Patents Assigned to BASF SE
  • ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR
    Publication number: 20140299871
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic component or device comprising a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein said component or device further comprising an organic semiconducting (OSC) material that is provided between the source and drain electrode, wherein the OSC material comprises (a) a polymer represented by formula: (I), and (b) a compound of formula (II). High quality OFETs can be fabricated by the choice of a semiconductor material, which is comprised of a polymer represented by formula I and (b) a compound of formula II.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Patrice Bujard, Natalia Chebotareva, Thomas Weitz, Pascal Hayoz
  • POLYAMIDE MOLDING COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20140303311
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions comprising: A) from 80 to 99.5% by weight, based on components A and B, of a polyamide A; B) from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sachin Jain, Sameer Nalawade
  • POLYMERS BASED ON BENZODIONES
    Publication number: 20140302637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising one or more (repeating) unit(s) of the formula (I), and compounds of formula (III), wherein Y, Y15, Y16 and Y17 are independently of each other a group of formula (A), (B) or (C) and their use as IR absorber, organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers and compounds according to the invention can have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers and compounds according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics and photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Pascal Hayoz, Mathias Dueggeli
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-ABSORBENT POLYMER PARTICLES WITH A HIGHER PERMEABILITY BY POLYMERIZING DROPLETS OF A MONOMER SOLUTION
    Publication number: 20140302321
    Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein a water-insoluble inorganic salt is suspended in the monomer solution and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Uwe Stueven, Matthias Weismantel, Wilfried Heide, Marco Krüger, Volker Seidl, Stefan Blei, Dennis Lösch, Rüdiger Funk, Annemarie Hillebrecht
  • FLUID-ABSORBENT ARTICLES
    Publication number: 20140302985
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing fluid-absorbent cores, comprising mixing a fibrous material and fluid-absorbent polymer particles having low moisture content and low apparent density and pressing the obtained mixture under specific conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Weismantel, Rüdiger Funk, Ulrich Schröder, Marco Krüger, Sylvia Bertha, John Joseph Louden
  • PAPER COATING SLIP ADDITIVE COMPRISING ACID MONOMER, ASSOCIATIVE MONOMER AND NONIONIC MONOMER
    Publication number: 20140302335
    Abstract: A paper coating slip additive obtainable by free-radical polymerization, its preparation and its use in paper coating compositions are described. The additive is formed from (a) acid monomers selected from ethylenically unsaturated C3 to C8 carboxylic acids, (b) associative monomers of the general formula H2C?CR1—COO-(EO)n—(PO)m—R2 where R1 is hydrogen or methyl, n is at least two, m is from zero to 50, EO is an ethylene oxide group, PO is a propylene oxide group and R 2 is a C8-C30 alkyl group or a C8-C30 alkaryl group, and (c) nonionic copolymerizable monomers other than a) and b), wherein said additive has a weight average molecular weight of below 200 000 and wherein tert-dodecyl mercaptan is used as chain transfer agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hermann Seyffer, Carmen-Elena Cimpeanu, Anja Song, Thomas Steinmacher, Joerg Claussen, Philipp Zacharias, Vijay Raman, Petra Schoecker
  • Reactor for carrying out an autothermal gas-phase dehydrogenation
    Patent number: 8852538
    Abstract: A reactor in the form of a cylinder or prism wherein the interior of the reactor is divided by a cylindrical or prismatic gastight housing G which is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the reactor into an inner region having one or more catalytically active zones, in which in each case a packing composed of monoliths stacked on top of one another, next to one another and behind one another and before each catalytically active zone in each case a mixing zone having solid internals are provided, and an outer region B arranged coaxially to the inner region A, wherein the inner region A is insulated from the outer region B of the reactor by means of a microporous high-performance insulation material having a thermal conductivity 1 at temperatures up to 700° C. of less than 0.05 W/m*K is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Ulrike Wegerle, Grigorios Kolios, Carlos Tellaeche Herranz, Reinhold Höchst, Andrea Gienger, Roland Bauer
  • Pyridazine compounds for controlling invertebrate pests
    Patent number: 8853214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pyridazine compounds of formulae I or II and the salts and N-oxides thereof, wherein the substituents have the meanings as defined in the description, a method for controlling invertebrate pests, to a method for protecting plant propagation material and/or the plants which grow therefrom, to plant propagation material, comprising at least one compound according to the present invention, to a method for treating or protecting an animal from infestation or infection by parasites and to an agricultural composition containing at least one compound according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ronan Le Vezouet, Sebastian Soergel, Christian Defieber, Steffen Gross, Karsten Koerber, Douglas D. Anspaugh, Deborah L. Culbertson
  • Processes for preparing 4-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid and 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone
    Patent number: 8853444
    Abstract: Processes for preparing 4-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid from 2-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid and/or 3-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid, which processes include the conversion of 2-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid and/or 3-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid to 4-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid in the presence of sulfuric acid at a temperature of 100 to 300° C.; as well as processes for preparing 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone, which include such described processes for preparing 4-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Patrick Deck, Heiner Schelling, Florian Garlichs
  • Process for preparing neopentyl glycol
    Patent number: 8853465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing neopentyl glycol (NPG) by continuously hydrogenating hydroxypivalaldehyde (HPA) with hydrogen, in the liquid phase, in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, in a hydrogenation reactor (5), by combining an HPA-comprising stream (1) with an NPG-comprising stream (2) to give a hydrogenation feed (4) and introducing the hydrogenation feed (4) into the hydrogenation reactor (5) and additionally supplying at least one pH regulator (3) selected from the group consisting of tertiary amine, an inorganic base, an inorganic acid and an organic acid to the HPA-comprising stream (1) or the NPG-comprising stream (2) or the hydrogenation feed (4), in order to establish a pH of 7.0 to 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Steiniger, Maria Guixa Guardia, Kai Stehmeier
  • Process for preparing substituted isoxazoline compounds and their precursors
    Patent number: 8853410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method of preparing halogenated styrene compounds of formula (VIII) which are precursors in the process of synthesis of substituted isoxazoline compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 to R5, R8 and R9 are described as in the description. The present invention relates further to the synthesis of compounds of formula (I) starting from acetophenones. The desired styrenes of formula are prepared from the appropriate substituted acetophenone. Asides bromo anilines react with formoxime. Obtained oximes undergo a cycloaddition with the styrenes and give isoxazolines. Compounds of formula (I) can then be prepared in a palladium catalyzed carbonylative amination reaction of the isoxazolines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Rack, Karsten Koerber, Florian Kaiser
  • Process for the homogeneously catalyzed amination of alcohols with ammonia in the presence of a complex catalyst which comprises no anionic ligands
    Patent number: 8853400
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing primary amines by alcohol amination of alcohols with ammonia with the elimination of water, where the alcohol amination is carried out under homogeneous catalysis in the presence of at least one complex catalyst which comprises ruthenium and at least one at least bidental donor ligand, but no anionic ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mathias Schelwies, Marion Brinks, Thomas Schaub, Johann-Peter Melder, Rocco Paciello, Martin Merger
  • Pyrazole compounds for controlling invertebrate pests
    Patent number: 8853125
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling invertebrate pests which method comprises treating the pests, their food supply, their habitat or their breeding ground or a plant, seed, soil, area, material or environment in which the pests are growing or may grow, or the materials, plants, seeds, soils, surfaces or spaces to be protected from pest attack or infestation with a pesticidally effective amount of a pyrazole compound of formulae I or II or a salt or an N-oxide thereof, wherein A is a pyrazole radical of the formulae A1 or A2, wherein # denotes the binding; D is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic radical fused to the pyrazole moiety; Rp1, Rp2 and Rpx are H, halogen, CN, NO2, C1-C10-alkyl, C2-C10-alkenyl, C2-C10-alkynyl, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Steffen Groβ, Karsten Körber, Wolfgang von Deyn, Florian Kaiser, Ronan Le Vezouet, Sebastian Sörgel, Matthias Pohlman, Prashant Deshmukh, Joachim Dickhaut, Douglas D. Anspaugh, Deborah L. Culbertson, Faraneh Oloumi
  • Process for operating a mixing kneader
    Patent number: 8853333
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for operating a mixing kneader, comprising one or more shafts on whose surfaces are disposed kneading bars and which are surrounded by a casing, comprising the following steps: (a) supplying reactants at an addition site in the mixing kneader, (b) converting the reactants in an exothermic reaction, the reaction at first forming a coherent kneadable intermediate, (c) tearing and dividing the coherent kneadable intermediate to form a product, the exothermic reaction optionally continuing during the tearing and division, (d) withdrawing the product at a withdrawal site in the mixing kneader, wherein at least one of the shafts and/or the casing is heated to a temperature above 20° C. during the operation of the mixing kneader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oskar Stephan, Monte Peterson, Karl J. Possemiers, Steven Lippens
  • Process for preparing moldings using mixtures of amines with guanidine derivatives
    Patent number: 8852489
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing moldings, the curing of the mold being carried out using a blend comprising one or more epoxy resins and a mixture, the curing component a) being used within the mixture in the range from 0.3 to 0.9 amine equivalent per equivalent of epoxide of the epoxy resin used, and the hardener component b) being a compound of the formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lars Wittenbecher, Michael Henningsen, Gregor Daun, Dieter Flick, Joerg-Peter Geisler, Juergen Schillgalies, Erhard Jacobi
  • Highly functional, hyperbranched polycarbonates and production and use thereof
    Patent number: 8853331
    Abstract: Hyperbranched polycarbonates having stabilizing groups, prepared by reaction of (a) at least one compound having at least three alcoholic hydroxyl groups per molecule with (b) at least one reagent of the general formula I (c) and at least one reagent of the general formula X3-(A1)m-X4, where the variables are defined as follows: X1, X2 are identical or different and are selected from among halogen, C1-C10-alkoxy, C6-C10-aryloxy and O—C(?O)-halogen, X3 is a functional group selected from among OH, SH, NH2, NH—C1-C4-alkyl, iso-cyanate, epoxy, COOH, COOR12, C(?O)—O—C(?O), C(?O)—Cl, R12 is C1-C4-alkyl or C6-C10-aryl, A1 is a spacer or a single bond, m is zero or one. X4 is a group selected from among phenol groups, benzophenones, aromatic amines and nitrogen-comprising heterocycles, in each case substituted or unsubstituted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Jens Aβmann, Claudius Schwittay, Harald Schäfer
  • Methods for producing composite elements based on foams based on isocyanate
    Patent number: 8852691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of composites, composed of at least one outer layer b) and of an isocyanate-based rigid foam a), where the outer layer b) is moved continuously and the starting material for the isocyanate-based rigid foam a) is applied to the outer layer b), which comprises achieving the application of the liquid starting material for the isocyanate-based rigid foam a) by means of at least one fixed tube c) which has openings f) and which has been placed, with respect to the outer layer b), so as to be parallel to the plane of the outer layer and at right angles to the direction of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lars Schoen, Roland Fabisiak, Rainer Hensiek, Peter Huntemann, Ruediger Viereck, Maria Thomas, Bernd Schaper
  • Boron trifluoride-catalyst complex and process for preparing high-reactivity isobutene homopolymers
    Patent number: 8853336
    Abstract: A catalyst complex composed of boron trifluoride and a cocatalyst mixture of 10 to 90% by weight of a monohydric primary C1- to C20-alcohol and 90 to 10% by weight of a monohydric secondary C3- to C20-alcohol, where the molar ratio of boron trifluoride to the sum of all alcohols is 2:1 to 1:10. This catalyst complex is used in the preparation of high-reactivity isobutene homopolymers having a number-average molecular weight of 300 to 50 000, using, as the feedstock, a C4 hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least 20% by weight of isobutene and a total of at least 10% by weight of other C4 olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Wettling, Stefan Hirsch, Markus Brym, Markus Weis
  • Process for preparing substituted 2-nitrobiphenyls
    Patent number: 8853455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing substituted 2-nitrobiphenyls and to specific 2-nitrobiphenyls. The invention further relates to a process for preparing 2-aminobiphenyls from such 2-nitrobiphenyls and to a process for preparing (het)arylamides of such 2-aminobiphenyls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexander Korte, Jan Klaas Lohmann, Thomas Grote, Klaus Ebel, Thomas Zierke, Horst Mayer, Ralf Wazulek
  • Water absorbent polymer particles formed by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution and coated with sulfinic acid, sulfonic acid, and/or salts thereof
    Patent number: 8852742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbent polymer particles by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a surrounding heated gas phase and flowing the gas cocurrent through the polymerization chamber, which comprises coating the water-absorbing polymer particles with at least one sulfinic acid, sulfonic acid and/or salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Norbert Herfert, Thomas Daniel, Rainer Dobrawa