Abstract: A process for reacting ethylenediamine-formaldehyde adduct (EDFA) and/or ethylene-diamine-monoformaldehyde adduct (EDMFA) with hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in a reactor with limited backmixing at a temperature in the range from 20 to 120° C., wherein the residence time in the reactor is 300 seconds or less.

Abstract: A solid phase reaction system for oxidation of an organic compound, having high industrial value in which an organic solvent exerting a reverse influence on earth environments is not necessary, reuse of a catalyst is possible, and high yield can be attained, comprising a mixture of a powdery dispersion medium and a powder of a solid catalyst for the above-described oxidation reaction, and the above-described organic compound and aqueous hydrogen peroxide, wherein the above-described organic compound, the above-described solid catalyst and the above-described aqueous hydrogen peroxide are dispersed in the above-described mixture so that they get into contact mutually.

Abstract: The disclosure is in part directed to crystalline forms of 6-O-(4- dimethylaminoethoxy)cinnamoyl fumagillol and variants thereof.

Abstract: A hydrolyzed divinylarene dioxide resin composition including the reaction product of (a) a divinylarene dioxide, and (b) water; a process for making the hydrolyzed divinylarene dioxide resin composition; and a curable hydrolyzed divinylarene dioxide resin composition made therefrom. The cured product made from the above hydrolyzed divinylarene dioxide resin composition offers improved properties such as a lower viscosity and a high heat resistance compared to known cured products prepared from known epoxy resins.

Abstract: A polyol includes the reaction product of an epoxidized oil and an organic acid. The epoxidized oil and the organic acid are reacted in the presence of a Lewis base catalyst including at least one of a phosphorous atom or a nitrogen atom. The polyol is formed by a method that includes the step of reacting the epoxidized oil with the organic acid in the presence of the Lewis base catalyst.

Abstract: Presently disclosed are high purity unsaturated fatty acid esters with an ester moiety characterized by having from five to seven members in a ring structure, which esters when epoxidized find particular utility as primary plasticizers in flexible polyvinyl halide applications. Also disclosed are processes for making the high purity esters.

Abstract: A catalyst carrier for insertion in a radial tube reactor, said catalyst carrier comprising: an annular container for holding catalyst in use, said container having a perforated inner wall defining a tube, a perforated outer wall, a top surface closing the annular container and a bottom surface closing the annular container; a surface closing the bottom of said tube formed by the inner wall of the annular container; a skirt extending upwardly from the perforated outer wall of the annular container from a position at or near the bottom surface of said container to a position below the location of a seal; and a seal located at or near the top surface and extending from the container by a distance which extends beyond an outer surface of the skirt.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of emulsifiers E1 which are obtained by (a) reacting a polyol with propylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, to give an intermediate Z1, (b) reacting the intermediate Z1 with epichlorohydrin, forming an intermediate Z2, (c) reacting the intermediate Z2 with an adduct of ethylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, with a C1-C22 monoalcohol, provided that on average at least one epoxide function of the intermediate Z2 is reacted and on average at least one epoxide function originating from the intermediate Z2 is retained. Compounds E1 are suitable as emulsifiers for preparing aqueous emulsions or dispersions of epoxy resins.

Abstract: To provide an azole derivative which is contained as an active ingredient in an agro-horticultural agent having an excellent controlling effect on diseases. An azole derivative according to the invention is represented by Formula (I), wherein R1 and R2 are same or different, and each denotes a substituted C3-C6 cycloalkyl group or a C1-C4 alkyl group substituted with the substituted C3-C6 cycloalkyl group; and A denotes a nitrogen atom or a methyne group.

Abstract: Process for preparing an epoxide, wherein halogenated ketones are formed as by-products and there is at least one treatment intended to remove at least part of the halogenated ketones formed.

Abstract: A compound which satisfies requirements for the annealing property and the lubricating property simultaneously and a process for producing the compound are provided. The compound is an alkylacetal compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2). In the general formulae, R1 and R2 represent hydrocarbon groups, R3 to R8 represent hydrogen atom or hydrocarbon groups, i and j represent integers satisfying the relation that the sum of the integers is 8 to 98, and k represents 0 or 1.

Abstract: Methods of making unsaturated modified vegetable oil-based polyols are described. Also described are methods of making oligomeric modified vegetable oil-based polyols. An oligomeric composition having a modified fatty acid triglyceride structure is also described. Also, methods of making a polyol including hydroformylation and hydrogenation of oils in the presence of a catalyst and support are described.

Abstract: A composition of matter, and method to make same, for a nano-based material including a nanocarbon support to which is attached an aliphatic amine. In particular, the composition of matter is an aliphatic amine-nanocarbon material that includes a nanocarbon (NC) support, such as C60, nano-graphite, graphene, nanocarbon ribbons, graphite intercalation compounds, graphite oxide, nano-coal, nanohorns, and combinations thereof, and further includes an aliphatic amine, such as polyethyleneimine (PEI).

Abstract: The present invention pertains to non-fugitive amine catalysts wherein the catalyst contains at least one imine and at least one tertiary amine moiety. Such catalysts are suitable for the production of polyurethane products.

Abstract: 2-alkyl alkoxylated alcohol sulfonate surfactants having the structure R—O—(PO)x(EO)yCHR'CHR?CH2SO3Na are disclosed along with a process of making such surfactants. The surfactants are both electrolyte tolerant and tolerant to high temperatures and may be use for many applications where these properties are required.

Abstract: A polyol includes the reaction product of an epoxidized oil and an organic acid. The epoxidized oil and the organic acid are reacted in the presence of a Lewis base catalyst including at least one of a phosphorous atom or a nitrogen atom. The polyol is formed by a method that includes the step of reacting the epoxidized oil with the organic acid in the presence of the Lewis base catalyst.

Abstract: A process for the selective oxidation of olefins to epoxides comprising the step of contacting the olefin (propylene or ethylene) with an oxidant (hydrogen peroxide) in the presence of a Lewis acid oxidation catalyst (MTO), organic base (pyridine or its N-oxide), in a solvent system comprising an organic water-miscible solvent (methanol). The system is pressurized using either the olefin itself or by adding an inert pressurizing gas (nitrogen) to increase the pressure between 230 and 700 psi at a temperature between 0.7 and 1.3 times the critical temperature of the olefin. The resulting increased solubility of the olefin in the organic solvent system increases the selectivity and yield of the desired epoxide (propylene oxide or ethylene oxide).

Abstract: A honeycomb body is disclosed having cells extending along a common direction, a first plurality of the cells being open at both ends of the body and a second plurality of the cells being closed at one or both ends of the body, the second plurality of cells arranged in one or more groups of cells cooperating to define one or more fluid passages extending through the body at least in part perpendicularly to the common direction, wherein, in a plane perpendicular to the common direction, the ratio of the area of cells of the first plurality to the area of cells of the second plurality varies along the length of at least one of the one or more fluid passages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compounds of formula I, processes for their production and their use as anti-inflammatory agents.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the production of a functionalised carbon (nano)material comprising heating a carbon (nano)material in an inert atmosphere to produce a surface-activated carbon (nano)material and incubating said surface-activated carbon (nano)material with a chemical species capable of reacting with the surface-activated carbon (nano)material.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides an amino-siloxane composition comprising at least one of structures I, II, III, IV or V said compositions being useful for the capture of carbon dioxide from gas streams such as power plant flue gases. In addition, the present invention provides methods of preparing the amino-siloxane compositions are provided. Also provided are methods for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream employing the amino-siloxane compositions of the invention as species which react with carbon dioxide to form an adduct with carbon dioxide. The reaction of the amino-siloxane compositions provided by the present invention with carbon dioxide is reversible and thus, the method provides for multicycle use of said compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing modified fatty acids comprising a functional group which is a hydroxyl group, an epoxy group, an acetylenic group or a conjugated double bond. For example, seeds, seedoil and methods of making seedoil are provided wherein at least 23% (mol %) of the fatty acid content of the seed or seedoil comprises the functional group. Also provided are novel polypeptides, and polynucleotides thereof, which can be used to produce the modified fatty acids, particularly in transgenic plants and cells suitable for fermentation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for forming vinyl-containing compounds including the steps of: a) reacting in a nitrogen atmosphere a dicarboxylic acid and/or anhydride and a functional mono or polyfunctional alcohol to provide a hydroxyl-containing polyester; b) reacting the hydroxyl-containing polyester with a vinyl-containing organic acid in the presence of an esterification catalyst, a polymerization inhibitor and an azeotropic agent; and c) reacting the vinyl functional esterified intermediate, residual esterification catalyst and residual vinyl-containing organic acid with an epoxy to provide the vinyl-containing compound.

Abstract: A cost effective process is presented for carrying out catalytic, in particular also exothermic, endothermic or autothermal reactions with optimum yield and selectivity. The system used is a wall-flow monolith which forces a flow from the inlet channel through the porous wall into the outlet channel by reciprocal closure of the gas channels. This is operated such that mass transfer and heat transport are determined virtually exclusively by convection, and diffusion-related thermal conduction phenomena can be neglected.

Abstract: The present invention discloses 4-nerolidylcatechol and its derivatives isolated from South American/Amazon plants (Pothomorphe species) and their potential use as therapeutical agent for treatment of malarial symptoms, including malarial patients resistant to traditional drugs. The present invention also discloses a method for producing 4-nerolidylcatechol and their derivatives.

Abstract: A process for producing oleochemical polyols comprises the steps of epoxidizing unsaturated oil using an organic acid together with oxygenated water or a per-acid to obtain epoxidized oil; washing the epoxidized oil with salt water to remove unused organic acid together with oxygenated water or a per-acid; neutralizing acidic condition of the washed epoxidized oil with a base; washing the neutralized epoxidized oil with a salt solution until the pH of the neutralized epoxidized oil reaching 6.5 to 7.5 to removed the base residue; drying the washed neutralized epoxidized oil under vacuum; and reacting the washed neutralized dried epoxidized oil with polyhydric alcohol in the presence of boron trifluoride-diethylether complex to produce the oleochemical polyols. The oleochemical polyols are then subjected to the same washing, neutralizing, washing and drying process as in preparing the washed neutralized dried epoxidized oil.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an epoxy (meth)acrylate safely with good productivity, and the invention provides a process for continuously producing an epoxy (meth)acrylate, containing causing a mixed liquid of a compound (A) having a carboxyl group and a (meth)acryloyl group and a compound (B) having an epoxy group to pass continuously and densely through a tubular microchannel formed in a heat-conducting reaction device, and reacting the carboxyl group of the compound (A) with the epoxy group of the compound (B), in which the tubular microchannel in the reaction device has a space size making a fluid cross-sectional area, through which the mixed liquid passes densely, of from 0.1 to 4.0 mm2, and the process contains heating the heat-conducting reaction device to a temperature of from 150 to 260° C., reacting the mixed liquid to provide a Reynolds number of a reaction liquid passing through the tubular microchannel in a range of from 0.

Abstract: The present invention describes the method of making anionic ether sulfate surfactants by alkoxylation of a GA using PO and/or EO followed by a sulfation reaction. The GA of the present invention is made by a facile and inexpensive method that involves high temperature base catalyzed dimerization of a linear alcohol. The ether sulfate surfactants of the present invention find uses in EOR applications where it is used for solubilization and mobilization of oil and for environmental cleanup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to triazolylmethyloxiranes of the formula I in which the variables A, B and D have the meanings described in the claims and the description.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of adducts of 2 to 50 moles of propylene oxide with hydroxycarboxylic acids or polycarboxylic acids, as monomer or co-monomer components for the production of polyesters and polyurethanes, or as reactive solvents for polymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to triazolylmethyloxiranes of the formula I in which the variables D and B have the meanings as defined in the description and the claims.

Abstract: An objective of the present application is to provide an industrially practicable method for producing an optically-active 3-amino-2-hydroxypropionic cyclopropylamide derivative or salt thereof from an inexpensive easily-available starting material. The derivative or salt thereof is useful as an intermediate for a medicine. It is also intended by the present application to provide a useful intermediate of the derivative. The objective is attained by the following method. First, an easily-available 2-halo-3-oxopropionic acid derivative is asymmetrically reduced, and then epoxidated to produce an optically-active epoxycarboxylic acid derivative. Next, the derivative is converted into an optically-active epoxyamide derivative by reaction with cyclopropylamine, and then reacted with a nitrile to obtain an optically-active oxazolinamide derivative. Subsequently, selective acid solvolysis of the oxazoline skeleton gives the optically-active 3-amino-2-hydroxypropionic cyclopropylamide derivative or salt thereof.

Abstract: Methods of making unsaturated modified vegetable oil-based polyols are described. Also described are methods of making oligomeric modified vegetable oil-based polyols. An oligomeric composition having a modified fatty acid triglyceride structure is also described. Also, methods of making a polyol including hydroformylation and hydrogenation of oils in the presence of a catalyst and support are described.

Abstract: Substantially pure diastereoisomeric compounds of formula Ia, alternatively Ib, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof, including hydrates, wherein PG is a protective group; R1 is a radical selected from the group consisting of phenylmethyl, 4-hydroxyphenylmethyl, (1H-indol-3-yl)methyl and (1H-imidazol-4-yl)methyl; R2 is a radical selected from the group consisting of —H, —CH3, —CH2SH, —CH2OH, —CH2Ph, —CH2CO2H, —CH2CONH2, —CH(OH)CH3, —CH(CH3)CH2CH3, —CH(CH3)2, —CH2CH(CH3)2, —(CH2)2SCH3, —(CH2)2CO2H, —(CH2)CONH2, —(CH2)3NHC(NH)NH2, —(CH2)4NH2, imidazol-4-ylmethyl, 4-hydroxyphenylmethyl, (1H-indol-3-yl)methyl, (1H-imidazol-4-yl)methyl and —(CH2)n—Ar; and R3 is a radical selected from the group consisting of —O(C1-C4)alkyl, —O(C2-C4)alkenyl, —O(C2-C4)alkynyl, —O(C1-C4)alkyl-Ar, —OAr, —NRaAr, —N(Ra)[(C1-C4)alkyl-Ar], and —NRaOAr and —N(Ra)[O(C1-C4)alkyl-Ar].

Abstract: The present invention discloses a curable polycyclic compound represented by the following formula (1): {wherein A is a di- to hexa-valent group derived from a polycyclic hydrocarbon compound; R1 is an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a perfluoroalkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a fluorine atom; n is an integer of 0 to 2; m is an integer of 2 to 4; and Y is a group represented by the following formula (2) or (3): (wherein R2, R3, R5 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R4 is a methyl group or an ethyl group; and p and q are each independently an integer of 0 to 4)}.

Abstract: There is provided processes for the preparation of various compounds, including compounds of formulae I, IV and VII, or salts and/or solvates thereof, which compounds are useful intermediates in the synthesis of certain oxabispidines having antiarrhythmic activity, such as compounds of formula XI wherein R1?, R15?, R16?, R18? and D have meanings given in the description.

Abstract: Compounds are attached to carbon nanotubes (CNT) by a process which comprises: subjecting surface treated CNTs which have been treated to induce negatively charged surface groups thereon, to nucleophilic substitution reaction with a compound carrying a functional group capable of reacting with the negatively charged groups on the CNT surface, whereby the compound chemically bonds to the CNT. The surface CNT treatment may be reduction. The compounds which are bonded to the CNT may be epoxy resins, bonded directly or through a spacer group. Bi-functional CNTs, grafted to both epoxy resins and other polymers such as polystyrene, are also made by this process.

Abstract: Epoxy resins are chemically attached to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), in a one-step process in which a reaction mixture comprising the epoxy polymer, the CNTs and a bridging agent which is a chemical compound capable of forming living polymers, e.g. styrene or MMA is formed and radical formation is initiated in the reaction mixture; the epoxy polymer or monomer grafts onto the CNTs through the intermediary block of the bridging agent.

Abstract: What is proposed is an apparatus for automatic catalyst exchange in a plurality of process steps in the catalyst tubes of a reactor with a bundle of catalyst tubes, which are welded in or rolled in between an upper tube plate and a lower tube plate in longitudinal direction of the reactor, and welded tight, comprising a tool carrier device, which is arranged so as to be mobile in a plane above and parallel to the upper tube plate, and which can be equipped with an exchangeable tool for each process step, the exchangeable tool being mobile together with the tool carrier device in the plane above and parallel to the upper tube plate and also vertically, in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the reactor, and being able to access each individual catalyst tube with control by means of a control unit, the position of the longitudinal axis of each individual catalyst tube being measured or calculated and recorded in the control unit in a position database.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of compounds of formula (V) wherein X, Q, R1, R1a and R2 are as defined in the specification, the compounds being useful in the preparation of therapeutic agents.

Abstract: The selectivity of an olefin epoxidation process catalyzed by a heterogeneous catalyst for example titanium silicalite is improved by performing the epoxidation in the presence of carbon dioxide. The catalysts used do not require regeneration on each recycle.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for preparing ?-amino-?-hydroxycarboxamides. The process works with epoxycarboxamides of the formula 2 which are reacted with ammonia or other amines.

Abstract: An efficient new route for the preparation of dihydroeponemycin, an active eponemycin derivative, is provided, which includes the synthesis of the intermediate compound, a hydroxymethyl-substituted enone. In addition, a method is provided for synthesizing inhibitors, which includes PI?-modified analogues. These analogues selectively bind to a major immunoproteasome catalytic subunit LMP2 and inactivate its proteolytic activity in a method of treating diseases, including myeloma and other cancers, Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: A process for preparing palm-based polyol monomer includes reacting unsaturated fatty acids or its corresponding triglycerides with polyhydric alcohol. In particular, one example uses oleic acid with about 70% purity as the starting material for preparing the polyol monomer. Moreover, another example uses refined, bleached, and deodorized (RBD) palm olein as an alternative to oleic acid as the starting material. The preparation of the polyol monomer involves the production of monoglyceride of unsaturated fatty acids, which was further epoxidized with peracid and finally ring opened with polyhydric alcohols. Such polyol monomer is used as a raw material for the production of various types of polyurethane products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous method for functionalizing a carbon nanotube, and more specifically, to a continuous method for functionalizing a carbon nanotube by feeding functional compounds having one or more functional group into a functionalizing reactor into which a carbon nanotube mixture including oxidizer is fed under a pressure of 50 to 400 atm and a temperature of 100 to 600° C. to a subcritical water or supercritical water condition of a pressure of 50 to 40 atm by using a continuously functionalizing apparatus to obtain the functionalized products, such that the functional group of the functional compound can be easily introduced to the carbon nanotube, thereby increasing the functionalized effect of the carbon nanotube and increasing the dispersibility accordingly.

Abstract: The invention relates to epoxy functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and methods of forming the same, and more particularly to inclusion of the epoxy functionalized CNTs as fillers in electronic applications, e.g., semiconductor devices and device packaging. More particularly, CNT-based epoxy resin composites are employed as materials for electronic packaging applications and the inclusion of CNTs as fillers chemically linked to epoxy resin macromolecules. The resulting materials showed improved chemical-physical features in terms of mechanical, thermal and electrical properties.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the manufacture of a Compound of formula (I) wherein Hal represents fluoro or chloro, and R1 and R2 represent, independently from one another, hydrogen or Hal; in which process a Compound of formula (II) is converted to a corresponding alkyl, fluoroalkyl or aryl sulfonic acid ester, which is then reacted with an alkali metal nitrite in the presence of a suitable crown ester in a polar non-nucleophilic solvent at a temperature of ?10 to 50° C. to give the Compound of formula (I).

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the epoxidation of an olefin with hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of an oxidation catalyst comprising a transition metal zeolite, and a noble metal catalyst comprising a noble metal and an ion-exchange resin. The process is highly productive and selective in making epoxides. A noble metal catalyst comprising a cation-exchanged resin further improves the productivity and/or the selectivity of the process.

Abstract: Silanes of the formula: [(ZmRnSi—R1o—)pR2q—Y—C(X)—Y—]rG[—Y—(X)C—Y—R3]s??(I), in which m+n=3; m=1, 2 or 3; n=0, 1 or 2; o=0 or 1, and q=1 if o=0; p=1, 2, 3 or 4; q=0 or 1, and p=1 if q=0; r, s=1, 2 or 3; and Z is a hydrolyzable atom or group; R is a nonhydrolyzable group without an epoxide group; R1 is a divalent group; R2 is a (p+1)-valent group; R3 is a nonhydrolyzable, epoxy-containing group; X is an oxygen atom and/or sulfur atom; G is an (r+s)-valent cyclic group; Y is an oxygen atom, sulfur atom or imino group >NR4 where R4=hydrogen atom, group R, group (ZmRnSi—R1o—)pR2q—, group R3—, group (ZmRnSi—R1o—)pR2q—NH—C(X)— or group R3—NH—C(X)—; processes for their preparation, and their use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst based on ruthenium complexes and to a process for the asymmetric epoxidation of olefins using catalysts based on ruthenium complexes.