Abstract: Provided is a catalyst composition, in particular a diesel oxidation catalyst, for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions, such as the oxidation of unburned hydrocarbons (HC), and carbon monoxide (CO). More particularly, the present invention is directed to a catalyst structure comprising at least two, specifically three distinct layers, at least one of which contains an oxygen storage component (OSC) that is present in a layer separate from the majority of the platinum group metal (PGM) components, such as palladium and platinum.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing at least one compound with Z?1 cycles and 7 to 16 carbon atoms with at least one aldehyde group, at least comprising the stages: (a1) oxidation of a composition (A), at least comprising a cyclic olefin with Z cycles and 7 to 16 carbon atoms and at least two C—C double bonds, by means of dinitrogen monoxide to give a composition (A1), (a2) separating off the at least one cyclic olefin with Z cycles and 7 to 16 carbon atoms with at least two C—C double bonds from the composition (A1) from stage (a1) in order to obtain a composition (A2), (b1) separating off the at least one cyclic compound with Z cycles and 7 to 16 carbon atoms with a keto group from the composition (A2) from step (a2), in order to obtain a composition (B1), comprising at least 50% by weight of the at least one compound with Z?1 cycles and 7 to 16 carbon atoms with at least one aldehyde group and at least two C—C double bonds, where Z may be 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Abstract: The present invention relates to catalyst systems containing solid catalyst components comprising titanium, magnesium, halogen and a 1,8-naphthyl diaryloate internal electron donor compound; organoaluminum compounds and alkyl benzoate derivatives as external electron donors. The present invention also relates to methods of making the catalyst systems, and methods of polymerizing or copolymerizing alpha-olefins using the catalyst systems.

Abstract: Process for preparing propylene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (i) and (ii): (i) providing a catalyst comprising at least one porous oxidic material; (ii) reacting propene with a hydroperoxide in at least one nitrile as solvent or in a solvent mixture comprising at least one nitrile in the presence of the catalyst of (i), wherein the at least one porous oxidic material is a zeolite which is assigned X-ray-crystallographically to the MWW type.

Abstract: A process for the production of leather using one or more reaction products of (a) triamines or higher amines with (b) at least one compound of the general formula I A1-R1??I where R1 is selected from hydrocarbon radicals having 10 to 5000 carbon atoms, straight-chain or branched, saturated or having from one to three C—C double bonds, and A1 from groups capable of reacting with amines.

Abstract: The invention relates to an aerogel composite material, a process and a composition for producing the composite material and the use of the composite material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for nonoxidatively dehydroaromatizing a reactant stream comprising C1-C4-aliphatics, comprising the steps of I. feeding reactant stream E into a reaction zone 1, converting reactant stream E under nonoxidative conditions in the presence of a particulate catalyst to a product stream P comprising aromatic hydrocarbons and discharging product stream P from reaction zone 1, II. transferring the catalyst with reduced activity as a result of deposited coke into a reaction zone 2, III. at least partly regenerating the catalyst with supply of a hydrogen-comprising gas stream H in a reaction zone 2, at least some of the coke deposited being converted to methane to form a methane-comprising gas stream M which is fed at least partly to reaction zone 1, IV. discharging the catalyst from reaction zone 2 and V.

Abstract: A method for extracting bulk material from a container which is open at the top by means of a suction apparatus which comprises at least one suction pipe (10) and one or more scrapers (12), with the suction apparatus being laid from above onto the surface of the bulk material in the container and bulk material being sucked away through the at least one suction pipe (10), wherein, during a repeated relative rotational movement between the scraper (12) and the surface of the bulk material in the container, bulk material is conveyed along the one or more scrapers (12) in the direction of the at least one suction pipe (10).

Abstract: A thermoplastic extruded foam sheet having a thickness in the range from 15 mm to 200 mm and cells having an average cell size in the range from 20 to 2000 ?m, wherein the cell membranes have a fibrous structure with fiber diameters below 1500 nm is useful for example as insulating material, especially in the building construction industry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib in which the variables R, n, A, B, R1 and R2 are each as defined in the description. The present invention further relates to the use of compounds of the formula Ia or Ib or mixtures of compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib and/or isomers or mixtures of the isomers of the compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib as photosensitizers in solar cells and photodetectors, and to solar cells and photodetectors which comprise such compounds of the formula Ia or Ib or mixtures of compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib and/or isomers or mixtures of the isomers of the compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib as photosensitizers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for printing conductor tracks onto a substrate, especially for solar cells, using a laser printing process, which composition comprises 30 to 90% by weight of electrically conductive particles, 0 to 7% by weight of glass frit, 0 to 8% by weight of at least one matrix material, 0 to 8% by weight of at least one organometallic compound, 0 to 5% by weight of at least one additive and 3 to 69% by weight of solvent. The composition further comprises 0.5 to 15% by weight of nanoparticles as absorbents for laser radiation, which nanoparticles are particles of silver, gold, platinum, palladium, tungsten, nickel, tin, iron, indium tin oxide, titanium carbide or titanium nitride. The composition comprises not more than 1% by weight of elemental carbon.

Abstract: Provided herein is a barium sulfate-containing catalyst carrier. The catalyst carrier is useful for supporting an exhaust gas purification catalyst, such as a three way conversion catalyst. In an embodiment, the carrier comprises BaSO4/thermally stable alumina. Further provided is a process for preparing the catalyst carrier, with or without precious metals, comprising treating a barium oxide/alumina or barium carbonate/alumina with a stoichiometric amount of sulfuric acid (H2SO4), thus forming BaSO4/alumina in situ in good yield and at low cost.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for carrying out a chemical reaction in the presence of a ruthenium-carbene complex supported on silicon dioxide in a continuously operated reactor and also the use of corresponding supported catalysts in continuously operated reactors.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing constitutive promoters and the production of plants with enhanced constitutive expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of products by biotechnological methods in bacterial cell culture is disclosed as well as products obtained, the use of certain additives to the media used in the manufacture of said products in bacterial cell culture media, and the use of said additives in reducing the detrimental effects of radicals in the manufacture of the products, as well as aspects related to these invention embodiments. The manufacturing process or method comprises adding one or more radical scavenging and/or antioxidative additive preferably selected from the group consisting of sterically hindered nitroxyls, sterically hindered hydroxylamines, sterically hindered hydroxylamine salt compounds, sterically hindered amino compounds and sterically hindered N-hydrocarbyloxyamines, benzofuranone compounds, as obligatory component(s) to the medium used during biosynthesis.

Abstract: The present invention to a process for preparing 1-phenylpyrazoles of the formula I in which each R1 is independently selected from chlorine, fluorine, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy and haloalkoxy; n is 1, 2 or 3; each R2 is independently selected from cyano, nitro, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkylthio and alkoxycarbonyl; m is 0, 1 or 2; A is alkyl, aryl or aryl-C1-C4-alkyl, where A optionally bears 1, 2, 3 or 4 substituents comprising reacting a phenyl halide of the formula (II) with apyrazole derivative of the formula (III) in which X is chlorine, iodine or bromine; and R1, n, R2, m and A are each as defined above, in the presence of a base and a catalytic system comprising a ligand and a metal compound selected from palladium compounds, iron compounds and copper compounds.

Abstract: Rapidly disintegrating, solid coated dosage form comprising a solid core consisting of at least 60% by weight of an auxiliary mixture, up to 40% by weight of at least one active ingredient, and optionally further auxiliaries, coated with at least one film coating comprising completely or partially hydrolyzed, rapidly water-soluble polyether-vinyl ester graft polymers, methods for the production thereof, and their use.

Abstract: A process for producing an isobutene copolymer derivative by: (I) free-radically copolymerizing (a) 10-90 mol % of a monoethylenically unsaturated C4- to C12-dicarboxylic acid, anhydride, or ester, (b) 10-90 mol % of a high-reactivity isobutene polymer having Mn=110-250000 and obtained by polymerizing isobutene in the presence of an iron-halide-, aluminum trihalide-, or alkylaluminum halide-donor complex, each donor being an ether or carboxylic ester function, or in the presence of a Lewis acid complex containing an organic sulfonic acid, and (c) 0-50 mol % of a monoethylenically unsaturated compound copolymerizable with (a) and (b), to obtain an intermediate isobutene copolymer; and (II) reacting the carboxylic acid functions in the intermediate with at least one of ammonia, an amine, and an alcohol, to form a moiety containing at least one of a hydroxyl, carboxylic ester, amino, quaternized amino, amido, and imido group.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for printing electrodes on a substrate, comprising 30 to 90% by weight of electrically conductive particles, 0 to 7% by weight of glass frit, 0.1 to 5% by weight of at least one absorbent for laser radiation, 0 to 8% by weight of at least one matrix material, 0 to 8% by weight of at least one organometallic compound, 3 to 50% by weight of water as a solvent, 0 to 65% by weight of at least one retention aid and 0 to 5% by weight of at least one additive, based in each case on the total mass of the composition. The invention further relates to a use of the composition.

Abstract: A method of producing shaped articles made from single-sidedly or double-sidedly galvanized steel sheet, starting from galvanized steel strip, at least one of the steps of the method being a transport operation, and in which, for protection from black-spot corrosion, a corrosion preventive oil is applied which comprises at least one phosphoric acid polyoxyalkylene ester.