Tokuyama Soda Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokuyama Corporation

Takashi Tanaka

Satoshi Imura

Yasuji Kida

Kenji Tanaka

Shinsuke Tanaka

Seiji Okazaki

Kayo Iwamoto

Disclosed is a novel spirooxazine compound having excellent durability which changes into a colored form upon irradiation with the light containing ultraviolet rays such as of sunrays or the light from a mercury lamp, the change being reversible.

Spirooxazine compounds

A compound represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, a benzyl group, a phenethyl group, an alkylamine group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a dialkylamino group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and ##STR2## represents a nobornylidene group or bicyclo [3,3,1]9-nonylidene group which may have a substituent, and ##STR3## represents a pyridine, quinoline, pyrrole or benzothiophene group which may have a substituent.

Photochromic compound

A photochromic compound of the present invention is a spiroxazine compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 represent a monovalent organic group such as alkyl group, Y represents a fused heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon group or an unsaturated heterocyclic group if R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are both methyl groups, and represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or unsaturated heterocyclic group if R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are other than the above mentioned. This compound shows an excellent photochromic characteristics even at high temperatures not less than ambient temperature.

Photochromic compound, composition and use thereof

A photochromic compound represented by the following general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or a divalent heterocyclic group each of which may have a substituent,

Photochromic compound, process for production thereof, use thereof and

Disclosed is a compound represented by the following general formula(I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group or a substituted amino group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, represent an alkyl group, or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 together form a nobornylidene group or bicyclo (3, 3, 1) 9-nonylidene group which may have a substituent, and ##STR2## represents a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or divalent unsaturated heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, with the proviso that when R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent an alkyl group, ##STR3## represents a bicyclic aromatic fused ring which is substituted with at least one substituent selected form the group consisting of a halgoen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, --R.sub.5 --S--R.sub.6 and ##STR4## (in which R.sub.5 represents an alkylene group or --O--R.sub.8).sub.n (in which R.sub.8 represents an alkylene group and n is a positive integer), R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, which may be the same or different, represent an alkyl group, and X represents --N&lt;, --P&lt;, ##STR5## at least one of the substituents being an alkyl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, --R.sub.5 --S--R.sub.6 or ##STR6## a composition comprising this compound, and a photochromic lens composed of this composition.

A compound represented by the following general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a norbornylidene group or an adamantylidene group each of which may have a substituent, and

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Takashi Tanaka