Improved rubber properties by using N-t-butyl-2-benzothiazole sulfenimide (SANTOCURE (R) TBSI)

N-t-butyl-2-benzothiazole-sulfenimide (TBSI) is a primary amine based accel erator which is finding a growing market in applications requiring long sco rch safety combined with a moderately slow cure rate, providing good proper ties, including improved heat build up. Recently investigations have been c arried out demonstrating the advantages in typical tire compounds. This pap er summarizes physical and dynamic mechanical properties in various compoun ds. Attempts have been made to correlate these properties with the network structure.