Abstract: The rapid, low-temperature formation of a bright blue surface on hot-dip zinc/aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet that contains 0.1 to 60 weight % aluminum in the alloy, or on other surfaces of similar chemical composition, using conventional surface-treatment equipment, is achieved by treating the surface with a treatment bath that has a pH of 3.5 to 6.0 and that contains molybdenum compound at 0.2 to 3.0 weight % as molybdenum and simple or complex fluoride at 0.1 to 2.0 weight % as fluorine.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a composition containing an activator system for free-radical polymerizations and a free-radical polymerizable compound of the general formula II:?H.sub.2 C.dbd.CR.sup.1 --C(.dbd.O)--O--R.sup.2 --O--C(.dbd.O)--NH--Q--NH--C(.dbd.O)!.sub.2 ?{--O--R.sup.4a --O--C(.dbd.O)--NH--Q'--NH--C(.dbd.O)}.sub.m --O--R.sup.4a --O--!(II)whereinm is from 0 to 10;R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a methyl group;R.sup.2 is a linear or branched chain alkyl group containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms or an alkylene oxide containing from 4 to 21 carbon atoms;Q and Q' independently are aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic groups containing from 6 to 18 carbon atoms which are derived from the basic diisocyanate or diisocyanate mixtures; andR.sup.4a is derived from a polyesterdiol having a C:O ratio of >2.6, a C:H ratio of <10, and a molecular weight of from 1000 to 20,000.The invention further pertains to a process for the preparation of such composition and the use thereof.

Abstract: In the acid-catalyzed production of alkyl glycosides, the molar quantity of catalyst used can be clearly reduced in all processes of industrial interest by using sulfosuccinic acid as catalyst as opposed to conventional catalysts, such as sulfuric acid or p-toluene sulfonic acid. The end reaction products are lighter in color and less clouded than alkyl glycosides obtained with conventional catalysts. Sulfosuccinic acid is readily biodegradable.

Abstract: Liquid crystalline aqueous surfactant compositions containing alkyl glycosides, long-chain alcohols, and, optionally, anionic surfactants; and to finished products containing them.

Abstract: A stable, dual-function, phosphate-, metasilicate- and polymer-free low alkali detergent tablet containing: (a) from 5 to 50% by weight of a sodium citrate; (b) from 1 to 60% by weight of anhydrous sodium carbonate; (c) from 1 to 60% by weight of sodium hydrogen carbonate; (d) a bleaching agent selected from the group consisting of sodium perborate monohydrate, sodium percarbonate and mixtures thereof; (e) from 0.5 to 4% by weight of tetraacetyl ethylenediamine; (f) from 0.1 to 2% by weight of protease; (g) from 0.1 to 2% by weight of amylase; and (h) from 3 to 10% by weight of water, all weights being based on the weight of the tablet.

Abstract: The invention relates to new anionic detergent mixtures obtained by reacting mixtures containing(a) fatty acid-N-alkyl polyhydroxyalkylamides and(b) fatty alcohols or fatty alcohol alkoxylateswith gaseous sulfur trioxide or chlorosulfonic acid in the absence of inert solvents and then neutralizing the reaction product with bases. The mixtures show excellent surface-active properties and are suitable for a number of applications.

Abstract: Article of manufacture and method of making the same in which a metal substrate has an undercoating is made from a combination of at least one pulverulent metal and a transition metal compound and a coating thereon containing an autodeposited resin formed under autodepositing conditions.

Abstract: A process for rinsing hard surfaces comprising contacting the hard surfaces with an aqueous rinse aid composition containing fatty acid-N-alkyl polyhydroxyalkyl amides corresponding to formula I: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 CO is an aliphatic acyl radical containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and ?Z! is a linear or branched polyhydroxyalkyl radical containing 3 to 10 carbon atoms and 3 to 10 hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: A laundry detergent for washing fabrics composed of proteinogenic fibers is comprised of at least one surfactant and a proteolytically active amount of a protease having a keratinase/caseinase activity ratio of less than about 0.80.

Abstract: A polyurethane composition for the production of single-component polyurethane foams on dry or wet substrates, wherein the composition is the reaction product of a polyol with a molar excess of difunctional or polyfunctional isocyanates and wherein 10% to 80% by weight of the polyol has been replaced by a nonionic surfactant containing at least one hydroxyl group.

Abstract: Nitrogen-free anionic conditioning formulations containing sulfated polyol fatty acid esters corresponding to formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 CO is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated acyl radical containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, an OCR.sup.1 group or an SO.sub.3 X group, R.sup.3 is hydrogen or an (OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.m OR.sup.2 group, n is 0 or a number of 1 to 5, m is 0 or a number of 1 to 10, and X is an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium or glucammonium ion.

Abstract: A process for coating metal surfaces in which an uncured resin coating is formed on the surface of a metal by contacting the metal surface with an autodepositing coating composition that contains acid, oxidizing agent, and water-dispersible or water-soluble organic film-forming resin, and the uncured coating is thereafter dried, produces a strongly adherent, highly corrosion-resistant autodeposited coating when the uncured coating is brought, prior to its drying, into contact with an aqueous solution that has a pH adjusted to 7 to 11 and that contains at least one selection from the following inorganic acids and salts thereof: molybdic acid, tungstic acid, polyphosphoric acid, and polysilicic acid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing 8.alpha.,12-oxido-13,14,15,16-tetranorlabdane through the cyclizing dehydration of 8.alpha.,12 -dihydroxy-13,14,15,16-tetranorlabdane in the presence of aluminophyllosilicates.

Abstract: Liquid manual dishwashing detergent compositions which exhibit superior foaming and detergency properties in laboratory tests are comprised of alkyl sulfates, .alpha.-olefin sulfonates alkyl betaines, and alkyl polyglycosides.

Abstract: A cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition having an improved feel on the skin containing Guerbet alcohols based on fatty alcohol mixtures containing 6 to 12 carbon atoms or esters thereof with fatty acids containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms as oil components, wherein the spreading value of the oil components as determined by the Zeidler method is from about 300 to about 1,000 mm.sup.2 /10 minutes.

Abstract: Aromatic allylaminonitro compounds corresponding to formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an allyl group CH.sub.2 C(R.sup.5)=CH.sub.2, where R.sup.5 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 is carboxyl, hydroxy, nitro, halogen or a group NR.sup.6 R.sup.7, where R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 independently of one another represent hydrogen, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl or dihydroxyalkyl group containing 2 to 4 carbon atoms or an allyl group CH.sub.2 C(R.sup.8)=CH.sub.2, where R.sup.8 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R.sup.4 is hydrogen or nitro, with the proviso that R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are not both nitro. The compounds are useful for dyeing fibers, particularly human hair.

Abstract: A process of producing a tocopheryl succinate powder is provided. The process forming a tocopheryl succinate powder into a plastic mass. The plastic mass is then allowed to cool whereupon its sets to a solid state. The solid mass can then be subjected to a size reduction to obtain a tocopherol succinate powder having a desirable particle size, e.g. not more than 5% by weight through a 120-mesh sieve and not more than 5% by weight retained on a 14-mesh sieve.

Abstract: Zinciferous and/or aluminiferous metal surfaces can be passivated by treatment with a chromium-free aqueous solution of phosphoric acid and molybdenum that is at least partially in a valence state lower than +6, to produce, especially with an acrylic overcoating, a surface as resistant to corrosion as the surface of the same substrate after passivation with conventional liquid compositions that contain hexavalent chromium.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions containing special aminopropionic acid derivatives and co-oligomers based on fatty crotonates are suitable for the oiling of leather. The leathers thus treated are distinguished by high resistance to washing and cleaning and by impermeability to water.

Abstract: A pregellable adhesive containing several polymers, of which at least one is olefinically unsaturated and the other capable of curing by esterification, prepared in such a way that it cures by two different chemical reaction mechanisms which can be activated successively and catalyzed at least substantially independently of one another.