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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a butanetriol useful as a medicinal intermediate for an antidiabetic remedy acting as a protein kinase C inhibitor and to provide the new intermediate. SOLUTION: A compound represented by formula (4) and an optical isomer thereof are provided. In formula (4), R 1 and R 2 , which are different from each other, are each an alcohol protective group selected from the group consisting of a silyl ether protective group, a phenyl-substituted methyl protective group, and an acetal protective group and is a group which allows only R 2 to leave when the protective group is removed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for sealing gas diffusion electrodes by which high liquid leakage preventing property and low electric resistance in a jointed part can be provided and the jointed part can also be utilized as an effective electrode area. SOLUTION: In the method for sealing the gas diffusion electrodes, when joining the gas diffusion electrodes to which conductive current collectors are attached respectively, the current collectors are exposed on the respective outer peripheries of the gas diffusion electrodes. A sealing material containing carbon black and polytetrafluoroethylene is applied to the joining part including the respective exposed parts of the current collectors, and the sealing material is heat-treated to carry out joining. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new method for producing an allylurea, an allylurea-based cross-linking agent and a highly water-absorbing resin. SOLUTION: This new method for producing the allyurea is characterized by performing the reaction of an allyamine with urea at a temperature higher than the melting point of urea. Also, it is characterized by performing the reaction under a normal pressure. Further, it is characterized by performing the reaction under a refluxing system and removing ammonia as a by-product to the outside of the system. The cross-linking agent consisting substantially of the allylurea and used for the highly water-absorbing resin, and the highly water-absorbing resin cross-linked by using the allylurea as the cross-linking agent are also provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a new water-swellable thermoplastic elastomer composition not requiring a complicated molding and processing process which a water-swellable vulcanized rubber material using a conventional oxirane copolymer needs and to provide a method for producing the same. SOLUTION: The water-swellable thermoplastic elastomer composition comprises (a) 100 parts wt. of an oxirane copolymer which is composed of 70-99 mol% of an ethylene oxide unit, 1-30 mol% of an oxirane monomer unit except ethylene oxide, copolymerizable with ethylene oxide and at least 1 mol% of a crosslinkable oxirane monomer unit and (b) 15-100 parts wt. of a polyester resin in which a crosslinked oxirane copolymer is substantially uniformly dispersed in the thermoplastic resin. The composition is produced by sufficiently preblending the component (a) with the component (b) in a kneader, mixing the blend with a crosslinking agent to crosslink the component (a) and crosslinking the oxirane copolymer while kneading. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent corrosion of a cathode gas chamber while an electrolytic cell is out of operation and maintain a high electrolytic performance of the two-chambered alkali chloride electrolytic cell which is equipped with a gas diffusion cathode and is used for preparing chlorine and caustic alkali through electrolysis of an aqueous alkali chloride solution. SOLUTION: When stopping the operation of the alkali chloride electrolytic cell 1 equipped with the gas diffusion cathode 8, the supply of an oxygen-containing gas to the cathode gas chamber 4 is stopped, and the oxygen-containing gas atmosphere in the cathode gas chamber is substantially replaced by an aqueous caustic alkali solution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an Sn plating electrode which, even when applied to a line where the workpiece moves at a high speed, suffers little from the separation of an active material layer and prevents an Sn deposit from being formed on the electrode. SOLUTION: The electrode 201 has an electrode base 30 and a discharge member 35. The discharge member 35 has an active material support and a discharge member. The active material support is disposed on the side opposite to the member SS to be treated of the electrode base 30 and fixed on the electrode base 30 so as to be electrically connected with the base 30. The discharge member has a conductive active material layer which covers the surface side acting as the discharge surface of the active material support. The conductive active material layer comprises metal oxides containing 70 to 75 mass % Ir in terms of IrO 2 , 15 to 20 mass % Ta in terms of Ta 2 O 5 , and 5 to 15 mass% Sn in terms of SnO 2 . COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problems that, as for the conventional anode chamber using plastics, the volume of the anode chamber is made excessive, and also, the weight thereof is large, so that its handling is troublesome, and further, liquid leakage from the anode chamber or the leakage of a plating liquid to the anode chamber is easy to occur. SOLUTION: In the anode chamber separated from a plating liquid in which the material to be plated as a cathode is dipped with a cation exchange membrane, the material of the anode chamber is essentially composed of titanium, and also, the whole part or a part of the wall faces at the inside of the anode chamber is coated with at least one selected from platinum, platinum-iridium oxide, and iridium oxide to compose the insoluble anode for anode chamber-integrated type plating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an industrial method for producing a β-hydroxy ester, and to provide an industrial method for producing a dicobalt octacarbonyl complex-containing substance used for the β-hydroxy ester. SOLUTION: This method for producing the β-hydroxy ester is characterized by reacting an epoxide with an alcohol and carbon monoxide in the presence of a cobalt carbonyl compound as a catalyst and an azole compound in a cocatalyst in an organic solvent. This method for producing the dicobalt octacarbonyl complex-containing substance is characterized by reacting a cobalt compound with a mixture gas of carbon monoxide with hydrogen in the presence of a metal such as Pd, Rh, Pt or Ru as a catalyst in an organic solvent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for reinforcing a cotton-like sheet member formed of a synthetic fiber of which the hardness numerical value by an Asker F-type hardness meter and the mechanical strength like a bending elasticity gradient can be efficiently increased in spite of a slight increase in weight. SOLUTION: A thermally adhesive thermosetting resin is infiltrated in a synthetic fiber cloth in an amount of 5-200% by weight of the cloth or applied to the surface of the cloth. Next, the cotton-like sheet member formed of the synthetic fiber is sandwiched between two pieces of the obtained resin-impregnated or resin-applied cloths. The obtained sandwiched material is thermally pressed to the cotton-like sheet member at a mold temperature lower than the melting point of the synthetic fiber constituting the cotton-like sheet member by 10-80°C so that the thickness thereof becomes 95-10% of the original thickness of the cotton-like sheet member. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO