LUBRICATING BASE OIL AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology that imparts good temperature characteristics and life to a lubricating oil composition while retaining a viscosity of the lubricating oil composition.SOLUTION: A lubricating base oil as an embodiment of the present invention includes an ether bond-containing ester compound represented by the following formula (1). [In the formula (1), X is a 3-9C linear or branched-chain alkylene group; Ris a 1-20C linear or branched-chain alkyl group; and Ris a 1-12C linear or branched-chain alkyl group.]SELECTED DRAWING: None