Abstract: The invention relates to colorant preparations containing the following main constituents: A) at least one dispersed (A1) or dissolved (A2) colorant; B) if a colorant corresponding to (A1) is used, a dispersing agent; C) a low-molecular polytetrahydurofurane (C1), optionally mixed with one or more difficult-to-evaporate, water-soluble or water-miscible organic solvents (C2); and D) water.

Abstract: Novel phosphites have the formula I P(O—R1)x(O—R2)y(O—R3)z(O—R4)p  I where R1: aromatic radical having a C1-C18-alkyl substituent in the o position relative to the oxygen atom which connects the phosphorus atom to the aromatic system, or having an aromatic substituent in the o position relative to the oxygen atom which connects the phosphorus atom to the aromatic system, or having an aromatic system fused on in the o position relative to the oxygen atom which connects the phosphorus atom to the aromatic system, R2: aromatic radical having a C1-C18-alkyl substituent in the m position relative to the oxygen atom which connects the phosphorus atom to the aromatic system, or having an aromatic substituent in the m position relative to the oxygen atom which connects the phosphorus atom to the aromatic system, or having an aromatic system fused on in the m position relative to the oxygen atom which connects the phosphorus atom to the aromatic system, where the aromatic radical

Abstract: The antifungal agent (E)-N-methyl-N-(1-naphthylmethyl)-6,6-dimethyl-hept-2-ene-4-ynyl-1-amine of formula (I) and acid addition salts thereof are prepared by reacting a chloro-compound of formula (IIIb) with a secondary amine of formula (II) in an aliphatic ketone-type solvent in the presence of a base and optionally iodide salt catalyst, and subsequently treating the resulting reaction mixture directly with aqueous hydrochloric acid to precipitate the hydrochloride of the compound of formula (I). The precipitate is separated, and the base of formula (I) can be liberated from the hydrochloride and can be converted into other pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to soft capsules comprising (a) polymers prepared by polymerization of vinyl esters in the presence of polyethers (b) where appropriate structure-improving auxiliaries and (c) where appropriate other conventional constituents, the use and production thereof.

Abstract: A two-step process for the preparation of fluoroolefin compounds of formula I wherein R is hydrogen or alkyl, and R1 is alkyl or cyclopropyl, or R and R1 are taken together with the carbon atom to which they are attached to form a cyclopropyl group; Ar is phenyl or naphthyl both of which are optionally substituted; Ar1 is phenoxyphenyl, biphenyl, phenyl, benzylphenyl, or benzoylphenyl, all of which may be optionally substituted, comprising reacting fluorobromoolefin compounds of formula II with organozinc compounds of formula III or IV BrZnCH2Ar1  III Zn[CH2Ar1]2  IV in the presence of a palladium catalyst and a solvent, which compounds of formula II are obtained by reacting aldehyde compounds of formula V with (a) fluorotribromomethane, (b) a tri(substituted)phosphine or a hexaalkylphosphoramide or a mixture thereof, and (c) zinc, in the presence of a solvent, compounds of formula II.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrolysis cell comprising an anode compartment which comprises an aqueous solution of at least one alkali metal salt, a cathode compartment and a solid electrolyte which separates the anode compartment and the cathode compartment from one another, wherein that part of the surface of the solid electrolyte which is in contact with the anode compartment and/or that part of the surface of the solid electrolyte which is in contact with the cathode compartment has/have at least one further ion-conducting layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing acid chlorides by converting carboxylic acids with carbon oxychlorides or thionyl chloride in the presence of a catalyst adduct of an N,N-disubstituted formamide of general formula (I) and carbon oxychloride or thionyl chloride. In the formula, R1 and R2, independently from one another, mean C1- to C4-alkyl or R1 and R2 together mean a C4- or C5-alkylene chain. According to the inventive method, hydrogen chloride is added during and/or after the conversion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to composite elements comprising at least one layer A which comprises at least one solid electrolyte Al, at least one adhesion-promoting layer B having a thickness of <100 &mgr;m and at least one component C which provides the composite layer with electrochromic properties, where composite elements of this type are particularly suitable for use in electrochromic windows, and to electrochromic windows and glazing comprising a composite element of this type, and to processes for the production of these composite elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sandwich panel comprising A. a core layer of polypropylene particle foam, B. cover layers of fiber-reinforced polypropylene and also optionally C. decorative layers, wherein the core layer includes from 1 to 30% by weight of recyclate particles of components A, B and optionally C.

Abstract: Benzhydryl derivatives of the formula I, where the index and the variables are as defined below: X is oxygen or sulfur; R1, R3 are halogen, cyano, nitro, hydroxyl, mercapto, amino, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, alkylcarbonyloxy, formyloxy, alkylthio, alkenylthio, alkynylthio, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkylcarbonyl or formyl, where the carbon atoms in the radicals mentioned may be partially or fully halogenated; R2 is halogen, cyano, nitro, hydroxyl, mercapto, amino, alkyl, alkoxy, haloalkyl or haloalkoxy, where the groups R2 may be different if n=2; R4 is alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, where the carbon atoms in these radicals may be unsubstituted or partially or fully halogenated; R5, R6 are hydroxyl, alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, haloalkoxy, haloalkenyloxy, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, cycloalkoxy or cycloalkylalkoxy; n is 0, 1 or 2; processes for preparing the compounds I, compositions comprising them and their use for con

Abstract: In a process for the preparation of alcohols by catalytic hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds, the catalyst used is 0.01 to 50% by weight of rhenium and 0 to 20% by weight, in each case based on the total weight of the catalyst, of at least one further metal chosen from Zn, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Fe, Cr, V on oxidatively pretreated activated carbon as support.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing plants containing increased quantities of tocopherols, vitamin K, carotinoids, chlorophylls and polyterpenes by overexpression of a DXPRI gene.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of saturated C3-C20-alcohols in which a liquid hydrogenation feed comprising at least one C3-C20-aldehyde is passed over a bed of a hydrogenation catalyst in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas, which comprises adding to the hydrogenation feed an amount, homogeneously soluble therein, of a salt-like base. The addition of base suppresses side reactions, such as acetalization, aldolization, Tischtschenko reaction or ether formation.

Abstract: Copolymers of ethylene have from 1 to 30 mol % of alkyl(meth)acrylates and, if desired, other comonomers, and have a residual comonomer content of less than 0.5% by weight in the copolymer. A process for preparing copolymers of this type in a combination of stirred autoclave and tubular reactor is described, as is the use of the copolymers for preparing polyamide molding compositions.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions comprising, as substantive constituents, A) from 5 to 96% by weight of a vinylaromatic polymer with a syndiotactic structure, B) from 2 to 50% by weight of an inorganic filler, C) from 1 to 15% by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer based on copolymers made from vinylaromatic monomers, dienes and, where appropriate, 1,1-diphenylethylene, D) from 1 to 10% by weight of a compatibilizer, and, where appropriate, E) from 1 to 15% by weight of an elastomeric particulate styrene-diene block copolymer whose diene content may have been completely or to some extent hydrogenated, and, where appropriate, F) additives, where the total of the percentages by weight of A) to F) is 100.

Abstract: A process for working up hydroxylamine-containing solutions as obtained in particular in the electronics industry during the cleaning of electronic components is described. According to the invention, the hydroxylamine is stripped from the wastewater with steam. The products obtained are aqueous hydroxylamine and an aqueous solution of the amines. Both product streams can be purified in further process steps to give a saleable product.

Abstract: Alkali metal methoxides are prepared from aqueous alkali metal hydroxide, which may have been admixed with methanol, and methanol in a reaction column having at least 5, preferably from 15 to 30, theoretical plates between the feed point for the aqueous alkali metal hydroxide and the feed point for the methanol. The gaseous methanol/water mixture formed in the reaction is fractionated in a rectification column. In one variant of the invention, the trays chosen for the reaction column configured as a bubble cap tray, valve tray or sieve tray column are trays in which not more than 5%, preferably <1%, of the liquid rains through the respective trays. In another variant of the process of the present invention, the double-wall reaction column has a temperature in the double wall which is from 3 to 10° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of tetrahydrogeraniol, wherein the product mixtures and distillation residues from linalool, citronellal, citronellol or geraniol/nerol synthesis are fed directly to catalytic hydrogenation.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of creatine or creatine monohydrate by reaction of sodium or potassium sarcosinate with cyanamide at a temperature from 20 to 150° C. and a pH from 7.0 to 14.0 comprises carrying out the pH adjustment with carbonic acid.

Abstract: Propylene polymers containing from 0 to 2.5% by weight of C2-C10-olefin comonomers have an Mw of from 350,000 to 1,000,000 g/mol, an Mw/Mn of from 4 to 10, a proportion by weight of the polymer fraction having a viscosity number of from 500 to 1400 ml/g of from 20 to 80% of the total polymer and a proportion by weight of a polymer fraction having a viscosity number of from 200 to 400 ml/g of from 80 to 20% of the total polymer and an isotactic sequence length of from 50 to 100.