Ube Industries, Inc.

Masanori Watanabe

Takafumi Hirakawa

Atsushi Morikami

Toshinobu Tanaka

Mitsuaki Takenaka

Tadashi Murakami

Seiji Takamura

Shuji Yokoyama

Masahiko Watanabe

Hideaki Umeyama

Minoru Nishimura

Takehiko Asahara

Hisao Sugiura

Yasushi Nakamoto

Shin Suizu

Hakobu Sekioka

Hisato Kobayashi

Yoshio Kawaguchi

Takahumi Hirakawa

Disclosed is a polymerizable composition comprising Component (a): a polythiocarbonate polythiol, Component (b): an episulfide compound, and optionally Component (c): an organic compound having a functional group that is reactive to the episulfide compound. The polymerizable composition can be cured to provide a polythioether having excellent optical properties (a high refractive index and a high Abbe's number) as well as excellent mechanical properties (a high bending distortion and a high glass transition temperature) and thus exhibiting excellent properties as an optical material.

Polymerizable composition and polythiocarbonate polythioether

Disclosed is a polythiocarbonate poly(thio)epoxide in which a hydrogen atom in a mercapto group of a polythiocarbonate polythiol is substituted with a (thio)epoxy-containing group. By using this compound as a starting material, there can be obtained a polythioether or a sulfur-containing polyether having, in addition to excellent optical properties (a high refractive index and a high Abbe's number), excellent mechanical properties (a high bending distortion) and a high glass transition temperature.

Polythiocarbonatepoly(thio)epoxide

Disclosed is a polythiourethane having a high refractive index and low dispersion which is obtained through a reaction between a polythiol component containing one or more polythiocarbonate polythiol (preferably one having a &#x2014;(CO&#x2014;S&#x2014;R&#x2014;S)&#x2014; structure (wherein R represents a divalent hydrocarbon group) and a number average molecular weight of 200-2,500) and a polyisocyanate component containing a polyisocyanate and/or a polyisothiocyanate. This polythiourethane is useful for plastic lenses, prisms, optical fibers, substrates for information recording, colored filters, infrared absorbing filters and the like.

Polythiourethane

Disclosed is a polythiocarbonate polythiol including repeating units represented by the chemical formula (I): in which formula (I), R represents a divalent hydrocarbon group, which hydrocarbon group may have at least one substituent which does not take part in a reaction with the polyisocyante component and the carbon chain in the hydrocarbon group may include at least one member selected from hetero atoms and an &#x2014;OCO&#x2014; group, and the polythiocarbonate polythiol has a number average molecular weight of 200 to 2500.

Polythiocarbonate polythiol

N-phenyl carbamate compounds, process for producing the same, and

Disclosed are an oxime ether compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 represents OR.sup.5 or NHR.sup.6 where R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represent an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sup.3 represents a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 8 carbon atoms; R.sup.4 represents an alkenyloxy group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkynyloxy group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a benzyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a cyano group, an alkylthio group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a haloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an acyl group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms; and n represents an integer of 0 to 5. processes for preparing the same and a fungicide containing the same as an effective ingredient.

Oxime ether compound, processes for preparing the same and fungicide

Disclosed are an acrylate series compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a C.sub.1-10 alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, a nitro group, a C.sub.1-6 alkylamino group, a C.sub.1-6 alkylthio group, a halo C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, a pyrrole group, a C.sub.1-6 alkylsulfonyl group, a cyano group, a C.sub.1-6 mono- or dialkylaminosulfonyl group, a phenoxy group which may have a C.sub.1-6 alkoxy group, a benzyloxy group, a halo C.sub.1-6 alkoxy group, a C.sub.3-6 alkenyloxy group, a hydroxyl group, a C.sub.2-7 cyanoalkoxy group, a C.sub.3-6 alkynyloxy group, a C.sub.1-6 alkoxy group substituted by a C.sub.3-6 cycloalkyl group, a C.sub.1-6 alkoxy group substituted by a C.sub.1-6 alkoxy group, a C.sub.2-7 alkoxycarbonyl group or a C.sub.2-7 acyl; R.sup.2 represents a C.sub.3-8 cycloalkyl group which may have a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group; n represents an integer of 0 to 5; a plural number of R.sup.1 s may be the same or different; and when n is 2, two R.sup.1 s may be linked with each other and condensed to a benzene ring to form a saturated 4- to 8-membered ring or a dioxolan ring together with carbon atoms to which they are bonded, a preparation process thereof and a fungicide using the same as an active ingredient.

Acrylate compound, preparation process thereof and fungicide using the

A compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a lower alkyl group or a trifluoromethyl group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a phenyl group or a lower alkoxy-carbonyl group; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.6 represents a halogen atom; and X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom,

Dihydrobenz thiazine derivative and microorganism control agent

There are disclosed a 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzoxazine derivatives represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a trifluoromethyl group, a phenoxy group, or a halogen-substituted phenoxy group; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; Y represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atom, provided that the case where both of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen atoms is excluded, and a herbicidal composition containing the same as an active ingredient, useful for combatting weeds.

Benzoxazine compounds useful as herbicides

Disclosed is a process for producing a controlled release preparation, which comprises:

Process for producing controlled release preparation

There are presented new diphenyl ether derivatives having a substituent selected from a halogen atom, a trifluoromethyl group and a methoxy group at the 4-position in one phenyl moiety, having optionally also halo-substituents at the 2- and 6-positions, and having a nitro group at the 4'-position and a substituent selected from an unsubstituted or substituted (1,3-dioxorane-4-yl)methoxy group, an unsubstituted or substituted (1,3-dioxa-5-cyclohexyloxy) group and an alkyl- or (substituted)amino-sulfonyloxy group at the 3'-position in the other phenyl moiety. They exhibit improved herbicidal effects on various weeds without any adverse phytotoxic effect on crops, e.g. rice seedlings.

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Ube, Japan

Masanori Watanabe