Abstract: The novel compounds of the general formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radicals which are free of groups which impart water solubility,X, Y and Z are each chlorine, bromine or a radical OR.sup.3 andR.sup.3 is unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, naphthyl or anthryl,are very useful as fluorescent dyes in organic material.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of polyester polyols having an acid number of less than 1, a hydroxyl number of approximately 20 to about 400, and having a functionality of efficaciously 2 to 3, wherein polycarboxylic acids and/or their anhydrides and multivalent alcohols are polycondensed, preferably in the absence of common esterification catalysts, at temperatures of from about 150.degree. to 250.degree. C., optionally under reduced pressure, up to an acid number of from 20 to 5. The resulting polycondensate is then oxyalkylated per carboxyl group using from 1 to 5 moles of an alkylene oxide, for example 1,2-propylene oxide and/or preferably ethylene oxide, in the presence of at least one tertiary amine catalyst from the group consisting of N-methylimidazole, diazabicyclo[2,2,2]octane, diazabicyclo[5,4,0]undec-7-ene and pentamethyldiethylenetriamine and mixtures thereof, in a quantity of from about 0.001 to 1.0 weight percent based on the weight of the polycondensate, at temperatures from about 100.degree.

Abstract: Relief plates which are produced by imagewise photopolymerization of layers which contain, as binders, block copolymers of conjugated dienes and vinylaromatics are aftertreated with an aqueous solution of a mixture of bromates, bromides and acids by a process in which amidosulfonic acid and/or aliphatic di-, tri- and/or tetracarboxylic acids are used as the acids.

Abstract: Isoindoline pigments are conditioned by means of a heat treatment of the pigment in a mixture of water and benzenemonocarboxylic and/or benzenedicarboxylic acids.Well crystallized, very weatherfast pigmentary forms which give colorations possessing improved purity of shade are obtained.

Abstract: Fuels for gasoline engines and diesel engines contain small amounts(A) of an alkoxylate which is obtained by reacting ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or butylene oxide with a mono- or polyhydroxy compound and has a number average molecular weight (molecular mass) of from 500 to 6,000 and(B) of an imide or amidoimide, or a mixture of these, obtained from nitrilotriacetic acid and/or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and an amine of 7 to 18 carbon atoms, or a mixture of such amines, of the formula I ##STR1## where the radicals X are identical or different --HN--R radicals or adjacent radicals X are the radical >N--R and form a ring ##STR2## m is 0 or 1 and R is a straight-chain or branched aliphatic radical of 7 to 18 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Ethene homopolymers and ethene copolymers with minor amounts of higher .alpha.-monoolefins are prepared by polymerization of the monomer or monomers using a chromium trioxide catalyst which is obtained by a method in which (1) a finely divided, porous, silicate carrier is laden with (2) chromium trioxide or a chromium compound which is converted to chromium trioxide under the conditions of stage (3), and then (3) the intermediate resulting from stage (2) is heated in an oxygen-containing gas stream. In this process, a cocatalyst which consists of a lithiumalkyl used in addition to the chromium trioxide catalyst.

Abstract: Benzofuran derivatives of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each hydrogen, alkyl or phenylalkyl, where alkyl in each case is of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are identical or different and are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or together form a 3-membered to 5-membered chain which may be interrupted by an oxygen atom or an NR.sup.1 group, X is --CO--CH.dbd.CH--, --CO--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --or --CHOH--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, n is 2 or 3 and Het is an aromatic 5-membered or 6-membered ring which contains a hetero atom from the group consisting of N, O and S and may additionally contain a (further) N atom, in which the ring may be substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, NH.sub.2 or NR.sup.1 R.sup.2, where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 have the abovementioned meanings, the use of these benzofuran derivatives for the preparation of pharmaceutical, in particular antiulcerogenic, agents, and these agents themselves are described.

Abstract: A molecular weight controller having particular application in the polymerization of a lactam, i.e., epsiloncaprolactam, to a polyamide, i.e., poly(epsiloncaprolactam). The molecular weight controller comprises a primary monofunctional amine, i.e., benzylamine, a primary monofunctional acid, i.e., acetic acid, and a salified aminoacid containing an aromatic, a cyclohexane, or cyclopentane moiety, i.e., 4-(aminomethylbenzoic acid salified with p-toluenesulfonic acid. The resulting polyamide has a reduced water extractable content.

Abstract: Nonaqueous polymer dispersions are obtainable by polymerization of esters (A) of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid and/or ethylacrylic acid with C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alcohols in an organic solvent or a mixture of organic solvents in which the polymers formed are insoluble, and in the presence of copolymers (B) having a molecular weight of from 500 to 20,000 and obtainable by bulk or solution polymerization of monoolefinically unsaturated monomers at from 180.degree. to 400.degree. C. and from 1 to 200 bar, and the said dispersions are used for the production of finishes, coating materials and adhesives.

Abstract: N-aryltetrahydrophthalimide derivatives and intermediates therefor of the general formula I ##STR1## where A is O.sub.2 N--, H.sub.2 N-- or ##STR2## corresponding to compounds Ia, Ib and Ic, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine,R.sup.2 is hydrogen or cyano,R.sup.3 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkenyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkynyl, which each may be substituted by halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, or is C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 -alkyl, which may be substituted by C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -alkenyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -alkynyloxycarbonyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alkoxycarbonyl which may be substituted in the alkoxy moiety by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, halogen or phenyl,and herbicides which contain compounds of the formula Ic.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 8-bromomethyl-3-methylquinoline compounds of the formula I ##STR1## where one of both substituents X are chlorine and, where relevant, the other substituent X is hydrogen, by bromination of the corresponding 8-methylquinoline compound in the presence of a 2-phase mixture of a solvent stable to bromination and of, preferably, buffered water.

Abstract: Substituted N-phenylpyridazone derivatives of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -haloalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -haloalkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylthio, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -haloalkylthio, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylsulfinyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylsulfonyl, halogen, cyano, phenyl, phenoxy, or phenylthio and Z is a straight-chain, saturated alkylene group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, herbicides containing these compounds, and a process for combating the growth of unwanted plants.

Abstract: 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrans I ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl and R.sup.3 is not C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl when A is COOR.sup.5 and A is COOR.sup.5, .dbd.CHOR.sup.5, in which R.sup.5 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, or CH.sub.2 OR.sup.6, in which R.sup.6 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or is benzyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, alkoxy or halogen, or is formyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkylcarbonyl or benzoyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, alkoxy or halogen, are prepared by eliminating an alcohol from a 2-alkoxytetrahydropyran II ##STR2## where R.sup.7 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl and A' is COOR.sup.5, CH(OR.sup.5).sub.2 or CH.sub.2 OR.sup.6, in which R.sup.5 and R.sup.

Abstract: Water-disperable carotenoid formulations are prepared by dissolving the carotenoid in a carrier oil at elevated temperatures until saturation is achieved, rapidly emulsifying the solution with an aqueous protective colloid and then removing the water, by a process in which the protective colloid used is a mixture of an ester of a long-chain fatty acid with ascorbic acid and a starch product which is soluble in cold water.The produce can be used for coloring foods and is stable to creaming.

Abstract: Ethylene is polymerized using a Ziegler catalyst system consisting of (1) a titanium catalyst component and (2) an aluminum catalyst component, the component (1) used being the product (VI) which is obtained by a method in which (1.1) first (1.1.1) a carrier (I) and (1.1.2) a solution (II) of (IIa) a solvent, (IIb) a titanium trichloride and (IIc) magnesium chloride are combined with formation of a dispersion (III) and the latter is evaporated down with formation of an intermediate (IV), and (1.2) then (1.2.2) the intermediate (IV) obtained from (1.1), and (1.2.2) an aluminum component (V) consisting of (1.2.2.1) a complex of a certain oxacycloalkane and a certain aluminum compound and (1.2.2.2) if necessary, a certain free aluminum compound are combined, the resulting product (VI) being the catalyst component (1). In this process, a component (1) is employed which has been prepared using, in (1.1) under (1.1.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of N-methylpiperazine from diethanolamine and methylamine, wherein the reaction is carried out at elevated temperature and superatmospheric pressure in the presence of hydrogen over a metal-containing catalyst.

Abstract: 5H-Dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5-ones (I) ##STR1## (A and B being radicals for completing aromatic ring systems) are prepared by converting (Z)-2-(2-arylethenyl)arylcarboxylic acids (II) ##STR2## or E/Z-isomer mixtures thereof with a halogenating agent for carboxylic acids at from (-30.degree.) to +120.degree. C. to the corresponding carbonyl halides (III) ##STR3## where X is halogen, and cyclizing said carbonyl halides at from 0.degree. to 100.degree. C. in the presence of a Lewis acid.

Abstract: 3-pentenoates are prepared from 2-pentenoates by a process in which(a) a 2-pentenoate of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is alkyl of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl of 5 to 8 carbon atoms, aralkyl of 7 to 10 carbon atoms or aryl of 6 to 10 carbon atoms, is reacted with a compound of the formula IIR.sup.2 -X-H IIwhere R.sup.2 has the meanings given for R.sup.1 and X is an oxygen or sulfur atom, or with a compound of the formula III ##STR2## where R.sup.3 is hydrogen or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each alkyl of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, cycloakkyl of 5 to 8 carbon atoms, aralkyl of 7 to 10 carbon atoms or aryl of 6 to 10 carbon atoms, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together with the nitrogen atom on which they are substituents may form a 5-membered to 7-membered ring which may additionally contain a nitrogen or oxygen atom as a hetero atom, at from 20.degree. to 300.degree. C., in the presence or absence of a basic catalyst, to give a compound of the formula IV ##STR3## where Y is --XR.sup.2 or ##STR4## in which X, R.sup.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula ##STR1## where X is fluorine, chlorine, ethyl or n-propyl, and the salts of these compounds, and herbicides containing the compounds or their salts.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording element which is suitable for the production of printing plates or resist images possesses a photopolymerizable recording layer which is applied to a dimensionally stable base, can be developed in an aqueous alkaline medium and contains, as a polymeric binder, one or more film-forming copolymers which are insoluble in water but soluble or dispersible in aqueous alkaline solutions and consist of from 10 to 50% by weight of one or more N-vinylamides, preferably N-vinylcaprolactam and/or N-vinylpyrrolidone, from 5 to 30% by weight of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid, from 30 to 80% by weight of one or more comonomers from the group consisting of the vinyl aromatics and (meth)acrylates of monoalkanols and from 0.2 to 5% by weight of an olefinically unsaturated compound which contains basic nitrogen atoms and has a pK.sub.a >4.