Daikin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Daiken Industries, Ltd.

Kaikiu Kogyo Co. Ltd.

Akira Ohmori

Nobuyuki Tomihashi

Takahiro Kitahara

Hiroshi Inukai

Yoshiki Shimizu

Takashi Yasuhara

Kazuo Ishiwari

Motonobu Kubo

Hideo Kobayashi

Tohru Maruno

Sinji Tamaru

Kouzaburou Nakamura

Kazuhiro Nakai

Naoaki Izutani

Norio Murata

Tsuguo Yamaoka

Yutaka Ueta

Masayasu Tomoda

Takeshi Suzuki

Masayoshi Shinjo

Yasuyoshi Furukawa

Kiyohiko Ihara

Shoji Takaki

Kaname Jinguji

Akihiko Ueda

Toshikuni Kaino

Takahiro Tsunoda

Shigeo Nara

Takayoshi Suzuki

Masahiro Ikari

Takaomi Satokawa

Sumiko Yuhara

Nobuyki Tomihashi

Susumu Saito

Fumio Yamamoto

Yasufumi Ueda

Tuneo Fujii

Yorio Fujita

An adhesive composition comprising a photopolymerization initiator or curing agent and the compound represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein M is a divalent organic group comprising at least one substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a divalent organic group comprising at least two substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon groups, the alicyclic hydrocarbon group or aromatic hydrocarbon group may be linked by O, S or CH.sub.2 or may form a condensed ring, n is zero or a positive number.

Fluorine-containing alicyclic and aromatic cyclic compounds, process

Fluorine-containing alicyclic or aromatic cyclic compounds represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein M is a divalent organic group comprising at least one substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a divalent organic group comprising at least two substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, the alicyclic hydrocarbon group or aromatic hydrocarbon group may be linked by O, S or CH.sub.2, or may form a condensed ring, X is ##STR2## Y is H or CH.sub.3, n is zero or a positive number, are useful as an effective component of the adhesive composition.

This invention provides an antifouling finishing agent comprising a fluorine-containing polymer comprising at least 50% by weight of a fluorine-containing acrylate represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein Y is alkylene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a group of the formula --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(R)SO.sub.2 -- (wherein R is alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms) or a group of the formula --CH.sub.2 CH(OZ)CH.sub.2 -- (wherein Z is hydrogen atom or acetyl group), and R.sub.f is fluoroalkyl group having 3 to 21 carbon atoms or fluoralkyl group having 3 to 21 carbon atoms and containing 1 to 10 oxygen atoms in the carbon chain (provided that no oxygen atom is adjacent or closest to other oxygen atom), said fluoroalkyl groups having at least 5 fluorine atoms.

Water- and oil-repellent antifouling finishing agent

The present invention provides a fluorine-containing water- and oil-repellent composition comprising a fluorine-containing acrylate represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is a fluorine atom or --CFX.sup.1 X.sup.2 group (wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are the same or different and are each a hydrogen atom or fluorine atom), Y is alkylene having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(R)SO.sub.2 -- group (wherein R is alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms) or --CH.sub.2 CH(OZ)CH.sub.2 -- (wherein Z is a hydrogen atom or acetyl), and Rf is fluoroalkyl having 3 to 21 carbon atoms, or fluoroalkyl having 3 to 21 carbon atoms and 1 to 10 oxygen atoms in its carbon chain (wherein no two oxygen atoms are present adjacent to each other).

Fluorine-containing water-repellent oil-repellent composition

An .alpha.-fluoroacrylic acid polymer and a pervaporation membrane made of the polymer, the polymer comprising:

Alpha-fluoroacrylic acid polymer and its use

Disclosed are a gas separating membrane prepared from a polymer from a monomer represented by the formula (1): ##STR1## wherein X is chlorine atom or fluorine atom, Y is hydrogen atom or methyl group, and m is 0 or an integer of 1 to 5, and a gas separating membrane prepared from a polymer of the monomer of the formula (1) in an amount of up to 100% by weight and other ethylenically unsaturated monomer in an amount of not more than 50% by weight, based on the combined weight of the monomer of the formula (1) and the other ethylenically unsaturated monomer.

Gas separating membrane

Disclosed are an acryloxyorganosiloxane polymer having a structural unit represented by the formula (1): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 is chlorine atom or fluorine atom, X.sup.2 and X.sup.3 are the same or different and each represent hydrogen atom or a group --CH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.p CF.sub.3 (wherein p is 0 or an integer of 1 to 5), Y is oxygen atom or --NH-- group, m is 0 or an integer of 1 to 5 and n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 5; an acryloxyorganosiloxane polymer further having a structural unit represented by the following formula (2) in an amount of not more than 50% by weight based on the combined weight of the structural unit of the formula (1) and the structural unit of the formula (2): ##STR2## wherein X.sup.4 is hydrogen atom, chlorine atom, fluorine atom, alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, R is alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms (with the proviso that oxygen atom may be contained in the carbon atom chain); and a gas separating membrane prepared from the polymer having the structural unit of the formula (1) or a combination of structural unit of the formula (1) and not more than 50% by weight of structural unit of the formula (2).

Acryloxyorganosiloxane polymer

This invention provides a cladding material in an optical fiber which comprises a polymer comprising:

Cladding materials for optical fibers

This invention provides a cladding material for an optical fiber, said cladding material having a structural unit represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents chain hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or cyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms and optionally substituted with lower alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

A transparent coating material comprises a polymer which contains at least 50 wt. % of a structural unit represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein X is fluorine or alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and R.sup.1 is fluoroalkyl.

Transparent coating material

The contact lenses of the present invention are formed of copolymers with monomers having hydroxyl groups and fluoroalkyl groups as their components. This invention makes it possible to provide contact lenses which are excellent not only in oxygen permeability, wettability and hardness, but also in contamination resistance to protein, lipids, etc., and transparency, etc.

Contact lens

This invention provides a material for contact lenses comprising a polymer having 10 to 100 5 by weight of a structural unit represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is (CH.sub.2).sub.l R.sup.1 or --CH.sub.2).sub.m (CF.sub.2).sub.n CFZ.sup.1 Z.sup.2 in which R.sup.1 is oxygen-containing fluoroalkyl, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are the same or different and each hydrogen, fluorine or fluoroalkyl, l is an integer of 1 to 5, m is an integer of 1 to 4 and n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 10, 0 to 60% by weight of a structural unit represented by the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.2 is lower alkyl, and 0 to 80% by weight of a structural unit represented by the formula ##STR3## wherein X is hydroxyl or carboxyl and p is an integer of 1 to 5.

Material for contact lenses

The optical material of the present invention comprises a polymer which contains at least 70% by weight of a structural unit represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are the same or different and are each hydrogen or fluorine, and R is hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or fluoroalkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Optical fiber

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