Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a solid-phase support for nucleic acid synthesis, which is constituted of a porous copolymer particle containing a multifunctional vinyl monomer unit having two or more vinyl groups in one molecule and a monofunctional vinyl monomer unit having one vinyl group in one molecule, in which the solid-phase support has a swelling volume when soaked in acetonitrile of 3.5 ml/g or more and has a median particle diameter measured by a laser scattering particle size distribution measuring method within a range of from 50 to 120 ?m. According to the solid-phase support for nucleic acid synthesis of the invention, a high-purity nucleic acid can be synthesized with a high yield.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a porous resin bead containing an aromatic vinyl compound-hydroxystyrene-di(meth)acrylate copolymer, the method including: dissolving a monomer mixture containing an aromatic vinyl compound, an acyloxystyrene and a di(meth)acrylate compound, and a polymerization initiator in an organic solvent to obtain a solution containing the monomer mixture and the polymerization initiator; suspending the solution in water in the presence of a dispersion stabilizer; performing a suspension copolymerization to thereby obtain an aromatic vinyl compound-acyloxystyrene-di(meth)acrylate compound copolymer; and hydrolyzing an acyloxy group of the acyloxystyrene monomer component in the copolymer. The porous resin bead produced by the method of the present invention can be suitably used, for example, as a support for solid phase synthesis.