Abstract: Compounds useful for stabilizing organic material have the general formula (I) ##STR1## where the substituents are as defined in claim 1.

Abstract: Bismaleimide resin systems containing one or more bismaleimides and an alkenyl and/or alkynyl substituted phenylated dicyclopentadiene comonomer have high glass transition temperatures and impact resistance.

Abstract: Aryl ether ketones of the general formula I ##STR1## where n is from 0 to 5,X is ##STR2## and Y is tert-butyl, acetyl, benzyl, benzoyl, tert-butoxycarbonyl or, in the case of n=0, H,and the ring-substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkoxy, aryl, chlorine or fluorine derivatives thereof are useful for preparing highly heat-resistant polyaryl ether ketones.

Abstract: Block polymers of vinylaromatic compounds and conjugated dienes which possess acidic terminal groups, are present in the form of lithium salts and form an aluminum complex. A process for the preparation of such complexes and the use of these block polymer complexes as molding materials and for modifying thermoplastic materials.

Abstract: Electrically conductive polymer films based on an aromatic hydrocarbon or a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocycle having a conjugated .pi.-electron system and nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur as hetero atoms and/or aniline are obtainable by electrochemical polymerization of the monomers in a polar aprotic solvent, the latter containing 0.05 to 1.0 mol/l of an amide of an aliphatic carboxylic acid of not more than 8 carbon atoms and/or of an aromatic carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Quinoline-8-carboxylic acid azolides of the formula ##STR1## where A, X and R have the meanings given in the disclosure, and their use as herbicides.

Abstract: The fuel or lubricant composition proposed contains one or more polybutyl or polyisobutylamines of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is a polybutyl- or polyisobutyl radical derived from isobutene and up to 20% by weight of n-butene and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are identical or different and are each hydrogen, an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon, a primary or secondary, aromatic or aliphatic aminoalkylene radical or polyaminoalkylene radical, a polyoxyalkylene radical or a hetaryl or heterocyclyl radical, or, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded, form a ring in which further hetero atoms may be present.

Abstract: .gamma.-butyrolactones of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may be substituted by lower alkoxy or acyloxy and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or straight-chain or branched alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by a functional group or is aryl, are prepared by reacting an alkylene oxide of the general formula II ##STR2## with an acylacetate of the general formla III ##STR3## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 have the above meanings and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or aryl, and R.sup.4 may furthermore be hydrogen, in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperatures, by a process in which the reaction is carried out in the presence of an alkali metal halide, of an ammonium halide, preferably a quaternary ammonium halide, of a phosphonium halide, of an alkali metal phosphate or of an alkali metal carbonate at from 20.degree. to 200.degree. C. and under from 1 to 50 bar.

Abstract: Heat is removed from, or supplied to, a vertical pipe of any cross-section, whose internal temperature is above or below the ambient temperature and whose wall temperature must neither exceed nor fall below a predetermined temperature range, by a method in which, in order to maintain the predetermined temperature range, the pipe is provided with a coaxial sheath and gas is passed through the gap between the pipe and the sheath. The invention is particularly directed to maintaining a predetermined temperature range at the outer pipe wall of the vertically oriented, double walled pipes which connect the reaction sections with the collectors in a steam reformer.

Abstract: Naphtholactamsquaric acid dyes of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another are each unsubstituted or substituted C.sub.3 -C.sub.22 -alkyl, in which the alkyl chain may be interrupted by oxygen atoms, or are each unsubstituted or substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -aralkyl, unsubstituted or substituted C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 -cycloalkyl or unsubsituted or substituted phenyl, and the rings A, B, C and D are unsubstituted or substituted and/or benzofused, and optical recording materials consisting of a base and a layer which is sensitive to laser light and is composed of a thermoplastic or crosslinked polymer and one or more dyes (I).Because of the high light absorption of (I), the recording materials are very sensitive to light from the GaAlAs semiconductor laser. An excellent signal-to-noise ratio is obtained on reading the recordings.

Abstract: Homopolymerization and copolymerization of ethene are carried out using a Ziegler catalyst system consisting of (1) a transition metal catalyst component prepared by a method in which (1.1) first (1.1.1) an inorganic oxide substance (I) as a carrier and (1.1.2) a solution (II) of (IIa) a certain oxahydrocarbon and (IIb) a mixture of (IIb1) a vanadium trichloride/alcohol complex, (IIb2) a titanium trihalide or titanium trihalide/alcohol complex and, if desired, (IIb3) a zirconium tetrahalide, are combined with formation of a suspension (III), the latter is evaporated down to form a solid-phase intermediate (IV), (1.2) then (1.2.1) the solid-phase intermediate (IV) obtained from (1.1), and (1.2.2) a dissolved organoaluminum compound (V), are combined with formation of a suspension, the resulting suspended substance being a solid-phase product (VI), (2) an organoaluminum catalyst component and (3) an organohalogen catalyst component.

Abstract: Wholly aromatic liquid-crystalline condensates which form a liquid-crystalline fiber-forming melt below 320.degree. C. and are diphase within the range from the glass transition temperature Tg to the melting point and are composed of(a) not less than 10 mol % of repeat units of the formula I ##STR1## (b) from 5 to 30 mol % of repeat units of the formula II ##STR2## (c) from 0 to 20 mol % of one or more of the repeat units of the formulae III, IV or V ##STR3## (d) from 0 to 20 mol % of one or more of the repeat units of the formulae VI, VII, VIII or IX ##STR4## (e) a molar amount corresponding to the total amount of components (b), (c) and (d) of repeat units of the formula X ##STR5## the mole percentage of components (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) adding up to 100 mol % in each case, the preparation thereof and filaments, fibers, films, moldings and surface coating prepared therefrom.

Abstract: A multistage process for preparing pure BF.sub.3 from hexafluorosilicic acid, H.sub.2 SiF.sub.6, comprises reacting H.sub.2 SiF.sub.6 with oxygen acids of boron and/or boron oxide in the first stage to give hydroxyfluoroboric acid and silica, filtering off the silica and concentrating the hydroxyfluoroboric acid, adding oleum to the concentrate and then heating to form gaseous BF.sub.3.

Abstract: Irreversible optical recording media record information through local alteration of the optical properties of a recording layer on exposure to light.

Abstract: A low-formaldehyde binder consists essentially of(A) from 5 to 80% by weight of a water-soluble condensation product of carbonyl number 0-200 which has been prepared by alkaline condensation from 0.1 to 0.4 mole of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic condensable ketone and 1 mole of formaldehyde, and(B) from 20 to 95% by weight of 4,5-dihydroxyimidazolidin-2-one and/or an unetherified, partially etherified or completely etherified condensation product thereof with an aliphatic monoaldehyde or dialdehyde.

Abstract: A silver catalyst containing lithium and cesium as promoters for the direct oxidation of ethylene with oxygen to give ethylene oxide is applied to a porous carrier and essentially consists of .alpha.-alumina and contains certain amounts of soluble calcium, aluminum, potassium and sodium salts. The carrier has a BET surface area of from 0.4 to 0.8 m.sup.2 /g, a pore volume of not less than 0.45 ml/g, the pores being equally accessible to cold and warm water, a bulk density of less than 700 kg/m.sup.3 and a shape which, in the reactor, provides a geometrical surface area of not less than 600 m.sup.2 /m.sup.3, on which more than 13% by weight of silver are applied as active component and more than 115 kg of silver are available per m.sup.3 of reactor, and from 100 to 300 ppm by weight of lithium and from 200 to 600 ppm by weight of cesium are present as promoters. A process for the preparation of the silver catalyst and its use for the oxidation of ethylene are described.

Abstract: A layer element comprises a base having a hydrophobic surface and, applied on this, one or more solid, thin, ordered layers of defined uniform and regular structure, in particular monolayers or multilayers, having a uniform orientation of the layer-forming molecules in one direction. The said layers are formed from a metallomacrocyclic polymer which is fusible and/or soluble in an organic, water-immiscible solvent and is of the general formula [M(Pcyc)O].sub.n, where M is Si, Ge or Sn, (Pcyc) is a complex-forming centrosymmetric polycyclic ring system, in particular a phthalocyanine ring system having hydrophobic substituents, and n is the mean degree of polymerization and is equal to or greater than 3. The novel layer elements can advantageously be produced by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique, in which a solid-like monolayer produced on a water surface from the metallomacrocyclic polymers is transferred to a substrate having a hydrophobic surface by immersion and withdrawal of the said substrate.

Abstract: An optical recording medium containing a storage layer and, if required, one or two substrate layers, the storage layer containing graphite as the storage material, a process for the production of the novel optical recording medium, and its use as a Read Only Memory information carrier.

Abstract: Methanol/air fuel cells consisting of(A) a cathode,(B) an anode and(C) A CO.sub.2 -permeable anion exchanger membrane as the electrolyte.

Abstract: Quinoline derivatives of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are hydrogen, methyl, halogen or nitro, R.sup.5 is a thiophene, pyrrole, oxazole, thiazole, imidazole, isoxazole, isothiazole, pyrazole, thiadiazole, oxadiazole or triazole radical which is substituted or unsubstituted, or is a substituted furan radical, and microbicidal agents containing these compounds.