Nippon Oil Company

Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited

Hajime Hara

Yoshihiko Araki

Shigeki Iida

Tomohiro Toya

Tetsuo Satoh

Shingo Orii

Kazuho Aoyama

Yutaka Otsuki

Hiroyoshi Omika

Atsushi Kaiya

Takehiro Toyooka

Yoshihiro Kobori

Takafumi Ishii

Hideo Horii

Tadahiro Kaminade

Masami Enomoto

Kazuo Miyazaki

Kojiro Teramoto

Humiaki Oshimi

Satoh Tetsuo

Itoh Hiroyuki

A rewritable or repeatedly employable recording medium having a base and a recording layer film provided on said base, characterized in that said recording layer film is formed by a thermotropic cholesteric liquid crystal polyester.

Method of recording

A nonlinear optical material obtained by blending 50-99% by weigth of a polypeptide and 1-50% by weight of a compound exerting a nonlinear optical response has a very large nonlinear optical constant, exterts a high and stable SHG activity and easily undergoes phase matching.

Nonlinear optical materials of polypeptides

Provided is a wholly aromatic polyester superior in melt processability and tenacity which consists essentially of the following structural units (A), (B) and (C) and wherein 0.2 to 40 mole % of the total of said units are of ortho configuration; ##STR1## where Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 each represent a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, the hydrogen atoms of said aromatic hydrocarbon group may be substituted with a halogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or phenyl; Z is ##STR2## --O--, or --SO.sub.2 --; m is 0 or 1, at least 60 mole % of Ar.sup.1 being constituted by a group selected from 1,4-phenylene, substituted 1,4-phenylenes, naphthyl and 4,4'-biphenyl.

Wholly aromatic polyesters

Recording medium

A cholesteric liquid crystal polyester comprising the following structural units (A), (B) and (C): ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 represent each independently a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, of which one or more hydrogen atoms may be substituted by one or more halogen atoms, alkyl or alkoxy groups having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, provided that at least 60 mol % of Ar.sup.1 in the polymer is constituted by at least one group selected from 1,4-phenyl group, 2,6-naphthyl group and 4,4'-biphenyl group.

Cholesteric liquid crystal polyester

A cholesteric liquid crystal polyester consisting essentially of the following structural units (A), (B), (C) and (D): ##STR1##

Cholesteric liquid crystal polyesters

A process for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal polyester film or sheet possessing an ordered planar texture (monodomain structure), which process comprises providing a cholesteric liquid crystal polyester in which 1 to 10 mol % of constituent monomer units are optically active, allowing the cholesteric liquid crystal polyester to be formed in the temperature range of 150.degree. to 350.degree. into a film or sheet having a thickness not larger than 100 .mu.m, and then cooling the film or sheet rapidly.

Process for producing cholesteric liquid crystal polyester film or sheet

A cholesteric liquid crystal polyester consisting essentially of structural units represented by the following formulae (A), (B) and (C): ##STR1## which is optically active; and ##STR2## wherein X is hydrogen, halogen, or alkyl having not more than four carbon atoms.

Cholesteric liquid crystal polyester from hydroquinone, cyclohexane

A process for preparing a cholesteric liquid crystal copolyester consisting essentially of structural units represented by the following formula (A), (B), (C) and (D): ##STR1## which is optically active characterized in that a polyethylene terephthalate oligomer having a (B)/(A) mole ratio in the range of 1.1 to 1.8, p-acetoxybenzoic acid and 3-methyladipic acid are reacted to prepare the final cholesteric liquid crystal copolyester having an inherent viscosity of at least 0.4 dl/g.

Cholesteric liquid crystal copolyesters

A cholesteric liquid crystal polyester consisting essentially of structural units represented by the following formulae (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E): ##STR1## the units (A) and (B) being present each in a proportion of 5 to 50 mol %, the unit (C) present in a proportion of 20 to 80 mol %, and the units (D) and (E) present each in a proportion of 1 to 40 mol %.

High modulus cholesteric liquid crystal polyesters

A thermosetting resin composition having an improved crack resistance comprising 100 weight parts of a curable epoxy resin and 30 to 300 weight parts of a phenol compound-added conjugated diolefin polymer, which is prepared in the presence of aluminum phenoxide as the catalyst. The composition is suitable for resin encapsulation of electronic components.

Thermosetting resin composition

A cathode-precipitating electrodeposition coating composition consisting essentially of (A) 100 parts of a high-molecular-weight compound having a molecular weight of 500 to 10,000 and containing an amino group and a carbon-carbon double bond, (B) 3 to 200 parts by weight of a reaction product obtained by reacting an unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 or 4 carbon atoms with the terminal glycidyl group of a glycidyl compound obtained by reacting a bisphenol with epichlorohydrin, and (C) 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of an oil-soluble manganese salt of a monoester of a 1,2-dicarboxylic acid or a manganese salt of sulfonated or maleinized polybutadiene having a molecular weight of 300 to 3,000.

Cathode-precipitating electrodeposition coating composition

In a method for purifying a crude epoxidation product of a liquid conjugated diolefin polymer or a vegetable oil which comprises the steps of adding an aqueous washing agent to a crude epoxidation product which is obtained by the reaction of a liquid conjugated diolefin polymer or a vegetable oil with an organic peracid or an epoxidizing agent capable of generating an organic peracid in situ, stirring the mixture, leaving the mixture to stand to induce phase separation and thereafter withdrawing the organic layer, the improvement wherein 50 to 300 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the crude epoxidation product, of a 10-80% by weight aqueous solution of isopropanol is used as the washing agent.

Method for purifying an epoxidation product

A self-curable coating composition for cathode-precipitating electrodeposition is disclosed which essentially comprises a water-dispersible resin having a carbon-carbon double bond and a tertiary amino group and an epoxy resin having a teritary amino group and an unsaturated group of the formula ##STR1## The two resins are neutralized by an acid to render the composition water-soluble or water-dispersible.

Self-curable coating composition for cathode-precipitating

A process for preparing a cathodic electrodepositable coating composition which comprises, in sequence,

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