Showa Denko K.k.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsuyoshi Katoh

Morihiko Yamada

Norihide Arai

Tomonari Ogata

Tomoe Uematsu

Tomoki Okano

Kunio Kondo

Katsumi Murofushi

Hirotoshi Kamata

Hirobumi Aoki

Harumi Kamachi

Mina Onishi

Haruka Osako

Nobuhiro Natori

Yosuke Fukuchi

There is provided a material for an anode buffer lay which permits the use of an organic solvent as a solvent an anode buffer layer-forming solution, and is capable forming an anode buffer layer that does not dissolve even win coated with a luminescent layer-forming material solution containing an organic solvent as a solvent, and which is capable of producing an organic EL element having high electrical power efficiency and long life.

Composition for anode buffer layer, high-molecular weight compound for anode buffer layer, organic electroluminescence element, and production process and uses of the same

Hydroxycitric acid derivatives and salts thereof are provided which are useful as active ingredients of skin external preparations and cosmetics. Also provided are processes for production of the hydroxycitric acid derivatives, and skin external preparations and cosmetics containing the hydroxycitric acid derivatives. Specific hydroxycitric acid derivatives or salts thereof are produced wherein at least one of the hydroxyl groups of hydroxycitric acid or least one of the hydroxyl groups and at least one carboxyl group of hydroxycitric acid are modified to linkage moieties breakable by biological enzyme reaction. The hydroxycitric acid derivatives or salts thereof are added in skin external preparations and cosmetics.

Hydroxycitric acid derivatives and skin external preparations containing the same

A photopolymerization initiator composition containing a thiol compound having a mercapto group-containing group that has at least one substituent on the carbon atoms on carbon atom(s) at the &#x3b1;- and/or &#x3b2;-position with respect to the mercapto group and a photopolymerization initiator; a photosensitive composition containing the composition; and a novel thiol compound for use in these compositions. The photosensitive composition containing the photopolymerizazion initiator composition of the present invention has high sensitivity and excellent storage stability and enables reduction in cost due by increasing productivity.

Thiol compound, photopolymerization initiator composition and photosensitive composition

A stabilizer for thermally stabilizing an organic borate salt represented by formula (1) is disclosed, comprising a compound having one or two nitrogen-containing 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring having a double bond within the ring, a compound having a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group, or a compound having a thiol group. Also disclosed are a photosensitive composition comprising the stabilizer, an organic borate salt and if desired, a sensitizing dye or further a bisimidazole compound; a polymerizable composition comprising the photosensitive composition having added thereto at least one monomer having one or more ethylenically unsaturated bond and if desired, a high molecular polymer or further a pigment; and a colored pattern formed by using the polymerizable composition.

Stabilizer for organic borate salts and photosensitive composition containing the same

A photopolymerization initiator for producing a color filter including a sensitizer (A) which absorbs light having a wavelength of 300 to 500 nm, an organic boron complex (B), and a thiol-group-containing compound (C); a photosensitive coloring composition including a transparent polymer (D) which is soluble to a solvent or an aqueous alkaline solution, a compound having ethylenic unsaturated bonds (E), a pigment (F), and the photopolymerization initiator; a color filter having a pixel formed by use of the coloring composition on a transparent substrate; and a method for producing the color filter.

Color filter and a method for producing a color filter

Process for producing boron compounds

An ultraviolet and/or visible light curing photopolymerizable composition comprising as essential components: (a) a thermoplastic polymer obtained by copolymerization of at least one monomer selected from among .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxyl group-containing monomers and another monomer, (b) a crosslinking monomer with at least two ethylenic unsaturated groups per molecule and (c) an ultraviolet and/or visible light polymerization initiator comprising a quaternary boron salt and a sensitizing dye, as well as a dry film resist containing the composition as its main component.

Photopolymerizable composition and dry film resist

A method for producing a borate compound represented by formula (1) is disclosed, comprising a first step of reacting lithium or magnesium or a compound containing lithium or magnesium, a halide represented by formula (2) and a compound represented by formula (3) in a solvent to produce a boronate compound precursor, a second step of reacting lithium or magnesium or a compound containing lithium or magnesium, a halide represented by formula (4) and the boronate compound precursor obtained in the first step in a solvent to produce a borate metal salt, and a third step of adding an onium halide represented by formula (5) to the borate metal salt obtained in the second step to effect ion-exchange reaction (the formulae are as described in the specification).

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Chiba, Japan

Tsuyoshi Katoh