To provide a polyester resin particularly useful in application to optical films, etc.
A polyester resin which is an alicyclic polyester comprising dicarboxylic acid
units and diol units, characterized by the following (1) to (4):
- (1) the dicarboxylic acid units are composed mainly of 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic
acid units,
- (2) the diol units are composed mainly of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol units,
- (3) the ratio of alkyl ester terminals to all terminals of the polyester
is at most 5 mol %, and
- (4) the light transmittance of a molded plate of the resin having a
thickness of 2 mm is at least 87%.
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