Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Osaka Organic Chemical Industry Ltd.

Hidetoshi Ono

Shinji Tanaka

Naoyoshi Hatakeyama

Kouichi Kodoi

Kiyoshi Ikeda

Akinori Yomogita

Mitsunori Ito

Masahide Matsuura

Shigeru Matsuo

Hironori Kawakami

Yasunari Okada

Katsuki Ito

Yoshitaka Uenoyama

Masahiro Kawamura

Naohiro Toda

Takafumi Iwamoto

Tetsuya Saruwatari

Toshihide Yoshitome

Tsunenori Sakai

Jun Mase

Naoya Kawano

Provided are a polymer compound, which comprises a copolymer containing at least a unit B, and a unit A and/or a unit C referring to repeating units A, B and C, and which has a weight-average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,500,000; a material for electronic devices and a material for organic electroluminescent devices comprising the compound; an organic electroluminescent device having an anode, a cathode and an organic thin film layer, wherein at least one organic thin film layer contains the polymer compound; a coating liquid containing the polymer compound and a solvent; and a method for producing an organic electroluminescent device using the coating liquid. Also provided is a polymer compound suitable to a coating method; a material for electronic devices and a material for organic electroluminescent devices comprising the compound; and an organic EL device, a coating liquid and a method for producing an organic EL device using the compound.

Polymer compound, material for electronic elements, material for organic electroluminescent elements, and organic electroluminescent element

Provided are a copolymer having plural repeating units each having a specific structure, and having a weight-average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 3,000,000; a material for organic electronic devices and a material for organic electroluminescent devices containing the copolymer; a solution containing the copolymer and a solvent; and an organic electroluminescent device using the material for organic electroluminescent devices. The copolymer has not only charge transporting properties but also solubility and is suitable for forming a film according to a coating method. The present invention provides the copolymer, and a material for organic electronic devices and a material for organic electroluminescent devices containing the copolymer, an organic electroluminescent device, and a solution containing the copolymer.

Copolymer, material for organic electronic element, material for organic electroluminescent element, and organic electroluminescent element

A compound represented by the following formula (I), wherein Ris a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methyl group or a trifluoromethyl group. 

Homoadamantane derivatives, process for preparing same, and photoresist compositions

A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein in the formula, Lis a single bond or a linking group, A is a group represented by the following formula (A), B is a group represented by the following formula (B), m is an integer of 1 to 3, and n is an integer of 1 to 4. 

Compound and organic electroluminescent element produced using same

To provide an electrophotographic photoconductor, containing: a conductive support; a photosensitive layer provided above the conductive support; and a hardened protective layer provided above the photosensitive layer, wherein the hardened protective layer contains a hardened product of a radical polymerizable compound containing an adamantane skeleton.

Electrophotographic photoconductor, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge

Provided are: an adamantane derivative represented by the following general formula (I) giving a cured product excellent in optical characteristics such as transparency and light resistance, durabilities such as heat resistance, and electrical characteristics such as dielectric constant; a method of producing the adamantane derivative; a resin composition containing the adamantane derivative and an epoxy resin curing agent; and a sealing agent for an optical semiconductor using the resin composition: 

Adamantane derivative, method for producing the same, resin composition containing the adamantane derivative and use thereof

The present invention provides an adamantane derivative (I) having a structure represented by the general formula (I); an adamantane derivative (II) having a structure represented by the general formula (II); and a process for producing those adamantane derivatives. An alcohol form of an adamantane compound is reacted with a sulfonyl compound to obtain the adamantane derivative (II), which is then reacted with an alcohol to obtain the adamantane derivative (I). The adamantane derivative (I) and adamantane derivative (II) each having the structure represented by the general formula (I) and general formula (II), respectively, is a novel adamantyl(meth)acrylate compound and useful as a monomer for functional resins such as a photosensitive resin in the field of photolithography. 

Adamantane derivatives and process for producing the same

Provided is an adamantane derivative represented by Formula (I) or (II): wherein X represents a halogen atom; Y represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a halogenated alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a halogen atom or a hetero atom-containing group; Rto Rrepresent independently hydrogen, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or a halogenated alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; m represents an integer of 0 to 15, and n represents an integer of 0 to 10; and excluded is a case where in Formula (I), m and n are 0 at the same time and Rand Rare a hydrogen atom at the same time. Capable of being provided is a novel adamantane derivative which is useful as a modifying agent for a resin for a photoresist and a dry etching resistance-improving agent in the photolithography field, agricultural and medical intermediates and other various industrial products.

Adamantane derivative and process for producing the same

The invention provides compounds which are excellent in terms of heat resistance, mechanical characteristics, electric characteristics, physical properties, etc. and which provide a novel material useful for, for example, interlayer insulating film or protective film for use in semiconductor devices, interlayer insulating film for use in multilayer wiring boards, cover coating in flexible printed circuits, or a liquid crystal alignment layer. The compounds are bis(3-amino-4-hydroxyphenyl)adamantane derivatives having a structure represented by formula (I) or (II): (each of Rto Rrepresents a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, a carboxyl group, or an alkoxycarbonyl group, each of m and a is an integer of 0 to 3, and each of n and b is an integer of 0 to 14, with the proviso that the case where the following three conditions in formula (I) are met is excluded: Ris methyl and present at a bridgehead; m is 0; and n is 2).

Bis(3-amino-4-hydroxyphenyl)adamantane derivatives and process for production thereof

Provided by the present invention are an adamantyl vinyl ether compound which is useful as a monomer for functional resins in the photolithography field or a raw material therefor and medical and agricultural intermediates and a production process for the same. The present invention relates to a production process for an adamantyl vinyl ether compound, characterized by subjecting an adamantyl vinyl ether compound having a specific structure and alcohol having an eliminating group in a &#x3b2; position to chloroalkyl-etherification, then subjecting it to etherification to form an adamantyl group-containing ether and then subjecting it to vinyl-etherification.

Adamantyl vinyl ether compound and production process for the same

A perfluoroadamantyl acrylate compound which is highly useful as a raw material for functional resins,etc.;and an intermediate therefore. The perfluoroadamantyl acrylate compound comprises perfluoroadamantane having a CH&#x2550;C(R)COO group(wherein R is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a trifluoromethyl group) at the 1-position, at each of the 1- and 3-positions, at each of the 1-, 3- and 5-positions, at each of the 1-, 3-, 5- and 7-positions, or at the 2-position.

Perfluoroadamantyl acrylate compound and intermediate therefor

In a method of efficiently removing mercury from a liquid hydrocarbon, the liquid hydrocarbon is contacted with water contacted in advance with a crude oil and a sludge contacted in advance with a crude oil. Alternatively, the liquid hydrocarbon is contacted with a substance having ability of ionizing elemental mercury and a sulfur compound having the formula: MM&prime;S, wherein M and M&prime; are identical or different and are each hydrogen, alkali metal or ammonium group. When the liquid hydrocarbon to be treated contains no dissolved oxygen or contains dissolved oxygen in an amount in equilibrium with a gas containing 8% by volume of oxygen, the increase in the mercury concentration of a liquid hydrocarbon after the removing treatment is effectively prevented.

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