In an embodiment, an integrated method for producing a polycarbonate comprises: making a liquid mixture comprising a ketone and a monomer, wherein the monomer comprises a diaryl carbonate or a dihydroxy compound; transporting the liquid mixture to a polycarbonate production plant; reacting the monomer and a second monomer in a polymerization unit to produce the polycarbonate and a phenol byproduct, wherein the second monomer comprises the other of the diaryl carbonate and the dihydroxy compound; wherein the ketone comprises a non-acetone ketone. In another embodiment: a use of a liquid mixture in the production of polycarbonate, wherein the liquid mixture comprising a ketone and at least one of diaryl carbonate and dihydroxy compound, and wherein the liquid mixture comprises less than or equal to 100 ppm alcohol based on the total weight of the ketone, wherein the ketone comprises a non-acetone ketone.

The present invention is to provide a process for producing a high molecular-weight aromatic polycarbonate resin, the process includes mixing a dialcohol compound represented by the following Formula (1) with a first catalyst to obtain a catalyst composition; mixing the obtained catalyst composition with an aromatic polycarbonate prepolymer to obtain a prepolymer mixture; and obtaining a high molecular-weight aromatic polycarbonate by subjecting the obtained prepolymer mixture to heating treatment under reduced pressure condition. In the Formula (1), R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and the like. Q represents a divalent group or a single bond. ##STR00001##

In an embodiment, a method for producing an aryl alkyl carbonate can comprise: reacting methanol with a diaryl carbonate in the presence of a catalyst to form a mixture comprising an aryl alkyl carbonate and a hydroxy compound, wherein the methanol is in an acetone monomer mixture comprising acetone and at least one of diaryl carbonate and dihydroxy compound; separating the aryl alkyl carbonate from the mixture.

A bisphenol composition including a specific amount of aromatic alcohol sulfonate, and a simple method of producing it are provided. Also provided is a method of producing a polycarbonate resin in which, by using the bisphenol composition including a specific amount of aromatic alcohol sulfonate, melt polymerization reaction can be efficiently allowed to proceed to produce a polycarbonate resin having an excellent color tone. A bisphenol composition including an aromatic alcohol sulfonate at not less than 0.1 ppb by mass with respect to a bisphenol. A method of producing a bisphenol composition, including reacting a ketone or an aldehyde with an aromatic alcohol in the presence of sulfuric acid to produce a bisphenol composition. A method of producing a polycarbonate resin, including producing a polycarbonate resin using the bisphenol composition. A polycarbonate resin including a specific amount of aromatic alcohol sulfonate.

The present invention relates to copolycarbonates and a composition comprising the same. The copolycarbonate according to the present invention has a structure in which specific siloxane compounds are introduced in the main chain of polycarbonate and thus exhibits the effects of improving impact strength at room temperature, impact strength at low-temperature, and melt index.

In one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a lighting element located in a housing, wherein the housing is formed from a plastic composition including, for example, a polycarbonate formed from reacting, in the presence of a transesterification catalyst, a diaryl carbonate ester and a bisphenol A, wherein the bisphenol A has a sulfur concentration of 1 ppm to 15 ppm, based upon a weight of the bisphenol A; and a conversion material wherein the conversion material includes an inorganic material that converts radiation of a certain wavelength and re-emits of a different wavelength; wherein after the conversion material has been exposed to an excitation source, the conversion material has a luminescence lifetime of less than 10.sup.−4 seconds when the excitation source is removed.

The invention relates to a process for drying a catalyst carrier or drying a catalyst comprising a carrier on which a metal is supported, wherein the carrier or catalyst is contacted with a drying agent which comprises an organic carbonate. Further, the invention relates to a process for preparing a catalyst which comprises a carrier on which a metal is supported, said process comprising drying the carrier by contacting the carrier with a drying agent which comprises an organic carbonate resulting in a dried carrier; and impregnating the dried carrier with a solution wherein a compound containing the metal is dissolved in a solvent which is an organic carbonate or an alcohol. Still further, the invention relates to a process for preparing an aromatic carbonate, such as a diaryl carbonate, using the catalyst thus prepared or dried; and to a process for making a polycarbonate from the diaryl carbonate thus prepared.

A method of preparing a polycarbonate composition in a polymerization system that comprises a monomer mixing unit, an oligomerization section, and a polymerization section. The method includes melt polymerizing a dihydroxy compound with a diaryl carbonate compound in the presence of a quaternary phosphonium catalyst to produce the polycarbonate composition having a phosphorus-containing byproduct of at least one of the quaternary phosphonium catalyst or of the diaryl carbonate compound. The method further includes recycling the phosphorus-containing byproduct into the monomer mixing unit of the polymerization system and removing the polycarbonate composition from the polymerization system. The recycle stream has a phosphorus concentration of greater than or equal to 40 ppm.

A bisphenol composition including 95% or more by mass of a bisphenol, wherein a bisphenol represented by the following general formula (II) in the bisphenol composition constitutes 150 mass ppm or more, and the bisphenol composition has a methanol dissolution color (Hazen color number) of 2 or less,

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In formula (II), X denotes a single bond, —CR.sup.11R.sup.12—, —O—, —CO—, —S—, —SO—, or —SO.sub.2—, R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 independently denote a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 may be bonded to each other to form a ring. A method for producing a polycarbonate resin using the bisphenol composition is also described.

The present invention provides a polycarbonate copolymer having low specific gravity and high surface hardness. The polycarbonate copolymer of the present invention contains a unit (A) represented by the following formula (1-1) or (1-2) and a unit (B) represented by the following formula (3); wherein in formula (1-1), R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 respectively and independently represent a hydrogen atom, hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms that may contain an aromatic group, or halogen atom, and Y represents a divalent organic residue comprised of the following formula (2); in formula (2), C.sub.m represents a cycloalkylene group, m represents an integer of 3 to 20, R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 1 to 10; in formula (1-2), R.sub.1′ and R.sub.2′ respectively and independently represent a hydrogen atom, hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms that may contain an aromatic group or a halogen atom, and W represents a single bond, carbon atom, oxygen atom or sulfur atom; and in formula (3), R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 respectively and independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms: ##STR00001##