Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Hiroyoshi Shiozaki

Akira Ogiso

Tsutomu Ishida

Tsutami Misawa

Tadashi Koike

Hisashi Tsukahara

Koji Inoue

Yuji Inatomi

Keiji Ueno

Ryousuke Nara

An optical recording medium containing one or more compounds selected from imide compounds having a metallocene residue in a recording layer and an imide compound represented by a general formula (1): wherein a ring AR represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring residue or a residue formed by combining two or more aromatic ring residues via one or more linking groups; n represents the number of imide groups bonded to the ring AR; Arepresents any one of substituents Ato Abonded to a nitrogen atom of each imide group; and m represents an integer of from 1 to n, with the proviso that at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of Ato Ais one having at least one substituted or unsubstituted metallocene residue.

Imide compound and optical recording media made by using the same

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Sodegaura, Japan

Hiroyoshi Shiozaki