Abstract: The invention relates to flame retardants which comprise titanium phosphinates and/or titanyl phosphinates of the formulae (I) and (II) where R1 and R2 are identical or different and are unsubstituted or substituted linear or branched or cyclic C1-C10-alkyl groups or C6-C10-aryl, C7-C18-alkylaryl, or C7-C18-arylalkyl groups, and R3 is an unsubstituted or substituted linear or branched or cyclic C1-C10-alkylene group, C6-C10-arylene, C7-C18-alkylarylene, or C8-C18-arylalkylene group, and x is a number from 0 to 1.9. The invention also relates to molding compositions which comprise the inventive flame retardant.

Abstract: A pigment preparation comprising C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 of formula (I) as base pigment and C.I. Pigment Yellow 62 of formula (II) as pigment dispersant.

Abstract: The invention relates to dialkylphosphinic salts of the formula (I) where R1, R2 identical or different, are C1-C6-alkyl, linear or branched M is Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Fe, Zr, Zn, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na, K and/or is a protonated nitrogen base; m is from 1 to 4; wherein the telomer content is from 0.01 to 6% by weight. The invention also relates to glare use in flame retardant compositions, and to flame-retardant polymer molding compositions and flame-retardant polymer moldings which comprise these dialkylphosphinic salts.

Abstract: A process for warpage-free pigmentation of a plastic pigmented by a phthalocyanine pigment which was heated to not less than 80° C. as a suspension in a organic solvent in the presence of a carboxylic acid containing 2, 3 or 4 carboxyl groups or a salt of such a carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Resin compositions, methods of forming such resin compositions, methods of using such resin compositions and substrates treated with such resin compositions are disclosed. One of such resin compositions contains no formaldehyde and is useful as a binder. Such resin composition comprises the reaction product of: a—melamine, b—at least one aldehyde of formula (1) as defined in the specification, c—a cross linking agent, wherein the cross linking agent is glyoxylic acid, and d—at least one polyol having 2 or more than 2 hydroxyl groups. The resin composition of the present invention can provide performance characteristics to which they are applied.

Abstract: A pigment preparation comprising at least one copper phthalocyanine pigment from the group of C.I. Pigment Blue 15, 15:0, 15:1,15:2, 15:3, 15:4, and 15:6, and at least one pigment dispersant of the formula (I), in which n is a number 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Abstract: The invention relates to a powdery pigment preparation containing a pigment which is dispersed in an acrylate resin and which is characterized in that the acrylate resin has an average molecular mass Mw ranging from 40000 to 80000 g/mol and is a copolymer comprised of 50 to 65 mol % ethyl methacrylate, of 30 to 45 mol % butyl methacrylate, and of 0.5 to 5 mol % methacrylic acid. The powdery pigment preparation can be used for dyeing films, particularly those made of polymethyl methacrylate. The films do not have any specks nor holes.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of pigment preparations comprising C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 as base pigment and one or more pigment dispersants of the formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 independently represent hydrogen, halogen, such as chlorine or bromine, C1-C4 alkyl, such as methyl, ethyl or tert-butyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, such as methoxy or ethoxy, nitro, trifluoromethyl, cyano, phenyl, a group SO3?E+- or COO?E+, provided that there is at least one and no more than two ionic groups of type SO3?E+- or COO?E+ are supplied, one group being located in the coupling radical and the other being located in the base radical of the compound of the formula (I) in case two ionic groups are supplied, E+ represents H+, the equivalent Mm+/m of a metal cation Mm+, m representing one of the numbers 1, 2, or 3 a phosphonium ion; or an unsubstituted or substituted ammonium ion, for pigmenting electrophotographic toners and developers, inks, aqueous binder systems, and color filters.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymeric phosphinic acids and their salts of the formula (I) where X is hydrogen or 1/m of a metal of valency m, or is a protonated nitrogen base, R1 and R2 are identical or different and are hydrogen, a carboxy group, a carboxylic acid derivative, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, phenyl, benzyl, or alkyl-substituted aromatic systems, R3 and R4 may be identical or different and are an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having from 2 to 20 carbon atoms, or are OX, with the above meaning for X, and ? is the average number of monomer units. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the abovementioned compounds, and to their use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel flame retardant formulation for thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, containing, as flame retardant component A, from 90 to 99.9% by weight of phosphinate salt of the formula (I) and/or a diphosphinate salt of the formula (II) and/or polymers thereof where R1, R2 are the same or different and are each C1-C6-alkyl, linear or branched, and/or aryl; R3 is C1-C10-alkylene, linear or branched, C6-C10-arylene, -alkylarylene or -arylalkylene; M is Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na and/or K; m is from 1 to 4; n is from 1 to 4; x is from 1 to 4 and, as component B, from 0 to 50% by weight of a nitrogen-containing synergist or of a phosphorus/nitrogen flame retardant and, as component C, from 0.1 to 10% by weight of a liquid component.

Abstract: A stabilizer mixture for one or more compounds of the general formula (1) and (1A) but preferably (1), wherein the groups R independently stand for an alkyl-, cycloalkyl-, aralkyl- or aryl-rest whereas the aromatic ring system may be optionally substituted by one or more groups R? which may be identical or different and which groups R? can be an aryl-, a saturated or unsaturated alkyl-, aralkyl- or cycloalkyl-group as well as halogen, an amino-, aminoalkyl-, aminocycloalkyl-, cyano-, thiocyano- or nitrogroup. and a UV-absorber, hindered amine stabilizer, sterically hindered phenol, organophosphite, organophosphonite, organophosphine, or mixtures thereof. The present invention is useful in the protection of various polymeric substrates against the damaging influence of light exposure by the long term storage of polymers. This effect can be observed especially in so-called engineering plastics (such as, for example, PC, PET, PBT, ABS, TPU).

Abstract: The invention relates to an azo pigment preparation containing a) at least one azo pigment, b) a resin based on colophonium or modified colophonium with an acid value equal to or higher than 320 mg KOH/g, and c) an ammonium salt of a sulfonated diaryl yellow pigment.

Abstract: A green pigment preparation that is characterized by a C.I. Pigment Yellow 214 and at least one copper phthalocyanine pigment C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3 and/or C.I. Pigment Blue 15:1 content, the ratio of C.I. Pigment Yellow 214 to the at least one copper phthalocyanine pigment being in the range from 1:20 to 20:1. The inventive pigment preparation are especially suitable for the low-warpage colouring of semicrystalline plastics with pure green tones.

Abstract: A pigment composition containing a disazo pigment of formula (I) and at least one pigment from the group of organic orange, red and violet pigments

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of salt-like structured silicates, in which the cation is NH4+, H3O+, an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, earth metal or transition metal ion or a low molecular weight organic cation or a combination thereof and the anion is an island, cyclic, group, chain, ribbon, laminar or matrix silicate or a combination thereof as charge control agents in electrophotographic toners and developers, in powder coatings, electret materials and in electrostatic separation processes.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrophotographic toner or developer, powder coating, ink jet ink or an electronic media having an azo colorant prepared by conducting the diazotization of aromatic or hetaromatic amines or the azo coupling reaction or the diazotization and the azo coupling reaction in a microreactor.

Abstract: A dye of the formula (2) and a process for preparing the same, wherein the radicals are as defined in the specification

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparing a synergistic stabilizer mixture comprising the components of the general formulae (I), (II) and (III) in accordance with claim 1, characterized by the reaction of compounds of the formula (V) with an epihalohydrin of the formula (VI) in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst and from 4 to 20 times the molar amount of an alkali metal hydroxide, relative to compound (V), at from 20 to 220° C. Removal of the excess epihalohydrin and phase separation are followed by polymerization at from 100 to 240° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of general formula (I) in which C represents an alicyclic or heterocyclic group having C2v symmetry, and B represents ortho-C6-C18-arylene. The invention also relates to a method for producing this compound and to the use thereof as a coloring agent for coloring or pigmenting organic or inorganic high-molecular or low-molecular, particularly high-molecular, organic materials.

Abstract: Photo toners including a wax-like compound of the formula (I), detailed in the specification. In formula (I), R1 represents the group —CH2—O—CO—R3 or CH(OH)—CH2—O—CO—R3, R2 represents an alkyl radical comprising between 1 and 4 C atoms or halogen, R3 represents an unbranched alkyl radical comprising between 16 and 36 C atoms, m is 1, 2 or 3, and n is between 0 and (6?m).