The present invention provides a modified rubber containing silicon and phosphorus, and a composition and manufacturing method thereof. The present invention provides the modified rubber structured as formula (1),

##STR00001## wherein X is selected from a C.sub.1-C.sub.12 alkylene group, a C.sub.2-C.sub.12 alkenylene group, a C.sub.3-C.sub.12 alicyclic group, and a C.sub.6-C.sub.12 aromatic group; and A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3, Y, and Z are each independently selected from an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halide group, and a conjugated diene rubber, wherein the conjugated diene rubber is a polymer composed of a conjugated diene monomer or the conjugated diene monomer with a vinyl aromatic monomer, A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3, Y, and Z are the same or different from each other, and at least one of A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3, Y, and Z is the conjugated diene rubber.

A process for synthesizing a polymer bearing at least one phosphonate group in the polymer chain is provided. The process comprises at least the reaction of a starting polymer bearing at least one nucleophilic function in the polymer chain with at least one electrophilic compound bearing both a phosphonate group and an electrophilic function. The electrophilic function is selected from the halide function, the acyl halide function, the ester function, the carboxylic acid function and the isocyanate function.

A process for synthesizing a polymer bearing at least one phosphonate group in the polymer chain is provided. The process comprises at least the reaction of a starting polymer bearing at least one nucleophilic function in the polymer chain with at least one electrophilic compound bearing both a phosphonate group and an electrophilic function. The electrophilic function is selected from the halide function, the acyl halide function, the ester function, the carboxylic acid function and the isocyanate function.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of preparing a rubber composition, which includes (a) synthesizing a living polymer by solution polymerization of a monomer mixture including a conjugated diene-based monomer in the presence of a first catalyst; (b) reacting some ends of the living polymer with a coupling agent; (c) reacting the remaining ends of the living polymer with an organotin halide compound to prepare an end-modified conjugated diene-based polymer solution; and (d) adding a second catalyst and a conjugated diene-based monomer to the end-modified conjugated diene-based polymer solution to induce solution polymerization.

Provided is a tire member which is satisfactory in low fuel consumption performance and exhibits higher strength and more excellent abrasion resistance as compared with conventional ones. The tire member is a tire member obtained by subjecting a composition containing a hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer and a crosslinking agent to a crosslinking treatment, wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer is a hydrogenated product of a conjugated diene polymer that has a structural unit derived from butadiene and has a functional group at one end or both ends and the functional group is one or more groups selected from the group consisting of an amino group, an imino group, a pyridyl group, a phosphino group, a thiol group, and a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group.

Provided is a tire member which is satisfactory in low fuel consumption performance and exhibits higher strength and more excellent abrasion resistance as compared with conventional ones. The tire member is a tire member obtained by subjecting a composition containing a hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer and a crosslinking agent to a crosslinking treatment, wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer is a hydrogenated product of a conjugated diene polymer that has a structural unit derived from butadiene and has a functional group at one end or both ends and the functional group is one or more groups selected from the group consisting of an amino group, an imino group, a pyridyl group, a phosphino group, a thiol group, and a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group.

The invention relates to a process for the synthesis of a polymer bearing one or more pendant hydroxyaryl groups, comprising the reaction of a polymer bearing at least one epoxide functional group with a nucleophilic compound simultaneously bearing the hydroxyaryl group and a nucleophilic functional group selected from the group consisting of the phosphonic acid functional group and its ionic form.

The invention relates to a process for the synthesis of a polymer bearing one or more pendant hydroxyaryl groups, comprising the reaction of a polymer bearing at least one epoxide functional group with a nucleophilic compound simultaneously bearing the hydroxyaryl group and a nucleophilic functional group selected from the group consisting of the phosphonic acid functional group and its ionic form.

A metal conduit pipe, which is covered with an extruded layer made of polyamide molding compound, is used to produce a duct laid in water, wherein in the course of laying the duct, the coating is exposed to a shearing pressure load and/or a bending load due to laying method selected.

Disclosed herein are phosphino- and phosphate-silane functionalized polymers, methods of preparing a reactive polymer functionalized with an alkoxysilane having a phosphorous-containing group as a functionalizing reagent, the resulting polymer and vulcanizates thereof. The vulcanizates of the functionalized polymers can be used to produce vulcanized products, including tires.