Abstract: A process for preparing thiopyridines of the formula I where the substituents are as defined in the description.

Abstract: A process for breaking down hydroxylamine in aqueous solutions, especially wastewaters, by treatment with an oxidizing agent, which comprises using as said oxidizing agent an alkali metal hypohalite or alkaline earth metal hypohalite or peroxomonosulfuric or peroxodisulfuric acid or a salt thereof and carrying out the treatment with said oxidizing agent at a pH<8.

Abstract: Aqueous preparations comprising a) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of a copolymer based on N-vinylcaprolactam, N-vinylpyrrolidone and N-vinylimidazole and b) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one polyoxyethylene C6-C15-monoalkyl ether, and their use in cosmetic formulations are described.

Abstract: An electrocoat coating composition includes an anionic addition polymer latex and a water-insoluble crosslinking resin that is dispersed with an anionic dispersing resin.

Abstract: In a process for finishing neopentyl glycol by cooling, crystallizing and comminuting a neopentyl glycol melt and subsequent packing of the resulting neopentyl glycol particles in storage or transport containers, the melt is cooled at the commencement of cooling for at least 1/10 minutes without use of a coolant or with use of a coolant having a temperature in the range from 50 to 120° C. and the product is packed at a temperature below 30° C.

Abstract: Wastewaters and circulation waters in papermaking, in deinking and in pulp bleaching are treated by adsorption of water-soluble anionic compounds and compounds dispersed in water from the wastewaters and circulation waters over finely divided adsorbents which consist of insoluble, only slightly swellable polymers which contain polymerized vinylamine units, and these polymers are used as adsorbents for treating water circulations in papermaking and for treating paper machine wastewaters and wastewaters from the deinking process and from pulp bleaching.

Abstract: Most generally, the invention provides a method for making a neutralized polyether polyol, comprising the steps of a) Polymerizing one or more alkylene oxides in the presence of an alkaline catalyst to form a polyalkylene oxide intermediate; and b) Neutralizing the intermediate, after the polymerization step a) is complete, with an organic acid of general formula where R1 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R2 is methyl or ethyl; and R3 is an alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group containing one to twelve carbon atoms. The invention also comprises the novel compositions made by the above process.

Abstract: Use of 4,4-diarylbutadienes of the formula I, where the variables have the meanings explained in the description, as water-soluble photostable UV filters in cosmetic and pharmaceutical preparations for protecting the human skin or human hair from the sun's rays, alone or together with compounds which absorb in the UV region and are known per se for cosmetic and pharmaceutical preparations.

Abstract: Reactive disazo dyes of the formula (1) wherein each R independently is RA or RB where RA is a group of the formula (2), RB is a group of the formula (3) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined in the description and Y is a labile atom or group. The dyes may be used for dyeing, printing or ink-jet printing of textile materials, leather, paper, coated paper, hair or film.

Abstract: Phosphonium salts are prepared by reacting an alkanol with triarylphosphine and alkyl or trifluoromethane sulfonic acids in a solvent.

Abstract: Phenylacetic acid derivatives of the formula I where the substituents and the index have the following meanings: X is oxygen or sulfur; R is hydrogen or alkyl; R1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is cyano, nitro, trifluoromethyl, halogen, alkyl or alkoxy; m is 0, 1 or 2, it being possible for the R2 radicals to be different if m is 2; R3 is hydrogen, cyano, nitro, hydroxyl, amino, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkylthio, alkylamino or dialkylamino; R4 is hydrogen, cyano, nitro, hydroxyl, amino, halogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkenylthio, alkenylamino, N-alkenyl-N-alkylamino, alkynyl, alkynyloxy, alkynylthio, alkynylamino, N-alkynyl-N-alkylamino; unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl, cycloalkoxy, cycloalkylthio, cycloalkylamino, N-cycloalkyl-N-alkylamino, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkenyloxy, cycloalkenylthio, cycloalkenylamino, N-cycloalkenyl-N-alkylamino, heterocyclyl, heterocyclyloxy, heterocycly

Abstract: A polymer based on a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine is prepared by polycondensation in an extruder, by (a) heating a mixture of a dicarboxylic acid having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms and a diamine having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, which mixture is solid at room temperature and has a residual moisture content of less than 5% by weight, to a temperature in the range from 150 to 400° C. under autogenous pressure in a contrarotating twin-screw extruder to give a product A, (b) feeding the product A to a corotating twin-screw extruder, with the product A being exposed to a temperature in the range from 150 to 400° C. and residual water present and also water from the polycondensation being removed through the degassing openings, to give a product B, with the proviso that the corotating twin-screw extruder has at least two segments having different pressures.

Abstract: Relatively thin (e.g., thickness of less than about 2.5 mm, and typically no greater than about 1.0 mm) plates for synthetic fiber-forming spin packs include a first metal layer exhibiting a relatively slow photochemical etching property and a second metal layer exhibiting a relatively fast photochemical etching property which are adhered (laminated) to one another to form a composite substrate structure. The differential etch rates as between the first and second metal layers permit relatively dimensionally larger distribution channels and relatively dimensionally precise through holes to be formed in the composite substrate. In this regard, the second metal layer permits the formation via photochemical etching of dimensionally deeper and/or wider polymer distribution channels. The first metal layer, on the other hand, allows for the formation of relatively dimensionally precise through holes via concurrent (simultaneous) etching with the second metal layer.

Abstract: Two-component polyurethane systems composed of an at least bifunctional polyisocyanate component and a polyol component have a polyol component which comprises at least one hydroxyl-containing cyclic acetal and/or ketal.

Abstract: The invention relates to solid drug forms obtainable by extrusion with subsequent shaping of a solvent-free melt, comprising, besides one or more active ingredients, A) 10-90% by weight of a melt-processable, water-soluble polymer, B) 5-85% by weight of isomalt, and C) 0-5% by weight of lecithin, where the total of all the ingredients is to be equal to 100% by weight.

Abstract: Phenylketiminooxybenzyl compounds of the general formula I where: X is O or NH; R1 is fluorine, chlorine, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy and haloalkoxy; R2 is halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl and alkoxy; R3 is halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, cycloalkyl, unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, unsubstituted or substituted phenoxy or CRa═NORb (Ra=hydrogen or alkyl; Rb=alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl); n is 1, 2 or 3, and salts thereof, processes for their preparation and their use for controlling animal pests and harmful fungi.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a continuous process to make super absorbing polymer characterized by feeding at the head-end of a pressurized vessel, an aqueous solution of SAP forming monomer solution, either in un-neutralized or pre-neutralized condition, the monomer(s) being conveyed to the reactor vessel at a relatively low temperature of from 5° C. to 15° C. into a pressurized head feed zone of the reactor. The head pressure is maintained the reactor at a minimum level of greater than or equal to about 20 p.s.i.g. and the SAP advances to the discharge end. A relatively constant mass of SAP is maintained of at least 50% volume of SAP in the vessel, and the rate of entry and exit are kept relatively constant. The reaction vessel is equipped with a venting means to regulate the internal bead pressure to advance the SAP to the discharge end without mechanical agitation.

Abstract: The invention relates to binders BM for one-component coating systems, comprising a polyurethane alkyd resin component (A) composed of: (a) from 5 to 50% by weight of a mixture of: (a1) from 90 to 30 parts by weight of an unsaturated C6 to C30 fatty acid containing at least two nonconjugated double bonds, and (a2) from 10 to 70 parts by weight of an is unsaturated C6 to C30 fatty acid containing at least two conjugated double bonds as esterified polymer side chains of the polyurethane alkyd resin component (A) and (b) from 95 to 50% by weight of polyurethane units as polymer main chains of the polyurethane alkyd resin component (A).

Abstract: Methylolalkanal of the formula II (R=CH2OH, C1-C22-alkyl, aryl or C6-C22-aralkyl) is prepared spe-wise by a) reacting a C2-C24-aldehyde with formaldehyde in the presence of a tertiary amine, b) separating the reaction mixture i) into a bottom fraction comprising the compound of formula II and an incompletely methylolated compound of the formula III and a distillate stream comprising unconverted or partially converted starting materials, or ii) into an aqueous phase and an organic phase, and recycling the distillate stream or the organic phase to a), and c) subjecting the bottom fraction or the aqueous phase i) to a catalytic or thermal reaction to convert the compound of formula III to the compound of formula II and to a corresponding methylene compound of formula IV (R′=H or R) and ii) separating the reaction product into an overhead stream comprising the compound of formula IV and unconverted formaldehyde which is recycled to a

Abstract: The disclosure is a process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters by reacting (meth)acrylic acid with C4-C6-alkanols in the presence of a strong inorganic acid or of a C4-C6-monoalkyl ester of a polybasic strong acid as catalyst, which comprises removing the unconverted alkanol from the resulting reaction mixture by distillation and thereafter removing the catalyst from the resulting mixture.