Abstract: The invention relates to solid plant protection compositions comprising: a) liquid or low melting point polyalkoxylate; and b) a carrier based on relatively high molecular weight sulfonate, wherein (i) the weight ratio of liquid or low melting point polyalkoxylate to plant protection active agent is at least 1:2; (ii) the proportion of liquid or low melting point polyalkoxylate, based on the total weight of the relatively high molecular weight sulfonates, is at least 30% by weight; and (iii) the weight ratio of liquid or low melting point polyalkoxylate to relatively high molecular weight sulfonate is at most 3:1. The invention also relates to processes for their preparation and the use of the plant protection compositions for the treatment of plants and their habitat as well as corresponding processes, and also spray mixtures comprising such a plant protection composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stabilizing and securing banks, hillsides and slopes, and structures present at least partly in moving waters, such as supporting and construction elements, by composite materials comprising mineral particles, preferably stones, in particular crushed rock, and an epoxy resin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing granular or pulverulent detergent compositions, comprising the production of a detergent base powder by drying an aqueous detergent slurry, which comprises adding to the slurry a copolymer which is obtained by free-radical copolymerization of (A) from 20 to 80% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acids, dicarboxylic acids and dicarboxylic anhydrides, and (B) from 20 to 80% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of aliphatic or aromatic monoolefins.

Abstract: The present invention concerns microcapsules comprising a capsule core and a capsule wall composed of thermoset polymer and also, disposed on the outer surface of the capsule wall, a polyelectrolyte having an average molecular weight in the range from 500 g/mol to 10 million g/mol, and also a process for their production and their use in bindered building materials, textiles, heat transfer fluids and dumped beds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for producing textured surfaces on multicrystalline, tricrystalline and monocrystalline silicon surfaces of solar cells or on silicon substrates which are used for photovoltaic purposes. It relates in particular to an etching process and an etching agent for producing a textured surface on a silicon substrate.

Abstract: A herbicidal mixture, comprising a) a herbicidally effective amount of an imidazolinone herbicide selected from the group consisting of imazamox, imazapic, imazapyr; b) an adjuvant comprising at least one of the following components: a partial phosphoric ester or a partial sulfuric ester of a monohydroxy-functional polyalkyl ether and optionally c) a further additive.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for purifying a gas mixture G-0 comprising dinitrogen monoxide, at least comprising the contacting of the gas mixture G-0 with a solvent mixture (I) at least comprising 50% by weight of water based on the overall solvent mixture (I), the pH of the solvent mixture (I) being in the range from 3.5 to 8.0, the desorption of a gas mixture G-1 from a composition (A), the contacting of the gas mixture G-1 with a solvent mixture (II) at least comprising 50% by weight of water based on the overall solvent mixture (II), the pH of the solvent mixture (II) being in the range from 2.0 to 8.0, and the desorption of a gas mixture G-2 from a composition (B), the pH being based in each case on a measurement with a glass electrode, and to the use of gas mixtures obtainable by a process according to the invention as oxidizing agents for olefins.

Abstract: Composite elements have the following layer structure: (i) from 2 to 20 mm of metal, (ii) from 10 to 300 mm of plastic, and (iii) from 2 to 20 mm of metal, where (i) and/or (iii) have an opening which may, if desired, be sealable.

Abstract: A process for classifying water-absorbing polymer beads, wherein the polymer beads are separated into n particle size fractions by means of at least n screens and n is an integer greater than 1.

Abstract: A composite component such as a seat back for a vehicle comprises a support portion and at least one reinforcing composite layer. The support portion comprises a thermoplastic material and the reinforcing composite layer comprises a polymeric material impregnating a plurality of fibers. The polymeric material of the reinforcing composite layer is integrated with the thermoplastic of the support portion. A method of forming the composite component includes placing the composite layer into a mold, heating the thermoplastic material to a molten state, and disposing the thermoplastic material in the molten state into contact with the composite layer. The method further includes promoting interaction between the thermoplastic material and the polymeric material to integrate the support portion and the reinforcing composite layer. The thermoplastic material supports the reinforcing composite layer and the reinforcing composite layer reinforces the thermoplastic material to prevent failure when subjected to a load.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting amines with phosgene, wherein the amine or a mixture of amine and a solvent is mixed in the form of an aerosol with gaseous phosgene and the amine is subsequently reacted with phosgene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing acrylic acid by two-stage heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of propylene, in which the propylene source used is a preceding propane dehydrogenation and in which the first oxidation stage is operated with restricted propylene conversion, and unconverted propane and propylene present in the product gas mixture of the second partial oxidation stage are recycled substantially into the preceding propane dehydrogenation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing compounds, which are useful as bleach boosters, as well as to the compounds, which are obtainable using said process, and to their use.

Abstract: A reactor (1) for preparing phosgene by gas-phase reaction of carbon monoxide and chlorine in the presence of a solid catalyst, which reactor has a bundle of parallel catalyst tubes (2) aligned in the longitudinal direction of the reactor whose ends are fixed in tube plates (3) and have a cap (4) at each end of the reactor (1), and has deflection plates (6) which are aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the reactor in the intermediate space (5) between the catalyst tubes (2) and leave free passages (7) located alternately opposite one another on the interior wall of the reactor, and in which the catalyst tubes (2) are charged with the solid catalyst, the gaseous reaction mixture is passed from one end of the reactor via one cap (4) through the catalyst tubes (2) and is taken off from the opposite end of the reactor (1) via the second cap (4) and a liquid heat transfer medium is passed through the intermediate space (5) around the catalyst tubes (2), where the reactor (1) has no tubes in the

Abstract: The preparation of epoxy resin compositions which comprise glycidyl ethers comprising cyclohexyl groups and have a low oligomer content is carried out by distillation of compositions which are obtainable by ring hydrogenation of compounds of the general formula (I) where —X— is —CR2—, —CO—, —O, —S—, —SO2—, the radicals R are each, independently of one another, H, C1-6-alkyl, C3-6-cycloalkyl, in which one or more H atoms can be replaced by halogen, the radicals R? are each, independently of one another, C1-4-alkyl, halogen, the indices n are each, independently of one another, 0, 1, 2 or 3, and subsequent reaction of the hydroxyl groups with epichlorohydrin, in thin film evaporators or short path evaporators at a temperature in the range from 150 to 270° C. and a pressure in the range from 0.001 to 1 mbar.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of polyether alcohols by reacting at least one alkylene oxide with at least one unsaturated starter having at least one active hydrogen atom per molecule under basic catalysis, that the alkoxylation is carried out in at least two stages, in stage (I) the alkoxylation of the starter or starters being carried out with not more than 10 mol of alkylene oxide per mole of starter with a catalyst concentration of not more than 0.0085 mol of basic catalyst per mole and in stage (II) and the optionally following stages, the alkoxylated starter or starters from stage (I) being reacted with further alkylene oxide at a catalyst concentration of at least 0.01 mol of basic catalyst per mole of starter.

Abstract: A process for preparing an organic target compound by heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase partial oxidation of an organic precursor compound with molecular oxygen in two oxidation reactor lines operated in parallel and removal of the target compound from the mixture of the product gas streams in a workup line, wherein the catalysts charge of one of the oxidation lines comprises a portion of catalyst over which the heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase partial oxidation has already been carried out for longer than over the portions of catalyst of the catalyst charge of the other oxidation reactor line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for treating surfaces, comprising a copolymer as component A, synthesized from (meth)acrylic acid or salts thereof, a carboxylate-containing monomer and/or monomers containing groups containing phosphoric and/or phosphoric acid or salts thereof, and further comonomers if desired, to a passivating layer on a metal surface, which comprises component A, to a process for forming said passivating layer, and to the use of the composition of the invention to passivate a metal surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroleptic carbene complexes comprising both carbene ligands and heterocyclic noncarbene ligands, to a process for preparing the heteroleptic carbene complexes, to the use of the heteroleptic carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, and to devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new high-functionality, highly branched or hyperbranched polylysines, to processes for preparing them, and to their use.