Abstract: Multi-phase paste and liquid polish compositions having improved gloss life and water resistance durability are obtained by providing an oil external emulsion phase containing aminofunctional polysiloxane, and a water external emulsion phase containing dimethyl polysiloxane. The oil external emulsion phase and the water external emulsion phase are packaged in the same container or in separate containers in a manner as to keep each phase separate from the other phase until the polish compositions are applied to a surface to be polished. The method of preparing and packaging the multi-phase polish compositions is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to the manufacture of such valuable chemicals as polyhydric alcohols, their ether and ester derivatives, oligomers of such alcohols and monohydric alcohols and their ether and ester derivatives by reacting hydrogen and oxides of carbon in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex dissolved in a sulfone solvent.

Abstract: This invention relates to the manufacture of such valuable chemicals as polyhydric alcohols, their ether and ester derivatives, oligomers of such alcohols and monohydric alcohols and their ether and ester derivatives by reacting oxides of carbon and hydrogen in the presence of a quaternary ammonium cation and a rhodium carbonyl complex provided to the reaction as a rhodium carbonyl cluster anion which possesses an infrared spectrum which exhibits three intense wavelength bands between about plus and minus 10 cm.sup.-1 of about 1868 cm.sup.-1, about 1838 cm.sup.-1, and about 1785 cm.sup.-1 and said cation is present in the reaction mixture in about 0.8 to about 2.0 moles of cation for every six rhodium atoms present in the reaction mixture.

Abstract: A novel catalyst and process for the manufacture of polyhydric alcohols from synthesis gas. This novel catalyst is a rhodium carbonyl sulfur cluster compound. In particular, the anion cluster of the rhodium carbonyl sulfur compound is of the following empirical formula:[RH.sub.17 (S).sub.2 (CO).sub.32 ].sup.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved process for the manufacture of such valuable chemicals as polyhydric alcohols by the reaction of synthesis gas, i.e., a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex wherein the improvement comprises effecting said reaction in the presence of copper and/or its salts.

Abstract: This invention relates to the manufacture of polyhydric alcohol(s) by the reaction of synthesis gas in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex catalyst and a phosphine oxide compound.

Abstract: The process involves the separation of product from a liquid homogeneous mixture obtained from the reaction of oxides of carbon (e.g. CO) and H.sub.2 in a solvent solution containing a rhodium carbonyl complex catalyst. The solution stability of the catalyst is enhanced by volatilizing the product from the mixture while simultaneously maintaining the mixture in contact with CO gas.

Abstract: Ammonium carboxylates having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical. The defined carboxylates promote the formation of alkane polyols in a homogeneous liquid phase mixture wherein hydrogen and carbon monoxide are reacted in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex at a temperature of from about 100.degree. C. to 375.degree. C. and a pressure of from about 500 psia to about 50,000 psia.

Abstract: This invention relates to the manufacture of polyhydric alcohol(s) by the reaction of synthesis gas in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex dissolved in a substituted gamma-butyrolactone solvent.

Abstract: A novel catalyst and process for the manufacture of polyhydric alcohol(s) from synthesis gas. This novel catalyst is a rhodium carbonyl phosphido cluster compound. In particular, the anion cluster of the rhodium carbonyl phosphido compound is of the following empirical formula:[Rh.sub.9 P (CO).sub.21 ].sup.

Abstract: The present invention provides particular phenol/formaldehyde resoles which are especially useful as foamable resins, and further provides cellular phenolic products having physical properties which are especially attractive for end-use application as construction foam. The resoles are characterized by a particular relationship between their viscosity and water content, expressed as the area bounded by certain points on a plot of resole viscosity on a logarithmic scale, as a function of water content of the resole, the particular area depending upon the mole ratio of formaldehyde-to-phenol at which the resole has been condensed. It has been found that phenol-formaldehyde resoles having the defined viscosity/water relationship are capable of providing phenolic foam having acceptable foam processability, a foam density from about 1.90 to about 3.

Abstract: The present invention provides particular phenol/formaldehyde resoles which are especially useful as foamable resins, and further provides cellular phenolic products having physical properties which are especially attractive for end-use application as construction foam. The resoles are characterized by a particular relationship between their viscosity and water content, expressed as the area bounded by certain points on a plot of resole viscosity on a logarithmic scale, as a function of water content of the resole, the particular area depending upon the mole ratio of formaldehyde-to-phenol at which the resole has been condensed. It has been found that phenol-formaldehyde resoles having the defined viscosity/water relationship are capable of providing phenolic foam having acceptable foam processability, a foam density from about 1.90 to about 3.

Abstract: This invention concerns making alkane polyols and monohydric alcohols by reacting hydrogen and oxides of carbon in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex dissolved in a crown ether.

Abstract: Cellular urethane polymers are provided by effecting the reaction of an organic polyol reactant comprising a polyether polyol and an organic polyisocyanate reactant in the presence of a blowing agent and a catalyst system comprising a tertiary-dimethylamino ether mono-ol. In the dimethylamino ether mono-ols employed as catalysts in the practice of the invention, the tertiary-dimethylamino group and the hydroxyl group are positioned beta to a common acyclic ether oxygen atom or to different acyclic ether oxygen atoms which in turn are positioned beta to one another. The said dimethylamino ether mono-ols are versatile, low odor catalysts and are useful in forming cellular urethane polymers ranging from all water-blown flexible polyether foam to all fluorocarbon-blown rigid foam including semi-flexible and high-resilience foam products.

Abstract: Novel process for removing polymer from aqueous absorbent solutions used to contact organic gas-containing gas streams comprising the steps of adjusting the polymer-containing aqueous absorbent solutions to a pH of not more than about 8.5, preferably not more than about 7.5, for example, about 6.0 to about 8.5, preferably about 7.0 to about 7.5, and removing the polymer from the resulting solutions by decantation and/or filtration. The novel process is particularly applicable to the system of removing acid gas from hydrocarbon-containing feed gases which contain one or more polymerizable components wherein the feed gas is contacted with an aqueous absorbent solution which absorbs the acid gas and, thereafter, the absorbent solution is stripped to rid it of said acid gas. The adjustment of pH can be accomplished by increasing the acid gas loading in the aqueous absorbent or by adding an acid, preferably one which will not form a heat stable salt with the absorbent. The pH adjustment, e.g.

Abstract: The formation of high-resilience polyurethane foam is provided by the use, as the foam-stabilizing component, of a particular class of sulfolanyloxyalkyl-polyalkylsiloxanes which consist essentially of: (1) monofunctional siloxy units (M.degree.) the respective silicon atoms of which have two alkyls bonded thereto, the third silicon-bonded organic group being alkyl or sulfolanyloxyalkyl; (2) an average of from about 0.5 to about 10 moles of difunctional dialkylsiloxy units for every two moles of M.degree.; and (3) from 0 up to an average of about 10 moles, for every two moles of M.degree., of difunctional monoalkylsiloxy units in which the second organic group bonded to silicon is sulfolanyloxyalkyl, provided an average of at least about 0.5 and no more than about 10 moles of sulfolanyloxyalkyl groups are present in the sulfolanyloxyalkyl-polyalkylsiloxanes for every two moles of M.degree..

Abstract: The formation of polyurethane foam including flame-retarded foam is provided employing, as the surfactant component of the foam formulation, a particular class of sulfolanyloxyalkyl-substituted polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene polymers. The polymers comprise chemically combined monofunctional siloxy units (M.sub.o) and difunctional siloxy units (D.sub.o) and, for every two moles of M.sub.o, an average of from about 2 to about 100 silicon-bonded sulfolanyloxyalkyl groups (Q) and an average of from about 2 to about 30 silicon-bonded polyoxyalkylene blocks (E). The M.sub.o units have at least two alkyls bonded to the respective silicon atoms thereof and the D.sub.o units have at least one alkyl bonded to the respective silicon atoms thereof, the remaining group bonded to silicon of said M.sub.o and D.sub.o units being alkyl, Q or E.

Abstract: Phenolic foam having improved punking resistance is obtained by effecting the formation of phenolic foam in the presence of an aralkyl-modified polyalkylsiloxane. Used with particular advantage as non punking additives to phenolic foam formulations are polymethylsiloxane oils in which silicon is additionally bonded to phenylethyl groups.

Abstract: The formation of high-resilience polyurethane foam is provided by the use, as the foam-stabilizing component, of a particular class of morpholino-bearing polyalkylsiloxanes which consist essentially of: (1) monofunctional siloxy units (M.degree.) the respective silicon atoms of which have two alkyls bonded thereto, the third silicon-bonded organic group being alkyl or Q where Q is morpholinoalkyl- or morpholinoalkoxyalkyl, (2) an average of from about 0.5 to about 8 moles of difunctional dialkylsiloxy units for every two moles of M.degree., and (3) from zero up to an average of about 8 moles, for every two moles of M.degree., of difunctional monoalkylsiloxy units in which the second organic group bonded to silicon is Q, provided an average of at least about 0.5 and no more than about 8 moles of said silicon-bonded Q groups are present in the siloxanes for every two moles of M.degree..

Abstract: Organosilicone compositions are provided which comprise polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymers containing monofunctional siloxy units and difunctional siloxy units, an average of between about 2 and about 20 silicon-bonded cyano-bearing ether groups for every two moles of monofunctional units, said cyano-bearing ether groups having the formula, --(O).sub.