Patent ID: 8362276

Claim:
A β-sulfonimide compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2): wherein, in the formula (1), each of X and X 1 is, independently, selected from wherein each of R 1 to R 4 may be identical or different and is a substituent independently selected from hydrogen, amine, nitro, aminoalkyl, aminoaryl, thiol, thioalkyl, thioaryl, hydroxy, oxyalkyl, oxyaryl, fluoro, chloro, bromo and iodo or C 1 -C 20 aliphatic, aromatic or alicyclic group substituted by said substituent or unsubstituted and R 5 is C 1 -C 20 alkyl, cycloalkyl or aromatic group substituted by said substituent or unsubstituted; Y 1 is vinyl or C 1 -C 20 substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, aromatic or alicyclic group; and p and m are integers the sum of which ranges from 0 to 6 (Y 1 can be vinyl only when both p and m are 0); X 2 is A is C 1 -C 20 substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, aromatic or alicyclic group, Y 2 is C 1 -C 20 substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, aromatic or alicyclic group, q is 0 or 1 and n is an integer 1 or larger.