This invention provides a
polycarbonate resin with high
refractive index, low
Abbe number, and
high resistance to
damp heat. In one embodiment of this invention, a
polycarbonate resin containing structural units represented by the following general formula (1) is provided. In formula (1), R1 and R2 independently represent
hydrogen,
fluorine,
chlorine,
bromine,
iodine,
alkyl with 1 to 6 carbon atoms,
aryl with 6 to 36 carbon atoms in monocyclic or polycyclic form, heteroaryl with 5 to 36 ring atoms in monocyclic or polycyclic form, alkenyl with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, alkoxy with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or aralkyl with 7 to 17 carbon atoms. Among the heteroaryl groups, one, two, three, or four ring atoms are selected from
nitrogen,
sulfur, and
oxygen, and the other ring atoms are carbon. The
aryl groups and heteroaryl groups in monocyclic or polycyclic forms have no substituents, or may have one or two R atoms selected from CN, CH3, OCH3, O-phenyl, O-naphthyl, S-phenyl, S-naphthyl, and halogens. a The group consists of a group of atoms, wherein R1 and R2 are not all
hydrogen atoms; X is an alkylene group with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, a cycloalkylene group with 5 to 12 carbon atoms, or an
arylene group with 6 to 20 carbon atoms; wherein the alkylene group and the cycloalkylene group can be substituted to have a
benzene ring; a and b are integers from 1 to 10. #imgabs0#