Abstract: A vinylidene fluoride resin composition which is stable to heat at molding temperatures and is free from foaming and coloration, and molded products made by forming the vinylidene fluoride resin composition are provided. The vinylidene fluoride resin composition of the present invention comprises 100 parts by weight of a vinylidene fluoride resin, 2-20 parts by weight of a polyester plasticizer, 0.01-0.5 parts by weight of a phosphite compound. The vinylidene fluoride resin composition may further comprises a phenol compound.

Abstract: By bringing a p-butylphenol compound or m-butylphenol compound in the gas phase into contact with a solid acid catalyst, i.e., a silica-alumina catalyst or alumina catalyst while heating, butyl groups are removed from the butylphenol compound and at the same time, highly purified isobutylene is recovered.

Abstract: 3-Arylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by general formula (I): (wherein R is a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkynyl group or the like, B0 to B2 and B3 are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, cyano groups, C1-C4 haloalkyl groups or the like, n is 0, 1 or 2, and Ar is a phenyl ring, a pyridine ring, a thiophene ring, a pyrazole ring or the like), and insecticides and miticides containing the 3-arylphenyl sulfide derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A resin composition which comprises 100 parts by weight of a synthetic resin and 50 to 1,500 parts by weight of magnesium oxide particles, wherein the magnesium oxide particles satisfy the following requirements (i) to (v): (i) an average secondary particle diameter of 0.1 to 130 &mgr;m, (ii) a BET method specific surface area of 0.1 to 5 m2/g, (iii) a total content of an Fe compound and an Mn compound of 0.01 wt % or less in terms of metals, (iv) an Na content of 0.001 wt % or less, and (v) a Cl content of 0.005 wt % or less, and a molded product formed therefrom. Since the resin composition of the present invention has excellent flame retardancy, heat conductivity and water resistance, it is advantageously used as a material for sealing a heat generating electronic member such as a semiconductor.

Abstract: A process for producing an amide compound of the following formula by reacting a nitrile compound of the formula with an acid to obtain an oxazolinone compound of the formula and reacting the oxazolinone compound with a carboxy compound of the formula in the presence of a base.

Abstract: A flame-retardant for a synthetic resin, which is obtained by surface-treating a magnesium hydroxide with an emulsion of a copolymer or polymer of the formula (1), wherein X is hydrogen, a phenyl group, etc., Y is an alkyl group, etc., each of R1 and R2 is hydrogen, an alkyl group, etc., m is 0 or a positive integer, n is a positive integer, and “˜” shows the polymerization state of a main chain, the formula (2), wherein X, Y, etc. are as defined in the formula (1), or the formula (3), wherein X and “˜” are as defined in the formula (1), each of Y1 and Y2 is hydrogen, an alkyl group, etc., each of R1, R2 and R3 is hydrogen or an alkyl group, and each of a, b and c is a positive integer, a resin composition containing said flame-retardant and a molded article thereof.

Abstract: A user of a colored paint is made to have an inexpensive color matching device having the least measuring and mixing functions, and a maker of a colored paint offers the user a base paint, a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching and a thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching and a data indicating mixing amounts of them in terms of a unit which is easy to calculate, and further offers him a correction data of mixing amounts in consideration of seasonal factors or environmental factors as required.

Abstract: A composition suitable for use as a cathode material of a lithium battery includes a core material having an empirical formula LixM′zNi1−yM″yO2. “x” is equal to or greater than about 0.1 and equal to or less than about 1.3. “y” is greater than about 0.0 and equal to or less than about 0.5. “z” is greater than about 0.0 and equal to or less than about 0.2. M′ is at least one member of the group consisting of sodium, potassium, nickel, calcium, magnesium and strontium. M″ is at least one member of the group consisting of cobalt, iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium, magnesium, silicon, boron, aluminum and gallium. A coating on the core has a greater ratio of cobalt to nickel than the core. The coating and, optionally, the core can be a material having an empirical formula Lix1Ax2Ni1−y1−z1Coy1Bz1Oa. “x1” is greater than about 0.1 and equal to or less than about 1.3.

Abstract: A crystal which can be employed as the active material of a lithium-based battery has an empirical formula of Lix1A2Ni1−y−zCoyBzOa, wherein “x1” is greater than about 0.1 and equal to or less than about 1.3, “x2,” “y” and “z” each is greater than about 0.0 and equal to or less than about 0.2, “a” is greater than about 1.5 and less than about 2.1, “A” is at least one element selected from the group consisting of barium, magnesium, calcium and strontium and “B” is at least one element selected from the group consisting of boron, aluminum, gallium, manganese, titanium, vanadium and zirconium.

Abstract: Fine particulate silica gel having the following characteristics (1) to (3): (1) average particle size: from 1 to 200 &mgr;m; (2) oil absorption in accordance with JIS K5101: from 100 to 300 ml/100 g; and (3) hygroscopicity represented by moisture adsorption under a relative humidity of 90% at 25° C. in accordance with JIS Z0701: not more than 20 wt %.

Abstract: A carboxylic acid tertiary alkyl ester (Chemical formula 1) of high purity is obtained at a high yield ratio, by continually adding an esterification agent possessing a monovalent acid group, which agent is ester-interchangeable with a tertiary alcohol, to a mixed fluid of a carboxylic acid and a tertiary alcohol: R1(COOR2)n.

Abstract: An adsorbent for an oral administration, comprising a porous spherical carbonaceous substance wherein a diameter is 0.01 to 1 mm, a specific surface area determined by a BET method is 700 m2/g or more, a volume of pores having a pore diameter of 20 to 15000 nm is from not less than 0.04 mL/g to less than 0.10 mL/g, a total amount of acidic groups is 0.30 to 1.20 meq/g, and a total amount of basic groups is 0.20 to 0.70 meq/g, is disclosed.

Abstract: In an agricultural chemicals formulation which is scattered by being thrown directly into a paddy field filled with water, it is an object to provide a composition having an excellent spreadability without stagnation of an agrochemically active ingredient at the point of throwing, and in particular to provide a labor-saving formulation for scattering (application) which contains a liquid agrochemically active ingredient at room temperature, and to provide an agricultural chemicals formulation containing a liquid agrochemically active ingredient at room temperature in high concentrations, which have been difficult to be realized. The agricultural chemicals formulation for a rice paddy field is produced by preparing a granular composition in a manner that a mixture of a liquid agrochemically active ingredient at room temperature, a surfactant, and a substance exhibiting a thickening function or a gelation function in the water, is held and carried by a granular nucleus, and packing it with a water-soluble film.

Abstract: An inorganic composite powder is formed of a scaled substrate, and at least three inorganic oxide layers having different refractive indexes respectively and sequentially laminated in an order of high refractive index to low refractive index from a surface of the scaled substrate to an utmost outer layer. A refractive index of an inorganic oxide used for forming the utmost outer layer is 1.73 or less, and a difference in the refractive indexes between the utmost layer and a layer adjacent thereto is 0.6 or less. Alternatively, the thickness of at least one of a second or higher inorganic oxide layer is within ±20% of a value d given by an equation: d=(&lgr;×X/4)/n, wherein &lgr; indicates a wavelength of visual light, X indicates an odd integer, and n indicates the refractive index of the inorganic oxide.

Abstract: A process for producing a crosslink-cyclized cyclopentadiene, comprising the steps of reacting a cyclopentenone with an alkali metal hydride to thereby reduce the cyclopentenone (reduction step A) into a cyclopentenol; and reacting the cyclopentenol with a dehydrating agent to thereby dehydrate the cyclopentenol (dehydration step B) into a crosslink-cyclized cyclopentadiene of the general formula (III): wherein each of R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched saturated alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, n is an integer of 3 to 10, and the broken line in the 5-membered ring denotes that the 5-membered ring has two double bonds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pyridone derivatives and herbicidal compositions containing the pyridone derivatives as active ingredients.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a solid agricultural chemicals composition which is excellent in environmental safety, has no disadvantages of powdering and seeping out of an agrochemically active ingredient while containing the agrochemically active ingredient in high concentration and is excellent in residual-effect of the agriculturally active ingredient; a solid agricultural chemicals composition comprising a fragment of a fibre crop having high oil absorbency and a liquid agrochemically active ingredient at room temperature or liquid matter prepared by dissolving or dispersing an agrochemically active ingredient in a liquid solvent; and a method of producing the solid agricultural chemicals composition comprising the steps of impregnating a liquid agrochemically active ingredient at room temperature or liquid matter prepared by dissolving or dispersing the agrochemically active ingredient into a fragment of a fibre crop having high oil absorbency, and making it into a shape of powder, gr

Abstract: Provided is a method of plating a non-conductive product comprising the steps of: forming a coating film on a surface of the non-conductive product with a conductive paint having the following composition of solid ingredients: (a) a resin vehicle in 20 to 80 weight %, and (b) a conductive whisker in 80 to 20 weight %; and executing electroless plating on a surface of the coating film. Also provided are products produced by this method.

Abstract: A process for producing a phenylalkanoic acid amide of the formula [3] by reacting a carboxylic acid of the formula [1] with a dehydrating agent to produce an oxazolinone compound of the formula [2] and then reacting the oxazolinone compound with methyllithium or a methylmagnesium halide and an intermediate for producing the phenylalkanoic acid compound.

Abstract: A sponge including an elastic material having a lipid, such as an oil, a fat, or a combination thereof, integrally formed therewith. The elastic material includes an amount from between 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of the lipid, and the lipid is selected from the group consisting of esters of fatty acids, alkanes, squalane and derivatives thereof squalene, bisabolol, animal hair oils and fats, wax, lanolin and combinations thereof to provide the sponge with a gentle feel. The sponge may also be made by first foam molding the sponge from an elastic material, impregnating the sponge with a water-dispersed lipid and allowing the sponge to dry for a predetermined amount of time so that the lipid is substantially inseparable from the elastic material.