Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation

Hiroko Inagaki

Yoshinori Hara

Yoshinori Nakanishi

Yoshinobu Ohnuma

Mareki Miura

To provide an epoxy resin composition which can provide a cured resin which is excellent in weatherability and electric properties, and which is useful as a resin for coatings, an encapsulant, a casting material, an electric insulator, etc. An epoxy resin composition which contains a hydrogenated epoxy resin obtained by hydrogenation of an aromatic epoxy resin, wherein the hydrogenated epoxy resin has a hydrogenation ratio in an aromatic ring of not less than 85%, a loss ratio of epoxy groups of not more than 20%, and a total chlorine content of not more than 0.3% by weight.

Epoxy resin composition

A method for producing 1,4-butanediol by hydrogenating succinic anhydride, succinic acid or .gamma.-butyrolactone in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the hydrogenation reaction is conducted in a liquid phase using as the catalyst a ruthenium type catalyst comprising ruthenium, an organic phosphine and a phosphorus compound of the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein each of X and Y is an atom or a group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an alkyl group and an aryl group.

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Hiroko Inagaki