Complexation of the Vulcanization Accelerator Tetramethylthiuram Disulfide and Related Molecules with Zinc Compounds Including Zinc Oxide Clusters (Zn4O4)

Interaction of Zinc Oxide Clusters with

Interaction of Zinc Oxide Clusters with Molecules Related to the Sulfur Vulcanization of Polyolefins (“Rubber”)

✍ Ralf Steudel; Yana Steudel 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 705 KB

## Abstract The vulcanization of rubber by sulfur is a large‐scale industrial process that is only poorly understood, especially the role of zinc oxide, which is added as an activator. We used the highly symmetrical cluster Zn~4~O~4~ (__T__~d~) as a model species to study the thermodynamics of the