A novel material is provided herein which is suitable for use in a precursor of a polymer coating material that coats a polymer on a surface of a base material to provide the base material with surface modification and/or functionality assignment. A composite material characterized in that a compound having a polymerization initiation site containing a halogen group is incorporated in a crosslinked structure comprising a catechol derivative or a phenol derivative represented by the following formula (I). In the formula (I), R may be interrupted by an oxygen molecule and represents a hydrocarbon group with 2 to 20 carbons that has at least one double bond site, and A represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, or an alkoxy group with 1 to 20 carbons. ##STR00001##

A polycyclic aromatic compound represented by Formula (1) is provided by the invention:

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wherein A.sup.11 ring, A.sup.21 ring, A.sup.31 ring, B.sup.11 ring, B.sup.21 ring, C.sup.11 ring, and C.sup.31 ring are an aryl or heteroaryl ring which may be substituted, Y.sup.11, Y.sup.21, Y.sup.31 are B or the like, X.sup.11, X.sup.12, X.sup.21, X.sup.22, X.sup.31, X.sup.32 are >O or >N—R, R in the above >N—R is an and which may be substituted or the like, R in the above >N—R or the like may be bonded to A.sup.11 ring, A.sup.21 ring, A.sup.31 ring, B.sup.11 ring, B.sup.21 ring, C.sup.11 ring, and/or C.sup.31 ring by a linking group or a single bond; and at least one hydrogen in the compound represented by Formula (1) may be replaced with deuterium, cyano, or a halogen.

A conductive polymer dispersion of this disclosure includes: a conductive composite containing a n-conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion; an isocyanurate-based compound; and a dispersion medium for dispersing the conductive composite.

A resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography that can be used as a hard mask. The composition can improve pattern resolution due to having a trihalogenoacetamide skeleton. A resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography comprising a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, a hydrolysis condensate thereof, or a combination thereof as a silane, wherein the hydrolyzable silane comprises a silane having a halogen-containing carboxylic acid amide group.

The present invention relates to certain ring open metathesis polymerized (ROMP) polymers encompassing polycycloolefinic monomers and a certain of olefinic monomers having thermally labile functional group. More specifically, the present invention relates to ROMP polymers under mass polymerization conditions of a series of functionalized norbornene-type monomers and at least one other olefinic monomer containing a thermally labile functional group such as, ether, acetal, ester, and the like. This invention also relates to reaction compositions containing a series of functionalized norbornene-type monomers and at least one other olefinic monomer containing a thermally labile functional group such as, ether, acetal, ester, and the like, which undergo ring open metathesis polymerization to produce materials which are useful as flame retardant materials having a variety of applications.

A polymer comprising an optionally substituted repeat unit of formula (I): wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 in each occurrence are independently selected from H or a substituent; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be linked to form a ring; and A is an optionally substituted linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group. ##STR00001##

Provided is a polymer compound useful for production of a light emitting device excellent in external quantum yield. The polymer compound includes a constitutional unit represented by the formula (1):

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wherein a.sup.1 and a.sup.2 represent 0 or 1, Ar.sup.A1 and Ar.sup.A3 represent an arylene group or the like, and in each of Ar.sup.A1 and Ar.sup.A3 at least one atom adjacent to an atom forming a bond to the constitutional unit adjacent to the each of Ar.sup.A1 and Ar.sup.A3 has an alkyl group or the like as a substituent, Ar.sup.A2 represents a phenylene group, Ar.sup.A4 represents an arylene group or the like, R.sup.A1, R.sup.A2 and R.sup.A3 represent an aryl group or the like, and when a.sup.2 is 0, R.sup.A1 represents an aryl group in which two or more rings are condensed (the number of carbon atoms constituting the rings of the aryl group is 10 or more) or the like.

A cycloolefin rubber having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 800,000, having a silyl group at the polymer chain end, and containing a fatty acid ester of a polyvalent alcohol. A cycloolefin rubber excellent in processability at the time of blending and kneading and excellent in low heat buildup property can be provided.

Embodiments for a crosslinked alkoxysilyl polynorbornene homopolymer and methods of making crosslinked alkoxysilyl polynorbornene homopolymer are provided, where the method comprises polymerizing through addition polymerization or ring opening metathesis polymerization a norbornene monomer comprising an alkoxysilyl moiety in the presence of a catalyst to produce an alkoxysilyl modified polynorbornene homopolymer, and producing a crosslinked alkoxysilyl polynorbornene homopolymer through sol-gel initiated crosslinking of the alkoxysilyl modified polynorbornene homopolymer at ambient conditions, or acid-catalyzed conditions.

An organic electronic material containing a charge transport compound having a structural region represented by formula (I) and having a weight average molecular weight greater than 40,000.
—Ar—X—Y—Z  (I)
In the formula, Ar represents an arylene group or heteroarylene group of 2 to 30 carbon atoms, X represents a linking group, Y represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and Z represents a substituted or unsubstituted polymerizable functional group.