Aromatic diamines and their use as polycondensation components for the manufacture of polyamide, polyamide-imide and polyimide polymers

Claim 1

A polyamide, a polyamide-amide-acid or a polyamide-acid which consists of 1 to 100 mol% of structural elements of the formula VI ##STR16## and of 0 to 99 mol% of structural elements of the formula VII ##STR17## in which the NH groups in formula VI independently of one another are bonded to the benzene nucleus in the o-, m- or p-position and the individual m, n, R and R 1 independently of one another have the following meanings: m and n denote the number 1 or 2, R denotes an aliphatic radical with at least two carbon atoms or a cycloaliphatic, carbocyclic-aromatic or heterocyclic-aromatic radical, the carbonamide groups and carboxyl groups being bonded to different carbon atoms and, if R denotes a cyclic radical and at least one of m and n denotes the number 2, the carboxyl groups each being in the ortho-position relative to a carbonamide group, and R 1 denotes an aliphatic radical with at least two carbon atoms or a cycloaliphatic, araliphatic, carbocyclic-aromatic or heterocyclic-aromatic radical, and also the corresponding derivative which has been cyclised to the imide.