Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Methods in Increasing Grain Value by Improving Grain Yield and Quality
    Publication number: 20120216315
    Abstract: The invention provides a transgenic plant, which expresses a transgene encoding a citrate synthase (CS) wherein the transgenic plant seed of the invention is characterized by increased yield and/or enhanced levels of protein, essential amino acids or oil, when compared to an isoline that does not express the transgene; and also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with economically relevant traits and provides expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding Citrate Synthase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science
    Inventors: Hanping Guan, Beomseok Seo
  • USE OF POLYMER PARTICLES CONTAINING INSECTICIDE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE SOIL MOBILITY OF INSECTICIDES, INSECTICIDE FORMULAS, POLYMER PARTICLES CONTAINING INSECTICIDE, AND METHOD FOR PEST CONTROL
    Publication number: 20120214857
    Abstract: Polymer particles, comprising a) at least one sparingly soluble insecticide from the group consisting of fipronil, allethrin, alpha-cypermethrin, beta-cyfluthrin, bifenthrin, bioallethrin, 4-chloro-2-(2-chloro-2-methylpropyl)-5-[(6-iodo-3-pyridinyl)methoxy]-3(2H)-pyridazinone (CAS-RN: 120955-77-3), chlorantraniliprole, chlorfenapyr, cyantraniliprole, cyfluthrin, cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, etofenprox, fenoxycarb, flufenoxuron, hydramethylnon, imidacloprid, indoxacarb, metaflumizone, permethrin, pyriproxifen, tebufenozide and tralomethrin and b) at least one water-insoluble polymer, are suitable for improving the soil mobility of the sparingly soluble insecticide(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klaus Reinhard, Holger Türk, Peter Hahn, Tina Schröder-Grimonpont, Michael Ishaque, Marc Rudolf Jung
  • Process for Producing Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles with High Free Swell Rate
    Publication number: 20120211699
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles with high free swell rate, comprising the steps of polymerization, drying, grinding, classification and thermal surface postcrosslinking, remoisturization and drying again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel, Volker Braig, Asif Karim
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING DIVINYL ETHERS
    Publication number: 20120215033
    Abstract: Process for preparing divinyl ethers by reacting compounds having two hydroxyl groups (hereinafter referred to as diols) with acetylene, wherein the hydroxyl groups are incompletely reacted with acetylene and the resulting product mixture therefore comprises the monovinyl ether in addition to the divinyl ether and the monovinyl ether is separated off from the product mixture by extractive distillation in the presence of an extractant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas MAIDHOF, Helmut Kronemayer, Georg Heinrich Grosch, Regina Vogelsang, Klaus Peter Gumbel, Tim Balensiefer, Alexey Shilkin
  • RHEOLOGICAL AGENT FOR RADIATION-CURABLE COATING COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20120214894
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new, radiation-curable compounds, to their use in radiation-curable coating compositions, to such radiation-curable coating compositions, and to the use of the new, radiation-curable compounds as rheological agents in radiation-curable coating compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Reinhold SCHWALM, Erich Beck
  • METHOD FOR THE PRODUCING ANHYDRIDE-CONTAINING VINYL AROMATIC-VINYL CYANIDE COPOLYMERS HAVING REDUCED DIRT PARTICLE CONTENT
    Publication number: 20120214889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing copolymers A) with a reduced soil particle content, comprising 49.2 to 93.2% by weight of structural units which derive from one or more vinylaromatic monomers (component A1)), 6 to 50% by weight of structural units which derive from one or more vinyl cyanides (component A2)), 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Weber, Peter Ittemann, Axel Gottschalk, Bernd Niedermaier, Birgit Reinhard, Dirk Meckelnburg
  • Process for the Preparation of 4-Sulfinyl-Pyrazole Derivatives
    Publication number: 20120215008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, nitro, cyano, and pentafluorothio; R6 is C1-C4-alkyl, or C1-C4-haloalkyl; by oxidation of a compound of formula (II) with an oxidation agent selected from trifluoroperacetic acid and trichloroperacetic acid in the presence of a catalyst selected from hydroxides, oxides, sulfates, acetates or trifluoroacetates of lithium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, titanium (IV), zinc (II) and manganese (II).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexander Korte, Paul Hornung
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING AQUEOUS POLYACRYLIC ACID SOLUTIONS
    Publication number: 20120214941
    Abstract: A process for preparing aqueous solutions of homo- or copolymers of acrylic acid by means of free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid and optionally water-soluble, monoethylenically unsaturated comonomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of at least one water-soluble initiator and of at least one water-soluble regulator, wherein the polymerization is conducted by means of a continuous process, and wherein, after the polymerization, low molecular weight components are at least partly removed from the resulting aqueous polymer solution. For the polymerization, preference is given to using microstructured mixers and reactors. Preference is given to using at least one reactor and/or mixer with microstructures for the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Kleiner, Wolfgang Loth, Markus Brym, Elke Gütlich-Hauk, Bolette Urtel, Ruth Wirschem, Jürgen Detering
  • POLYMERS BASED ON GLYCEROL CARBONATE AND AN ALCOHOL
    Publication number: 20120215032
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer and the associated polymerization process, and to the use of the polymers according to the invention for example as foam suppressant, for the dispersion of solids or as surfactant for washing or cleaning purposes. The polymer is prepared by polymerization of a) at least one alkylene oxide or a cyclic carbonate of the formula (I) where n is 1 to 10, m is 0 to 3 and R1 is C1-C10-alkyl, C2-C10-alkenyl, aryl or aralkyl, b) glycerol carbonate and c) at least one alcohol in the presence of a base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Roman Benedikt Raether, Sophie Maitro-Vogel, Wolfgang Spiegler
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING AROMATIC AMINES
    Publication number: 20120215029
    Abstract: A process for preparing aromatic amines by hydrogenation of nitroaromatics in the presence of catalysts, forming a fluid, amine-comprising reaction mixture in a reactor, wherein chromatographic analysis of the reaction mixture is carried out to determine the concentration of nitro and nitroso compounds in the reaction mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefanie Haase, Dusko Kadijevic, Anne-Kathrin Merten, Michael Zoellinger, Andreas Raichle, Alexander Schocker, Sandra Mühlbeyer, Olaf Wiedenhoff, Joana Coelho Tsou
  • Stable Protective Coatings For Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
    Publication number: 20120214917
    Abstract: A coating material, containing a mixture of i) a polymer obtained by radical polymerization from a) N,N-diethylaminoethyl methacrylate, and b) at least one radically polymerizable compound, selected from esters of ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated mono- and dicarboxylic acids with C1-C18 alkanols, as component A, ii) one or more antioxidants as component B, iii) one or more plasticizers as component C, and iv) other excipients as components D, wherein the total amount of the mixture of components A-D is 100 wt. %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Karl Kolter, Maximilian Angel, Thomas Breiner
  • Process for preparing aminale and their use for preparing 1,3-disubstituted pyrazole compounds
    Publication number: 20120215009
    Abstract: Process for preparing aminale and their use for preparing 1,3-disubstituted pyrazole compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Maximilian Dochnahl, Michael Keil, Roland Goetz
  • USE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN CHLORIDE AS REFRIGERANT IN PROCESSES FOR PREPARING CHLORINE
    Publication number: 20120213693
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing chlorine from HCl and a method of using liquid HCl to cool and optionally liquefy chlorine in the process. The process involves introducing at least one HCl-containing stream and an oxygen-containing stream into an oxidation zone and catalytically oxidizing the HCl to chlorine, contacting the chlorine with aqueous HCl with partial separation of water and HCl to yield a gas stream, drying the gas stream to yield an essentially water-free gas stream, which is compressed and cooled to give an at least partially liquefied stream, and separating the liquefied stream into a gas stream and a liquid stream which is separated into a chlorine stream, such that cooling and partial liquefaction of the gas stream is effected by indirect heat exchange with a liquid HCl stream, resulting in some of the liquid HCl stream vaporizing to form a gaseous HCl stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen PALLASCH, Heiner SCHELLING, Peter VAN DEN ABEEL, Till EINIG
  • POLYESTER POLYOLS BASED ON AROMATIC DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS
    Publication number: 20120214891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyester polyols based on aromatic dicarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof and to the use of the polyester polyols for producing polyurethanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lionel GEHRINGER, Gunnar KAMPF, Sirus ZARBAKHSH, Joachim-Thierry ANDERS
  • Amylopectin Type Starch with Enhanced Retrogradation Stability
    Publication number: 20120216316
    Abstract: This invention relates to transgenic potato plants producing amylopectin-type starch with enhanced retrogradation stability. The invention further provides a method for producing and identifying such transgenic potato plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Geiger, Christian Biesgen, Per Hofvander
  • Herbicidal Tetrahydrophthalimides
    Publication number: 20120214668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tetrahydrophthalimides of formula I wherein the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the benzoxazinones of the formula I, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one tetrahydrophthalimide of the formula I to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Trevor William Newton, Thomas Seitz, Helmut Walter, Bernd Sievernich, Anja Simon, Ricarda Niggeweg, Klaus Grossmann
  • Process for preparing ?-caprolactone
    Patent number: 8247580
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing ?-caprolactone in a purity of more than 99% by cyclizing 6-hydroxycaproic esters in the liquid phase at from 150 to 400° C. and from 1 to 1020 hPa abs., and removing and condensing the compounds which are volatile under cyclization conditions, which comprises thermally treating the remaining bottom product of the cyclization in at least one further reactor, removing and condensing volatile compounds and obtaining ?-caprolactone by distillation from the condensates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Rolf Pinkos, Gerd-Dieter Tebben, Thomas Krug, Tilman Sirch, Todd C Spengeman, Stephanie A. Bejune, Jeffrey T. Andress, Todd Gasiorowski
  • Four-way diesel catalysts and methods of use
    Patent number: 8246922
    Abstract: Provided are catalyst articles, emission treatment systems and methods for simultaneously remediating the carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and gaseous hydrocarbons present in diesel engine exhaust streams. The emission treatment system of specific embodiment effectively treats diesel engine exhaust with a single catalyst article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: R. Samuel Boorse, Martin Dieterle
  • Nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins associated with abiotic stress response and plant cells with increased tolerance to environmental stress
    Patent number: 8247651
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. This invention further relates to transformed plant cells with altered metabolic activity compared to a corresponding non transformed wild type plant cell, wherein the metabolic activity is altered by transformation with a Stress-Related Protein (SRP) coding nucleic acid and results in increased tolerance and/or resistance to an environmental stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Amber Shirley, Xi-Qing Wang, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Bryan McKersie, Ruoying Chen
  • S-perfluoroalkyl substituted hydroxybenzylthioethers and derivatives as surface modifiers
    Patent number: 8246859
    Abstract: The invention describes a process for reducing the surface energy of organic materials such as for example increasing the oil and water repellency and stain release of organic materials, which comprises treating the organic material with at least a compound of the formula I wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1; especially wherein at least one of the radicals R2, R3 or R4 is —CH(R11)—S(O)p—R12; R11 is hydrogen, C1-C8alkyl, unsubstituted or with C1-C4alkyl substituted phenyl; R12 is a monovalent perfluorinated alkyl or alkenyl, linear or branched organic radical having four to twenty fully fluorinated carbon atoms, and p is 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michèle Gerster, Manuel Mihalic