Abstract: In the present invention, there are obtained aliphatic polyesters having a controlled thermal decomposing property, hydrolizability, and biodegradability, in which OH terminals and COOR terminals are decreased to 50% and 30%, respectively, through a ring-opening polymerization of a lactone and lactide by a mono alcohol having a high boiling point or a metal alkoxide, or by further decreasing both terminals through combining produced polymer terminals with a diisocyanate and, from a composition containing the polyesters, there is obtained a particle-state composition for agriculture and gardening in which a duration period of a fertilizing effect can be controlled, and which is not remained in soil by decomposition.

Abstract: In the present invention, there are obtained aliphatic polyesters having a controlled thermal decomposing property, hydrolizability, and biodegradability, in which OH terminals and COOH terminals are decreased to 50% and 30%, respectively, through a ring-opening polymerization of a lactone and lactide by a mono alcohol having a high boiling point or a metal alkoxide, or by further decreasing both terminals through combining produced polymer terminals with a diisocyanate and, from a composition containing the polyesters, there is obtained a particle-state composition for agriculture and gardening in which a duration period of a fertilizing effect can be controlled, and which is not remained in soil by decomposition.

Abstract: Methods are provided to produce highly concentrated dihydroxyacetone-3-phosphate efficiently by a simple catalytic reaction of dihydroxyacetone with the bacterial cells transformed with the gene encoding a dihydroxyacetone kinase or the dihydroxyacetone kinase produced by said bacterium.

Abstract: Methods are provided to produce highly concentrated dihydroxyacetone-3-phosphate efficiently by a simple catalytic reaction of dihydroxyacetone with the bacterial cells transformed with the gene encoding a dihydroxyacetone kinase or the dihydroxyacetone kinase produced by said bacterium.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel polylactone having amino groups and to a process for the preparation thereof. The polylactone having amino groups of the present invention is excellent in color hue, and it can be preferably employed in fields such as coatings, inks, ultraviolet ray curable or electronic beam curable resins, etc., in which the color hue becomes a serious problem. Furthermore, disclosed are a novel compound having amino groups and to a process for the preparation thereof. The compound having amino groups of the present invention can be preferably employed as a dispersant for pigments in a coating composition or a printing ink composition.

Abstract: A tobacco filter with a circumferential length of 17 to 27 mm is prepared by creping or embossing, with a roller of a temperature not lower than 100.degree. C., a sheet-like material comprising not less than 20% by weight of a cellulose ester component and having a web structure with a basis weight of 20 to 35 g/m.sup.2 and a density of 0.25 to 0.45 g/cm.sup.3, and wrapping up the creped or embossed material into a rod form. The cellulose ester component includes e.g. a cellulose ester short staple, a fibrillated fiber, an esterified fiber and a fiber coated with a cellulose ester. This tobacco filter shows a pressure drop of 200 to 500 mm WG, a firmness of 88% or more and a cross-sectional porosity of 2% or less provided that it has a circumferential length of 24.5 mm and a length of 10 cm.

Abstract: The present invention is a small, light-weight gas generator for a passenger air bag. The gas generator includes a housing having a diffuser shell and a closure shell. The diffuser shell includes a round portion, a center cylindrical portion extending concentrically from inside a peripheral portion of the round portion, and an inner cylindrical portion. The center cylindrical portion is disposed at the center of the round portion for storing therein a squib-enhancer. The inner cylindrical portion is disposed outside the center cylindrical portion to provide a combustion chamber. The closure shell includes an annular portion equipped with a center hole for receiving the center cylindrical portion, and a peripheral wall portion extending from the peripheral portion of the annular portion to the peripheral portion of the round portion of the diffuser shell. This peripheral wall portion defines a coolant-filter chamber and includes a gas discharge port and a flange portion extending in a radial direction.

Abstract: Disclosed are the improvements of a process for the preparation of a purified 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl methyl (meth)acrylate and 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl methyl (meth)acrylate which is prepared by the improvements, including only minor amounts of polymers having a low molecular weight composed of 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl methyl (meth)acrylate itself.Furthermore, disclosed is a 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl methyl (meth)acrylate composition which has an excellent resistance to coloring, including a specified organic phosphorous compound.

Abstract: .epsilon.-caprolactone-modified hydroxyalkyl acrylate or methyacrylate can be effectively produced from .epsilon.-caprolactone and a hydroxyalkyl acrylate or methacrylate in the presence of a stannous halide as a catalyst. The obtained monomer is used together with another copolymerizable monomer to produce a copolymer which is suitable for coating and photocurable composition.

Abstract: A salt of monoacetyl phosphate which is useful in the field of enzymatic reactions can be obtained as a precipitate by using a specified amount of lithium ion as a precipitating agent in the process for the acetylation of phosphoric acid or its salt with acetic anhydride. The resulting precipitate can be separated from the reaction mixture by filtration without necessity of operation at a low temperature or the replacement of solvents.

Abstract: New thermoplastic polyester resins having a low melting point which are useful as a molding material, especially as an orthopedic cast material; said resin having the formula (I):[A].sub.1 [B].sub.m [C].sub.n (I)where A denotes a residue of a straight or branched aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 12 or 36 carbon atoms; B denotes a residue of a straight or branched aliphatic diol having 2 to 18 carbon atoms; C denotes a residue of 6-hydroxycaproic acid; these residues are linked through the ester bond and distributed randomly and/or in block in the molecule; 1, m, and n each has a value greater than 0; the residue of the 6-hydroxycaproic acid is 60 to 98 wt % and the sum of the residues of the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and aliphatic diol is 40 to 2 wt %; the residue of the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and the residue of the aliphatic diol are present in equimolar amount; and having a number-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 200,000.

Abstract: A mixture of chemical substances such as optical isomers, geometrical isomers and polymers having different molecular weight ranges is separated to each ingredient by use of a cellulose derivative having an aromatic ring in the chromatographic method.