Abstract: The present invention can provide a method for producing an aromatic nitrile in which a fixed-bed reactor including a plurality of reaction tubes is used to subject a gaseous mixture comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon, ammonia, and oxygen by contact catalytic reaction on a catalyst to thereby produce the corresponding aromatic nitrile, wherein the catalyst is composed of an oxide containing vanadium, chromium, and boron and one or more supports selected from among alumina, silica-alumina, zirconia, and titania. One of the reaction tubes is filled with the catalyst of one kind and examined as to where a hot spot lies therein. An inert substance is filled into that portion of each of the plurality of reaction tubes which corresponds at least to the hot spot, and the catalyst is filled into the remaining portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel cyanic acid ester compound that has excellent solvent solubility and provides a cured product having a low rate of thermal expansion and having excellent flame retardance and heat resistance, and a resin composition containing the compound, etc. The present invention provides a resin composition whose cured product obtained by curing can achieve a printed circuit board excellent in peel strength, glass transition temperature, rate of thermal expansion, rate of water absorption, and thermal conductivity. The present invention provides a resin composition whose cured product obtained by curing can achieve a printed circuit board not only having a high glass transition temperature and low thermal expansibility but being also excellent in flexural modulus and thermal conductivity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diacrylate compound represented by general formula (1), a composition thereof, and a cured product of the compound/composition. In the formula, R denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently denote a C1-6 linear or branched alkyl group, with the proviso that R1, R2, R3, and R4 are not all methyl groups. The present invention provides: a novel diacrylate compound which can provide a cured product having an excellent balance of physical properties such as low curing shrinkage, flexibility, resistance to bending, and low curling properties, and which can be used as a photo- or thermal-radical polymerizable monomer; a composition of the compound; and a cured product of the compound/composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel cyanic acid ester compound that has excellent solvent solubility and provides a cured product having a low rate of thermal expansion and having excellent flame retardance and heat resistance, and a resin composition containing the compound, etc. The present invention provides a resin composition whose cured product obtained by curing can achieve a printed circuit board excellent in peel strength, glass transition temperature, rate of thermal expansion, rate of water absorption, and thermal conductivity. The present invention provides a resin composition whose cured product obtained by curing can achieve a printed circuit board not only having a high glass transition temperature and low thermal expansibility but being also excellent in flexural modulus and thermal conductivity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a limited composition containing a diacrylate compound represented by general formula (1). In the formula, R denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The present invention provides a diacrylate-compound-containing composition which provides a cured product having excellent physical properties such as low curing shrinkage, flexibility, resistance to bending, and low curling properties, and which can be used as a photo- or thermal-radical polymerizable composition and a cured product of the composition.

Abstract: The present invention is a cyanate ester compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein Ar represents an aromatic ring; R1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group; n each independently represents an integer of 1 to 3; m+n is the same as the total number of hydrogen atoms in a monovalent aromatic group containing the aromatic ring and the hydrogen atoms; R2 represents a hydrogen atom (excluding a case where Ar represents a benzene ring; n each represents 1; R1 represents a hydrogen atom; m each represents 4, and a cyanate group is bonded to the benzene ring in the 4-position relative to an adamantyl group), or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a limited composition containing a diacrylate compound represented by general formula (1). In the formula, R denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The present invention provides a diacrylate-compound-containing composition which provides a cured product having excellent physical properties such as low curing shrinkage, flexibility, resistance to bending, and low curling properties, and which can be used as a photo- or thermal-radical polymerizable composition and a cured product of the composition.

Abstract: A curable resin composition which can achieve a cured product in which the generation of cracks upon curing is suppressed and which has both a low thermal expansion rate and a low water absorbability is provided. The curable resin composition comprises: at least a cyanate ester compound (A) represented by the following formula (I); a metal complex catalyst (B); and an additive (C), wherein the additive (C) contains any one or more selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following general formula (II), a compound represented by the following general formula (III), and a tertiary amine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diacrylate compound represented by general formula (1), a composition thereof, and a cured product of the compound/composition. In the formula, R denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently denote a C1-6 linear or branched alkyl group, with the proviso that R1, R2, R3, and R4 are not all methyl groups. The present invention provides: a novel diacrylate compound which can provide a cured product having an excellent balance of physical properties such as low curing shrinkage, flexibility, resistance to bending, and low curling properties, and which can be used as a photo- or thermal-radical polymerizable monomer; a composition of the compound; and a cured product of the compound/composition.

Abstract: A benzoguanamine compound having an amino methyl group is represented by the following Formula (1), or a salt thereof: wherein R represents a substituent selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryloxy group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a hydroxyl group, an amide group, and a halogen atom, and n is an integer of 1 to 2.

Abstract: There is provided a novel dicyanatophenyl-based difunctional cyanate ester which is in a liquid form at ordinary temperature and can obtain a cured product having an excellent low thermal expansion rate. There is disclosed a cyanate ester compound represented by the following formula (I): (wherein R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms).

Abstract: The present invention is a cyanate ester compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein Ar represents an aromatic ring; R1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group; n each independently represents an integer of 1 to 3; m+n is the same as the total number of hydrogen atoms in a monovalent aromatic group containing the aromatic ring and the hydrogen atoms; R2 represents a hydrogen atom (excluding a case where Ar represents a benzene ring; n each represents 1; R1 represents a hydrogen atom; m each represents 4, and a cyanate group is bonded to the benzene ring in the 4-position relative to an adamantyl group), or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A benzoguanamine compound having an amino methyl group is represented by the following Formula (1), or a salt thereof: wherein R represents a substituent selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryloxy group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a hydroxyl group, an amide group, and a halogen atom, and n is an integer of 1 to 2.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an alicyclic carboxylic acid by hydrogenating an aromatic ring of an aromatic carboxylic acid, which comprises using a catalyst containing ruthenium and palladium as a catalyst, and also provided is a co-supported ruthenium-palladium catalyst in which ruthenium and palladium are present in a form of particles containing both the ruthenium and palladium on a surface of a support. A catalyst has been developed which uses a relatively inexpensive noble metal, ruthenium, which has an activity equivalent to that of a rhodium catalyst, and which does not undergo decrease in activity as observed in a rhodium catalyst, and thereby an industrially simple method for producing an alicyclic carboxylic acid has been established.

Abstract: There is provided a novel cyanate ester compound that can provide a cured product possessing excellent heat resistance. The cyanate ester compound is represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 represents an aromatic substituent having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Rx1's each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen; Ry1's each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen; m is an integer of 0 to 4; and n is an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an alicyclic carboxylic acid by hydrogenating an aromatic ring of an aromatic carboxylic acid, which comprises using a catalyst containing ruthenium and palladium as a catalyst, and also provided is a co-supported ruthenium-palladium catalyst in which ruthenium and palladium are present in a form of particles containing both the ruthenium and palladium on a surface of a support. A catalyst has been developed which uses a relatively inexpensive noble metal, ruthenium, which has an activity equivalent to that of a rhodium catalyst, and which does not undergo decrease in activity as observed in a rhodium catalyst, and thereby an industrially simple method for producing an alicyclic carboxylic acid has been established.

Abstract: A curable resin composition which can achieve a cured product in which the generation of cracks upon curing is suppressed and which has both a low thermal expansion rate and a low water absorbability is provided. The curable resin composition comprises: at least a cyanate ester compound (A) represented by the following formula (I); a metal complex catalyst (B); and an additive (C), wherein the additive (C) contains any one or more selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following general formula (II), a compound represented by the following general formula (III), and a tertiary amine.

Abstract: There is provided a novel dicyanatophenyl-based difunctional cyanate ester which is in a liquid form at ordinary temperature and can obtain a cured product having an excellent low thermal expansion rate. There is disclosed a cyanate ester compound represented by the following formula (I): (wherein R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms).

Abstract: There is provided a novel cyanate ester compound that can provide a cured product possessing excellent heat resistance. The cyanate ester compound is represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 represents an aromatic substituent having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Rx1's each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen; Ry1's each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen; m is an integer of 0 to 4; and n is an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: A quaternary ammonium hydroxycarboxylate is produced by quaternizing a tertiary amine with a hydroxycarboxylic ester represented by the following Formula 1: wherein R1 to R3 are as defined in the disclosure. By using only one tertiary amine having at least one substituent different from R1 of the ester moiety of the hydroxycarboxylic ester and by controlling the reaction conditions, a mixture of quaternary ammonium hydroxycarboxylates having different quaternary ammonium ions is produced. By reacting an inorganic acid with the quaternary ammonium hydroxycarboxylate or its mixture, a quaternary ammonium salt of inorganic acid or its mixture is produced.