Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode that are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; and a container housing the electrode group together with an alkaline electrolyte liquid. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air electrode. This catalyst for an air electrode is a catalyst for an air electrode including an oxide containing at least bismuth (Bi), ruthenium (Ru), sodium (Na), and oxygen, and Na/(Ru+Bi+Na) representing an atomic ratio of the sodium to a sum of the bismuth, the ruthenium, and the sodium is 0.126 or more and 0.145 or less.

Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode that are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; and a container housing the electrode group together with an alkaline electrolyte liquid. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air secondary battery, and this catalyst for an air secondary battery includes a pyrochlore bismuth-ruthenium composite oxide having a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak corresponding to a (222) face obtained by a powder X-ray diffraction method using CuK? rays as X-rays, of 0.350 deg or larger and 0.713 deg or smaller.

Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode that are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; and a container housing the electrode group together with an alkaline electrolyte liquid. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air electrode. This catalyst for an air electrode is a catalyst for an air electrode including an oxide containing at least bismuth (Bi), ruthenium (Ru), sodium (Na), and oxygen, and Na/(Ru+Bi+Na) representing an atomic ratio of the sodium to a sum of the bismuth, the ruthenium, and the sodium is 0.126 or more and 0.145 or less.

Abstract: An air electrode catalyst for an air secondary battery includes a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having two or more crystal structures having a different amount of oxygen. A battery, according to some embodiments, includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a container accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes the air electrode catalyst. The air electrode catalyst may have a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O6.92 and a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O7.33.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a battery case accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes an air electrode mixture containing a pyrochlore-type composite oxide and a manganese oxide, and the pyrochlore-type composite oxide is a bismuth-ruthenium oxide.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and an accommodating bag accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air secondary battery. This catalyst for an air secondary battery is produced by a method for producing a catalyst for an air secondary battery, the method including a precursor preparation step of preparing a bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor, a calcination step of calcining the bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor obtained in this precursor preparation step to form a bismuth-ruthenium oxide, and a nitric acid treatment step of immersing the bismuth-ruthenium oxide obtained by this calcination step in a nitric acid aqueous solution.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and an accommodating bag accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution. The air electrode includes a catalyst for an air secondary battery. This catalyst for an air secondary battery is produced by a method for producing a catalyst for an air secondary battery, the method including a precursor preparation step of preparing a bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor, a calcination step of calcining the bismuth-ruthenium oxide precursor obtained in this precursor preparation step to form a bismuth-ruthenium oxide, and a nitric acid treatment step of immersing the bismuth-ruthenium oxide obtained by this calcination step in a nitric acid aqueous solution.

Abstract: An air electrode catalyst for an air secondary battery includes a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having two or more crystal structures having a different amount of oxygen. A battery, according to some embodiments, includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a container accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes the air electrode catalyst. The air electrode catalyst may have a pyrochlore-type composite oxide having a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O6.92 and a crystal structure represented by Bi2Ru2O7.33.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a battery case accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes an air electrode mixture containing a pyrochlore-type composite oxide and a manganese oxide, and the pyrochlore-type composite oxide is a bismuth-ruthenium oxide.

Abstract: A nickel hydrogen secondary battery comprises an outer can and an electrode group accommodated in a hermetically sealed state together with an alkaline electrolyte solution in the outer can, wherein the electrode group comprises a positive electrode and a negative electrode stacked through a separator, wherein the negative electrode contains a hydrogen absorbing alloy powder that is an aggregate of particles of a hydrogen absorbing alloy, wherein the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder is such that when an average particle size of the particles is represented by M; a particle size of ½ of the M is represented by P; and a particle size of ? of the M is represented by Q, a content of the particles having a particle size equal to or smaller than the P is lower than 20% by mass of the whole of the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder; and the content of the particles having a particle size equal to or smaller than the Q is lower than 10% by mass of the whole of the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery includes an electrode group that includes a separator, a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the negative electrode contains a hydrogen storage alloy having a crystal structure in which an AB2 type unit and an AB5 type unit are laminated, in which a PCT characteristic diagram at 80° C. includes a first plateau region having a hydrogen pressure Pd1 when hydrogen is stored by 0.25 times an effective hydrogen storage amount that is a hydrogen storage amount when a hydrogen pressure is 1 MPa, and a second plateau region having a hydrogen pressure Pd2 when hydrogen is stored by 0.70 times the effective hydrogen storage amount, and Pd1 and Pd2 satisfy a relation of 0.6?log10(Pd2/Pd1).

Abstract: Provided is a production method of an optically active dihydrobenzofuran derivative. A production method of an optically active form of a compound represented by the formula: wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula: wherein Q represents a fused heterocyclic group, X and Y are the same or different and each represent an optionally halogenated lower alkyl group, an optionally halogenated lower alkoxy group, etc., or a salt thereof, as well as a herbicide comprising the compound or a salt thereof, which exhibits a significant effect for control of sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds in paddy fields and can reduce the number of active ingredients in a combined preparation and a method of controlling sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds which comprises using the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula: wherein Q represents a fused heterocyclic group, X and Y are the same or different and each represent an optionally halogenated lower alkyl group, an optionally halogenated lower alkoxy group, etc., or a salt thereof, as well as a herbicide comprising the compound or a salt thereof, which exhibits a significant effect for control of sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds in paddy fields and can reduce the number of active ingredients in a combined preparation and a method of controlling sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds which comprises using the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula: wherein Q represents a fused heterocyclic group, X and Y are the same or different and each represent an optionally halogenated lower alkyl group, an optionally halogenated lower alkoxy group, etc., or a salt thereof, as well as a herbicide comprising the compound or a salt thereof, which exhibits a significant effect for control of sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds in paddy fields and can reduce the number of active ingredients in a combined preparation and a method of controlling sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds which comprises using the same.

Abstract: A process for easily and inexpensively producing an imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylsulfonamide derivative which has a substituent bonded to the 6-position carbon atom and is represented by the formula (II): (wherein R represents lower alkyl, lower cycloalkyl optionally substituted by lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, or lower alkynyl), the process comprising reacting an imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazine compound represented by the formula (I): (wherein X represents halogeno or lower alkyl optionally substituted by halogeno; Y represents hydrogen or SO2N?CH—NR1R2; and Z represents halogeno or OSO2R3) with an organometallic compound in the presence of a transition metal catalyst. The derivative is useful as an intermediate for herbicides.

Abstract: A process for easily and inexpensively producing an imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylsulfonamide derivative which has a substituent bonded to the 6-position carbon atom and is represented by the formula (II): (wherein R represents lower alkyl, lower cycloalkyl optionally substituted by lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, or lower alkynyl), the process comprising reacting an imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazine compound represented by the formula (I): (wherein X represents halogeno or lower alkyl optionally substituted by halogeno; Y represents hydrogen or SO2N?CH—NR1R2; and Z represents halogeno or OSO2R3) with an organometallic compound in the presence of a transition metal catalyst. The derivative is useful as an intermediate for herbicides.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula: wherein Q represents a fused heterocyclic group, X and Y are the same or different and each represent an optionally halogenated lower alkyl group, an optionally halogenated lower alkoxy group, etc., or a salt thereof, as well as a herbicide comprising the compound or a salt thereof, which exhibits a significant effect for control of sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds in paddy fields and can reduce the number of active ingredients in a combined preparation and a method of controlling sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant weeds which comprises using the same.