Abstract:
A granular epoxy resin is made by pulverizing an epoxy resin which is solid at ordinary temperature and can exhibit excellent fluidity during molding because of its low melt viscosity in which the total content of components having a molecular weight of 500 or less among components of n1null0 in the following general formula (1) and/or components of n2null0 in the following general formula (2) is 50% by mass or more of the entire epoxy resin, or, the total content of components having a molecular weight 400 or less among components of n1null0 in the following general formula (1) and/or components of n2null0 in the following general formula (2) is 20% by mass or more of the entire epoxy resin. The content of low molecular weight compounds having a molecular weight 200 or less in the granular epoxy resin is 0.3% by mass or less. The granular epoxy resin allows easy handling because it hardly causes blocking during storage and transportation. 1
Abstract:
A crystallized epoxy resin which is easy to blend with a hardener or the like is a crystallized product of an epoxy resin derived from 4,4null-dihydroxy-3,3null,5,5null-tetramethylbiphenyl and an epihalohydrin, and the ratio of an endotherm between 50null C. and 130null C. to an endotherm between 80null C. and 125null C., measured by raising the temperature at a rate of 10null C. per minute using a DSC device, is 1.03 or more.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a tetramethylbiphenyl type high performance epoxy resin composition and a curable epoxy resin composition containing the epoxy resin, useful in electrical and electronic fields and the like. The tetramethylbiphenyl type epoxy resin composition comprises an epoxy resin composition obtained by reacting 4,4null-dihydroxy-3,3null, 5,5null-tetramethylbiphenyl and an epihalohydrin in the presence of an alkali metal compound. The composition has a content of tetramethyldiphenoquinone of 0.5% by weight or less and a content of a glycidyl compound represented by the following structural formula (1): 1 of 0.5% by weight or less. The curable epoxy resin composition contains the epoxy resin composition and a hardener for the epoxy resin.