Provided is an aromatic polycarbonate resin that has not only high fluidity and thin-wall moldability but also excellent hue and transparency. The aromatic polycarbonate resin contains a structural unit derived from an aromatic dihydroxy compound and a carbonate-forming compound. A hydrolysate obtained by hydrolysis of the aromatic polycarbonate resin contains aromatic dihydroxy compounds represented by the following Formulae (2) and (3), and the content of the compound represented by Formula (2) is 250 ppm by mass or less with respect to that of the compound represented by Formula (3), wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 24 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms; and a and b each independently represent an integer of 0 to 4: ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), which are suitable as monomers for preparing thermoplastic resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical devices: where A.sup.1, A.sup.2 are selected from mono- or bicyclic aromatic radicals and mono- or bicyclic heteroaromatic radicals, X represents e.g. a single bond, O, NH, CR.sup.6R.sup.7, Y is e.g. absent or represents a single bond, O, NH, CR.sup.8R.sup.9; R.sup.1, R.sup.2 are hydrogen, a radical Ar′ or a radical R.sup.a; R.sup.3 is Alk, O-Alk′-, O-Alk′-[O-Alk′].sub.0, O—CH.sub.2—Ar—C(O)—, O—C(O)—Ar—C(O)— or O-Alk-C(O)—, where in the last five moieties the left O is bound to A.sup.1 and A.sup.2, respectively, m, n are 0, 1 or 2; o is an integer from 1 to 10; R.sup.4, R.sup.5 are e.g. selected from CN and a radical R.sup.a; R.sup.6, R.sup.8 are e.g. selected from hydrogen, a radical Ar′ and a radical R.sup.a; R.sup.7, R.sup.9 are e.g. selected from hydrogen, C.sub.1-C.sub.4-alkyl and a radical Ar′; R.sup.a is selected from the group consisting of C≡C—R.sup.11 and Ar—C≡C—R.sup.11; R.sup.11 is e.g. selected from hydrogen, methyl, mono- or polycyclic aryl having from 6 to 26 carbon atoms and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl having a total of 5 to 26 atoms, which are ring members, where 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the ring atoms of hetaryl are selected from nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen, while the remainder of these atoms are carbon atoms, where mono- or polycyclic aryl are unsubstituted or substituted; and Ar is e.g. phenylene or naphthylene. The invention also relates to thermoplastic resins comprising a polymerized unit of the compound of formula (I) and to optical devices made of such resins.

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The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes ##STR00001##
where A includes at least one of a carbon-carbon bond or a bridging group, R includes between 0 and 4 of a first hydrocarbon, and n is between 2 and 3,000. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bridging group may include a linear hydrocarbon chain and/or a branched hydrocarbon chain. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bridging group may include between 1 and 10 carbon atoms.

Provided is a polycarbonate resin having a structural unit (I) represented by formula (1) below:

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wherein L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each independently represent a divalent linking group selected from an alkylene group, a cycloalkylene group, an arylene group, an oxyalkylene group, an oxyarylene group, and a group formed by combining two or more of these, where one or more hydrogen atoms of the linking group are optionally further replaced with substituents, and two of the substituents are optionally bonded to each other to form a ring structure.

A thermoplastic polyurethane resin elastomer is obtained by reacting an isocyanate compound (I) containing ≥90 mol % in total of an aliphatic and/or alicyclic isocyanate compound having two isocyanate groups, an aliphatic alcohol (II) having only a hydroxyl group as a functional group, and a polyol (III). The equivalent ratio of EIII:EI:EII is 1:2-6:1-5 with the proviso that 0.95≤(EI)/((EII)+(EIII))≤1.05, where EIII, EI, EII represent the hydroxyl equivalent, isocyanate equivalent, and hydroxyl equivalent of the polyol (III), isocyanate compound (I), and aliphatic alcohol (II), respectively. The aliphatic alcohol (II) has a Mn, which is a number average molecular weight determined from the hydroxyl value, of <300 and contains ≥90 mol % of a C12 or lower aliphatic diol. The polyol (III) has a Mn of 300-10,000 and contains ≥80 mol % of a copolymerized polycarbonate diol (IIIA) having a Mn of 500-5,000 and including repeating units (A) and (B) shown below:

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Provided are a polycarbonate-based resin composition, including: 99 mass % to 1 mass % of a polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A) having a predetermined repeating unit (A-1) and predetermined constituent units (A-2) and (A-3); and 1 mass % to 99 mass % of a polycarbonate-based resin (B) except the polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A), and a molded body thereof.

Conventionally, a photocurable composition to which an ultraviolet absorber is added is difficult to form a colorless and transparent cured resin because the ultraviolet absorber itself is colored, and thus the photocurable composition is hardly to be used in a display apparatus required for colorlessness and transparency. Provided is a photocurable composition including a specific compound, wherein a light transmittance of 385 nm is 50% or less and a yellowness index is 3.0 or less in a state in which a cured resin having a thickness of 200 m or less is interposed between alkali free glass plates each having a thickness of 0.7 mm.

Provided is a polycarbonate-based resin having a ratio of an amine terminal to all terminal groups of 1.0 mol % or more.

Provided is a polycarbonate-based resin composition, including: 50 mass % or more to 99 mass % or less of a polycarbonate-based resin (S) containing 0.1 mass % or more to 100 mass % or less of a polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A), which contains a polycarbonate block (A-1) formed of a specific repeating unit and a polyorganosiloxane block (A-2) containing a specific repeating unit, and 0 mass % or more to 99.9 mass % or less of an aromatic polycarbonate-based resin (B) except the polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A); 1 mass % or more to 50 mass % or less of a polyester-based resin (C); and 0.001 part by mass or more to 1 part by mass or less of an amide compound (D) with respect to 100 parts by mass of a total amount of the polycarbonate-based resin (S) and the polyester-based resin (C).

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes

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where A includes at least one of a carbon-carbon bond or a bridging group, R includes between 0 and 4 of a first hydrocarbon, and n is between 2 and 3,000. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bridging group may include a linear hydrocarbon chain and/or a branched hydrocarbon chain. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bridging group may include between 1 and 10 carbon atoms.