Abstract: The invention provides a process for aftertreating organic pigments by causing the ground or unground crude organic pigment and liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide to act on one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing salts of dialkylphosphinic acids, which comprises a) reacting alkylphosphonous and/or hypophosphorous acid and/or alkali metal salts thereof with olefins in the presence of a free-radical initiator to give dialkylphosphinic acids and/or alkali metal salts thereof and b) reacting the dialkylphosphinic acids and/or alkali metal salts thereof obtained according to a) with metal compounds of Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na and/or K to give the metal dialkylphosphinate salts. The invention likewise relates to the use of the metal dialkylphosphinate salts prepared by the process according to the invention for preparing flame retardants.

Abstract: Water-soluble or water-swellable polymers, preferably having a particle size no greater than 10 &mgr;m, which, in addition to from 0.01 to 5% by weight of crosslinking structures originating from monomers having at least two olefinic double bonds, comprise, in random distribution, from 1 to 50% by weight of the repeat structural unit (1) and from 49.99 to 98.99% by weight of the repeat structural unit (2), in which R1, R2 and R3 independently of one another are a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and Z is a C1-C4-alkylene group. These polymers are used as thickeners, preferably in cosmetic or pharmaceutical preparations.

Abstract: The triphendioxazine compounds of the general formula (I) in which the rings labelled A in positions 1,2-, 2,3- or 3,4- and 8,9-, 9,10- or 10,11- carry a linearly or angularly fused heterocyclic ring containing at least one nitrogen atom which is substituted or unsubstituted, with the proviso that compounds with only unsubstituted nitrogen atoms and symmetrically disubstituted compounds with C1-2alkyl and unsubstituted phenyl substituents are excluded, are outstanding pigments and are notable over the closest comparable pigments in particular for better migration, light and solvent fastnesses, better heat stability and enhanced coloring power and also better dispersibility and capability to be brought into pigment form. The invention also relates to a process for preparing these triphendioxazine compounds which is characterized by a cyclization step conducted in the presence of manganese dioxide and concentrated sulphuric acid.

Abstract: Aromatic amines of the formula (I) Ar—[NR6R7]n  (I) are prepared by reacting a haloaromatic of the formula (II) Ar—Hal  (II) with an amine of the formula (III) R6R7NH  (III) in the presence of a palladaphosphacyclobutane and a base and in the presence or absence of an ionic halide in a solvent at temperatures of from 20 to 200° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 5′-acetylstavudine, an intermediate which is useful in the preparation of 2′,3′-didehydro-3′-deoxythymidine, an active principle with antiviral action which is commonly known as stavudine (D4T).

Abstract: A process of increasing the melt processing of synthetic polyamides, in particular pigmented and/or filled synthetic polyamide, by adding thereto an additive having the formula (I) wherein R1 represents a methyl group as such or in the form of a stabilizer masterbatch composition. The invention also relates to modified synthetic polyamides obtainable by this process having improved properties due to the stabilization effect of the compound of the above formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an isochroman-3-one of the formula (I) by reaction of a 1,2-bishalomethylbenzene of the formula (II) in which X is chlorine, bromine or iodine, with carbon monoxide and a compound of the formula (III) R5R6R7C—OH  (III) at a CO pressure of 0.1 to 50 MPa and a temperature of 20 to 200° C.

Abstract: The disclosure pertains to bio-active preparations, as solutions, emulsions, suspensions suspoemulsions, emulsifiable concentrates, and dispersible granules where the biologically active compound is dissolved in a solvent the general formula RCH(OR′)2, ketals of the formula R2C(OR′)2, or orthoesters of the formula RC(OR′)3, wherein the substituents are defined herein. Acetal from monoaldehyde and alcohol have the general formula (I) Acetals used herein also include structures such as: And more complex acetal compounds as disclosed herein. The biologically active compounds in such preparations are active organic compounds, in particular, herbicides and safeners, insecticides, fungicides, acaricides, nematicides, pheromones and repellents. Embodiments included are oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions, emulsifiable concentrates(EC), water dispersible granules (WG) and suspoemulsion (SE).

Abstract: A process of forming the cis- or the trans-isomers of thiazine-indigo compounds comprising the step of reacting o-aminomercapto-carbocyclic or -heterocyclic compounds with a maleic acid or fumaric acid derivative in the presence of an aqueous system. The invention further relates to a process of converting cis-isomers of thiazine-indigo compounds into the trans-isomers being pigments. The invention also relates to the cis-isomers of thiazine-indigo compounds of formula I as defined in claim 14 which are new compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to homopolymer and copolymer waxes which have been prepared by polymerization using metallocene compounds in the presence of hydrogen and have a melt viscosity of less then 100 mPas, measured at 170° C. As a result of their high thermal stabillty, these waxes display neither discoloration nor crosslinking reactions and are vary well suited for use in toners, for plastics processing, for masterbatches, for printing inks, surface coatings and melt adhesives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing dialkylphosphinic acids and/or alkali metal salts thereof by reacting olefins with alkylphosphonous and/or hypophosphorous acid and/or alkali metal salts thereof, which comprises carrying out the reaction in the presence of a azo free-radical initiator. The invention also relates to the use of the products prepared by the abovementioned process for preparing flame retardants.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of ether carboxylic acids or alkali metal or ammonium salts thereof with low residual alcohol content, which comprises firstly converting a mono- or polyhydric alcohol into the corresponding alkoxide using a substoichiometric amount between 5 and 95 mol % of a basic compound, and then reacting the alkoxide with alkylene oxides, and, if necessary after distilling off the residual alcohol which remains, alkylating the highly alkaline reaction mixture, which comprises more than 5 mol % of alkoxylated alkoxides, directly with a chloroacetic acid derivative, and, if necessary, converting the alkylated product into the free ether carboxylic acid by acidification with mineral acid.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein A is hydrogen or a descretionary radical, a novel process for their preparation and their use for the dyeing of organic substrates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wax mixture comprising a) 10-80% by weight of partial esters of polyols with carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid mixtures having a chain length of C16-C36; b) 0-30% by weight of partial esters of polyols with polybasic carboxylic acids having a chain length of C4-C36; and c) 20-90% by weight of alkaline earth metal soaps of the abovementioned carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid mixtures, with the proviso that 1,2-ethanediol and 1,3-butanediol are excluded. The wax mixtures are highly suitable for the preparation of solvent pastes as a single component or in combination with synthetic, natural or semi-synthetic wax-like products, as lubricants or release agents in plastic or metal processing, and for the preparation of microfine wax powders.

Abstract: Water-soluble sulfoalkyl-containing hydrophobically modified cellulose ethers, processes for preparing them, and their use in emulsion paints The present invention relates to water-soluble ionic cellulose ethers from the group of the hydroxyalkylcelluloses which are substituted by on average from 0.001 to 1.0 alkyl group per anhydroglucose unit and which carry from 0.01 to 0.1 sulfoalkyl group per anhydroglucose unit, to processes for preparing them and to the use of water-soluble ionic cellulose ethers from the group of the hydroxyalkylcelluloses which are substituted by on average from 0.001 to 1.0 alkyl group per anhydroglucose unit and which carry from 0.01 to 0.4 sulfoalkyl group per anhydroglucose unit in emulsion paints.

Abstract: The invention provides for the use of copolymers containing structural units derived from the compounds of the formulae 1 and 2 in which R1 and R2 independently of one another are a terminally unsaturated alkenyl radical having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 independently of one another are C1-C4 alkyl, R5 is H or C1-C4 alkyl, R6 is a branched or unbranched C1-C6 alkylene radical, X is an anion, and Y is an alkali metal or ammonium to prevent misting in water-based cooling lubricants.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel quinacridone mixed crystal pigments consisting of a) from 82.5 to 99% by weight of unsubstituted &ggr;-phase quinacridone of the formula (I) in which R1 and R2 are hydrogen atoms and b) from 1 to 17.5% by weight of one or more 2,9- and/or 3,10-substituted quinacridones of the formula (I) in which the substituents R1 and R2 are identical or different and are chlorine, bromine or fluorine atoms or C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or carboxamido groups which can be substituted by C1-C6-alkyl groups, and R1 can additionally be a hydrogen atom, and to pigment preparations comprising said quinacridone mixed crystal pigments.

Abstract: 1:2 chromium complex dyes of the formula in which R signifies C1-9-alkyl or a radical of the formula R1 signifies C1-4-alkyl, —COOM, —COOR5 or —CONH2, R2 signifies hydrogen or —SO3M, R3 signifies hydrogen, methyl or methoxy, R4 signifies hydrogen, methyl, methoxy or chloro, n signifies from 0 to 3, M signifies hydrogen or a non-chromophoric cation and Kat+ signifies hydrogen or a non-chromophoric cation are suitable for dyeing artificially produced oxide layers on aluminium or aluminium alloys and so give highly lightfast dyeings in orange shades.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coolant concentrate comprising a) from 0.1 to 6% by weight of at least one monocarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acid having from 4 to 16 carbon atoms in the form of alkali metal salts, b) from 0.02 to 2% by weight of a triazinetriiminocarboxylic acid in the form of its alkali metal salt, c) from 0.02 to 2% by weight of at least one hydrocarbon triazole, d) from 0.01 to 1% by weight of at least one soluble alkaline earth metal salt, e) if desired, up to 4% by weight of water, and f) glycols to 100% by weight, in each case based on the total weight of the concentrate.