Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Limited

Seigo Okumura

Tetsuo Ozawa

Konoe Miura

Shinji Kubo

Seiichi Nozawa

Osamu Kishiro

Ken Honma

Atsushi Kasai

Chieko Muramoto

Hidetoshi Urashima

An anthraquinone compound represented by formula: ##STR1## wherein R and X are as defined in the specification, and a polarizing film containing the same. The anthraquinone compound exhibits satisfactory compatibility with organic polymers and high dichroism, and the polarizing films have excellent performance characteristics.

Anthraquinone compounds and polarizing film containing the same

Cyclic imido anthraquinone compounds

A polarizing film which comprises a film base having thereon an anthraquinone dye of general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aralkyloxy group, an aryl group, a cyclohexyl group, a 4-alkylcyclohexyl group, a carboxylic acid ester group, a carboxylic acid amide group, a halogen atom, ##STR2## X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or an amino group.

Polarizing film: polymer film base containing substituted anthraquinone

A process for producing a copolymeric polyester, which comprises a first step of preparing a copolymeric oligomer by reacting a starting material oligoester or polyester having repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a divalent alicyclic hydrocarbon group having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms or/and a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms (provided a hydrogen atom in the aromatic ring of the aromatic hydrocarbon group may be substituted by a halogen atom or an alkyl or alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms), and R.sup.2 is a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 2 to 40 carbon atoms, a divalent alicyclic hydrocarbon group having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms, or a divalent radical of polyalkylene oxide having a molecular weight of from 80 to 8000, in an amount from 5 to 95 mol % as represented by the amount of the repeating units constituting the oligoester or polyester, with from 5 to 95 mol % of a hydroxycarboxylic acid of the formula:

Process for producing a copolyester

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