Patent ID: 8299272

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a fused ring compound, wherein a compound expressed by the following Formula (2a) and a compound expressed by the following Formula (2b) are reacted in the presence of an amine and a metal complex catalyst, thereby obtaining a fused ring compound expressed by the following Formula (2c): wherein X 11 and X 12 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, provided that at least one of X 11 and X 12 is a halogen atom; R 11 and R 12 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkylamino group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, or a cyano group, provided that at least one of R 11 and R 12 is not a hydrogen atom; R 21 and R 22 are each independently a monovalent group; p and q are each independently an integer from 0 to 2; and Y 21 and Y 22 are divalent groups expressed by the following Formula (3a):