Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing aqueous dispersions of thermoplastic polymers which have a plurality of ester groups and/or carbonate groups in the main polymer chain and which have an acid number of less than 5 mg KOH/g, in particular at most 3 mg KOH/g, and which have a zero-shear viscosity ?0 (180° C.) of at least 60 Pa·s at 180° C. The invention also relates to the polymer dispersions obtainable by said process, and to the use thereof.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer particles by coating water-absorbing polymer particles with a particulate solid in a mixer, wherein the particulate solid is dispersed by means of a gas stream and the supply of the dispersed particulate solid in the mixer ends below the product bed surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous metal-organic framework material comprising a bidentate organic compound bound by coordination to a metal ion, the metal ion being AlIII and the bidentate organic compound being 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate, wherein the X-ray diffractogram (XRD) of the framework material has a first reflection in the range from 6.5°<2?<7.5° and a second reflection in the range from 13.8°<2?<15.0°, the area of the first reflection being greatest in relation to the area of all reflections in the range from 2°<2?<70° and the area of the second reflection being second greatest, and the sum of the areas of the first and second reflections giving at least 50% in relation to the total area of all reflections in the range from 2°<2?<70°. The invention further relates to shaped bodies comprising such a framework material, processes for production of the framework material and also to the use of the framework material or of the proposed shaped body.

Abstract: The invention relates to low-viscosity formulations of radiation-curable compounds, to processes for preparing them, to their use, and to inks, printing-inks, and print varnishes that comprise them.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the work-up of polymer solutions comprising N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and a polymer where the polymer solution is hydrogenated with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst. The present invention also relates to the product obtainable from said process, and to its use for producing, in particular, polyarylene ether products.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a method of treating a gas stream generated by a motorcycle, the method comprising: contacting a gas stream containing hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides and generated by a motorcycle under both rich and lean engine operating conditions with a base metal catalyst composition, thereby removing at least a part of the hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides in gas stream. The base metal catalyst composition comprises a support including at least 10% by weight of reducible ceria, and about 3 to about 7 wt % MnO and about 8 to about 22 wt % CuO on the reducible ceria support. The base metal catalyst composition is effective to promote a steam reforming reaction of hydrocarbons and a water gas shift reaction to provide H2 as a reductant to abate NOx.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process, comprising the following steps, for connecting two plastics elements to give a component, where a second plastics element is connected to a first plastics element by molding-on in a molding process or forming process: (a) inserting the first plastics element into a mold, where the first plastics element comprises at least one thermoplastic as matrix material, (b) introducing a plastics molding composition into the mold for molding the second plastics element, where the plastics molding composition comprises at least one thermoplastic having reactive groups or one mixture made of at least one thermoplastic and of a material having reactive groups which react chemically with reactive groups of the thermoplastic of the first plastics element.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP (Growth-Related Protein), specifically a nucleic acid encoding a HAL3 polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding a MADS15 polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding a PLT transcription factor polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding a Squamosa promoter binding protein-like 15 (SPL15) transcription factor polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding a basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for separating at least one first material from a mixture comprising this at least one first material and at least one second material, which comprises contacting of the mixture comprising at least one first material and at least one second material with at least one magnetic particle, or contacting of the mixture comprising at least one first material and at least one second material with at least one magnetic particle and at least one surface-modifying substance at the same time, contacting of the mixture from step (A) with at least one surface-modifying substance, if this has not been done in step (A), so that the at least one first material, the at least one surface-modifying substance and the at least one magnetic particle become attached to one another, and separation of the addition product by application of a magnetic field.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ethoxylated polyethylenimine polymer comprising (1) a polyethyleneimine backbone, (2) a polyoxyethylene chain wherein the polyoxyethylene chain has an average of 40 to 90 ethyleneoxide units per unit of NH in the polyethyleneimine backbone, (3) a quaternization degree of from 1% to less than 50%.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing rigid polyurethane foams by reaction of A) one or more organic polyisocyanates, B) one or more polyester polyols, C) optionally one or more polyether polyols, D) a flame-retardant mixture, E) further auxiliaries or addition agents, F) one or more blowing agents, and also G) catalysts, wherein said flame-retardant mixture D) comprises d1) 10 to 90 wt %, based on the amount of flame-retardant mixture, of a flame retardant having a boiling point of not more than 220° C., and d2) 10 to 90 wt %, based on the amount of flame-retardant mixture, of a phosphorus-containing flame retardant having a boiling point of above 220° C., wherein said components d1) and d2) total 100 wt %.

Abstract: Provided are tetraazapyrene compounds of formula (I) and their use as n-type semiconductors. In formula (I), R1, R2, R3, R4, at each occurrence, independently are selected from H, a C1-30 alkyl group, a C1-30 alkoxy group, a C1-30 alkylthio group, a C6-14 aryl group, a C6-14 aryloxy group, a C6-14 arylthio group, a C7-20 arylalkyl group, CI and Br; R5, R6, at each occurrence, independently are selected from H, a C1-30 alkyl group, a Cy1-30 haloalkyl group, a C6-14 aryl group and a C7-20 arylalkyl group, wherein aryl and arylalkyl can be optionally substituted with one or more halogen, C1-4 haloalkyl, —CN, —NO2, —CHO, —COOH, —CONH2, —CO(C1-14 alkyl), —COO(C1-14 alkyl), CONHC(C1-14 alkyl) and —CON(C1-14 alkyl)2 groups, with the proviso that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4 is a C6-14 aryloxy, a C6-14 arylthio I group, CI or Br. (I).

Abstract: Method for working up a mixture comprising at least one alcohol of the general formula (I) R1—CH2—CH2—OH??(I) or at least one branched alcohol of the general formula (II) R1—CH2—CHR1—CH2—OH??(II), furthermore at least one oil-soluble complex compound of at least one metal of the 8th, 9th or 10th group of the Periodic Table of the Elements, which is selected from complex compounds which have at least one ligand L1 which is at least bidentate, where at least one coordination site of L1 is a nitrogen atom, and at least one acid of the general formula (III) R1—CH2—COOH??(III) in the form of one of its salts, where the groups R1 are selected from C2-C10-alkyl, linear or branched, wherein (a) the mixture is treated with water which can comprise an alkali metal hydroxide, (b) the salt or salts of acid of the general formula (III) are extracted.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen, by first separately preheating the starting gases comprising a hydrocarbon-containing stream and an oxygen-containing stream and then mixing them in a mixing zone and, after they have flowed through the burner block, reacting them in the firing space and then cooling the products rapidly, wherein the surface on the firing space side of the burner block is covered with a purge gas stream and this purge gas stream is introduced through the burner block by means of several bores, where the averaged ratio of effective surface area of the burner block to number of these bores in the burner block for the purge gas stream is within a range from 5 to 100 cm2.

Abstract: The invention relates to adsorbents for removing impurities from water-comprising gas streams, in particular for use in fuel cell systems, wherein the adsorbents comprise oxides of elements selected from the group consisting of Cu, Fe, Zn, Ni, Co, Mn, Mg, Ba, Zr, Ce, La or combinations of these elements, have a copper oxide content of at least 30% by weight and have pore volumes of less than 0.175 ml·g?1 for pores having a radius of less than 20 nm.

Abstract: The instant invention pertains to novel bi- or tricyclic sterically hindered alkoxyamines, their precursors, a process for their preparation and their use as light stabilizers for polymers or coatings, as flame retardants, as peroxide substitutes (rheology modifiers) or carbon radical scavengers.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of N-vinylcarboxamides by pyrolysis of a compound of the formula CH3—CH(CN)—N(R)—CO—R1??(I), in which R and R1 are H or C1- to C6-alkyl, in the presence of solids which are doped with alkali metal or alkaline earth metal ions, under reduced pressure at a temperature of from 330 to 750° C. with elimination of hydrogen cyanide, cooling, separation and isolation of the reaction products, a solid arranged in a tubular reactor being treated at a temperature in the range from 0 to 250° C. with a solution of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal base, the solution being discharged, the remaining solvent which adheres to the catalyst thus obtainable being evaporated and said catalyst then being heated to a temperature of at least 380° C. for activation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for preparing para-alkyl-substituted cyclohexylmethanols, especially 4-isopropylcyclohexylmethanol, by catalytically hydrogenating the corresponding aldehydes or ketones in the presence of hydrogen and in the presence of a catalyst which comprises, as an active metal, ruthenium applied to a support, the support comprising Al2O3 and/or SiO2, and the catalyst being used in the form of a fixed bed catalyst in a hydrogenation reactor or in a plurality of hydrogenation reactors connected in series.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1,3-substituted pyrazole compounds of the formula I in which X is especially a CX1X2X3 group in which X1, X2 and X3 are each independently especially hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine, R1 is C1-C4-alkyl or cyclopropyl, and R2 is hydrogen, CN or a CO2R2a group in which R2a is especially C1-C6-alkyl, comprising the following steps: i) reacting a compound of the formula II with a hydrazone of the formula III where the variables X and R2 in formula II are each as defined for formula I, Y is oxygen, an NRy1 group or an [NRy2Ry3]+Z? group, R3 is OR3a or an NR3bR3c group, and where the variable R1 in formula III is as defined for formula I, R4 and R5 are each independently hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, where at least one of the R4 and R5 radicals is different from hydrogen, and where R4 and R5 together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded may also be a 5- to 10-membered saturated carbocycle; ii) treating the reac

Abstract: This invention relates to a chemical composition for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) of substrates that are widely used in the semiconductor industry. The inventive chemical composition contains additives that are capable of improving consistency of the polishing performance and extending the lifetime of a polishing pad.