Arakawa Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Fumio Moriuchi

Hiroshi Yano

Osamu Oseto

Kazushige Kajita

Optical active compounds of the formula (1), (2), (3) and (4): ##STR1## The compounds (1), (2) and (3) are useful as raw materials of chiral dopants to be added for forming liquid crystal compositions, medicines or agricultural chemicals, and the compound (4) is useful as chiral dopants to be added for forming liquid crystal compositions.

Optically active pyrimidines derivatives

An electrophotographic toner composition having excellent blocking resistance and offset resistance which contains as a resin binder a polymeric rosin compound having a glass transition temperature of 30.degree. and 100.degree. C. and a gel fraction of 1 to 99% to xylene prepared by the reaction of (a) a glycidyl ester of rosin, (b) a dicarboxylic acid or its anhydride, and (c) a crosslinking agent selected from the group consisting of a polyfunctional epoxy compound, a polycarboxylic acid having a valency of not less than 3 or its anhydride, and a polyhydric alcohol having a valency of not less than 3. A dihydric alcohol may be used in the above reaction in order to improve the low temperature fixing property of the toner.

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