND NOT MORE THAN AVERAGE OF ONE D''PER 500 MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF POLYMER, WITH THE PROVIS THAT THE NUMBER OF D" GROUPS IN THE RADICAL MAY BE ZERO; AND (3) A PLURALITY OF LINKING RADICALS, L, CONNECTING SAID B, D'' AND IF PRESENT, D" WHICH RADICALS ARE FORMED BY THE REACTION OF X AND Y AND WHICH RADICALS ARE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF URETHANE, THIOLURETHANE UREA, CARBOXAMIDE, SULFONAMIDE, AMINO AND ETHER GROUUPS, WITH THE PROVIS THAT WHEN N OF SAID D (Y)N IS 1, D FORMS THE TERMINAL GROUPS OF THE POLYMER,AND WHEN N OF SAID D (Y)N IS 2, THE TERMINAL GROUPS OF THE POLYMER ARE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF X AND Y.