SILANE-CONTAINING CARBINOL-TERMINATED POLYMERS

The present invention relates to end group functionalized polymers, wherein these have at the chain end a silane-containing carbinol group of the formula (I), wherein R1, R2 are identical or different and represent H, alkyl and aryl, R3, R4 are identical or different and represent H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkaryl and aralkyl residues, which can contain heteroatoms such as O, N, S, Si, A represents a divalent organic residue which, in addition to C and H, can contain heteroatoms such as O, N, S, Si, wherein the polymers are diene polymers or diene copolymers obtainable by copolymerization of dienes with vinyl aromatic monomers.