Abstract: Zinc dithiocarbamates are obtained in especially readily filterable form and high purity when zinc salts are first added, in aqueous solution, to the secondary amines underlying the zinc carbamates, so that a zinc salt complex of the amines is formed, and carbon disulfide and then sodium hydroxide solution are then introduced, with stirring, into the aqueous suspension so obtained, the temperatures being maintained in the range from room temperature to the boiling temperature of carbon disulfide until the reaction has completely finished.

Abstract: In a novel process for the synthesis of cinnamic esters or substituted cinnamic esters, carboxylic esters are reacted, by condensation, with benzaldehyde or substituted benzaldehydes, respectively, in the presence of a solid with basic properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for inhibiting the emission of hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans from sulfurized organic compounds, which generally contain a high proportion of sulfur by treating the sulfurized organic compounds with organic hydroperoxides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rubbers based on diolefins with a particular lateral polyether group content, mixtures thereof with fillers and the use of said rubbers and mixtures for the preparation of rubber vulcanizates with improved tear propagation resistance and favorable dynamic damping. More particularly, the rubbers according to the present invention are suitable for the manufacture of highly reinforced rubber molded articles, particularly for tires of vehicles, which are used both in road traffic and off-road.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for producing elastomers based on conjugated dienes or based on conjugated dienes and vinyl aromatic compounds or based on alkenes, polymerization being carried out while maintaining certain residence times of the monomers used and the elastomers obtained in the reactors while maintaining a certain temperature gradient in the first reactor. The elastomers obtained by the process according to the invention are characterized in particular by a low metal ion content, a low ash content and a high cis-1,4 compound content in the polymer. Furthermore, the process according to the present invention is particularly economical.

Abstract: The present invention provides rubber mixtures with improved processing behavior containing special polyethers and use of the rubber mixtures for preparing vulcanizates, in particular for the production of highly reinforced, abrasion-resistant molded items, particularly preferably for producing tires which have a low rolling resistance and a high abrasion resistance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to filled rubber mixes made from polyether/diolefin rubbers. The rubber mixes according to the present invention are suitable for the production of highly reinforced, abrasion-resistant moldings, in particular for the production of tires which exhibit low rolling resistance and elevated wet skid resistance.

Abstract: A method and product which provides a solid, non-powdered homogeneous form to liquid and low melting point solid compounds which facilitates stability, storage, dispersability and handling and which may be added directly to formulations requiring the liquid compound or low melting point solid compound. The liquid or low melting point solid ingredient is combined with a binder which is comprised of at least a wax and thermoplastic polymer. During the method of forming the product, both the binder and the liquid compound (or low melting point solid compound) pass through a liquid phase during which they are mixed. The product is then formed and cooled.

Abstract: Mint lactone can be prepared by hydrogenating hydroxymenthofurolactone to give the intermediate dihydrohydroxymenthofurolactone with the subsequent elimination of water.

Abstract: An electrochromic device comprising a pair of glass or plastic plates or plastic films of which at least one plate or film, preferably both plates or films, are provided on in each case one side with an electrically conductive coating, of which at least one plate or film and its conductive coating is transparent, of which the other may be mirrored, and of which in the case of at least one of the two plates or films the electrically conductive layer can be divided into separate, individually contacted area segments and the conductive coatings can be connected at at least one point to an electrical conductor, where the plates or films are joined together via a sealing ring on the sides of their conductive coating, and the volume formed by the two plates or films and the sealing ring is filled with an electrochromic medium which comprises at least one reducible electrochromic compound OX2 and at least one oxidizable electrochromic compound RED1, in which the electrochromic medium also comprises a further reducib

Abstract: The invention provides X-ray contrastable plastics materials with low-molecular weight iodine compounds, a process for preparing X-ray contrastable plastics materials with low molecular weight iodine compounds, the use of low molecular weight iodine compounds to improve the X-ray contrast in transparent plastics materials and toys with improved X-ray contrast containing low molecular weight iodine compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing uniformly colored blue microcapsules, using oil-soluble dyes.

Abstract: The invention relates to carbodiimide-based block copolymers, a method of preparing them and also their use as hydrolysis stabilizers in ester-group-containing polymers. The advantages of the block copolymers according to the invention are, in particular, their high efficiency at low dosage as hydrolysis protection in ester-group-containing polymers, and also their nontoxic behavior, their high thermal stability and their good compatibility during incorporation in the polymeric matrix of the polymers to be protected.

Abstract: A self-cleaning separator is described for cohesive or adhesive solids from a fluidborne stream of solids on the basis of a cyclonelike separation. The separator consists at least of a cylindrical upper section (8) having a separating chamber (3), a product inlet (2), a fluid outlet (5), and of a conical lower section (6) having a solids outlet (7) adjoining below the lower section (6), at least the side wall (4) of the upper section (8) being produced from an elastic material, in particular an elastomeric material.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a catalyst based on rare earth metal compounds which consists of a rare earth metal compound, an organic aluminum compound and a trihalosilane, of a process for the production thereof and of the use of the catalyst for polymerizing conjugated dienes to form high molecular weight polybutadienes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of cis-2-tertiary-butylcyclohexanol, where 2-tertiary-butylphenol is hydrogenated in the presence of a nickel/iron catalyst mixture and 2-tertiary-butylcyclohexyl acetate.

Abstract: Dihydrocoumarin is prepared by hydrogenating coumarin in the presence of a palladium catalyst.

Abstract: Macrocyclic ester compounds can be prepared from oligoesters by thermal cleavage in the presence of a thermostable benzene derivative.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing &ggr;-decalactone using Yarrowia lipolytica HR 145 (DSM 12397). The process includes preparing the product in a bioreactor by culturing the pure strain of Yarrowia lipolytica in a culture medium containing carbon compounds, nitrogen compounds, inorganic salts, trace elements, vitamins, etc. Other ingredients of the culture medium include glycerol, glucose, mannitol, citric acid, malt extract, yeast extract, casein hydrolysate, castor oil, cotton seed meal or corn steep liquor. Also sulphates, nitrates, chlorides, carbonates or phosphates of metals sodium, potassium magnesium, manganese, calcium, zinc, and mixtures thereof can be used in the culture medium. Further, a pure strain of Yarrowia lipolytica HR 145 (DSM 12397) is provided.

Abstract: A nitrite polymer vulcanizate having improved hot air aging characteristics is described. The nitrile polymer vulcanizate may be produced admixing a composition comprising: (i) a nitrite polymer; (ii) a filler; (iii) an additive selected from the group comprising a strong base, a salt of a strong base and a weak acid, a salt of a weak acid, a carbodiimide, a polycarbodiimide and mixtures thereof; and (iv) a vulcanization system. A vulcanizable composition useful for producing such a vulcanizate and a method for improving the hot air aging characteristics of a nitrite polymer are also described.