Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Motohachi Usui

Senzo Shimizu

Isao Nomura

Masahiro Harada

Susumu Taniyama

Shigeo Yanada

Mashahiro Harada

A process for producing an aromatic polyester carbonate resin in which the molar ratio of the dihydric phenolic compound residue to aromatic dicarboxylic acid residue to carbonate bond is in the range of 2:0.5:1.5-2:1.4:0.6 and these constituent components form an alternating configuration of high regularity, said process comprising a first step wherein in producing a hydroxyl-terminated aromatic oligocarbonate by reacting a dihydric phenolic compound with a halogenated carbonyl compound in a reaction medium consisting of water and a water-immiscible solvent in the presence of a basic inorganic compound, the reaction is carried out by using the basic inorganic compound in an amount of 0.6-1.6 moles per mole of the dihydric phenolic compound and the halogenated carbonyl compound in an amount of 0.3-0.8 mole per mole of the dihydric phenolic compound to form a reaction product mixture consisting predominantly of a phenolic hydroxyl-terminated oligocarbonate of a degree of polymerization of 1-3, and a second step in which an esterification reaction is carried out by reacting the reaction product mixture obtained in the first step with an aromatic dicarboxylic acid dichloride in the presence of a basic inorganic compound in an amount at least sufficient to neutralize the free phenolic hydroxyl groups that remain in the reaction product mixture.

Process for producing aromatic polyester carbonate resin

A process for producing an aromatic polyester copolymer wherein the alternating configuration of the components making up the copolymer is highly regular, said process comprising a first step of reacting a dihydric phenolic compound with an aromatic dicarboxylic acid dichloride A in a reaction medium consisting of water and a water-immiscible solvent in the presence of a basic inorganic compound to give a phenolic hydroxyl-terminated aromatic oligoester containing predominantly an oligomer having a degree of polymerization of 1-2, and a second step of reacting the aromatic dihydroxy oligoester obtained in the first step with an aromatic dicarboxylic acid dichloride B in the presence of a basic inorganic compound in an amount at least sufficient to neutralize the free phenolic hydroxyl groups remaining in the reaction product mixture obtained in the first step.

Process for producing an aromatic polyester copolymer

A process for the isolation of particulate polyarylene esters having good thermal stability and hydrolytic stability, which comprises adding to a solution of a polyarylene ester in an organic solvent a poor solvent for the polyarylene ester at least in an amount such that said solution reaches a cloud point, followed by subjecting said mixed solution to an aging treatment whereby the polyarylene ester precipitates as solids, characterized in that said poor solvent is a mixed poor solvent consisting of 5-95% by weight of an aliphatic alcohol with 1-5 carbons and the other poor solvent for the polyarylene ester, the amount of said mixed poor solvent added being within the range of 100-200% by weight of the amount such that said solution reaches the cloud point and not exceeding the amount of said solution.

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