Abstract: Polyarylene thioethers having increased melt crystallization temperature are produced by subjecting a polyarylene thioether recovered from a conventional polycondensation of dichlorobenzene with sodium sulfide to a treatment with an aqueous non-oxidative strong acid such asd HCl, H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 or H.sub.3 PO.sub.4 or with an aqueous salt of the non-oxidative strong acid with a weak base such as ammonia.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a smokable food-packaging film comprising at least one layer of a mixture of 45 to 85 wt % polyamide, 10 to 45 wt % copolymer of olefin and vinyl alcohol, and 5 to 30 wt % polyolefin, in which the mixture falls in the pantagonal range defined in FIG. 1 by linear lines connecting the points A, B, C, D and E, respectively, said layer having the properties of a permability to 50% concentration of methanol of not less than 200 g/m.sup.2.day.atm at a temperature of 60.degree. C. and a relative humidity of 0% and an oxygen gas-permeability of not more than 50 cc/m.sup.2.day.atm at a temperature of 30.degree. C. and a relative humidity of 60% and a water vapor-transmission rate of not more than 70 g/m.sup.2.day at a temperature of 40.degree. C. and a relative humidity of 90%.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for separating p-dichlorobenzene from an isomeric mixture of dichlorobenzenes comprising adding 1-bromo-4-chlorobenzene, 1,4-dibromobenzene or a mixture of 1-bromo-4-chlorobenzene and 1,4-dibromobenzene to the isomeric mixture of dichlorobenzenes, heating the thus formed mixture to dissolve a part or the whole thereof, cooling the thus treated material, thereby crystallizing the eutictic crystals of p-dichlorobenzene and 1-bromo-4-chlorobenzene or 1,4-dibromobenzene or the eutectic crystals of p-dichlorobenzene, 1-bromo-4-chlorobenzene and 1,4-dibromobenzene, and thus separating p-dichlorobenzene from the isomeric mixture of dichlorobenzenes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a process for producing a carbon fiber mat, having excellent production and energy efficiencies, comprising successively melt-spinning a fiber-forming pitch by a centrifugal spinning machine having a horizontal axis of rotation (parallel to the plane on which the spinning machine is placed), forming a mat by the thus spun pitch fibers, bringing the mat into an infusibilized state in an air atmosphere containing NO.sub.2 and calcining the thus infusibilized mat in an inert atmosphere, and an apparatus for carrying out the above-mentioned process.

Abstract: In a process for producing a polyarylene thioether having high stability by dehalogenation/sulfurization reaction of an alkali metal (M) sulfide such as sodium sulfide and a dihaloaromatic compound such as paradichlorobenzene in a polar organic solvent, the haloaromatic compound is used excessively in an appropriate range rather than the alkali metal sulfide and the latter stage of the reaction or all period of the reaction is conducted under a powerful stirring condition to a certain degree to obtain the polyarylene thioether wherein the concentration of --SM or --SH groups of the polymer terminal is lowered. The polyarylene thioether thus obtained suppresses the coloration in the processing with an apparatus made of ferrous material such as extruder.

Abstract: A flexible carbon material is produced by carbonizing a composite material comprising carbon fibers having an average length of 6 to 50 mm and a binding agent. Carbon lumps are derived from the binding agent and are dispersed in a matrix of the carbon fibers so as to restrain a plurality of the carbon fibers while yet permitting relative slippage to occur as between the carbon fibers and carbon lumps such that the carbon fiber material exhibits a flexibility ratio D/d of not greater than 200 (where D is the diameter of curvature of the carbon material, when bent, just before breakage, and d is the thickness of the carbon material). The carbon fibers and lumps are preferrably present in an amount of from 5 to 50%, and 5 to 70% by volume, respectively, based upon the total volume of the carbon material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode substrate for a fuel cell, wherein at least a part of the electrode substrate comprises a flexible carbon material obtained from a composite material comprising carbon fibers of not less than 1 mm in mean length which have been treated at a temperature of not lower than 1000.degree. C. and a binding agent, the electrode substrate being contacted with flow channels of a reactant gas and the flexible carbon material comprising carbon lumps derived from the binding agent which are dispersed in the matrix of the carbon fibers and restrain a plurality of the carbon fibers and the carbon fibers slidably held to one another by the carbon lumps.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are the derivatives of substituted cephalosporanic acid represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a 4-pyridylthiomethyl group, an alpha-aminobenzyl group, a cyanomethyl group or a 1-tetrazolylmethyl group; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an acetoxy group or a (5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or --(CONH).sub.m (CH.sub.2).sub.n --COOH wherein m is 0 or 1, n is 0, 1 or 2 and the carboxyl group may have been converted to a salt or an ester thereof; p is 0, 1 or 2 and X represents carbon atom or nitrogen atom, and antibiotics comprising the derivatives of substituted cephalosporanic acid represented by the formula (I).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are dialkanoyloxybenzylidene dialkanoate represented by the formula, ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 represent respectively alkanoyloxy group and a pharmaceutical composition in dosage unit form which comprises a dosage effective for the treatment of inflammatory disease of the dialkanoyloxybenzylidene dialkanoate as an active ingredient thereof.

Abstract: A photochromic lens is composed of a lens member made of a lens resin; and a photochromic layer applied on at least one side of the lens member and formed of a resin of a three-dimensional network structure. The layer-forming resin contains a spirooxazine compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 means a hydrogen or halogen atom or a cyano, C.sub.1-6 alkyl or C.sub.1-6 alkoxy group, and R.sub.2 denotes a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, --CH.sub.2).sub.n COOH, --CH.sub.2).sub.n CN, substituted arylalkyl group or --CH.sub.2).sub.n COOR in which R is a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group and n stands for an integer of 1-4. The layer-forming resin may additionally contain a phenol resin and/or a phenolic compound. A hard coat layer may optionally be applied on the surface of the photochromic layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition containing p-aminobenzoic acid-N-D-xyloside or a pharmaceutically a acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid together with trimellitic acid comprising oxidizing 2,6-diisopropylnaphthalene with molecular oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a heavy metal(s) and bromine.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode for a living body, which is used in a defibrillator and the like without hindering X-ray inspection, the main part of the electrode (hereinafter referred to as "the electrode substrate") comprising a porous material composed of granular or fibrous carbon, or a flexible and porous material composed of fibrous carbon, the electrode being made to be transparent to X-ray.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition of high heat resistance and high impact resistance is described, comprising: (A) 50 to 90% by weight of a copolymer prepared by copolymerization of 10 to 35% by weight of acrylonitrile, 60 to 85% by weight of a monomer mixture of 2-isopropenylnaphthalene (2-IPN) and .alpha.-methylstyrene (.alpha.-MeSt), the proportion of 2-IPN being 5 to 70% by weight based on the total weight of 2-IPN and .alpha.-MeSt, and 0 to less than 10% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable with the foregoing monomers; and (B) 10 to 50% by weight of a graft copolymer prepared by polymerizing 15 to 50 parts by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of aromatic vinyl compounds, vinyl cyanides, methacrylic acid alkyl esters, and acrylic acid alkyl esters in the presence of 50 to 85 parts by weight of a butadiene- or alkyl acrylate-based rubber, the sum of the graft and rubber components being 100 parts by weight.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the treatment of hyperglycemia, hyperlipemia, inflammatory diseases, pains due to the accentuation of central nerve, pyrexia due to the accentuation of central nerve or tumor, which comprises administering to a patient suffering therefrom a pharmaceutically effective amount of p-aminobenzoic acid-N-L-rhamnoside or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing (2-hydroxy-2-propyl)naphthalene compounds, comprising oxidizing a naphthalene compound having isopropyl group(s) on the naphthalene ring in the presence of peroxodisulfate in a mixed solvent of water and an organic polar solvent.

Abstract: In the process of chemical plating on a formed article composed of a polyarylene sulfide or a composition comprising a polyarylene sulfide as the predominant resin component, a method for selective chemical plating is provided, which comprises irradiating a portion not to be plated of the formed article with light of a wavelength of 0.1 nm to 800 nm and then subjecting the formed article to chemical plating.

Abstract: Corrosion of a melt-processing apparatus for processing a polyarylene thioether at a temperature higher than the melting point thereof is prevented by a method which comprises adding to 100 parts by weight of the polyarylene thioether 0.001 to 10 parts by weight of at least one member selected from the group consisting of (i) hydroxides of metals of the group IIa of the Periodic Table, (ii) oxides of metals of the group IIa of the Periodic Table and (iii) aromatic carboxylic acid salts of metals of the group IIa of the Periodic Table.By this method, even if the melt-processing article obtained is exposed to moisture, the electrical properties of the article formed (for example, insulation characteristics) and the water resistance are not substantially deteriorated.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a high-molecular-weight polyarylene sulfide, which comprises subjecting an alkali metal sulfide such as sodium sulfide and a dihalo aromatic compound such as dichlorobenzene to dehalogenation sulfidation reaction in an organic amide solvent, wherein at least a part of the reaction is carried out in a reaction vessel in which at least the portion which the reaction liquid contacts is made of titanium, through at least the following two steps: (1) the step of carrying out the reaction at a temperature of 180.degree. to 235.degree. C. in the presence of water in an amount of 2.4 to 10 moles per mole of the alkali metal sulfide so that the conversion of the dihalo aromatic compound is at least 50% and the melt viscosity of the formed polyarylene sulfide does not exceed 500 P, and (2) the step of elevating the temperature to 245.degree. to 290.degree. C. in the presence of water in an amount of 2.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an oxygen-cathode for use in electrolysis or an alkali chloride, comprising a current collector made of a compact carbonaceous material, electrode substrate(s) made of a porous carbonaceous material and the catalyst carried on the electrode substrate(s), wherein the electrode substrate(s) and the current collector have been joined together and integrated into one body as carbon, and a process for preparing the oxygen-cathode.