| Abstract: | This article deals with curing of a one‐component epoxy resin containing a bifunctional five‐membered cyclic dithiocarbonate 1 with an imine 2 as a latent initiator. When 1 was added to a mixture of epoxy resin and 2 , the curing rate and initial adhesive strength increased higher than that without 1 . It was supposed that the reaction of 1 and an amine released from 2 was much faster than the amine–epoxide reaction, and a thiol group formed by the reaction of 1 with the amine accelerated the amine–epoxide reaction. The adhesive strength of the one‐component epoxy resin containing 10 mol % of 1 exhibited the highest value. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 94: 961–964, 2004 |
