The invention relates to a rubber composition that is free of
zinc or that contains less than 0.5 parts per hundred parts of
elastomer, phr, of
zinc, and that is free of
guanidine derivatives or contains less than 0.5 phr of
guanidine derivatives, based on at least a
diene elastomer, an
inorganic filler as reinforcing filler, a blocked mercaptosilane corresponding to the general formula (I): in which: -the R1 symbols, which are identical or different, each represent a monovalent
hydrocarbon-based group chosen from alkyls, which are linear or branched, cycloalkyls or aryls, having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; -the R2 symbols, which are identical or different, each represent
hydrogen or a monovalent
hydrocarbon-based group chosen from alkyls, which are linear or branched, cycloalkyls or aryls, having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; -the A symbol represents
hydrogen or a monovalent
hydrocarbon-based group chosen from alkyls, which are linear or branched, cycloalkyls or aryls, having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and alkoxyalkyls, which are linear or branched, having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms; -the Z symbol represents a
divalent bonding group comprising from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; -a is an integer equal to 1, 2 or 3.