Abstract: Production of new 2-(o-alkylthiophenyl)-1,3-diazacycloalkene hydrohalides by reaction of a benzo-thietane-2-spiro-2'-(1',3'-diazacycloalkane) with an alkyl halide, and the new 2-(o-alkylthiophenyl)-1,3-diazacycloalkene hydrohalides which are pharmaceuticals, auxiliaries for the textile and rubber industries, plant protection agents and starting materials for the production of pharmaceuticals, plant protection agents and dyes.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of copolymers of ethylene with tert-butyl acrylate and acrylic acid at from 200.degree. to 350.degree. C under pressures above 800 atmospheres using mean residence times of up to at most 100 seconds, in which the reaction mixture obtained from the polymerization is kept for from 2 to 10 minutes at from 200.degree. to 250.degree. C under a pressure of not more than 500 atmospheres. Terpolymers are obtained which may be used as hot-melt adhesives in the form of thin and extremely homogeneous films.

Abstract: Cyclic esters of 3,4-dihydroxy-thiophene-1,1-dioxide and of the corresponding cyclopentadienone compound, and their manufacture. The compounds can be used as "solid forms" of phosgene, thiophosgene or oxalyl chloride, or as acyl transfer agents.

Abstract: 1,2-Glycol esters are obtained particularly advantageously, by reacting an olefin with molecular oxygen and a carboxylic acid, if a reaction product of o-titanic acid with low molecular weight alcohols or carboxylic acids, e.g. dititanium hexaacetate, is used as the catalyst.

Abstract: To isolate ammonia from gas mixtures containing ammonia and carbon dioxide, the gas mixture is first partially absorbed in a solvent, with residence times of at most 0.1 second, and the non-absorbed gas is then separated from the solution obtained. The solution is then subjected to a first desorption stage, in which only the ammonia present in an excess over a molar ratio of 3 parts of ammonia to 1 part of carbon dioxide is expelled by heating, and the entrained carbon dioxide is washed out of the expelled ammonia by means of solutions containing free ammonia. The solution remaining after the first desorption stage is substantially freed from ammonia and carbon dioxide in a second desorption stage and the expelled gas, containing solvent, together with fresh gas mixture is fed to the adsorption stage, while the solvent obtained from the second desorption stage is employed for the absorption.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a titanium-containing component of a catalyst for the polymerization of monoolefins by the Ziegler-Natta method by milling (a) a titanium trichloride/aluminum trichloride complex and (b) a particular ether with one another, in which process (1) a vibratory ball mill producing a particular milling acceleration is used, (2) until from 6 to 85% of the aluminum trichloride originally present in a bonded form in the titanium-containing compound (a) have been eliminated from the said compound (a). Polyolefins of high stereoregularity can be obtained in a high specific yield by means of the catalyst component manufactured according to the invention.

Abstract: A process for the simultaneous texturizing and entangling of filament bundles by treating filament bundles of synthetic, high-molecular weight materials with a heated fluid in two tubular treatment chambers, in which process spatial or periodic irregularities are produced, in the treatment zones, in the flow of fluid and/or filament bundles. Preferably, a certain range of values of a volume mass flow factor is adhered to.

Abstract: Storage-stable, liquid, only slightly colored polyisocyanates possessing carbodiimide groups and having an isocyanate content of from about 25 to 35% by weight, based on total weight; these products are obtained by condensing polyisocyanates in the presence of phospholines, phospholidines and/or their oxides, and stopping the condensation and stabilizing the condensation products with the Lewis acids, aromatic carboxylic acid halides, aromatic sulfonic acid esters and/or alkyl sulfates.

Abstract: A polyamide-imide precondensate which is solid at room temperature, but is fusible and soluble in polar solvents. It is manufactured by first condensing 1 mole of diamine with 2 moles of tricarboxylic acid anhydride in a diol as the solvent, to give a diimide-dicarboxylic acid, then esterifying the diimide-dicarboxylic acid with the diol and finally effecting the polycondensation by adding 1 mole of diamine per mole of diester. The precondensate may be used, as a melt, as a solution in organic solvents or as an aqueous dispersion, for coating electrical conductors.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of reactive polymers of vinyl monomers by reacting the latter, or the polymers formed therefrom, with compounds which form free radicals.The latter compounds are tetrakis-(organylthio)-methanes, 1,1,2,2-tetrakis-(organylthio)-ethanes or hexakis-(organylthio)-ethanes.The polymers obtained can readily be modified, e.g. by oxidation or quaternisation.

Abstract: New acetals, containing a 6-membered ring, of 2-methyl-2,4-dialkoxy-3-buten-1-al, are obtained by reacting the corresponding 2-methyl-2-alkoxy-3-butyn-1-al-acetals with a mixture of the appropriate alcohol and an alkali metal alcoholate of the said alcohol at from 100.degree. to 200.degree. C. The acetals are intermediates for the preparation of carotinoid-based physiologically safe food dyes.

Abstract: An azo compound useful in copying processes of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or one of the radicals R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is unsubstituted phenyl or phenyl substituted by alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, methoxy or ethoxy, and A denotes ##STR2## where R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are each hydrogen; alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms which may be substituted by hydroxy, alkoxy, halogen or alkoxycarbonyl; cyanoethyl; alkylcarbonyl with 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the alkyl; cyclohexyl; phenalkyl of 7 to 10 carbon atoms; or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, or R.sup.4 is N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl or N,N-bisphenalkylaminoalkyl, or the group ##STR3## is a 5-membered or 6-membered saturated heterocyclic ring which may contain an --O-- or --S-- group as ring member, Y is hydroxy, alkyl, alkoxy, chlorine, bromine or alkylcarbonylamino, n is 0, 1 or 2, R.sup.6 and R.sup.

Abstract: In a secondary battery employing an aqueous lead salt solution as the electrolyte, salts of manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, thallium, bismuth and/or antimony are additionally present in concentrations of from 0.1 to 100 mmole/l.

Abstract: Formaldehyde is manufactured by oxidative dehydrogenation of methanol in the presence of a silver catalyst and of certain amounts of steam and formaldehyde, some formaldehyde and a part of the water being withdrawn from the reaction mixture and recycled. The formaldehyde manufactured by the process may be used as a disinfectant, tanning agent, reducing agent and starting material for the manufacture of synthetic resin, adhesives and plastics.

Abstract: P-aminoazo dyes of the formula: ##STR1## in which D is a benzoisothiazolyl group;B.sup.1 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, methoxy, ethoxy;B.sup.2 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, methoxy, ethoxy, chloro, bromo, C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkanoylamino or C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkoxycarbonylamino;R.sup.1 is the radical ##STR2## C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl optionally bearing hydroxy, C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkanoyloxy, C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkoxycarbonyl, C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkanoylamino or chloro as a substituent, phenylethyl, phenoxyethyl or cyclohexyl and the group -A.sup.1 --CO--A.sup.2 represents acyl, acyloxy or acylamino derived from a carbonic acid derivative in which A.sup.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of 6-aminocaproamide, wherein methyl or ethyl 5-cyanovalerate is reacted with excess ammonia at temperatures of from 25.degree. to 200.degree. C and the resulting 5-cyanovaleramide is hydrogenated at temperatures of from 25.degree. to 200.degree. C and pressures of from 50 to 300 bars in the presence of ammonia and of supported cobalt and/or nickel catalysts. 6-Aminocaproamide is suitable for the manufacture of caprolactam.

Abstract: Pavement joint structures utilizing laterally spaced, elongated metal frames with a four-sided, compartmented, elongated, elastomer seal locked in the frames and spanning the space, the seal having a double arch, nadir-to-apex internal web structure.

Abstract: Dyes of the formula ##STR1## where X is chlorine or bromine, Y is ##STR2## and n is 0, 1 or 2. On synthetic fiber materials, the dyes give clear blue colorations which are very fast to thermofixing and fast to light.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for thermal treatment of thermoplastic polymer multifile filaments embodying at least one stuffing chamber for forming at least one multifile filament into at least one tightly coherently packed filamentary body, feeding one or more of said filamentary bodies onto gas-permeable, slowly rotating drum on which it or they are conveyed in a side-by-side, spiral orientation by the rotating drum while a fluid, e.g., air is drawn through the filamentary bodies, said filamentary bodies being conveyed from the stuffing chamber at a constant rate and being deflected at a predetermined pitch angle before or during initial contact with the drum surface.

Abstract: A cassette, particularly a cassette for a wide recording tape, consisting essentially of a lid-closable housing of plastics material, snap latch means being provided which interact between the long side of the lid and the wall of the housing opposite the lid hinge, which means consist, according to the invention, of cams on the lid and grooves in the wall of the housing, which cams and grooves engage each other to produce, when the cassette is opened, an initial closing force by deformation of the adjacent wall of the housing, in order to make opening of the cassette more difficult.