Ube Industries, Inc.

Akinori Shiotani

Hiroshi Itatani

Hiroaki Yamaguchi

Fumio Aoki

Akiyoshi Yokota

Katsutoshi Washio

Michinori Suzuki

Hataaki Yoshimoto

Fumio Matsuo

Katsumasa Harada

Keigo Nishihira

Shuji Tanaka

Ryoji Sugise

Mikito Kashima

Tatsuo Tsumiyama

Mikio Fujimoto

Motozoh Yoshikiyo

Tetuo Kato

A polyimide/metal composite sheet is composed of a metal film and a polyimide film polyimide which is prepared by reaction of asymmetric biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene. The polyimide film is firmly bonded to and hardly peelable from the metal film. The polyimide film can contain a solid filler.

Polyimide/metal composite sheet

A diaryl carbonate is produced by decarbonylating a diaryl oxalate, which can be prepared by transesterification of a dialkyl oxalate with a hydroxyaryl compound, in the presence of a catalyst, while removing the resultant carbon monoxide as a by-product, and then optionally refined by an evaporation and/or distillation, and then the resultant diaryl carbonate is condensation-polymerized with a polyhydroxyl compound, while recovering a resultant hydroxyaryl compound from the reaction system, to produce a polycarbonate.

Process for producing a polycarbonate

Aromatic polyimide powder wherein a solid portion consisting of a highly heat resistant crystalline aromatic polyimide is covered with a coating layer of an amorphous polyimide, and a process for producing polyimide powder molded bodies by compression molding of the powder. The polyimide powder has satisfactory secondary molding workability, and molding thereof gives molded bodies which retain heat resistance and dimensional stability while having high mechanical strength and elongation.

Polyimide powder and process for producing powder molded body

A polyimide/metal composite sheet is composed of a polyimide substrate film (made of polyimide prepared by reaction of symmetric biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and p-phenylenediamine, and optionally 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether), a polyimide intervening layer (made of polyimide prepared by reaction of asymmetric biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene), and a metal foil. The polyimide substrate film and the intervening polyimide layer are firmly combined and hardly peelable from each other, and the intervening polyimide layer and the metal foil are combined strongly by hot-melt.

Process of production of 3,4,3',4'-substituted biphenyl compound

A thermotropic aromatic polyester comprising (a) an aromatic dicarbonyl ingredient comprising recurring aromatic units of the formulae (I) and/or (II): ##STR1## and, optionally, other recurring aromatic dicarbonyl units, (b) an aromatic dioxy ingredient comprising recurring aromatic units of the formula (III) ##STR2## wherein R.dbd.--H, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, aryl or Halogen atom, and optionally, (c) an aromatic oxycarbonyl ingredient comprising recurring aromatic oxycarbonyl units, of, for example, the formula (IV): ##STR3##

Thermotropic aromatic polyester which is melt-processable at low

A biphenyltetracarboxylic ester, particularly, 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic tetraester, is prepared in an increased yield by first oxidative coupling, at 140.degree. C. to 260.degree. C., an o-phthalic diester with a molecular oxygen-containing gas, for example, air, in the presence of a catalyst comprising predetermined amounts of a Pd salt, a basic bidentate ligand compound, and a Cu salt to convert a portion of the o-phthalic diester to the corresponding biphenyltetracarboxylic ester and by additionally oxidative coupling in one or more steps, in each step, the remaining portion of o-phthalic diester with a molecular oxygen-containing gas at 140.degree. C. to 260.degree. C. while controlling the composition of the catalyst to an extent such that the entire molar amount of the Pd salt is 0.0001 to 0.01 time that of the o-phthalic diester, the entire molar amount of the ligand compound is 0.5 to 4 times that of the Pd salt and the entire molar amount of the Cu salt is 0.01 to 5 times that of the Pd salt.

Method for producing biphenyltetracarboxylic esters

A biphenyltetracarboxylic tetraester, especially, 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic tetraalkyl ester, is produced by bringing an orthophthalic diester, especially, orthophthalic dialkylester, into contact with a molecular oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a mixture of a palladium salt with 2,2'-bipyridyl or a chelating reaction product of a palladium salt with 2,2'-bipyridyl, so as to promote oxidative coupling of the orthophthalic diester.

Method of producing biphenyltetracarboxylic esters

A biphenyl compound is produced from a corresponding aromatic monocyclic compound at a high yield thereof and a high percent selectivity thereto, by dehydrogenatively dimerizing the aromatic monocyclic compound with molecular oxygen in the presence of oxalic acid together with a organic palladium salt catalyst, under a pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure.

Process for producing biphenyl compounds

A biphenyltetracarboxylic tetraester, especially, 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic tetraalkyl ester, is produced by oxidative coupling an orthophthalic diester, especially, orthophthalic dialkylester, in a molecular oxygen-containing atmosphere in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a mixture of a palladium salt with 1,10-phenanthroline and/or 2,2'-bipyridyl or a chelating reaction product of a palladium salt with 1,10-phenanthroline or 2,2'-bipyridyl.

A process for preparing substituted dibenzofuran or fluorenone-9 by the intramolecular cyclization of substituted diphenyl ether or benzophenone in the presence of a carboxylic acid salt of palladium and/or palladium organic complex.

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