Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Process for preparing formic acid by reaction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen
    Patent number: 8877965
    Abstract: A process for preparing formic acid by reaction of carbon dioxide (1) with hydrogen (2) in a hydrogenation reactor (I) in the presence of a catalyst comprising an element of group 8, 9 or 10 of the Periodic Table, a tertiary amine comprising at least 12 carbon atoms per molecule and a polar solvent comprising one or more monoalcohols selected from among methanol, ethanol, propanols and butanols, to form formic acid/amine adducts as intermediates which are subsequently thermally dissociated, where the work-up of the output (3) from the hydrogenation reactor (I) is carried out by addition of water so as to increase the distribution coefficient of the catalyst between the upper phase (4) and the lower phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schaub, Donata Maria Fries, Rocco Paciello, Klaus-Dieter Mohl, Martin Schäfer, Stefan Rittinger, Daniel Schneider
  • Process for producing semiconductive layers
    Patent number: 8877657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a layer comprising at least one semiconductive metal oxide on a substrate, comprising at least the steps of: (A) preparing a solution comprising at least one precursor compound of the at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of carboxylates of mono-, di- or polycarboxylic acids having at least three carbon atoms, or derivatives of mono-, di- or polycarboxylic acids, alkoxides, hydroxides, semicarbazides, carbamates, hydroxamates, isocyanates, amidines, amidrazones, urea derivatives, hydroxylamines, oximes, urethanes, ammonia, amines, phosphines, ammonium compounds, azides of the corresponding metal and mixtures thereof, in at least one solvent, (B) applying the solution from step (A) to the substrate and (C) thermally treating the substrate from step (B) at a temperature of 20 to 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrey Karpov, Friederike Fleischhaker, Imme Domke, Marcel Kastler, Veronika Wloka, Lothar Weber
  • Functionalized nanoparticles
    Patent number: 8877954
    Abstract: The present invention discloses functionalized nanoparticles comprising on the surface a covalently bound radical of the formula (I) wherein the nanoparticles are SiO2, Al2O3 or mixed SiO2 and Al2O3 nanoparticles, and wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1. These functionalized nanoparticles are for example useful as stabilizers and/or compatibilizers in organic materials, or as photoinitiators in pre-polymeric or pre-crosslinking formulations, or as reinforcer of coatings and improver of scratch resistance in coating compositions for surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Giesenberg, Andreas Muhlebach, Tunja Jung, Francois Rime, Laurent Michau, Martin Muller, Didier Bauer
  • Manufacture of cellulosic pulp sheets
    Patent number: 8877009
    Abstract: A pulp making process in which fibrous cellulosic material is pulped to form an aqueous suspension of cellulosic material, the suspension is drained through a screen to form a pulp sheet and that the pulp sheet is dried to form a dry market pulp, in which a water soluble cationic polymer is added to the suspension as the sole drainage aid wherein the water-soluble cationic polymer is either, i) a copolymer comprising (a) between 1 and 70 mole % (meth)acrylamide and (b) between 30 and 99 mole % (meth)acryloyloxyethyl-trimethyl ammonium chloride with an intrinsic viscosity between 5 and 9 dl/g; or ii) a hydrolysed homopolymer of vinylformamide comprising between 1 and 100 mole % vinyl amine units and having a K value of between 45 and 240. The process of the invention provides improved drainage time and solids content of the dewatered pulp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Jehn-Rendu, Joachim Hege, Detlef Kannengieβer
  • Aqueous binders for granular and/or fibrous substrates
    Patent number: 8877842
    Abstract: Binder for granular and/or fibrous substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Krueger, Ulrich Schuetze, Oliver Labisch
  • Method of pesticide treatment of soil adjacent structures
    Patent number: 8875438
    Abstract: A method of treating soil adjacent a structure generally includes positioning an injection apparatus over a first injection site generally adjacent a structure. The injection apparatus is operated to inject pesticide down into the soil at the first injection site without prior disturbance of the soil at the first injection site. The injection apparatus is moved over a second injection site at least in part different from the first injection site and generally adjacent the structure. The injection apparatus is operated to inject pesticide down into the soil at the second injection site and without prior disturbance of the soil at the second injection site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: James H. Clink, Richard A. Warriner
  • Process for preparing acrylic acid from methanol and acetic acid
    Patent number: 8877966
    Abstract: A process for preparing acrylic acid from methanol and acetic acid, in which, in a reaction zone A, the methanol is partially oxidized to formaldehyde in a heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase reaction, the product gas mixture A obtained and an acetic acid source are used to obtain a reaction gas input mixture B which comprises acetic acid and formaldehyde and has the acetic acid in excess over the formaldehyde, and the formaldehyde present in reaction gas input mixture B is aldol-condensed to acrylic acid under heterogeneous catalysis in a reaction zone B with acetic acid present in reaction gas input mixture B, and unconverted acetic acid still present alongside the acrylic acid target product in the product gas mixture B obtained is removed therefrom, and the acetic acid removed is recycled into the production of reaction gas input mixture B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefanie Herzog, Stefan Altwasser, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Process for preparing transition metal-carbene complexes
    Patent number: 8877937
    Abstract: Process for preparing cyclometallated transition metal-carbene complexes comprising at least one carbene ligand, which comprises reacting a ligand precursor with a base, an auxiliary reagent and a metal complex comprising at least one metal M1 (route A) or reacting the ligand precursor with a basic auxiliary reagent and a metal complex comprising at least one metal M1 (route B). The present invention further relates to the use of an auxiliary reagent selected from among salts comprising at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ag, Hg, Sb, Mg, B and Al together with a base in a process for preparing cyclometallated metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Evelyn Fuchs, Martina Egen, Klaus Kahle, Christian Lennartz
  • Synthesis of polyalkylenepolyamines having a low color index by homogeneously catalyzed alcohol amination in the presence of hydrogen
    Patent number: 8877977
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of polyalkylenepolyamines by homogeneously catalyzed alcohol amination, in which aliphatic amino alcohols are reacted with one another or aliphatic diamines or polyamines are reacted with aliphatic diols or polyols with the elimination of water in the presence of a homogeneous catalyst and in the presence of hydrogen gas. Polyalkylenepolyamines obtainable by such processes and polyalkylenepolyamines comprising hydroxy groups, secondary amines or tertiary amines. Uses of such polyalkylenepolyamines as adhesion promoters for printing inks, adhesion promoters in composite films, cohesion promoters for adhesives, crosslinkers/curing agents for resins, primers for paints, wet-adhesion promoters for emulsion paints, complexing agents and flocculating agents, penetration assistants in wood preservation, corrosion inhibitors, immobilizing agents for proteins and enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Julia Strautmann, Thomas Schaub, Stephan Hueffer, Steffen Maas, Rocco Paciello
  • RUBBER-MODIFIED FLAME-RETARDANT MOULDING COMPOSITIONS AND PRODUCTION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140323606
    Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic moulding compositions comprising A) between 55 to 98% in weight of at least one vinyl aromatic copolymer modified with a particulate graft rubber, B) between 1 to 44% in weight of a flame retardant comprising B1) an expandable graphite, B2) a flame-retardant compound comprising phosphorus, and B3) a fluorine-containing polymer, C) between 1 to 20% in weight of a non-particulate-forming rubber comprising polar groups, and D) between 0 to 40% in weight of additional additives, where the weight percentages are respectively based on the total weight of components A) to D), and said percentages add up to a total of 100% in weight, and the polybutadiene content is between 0 to 11I % in weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Mueller, Norbert Guentherberg, Guenter Kehr, Norbert Niessner
  • Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst
    Publication number: 20140323601
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a catalyst suitable for catalyzing a Fischer-Tropsch reaction, said catalyst comprising cobalt metal supported on zinc-oxide and having the following particle size distribution by volume: <10% having a particle size below 1 micron, 70-99% having a particle size between 1 and 5 micron, and <20% having a particle size above 5 micron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Corproation
    Inventors: Tjalling Rekker, Cornelis Roeland Baijense
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140325708
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a PRR-like (Pseudo Response Regulator-like) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRR-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides an hitherto unknown PRR-like-encoding nucleic acid, and construct comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventor: Steve Vandenabeele
  • ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING IT
    Publication number: 20140324005
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a liquid-absorbing article comprising: a first sheet layer presenting an array of absorbent receiving pockets; masses of superabsorbent material, which masses are placed in said absorbent receiving pockets; a second sheet layer placed on top of the first layer; bonding beads placed between the respective pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicants: BASF SE, BOSTIK INC.
    Inventors: Christophe Bauduin, Jean-Francois Chartrel, Thomas Daniel, Julien Liger, Renate Wuestefeld
  • Pesticidal Mixtures
    Publication number: 20140323310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an agrochemical mixture for increasing the health of a plant, comprising as active ingredients a herbicidal compound (I) selected from the group consisting of: Benzoic acids, Pyridine carboxylic acids, Quinoline carboxylic acids, and benazolin-ethyl; and a fungicidal compound (II) in synergistically effective amounts. The present invention further relates to a method for improving the health of a plant, wherein the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is expected to grow or plant propagation material from which the plant grows is treated with an effective amount of a mixture as defined above. In addition, the invention relates to the use of a mixture as defined above for synergistically increasing the health of a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus GEWEHR, Robert John GLADWIN, Lutz BRAHM
  • Pesticidal Mixtures
    Publication number: 20140323311
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an agrochemical mixture for increasing the health of a plant, comprising as active ingredients a herbicidal compound (I) selected from the group consisting of: Benzoic acids, Pyridine carboxylic acids, Quinoline carboxylic acids, and benazolin-ethyl; and a fungicidal compound (II) in synergistically effective amounts. The present invention further relates to a method for improving the health of a plant, wherein the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is expected to grow or plant propagation material from which the plant grows is treated with an effective amount of a mixture as defined above. In addition, the invention relates to the use of a mixture as defined above for synergistically increasing the health of a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus GEWEHR, Robert John GLADWIN, Lutz BRAHM
  • POLYURETHANE COATING AGENT COMPOSITION, MULTISTAGE COATING METHOD USING SAID COATING AGENT COMPOSITIONS, AND USE OF THE COATING AGENT COMPOSITIONS AS CLEAR COATING OR PIGMENTED COATING MATERIAL, AND USE OF THE COATING METHOD FOR AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR PAINTING AND/OR FOR COATING PLASTICS SUBSTRATES AND/OR OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20140322448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to coating material compositions comprising at least one polyhydroxyl group-containing compound (A), at least one polyisocyanate group-containing compound (B) having free and/or blocked isocyanate groups, and at least one catalyst (D) based on a zinc-amidine complex which is preparable by reaction of 1.0 moles of at least one zinc(II) biscarboxylate with 2.0 moles of at least one amidine where R5=hydrogen and R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each identical or different radicals, R1 and R3 being hydrogen or an alkyl radical or an aryl radical, and R2 and R4 being an alkyl radical or an aryl radical, characterized in that the coating material composition further comprises at least one monomeric aromatic, optionally substituted carboxylic acid (S) whose carboxyl group is in conjugation with a ?-electron system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hoffmann, Elke Westhoff, Bernadette Moeller, Benedikt Schnier
  • Substituted 1,2,5-Oxadiazole Compounds and Their Use as Herbicides
    Publication number: 20140323306
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds of the formula I and the N-oxides and salts thereof and to compositions comprising the same. The invention also relates to the use of the 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds or of the compositions comprising such compounds for controlling unwanted vegetation. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of applying such compounds. In formula I, the variables have the following meanings R is e.g. hydrogen, cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-haloalkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, O—Ra, Z—S(O)n—Rb, Z—C(?O)—Rc, Z—C(?O)—ORd, Z—C(?O)NReRf, Z—NRgRh, Z-phenyl and Z-heterocyclyl etc; R1 is e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Helmut Kraus, Matthias Witschel, Thomas Seitz, Trevor William Newton, Liliana Parra Rapado, Raphael Aponte, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Jens Lerchl, Richard Roger Evans
  • PROCESS AND SUPPLY UNIT FOR RESTABILIZING FREE-RADICALLY POLYMERIZABLE MONOMERS
    Publication number: 20140319417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for restabilizing free-radically polymerizable monomers. The process comprises the steps: (a) introduction of a solution of an inhibitor of the free-radical polymerization by means of an inert pressurized gas into a vessel (1) comprising the monomers via a line (10) which comprises an ascending region, and (b) mixing of the contents of the vessel and the inhibitor solution by blowing gas through the line (10). In step (a), the flow velocity of the pressurized gas is set so that plug flow or annular flow is obtained as flow regime of the inhibitor solution and in step (b) the superficial gas velocity is set to ?0.1 mm/s. The present invention further relates to a supply unit (11) for carrying out the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Friedrich-Georg MARTIN, OLIVER ODENWALD
  • Emulsifiable Concentrate Comprising Pesticide, Dimethyl Sulfoxide, Benzyl Alcohol, Alkyl Lactate and Diester
    Publication number: 20140323539
    Abstract: Subject matter of the present invention is an emulsifiable concentrate comprising a water-insoluble pesticide, dimethyl sulfoxide, benzyl alcohol, alkyl lactate and a diester of the formula (I) R1—O(O)C—R2—C(O))—R1??(I), where R1 is C1-C8-alkyl and R2 is C2-C10-alkanediyl or C2-C10-alkenediyl. A further subject matter is an emulsion obtainable by mixing water with the emulsifiable concentrate; a process for the preparation of the emulsifiable concentrate; and a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired vegetation and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants, where the concentrate or the emulsion is allowed to act on the respective pests, their environment or on the crop plants to be protected from the respective pests, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or their environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Cedric Dieleman, Winfried Mayer, Manuel Schmitt, Juergen Jakob, Siegfried Strathmann
  • BLOW-MOLDABLE POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20140323631
    Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions comprising A) from 10 to 99.7% by weight of a polyamide, B) from 1 to 30% by weight of an impact modifier, C) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of a copolymer of C1) from 50 to 95% by weight of styrene or substituted styrenes of the general formula I or a mixture of these in which R is an alkyl radical having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom and R1 is an alkyl radical having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms and n has the value 0, 1, 2, or 3, and C2) from 5 to 50% by weight of structural units derived from one or more dicarboxylic anhydrides, D) from 0.001 to 20% by weight of iron powder, E) from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Claus Gabriel, Manoranjan Prusty, Martin Baumert, Norbert Güntherberg