Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Liquid Pyraclostrobin-Containing Crop Protection Formulations
    Publication number: 20110195846
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel liquid formulation for crop protection which comprises a) pyraclostrobin; b) at least one organic solvent S1 with a water solubility of less than 2 g/l at 20° C.; c) at least one organic solvent S2 with a water solubility of at least 2 g/l at 20° C., where S2 comprises at least one solvent S2.1 with a water solubility of more than 200 g/l at 20° C. and optionally at least one solvent S2.2 with a water solubility of 2 to 200 g/l at 20° C.; d) at least one anionic surface-active substance SA1; e) at least one nonionic surface-active substance SA2; and f) water. The invention also relates to the use of the crop protection formulation for treatment of plants and seed, and to corresponding methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrike Troppmann, Wolfgang Meier, Guenter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Tatjana Levy, Jurith Montag, Tanija Brunner, Reiner Weiler
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING ASTAXANTHIN DIMETHYLDISUCCINATE
    Publication number: 20110196170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for producing all-E astaxanthin dimethyldisuccinate of the formula I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: HANSGEORG ERNST, Walter Dobler, Andreas Keller, Klaus Henrich
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF M-SUBSTITUTED ALKYLTOLUENES BY ISOMERIZATION WITH IONIC LIQUIDS AS CATALYSTS
    Publication number: 20110196176
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of m-substituted alkyltoluenes of the formula (I) in which R1 is C1-C5-alkyl, wherein a p-substituted alkyltoluene of the formula (II) in which R1 has the meaning given under formula (I), is isomerized in the presence of ionic liquids to give an m-substituted alkyltoluene of the formula (I). The m-substituted alkyltoluenes obtainable according to the invention are starting compounds for the preparation of fragrances and aroma substances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Lanver, Klaus Ebel, Karl Beck, Ralf Pelzer, Jörg Botzem, Ulrich Griesbach
  • Method for depletion of sulfur and/or compounds containing sulfur from a biochemically produced organic compound
    Patent number: 7994370
    Abstract: Method of reducing the concentration of sulfur and/or a sulfur-containing compound in a biochemically prepared organic compound by bringing the respective organic compound into contact with an adsorbent, wherein the adsorbent is a clay doped with silver and/or a silver compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Hinrichs, Heiko Urtel, Jochen Steiner
  • Methods for the production of stably transformed, fertile plants
    Patent number: 7994399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a Zea mays plant by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Preferred is the use of the Zea may lines deposited with American Type Culture Collection under the Patent Deposit Designation PTA-6170 and PTA-6171.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Fang-Ming Lai, Penny Mrabet, Kangfeng Mei, Luke Mankin, Hongyi Zhang, Christopher Bagley, Larry Nea, Zhongqi Wang, Bijay Singh, Jianying Peng
  • Method for regenerating an auxiliary filtering agent
    Patent number: 7993533
    Abstract: Processes comprising: (i) providing a filter aid comprising a co-extrudate of a water-insoluble polyvinylpyrrolidone and a thermoplastic polymer, (ii) treating the filter aid with aqueous alkali; (iii) subsequently treating the filter aid with an enzyme; and (iv) subsequently thereto carrying out a second treatment with aqueous alkali, to provide a regenerated filter aid, and uses therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Helmut Meffert, Marianna Pierobon, Tobias Petsch, Julia Brodersen, Hermann Josef Feise, Ates Erk, Jörg Kreβ, Ralf Mar, Robert Bayer
  • Process for preparing fluoromethyl-substituted heterocyclic compounds
    Patent number: 7994207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing fluoromethyl-substituted heterocyclic compounds of the general formula (I) in which R1 is H or F; R2 is an -[A-O]m—R3 group in which A is C2-C4-alkanediyl, R3 is C1-C4-alkyl and m is 1 or 2; by converting the corresponding chloromethyl-substituted compounds (II) in the presence of fluorinating agents, to processes for preparing the chloromethyl-substituted compounds (II), to processes for preparing amides of the general formula (IV) and to compounds of the general formulae (I) and (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Zierke, Michael Rack
  • Multi-layer effect pigment
    Patent number: 7993444
    Abstract: A multilayer effect pigment includes a transparent substrate, a layer of high refractive index material on the substrate, and alternating layers of low refractive index and high refractive index materials on the first layer, the total number of layers being an odd number of at least three, all adjacent layers differing in refractive index by at least about 0.2 and at least one of the layers having an optical thickness which is different from all of the other layers. The resulting multilayer effect pigment is not a quarter-wave stack. The present effect pigments may be used in cosmetic and industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S. Fuller, Curtis J. Zimmermann
  • Process for the preparation of optically active 5-substituted 2-oxazolidinones from racemic epoxides and cyanate employing a halohydrin dehalogenase
    Patent number: 7993904
    Abstract: A process for the production of an optically enriched oxazolidinone of the formula (2a) or (2b), by reacting an epoxide of the formula (1) with cyanate in the presence of halo-hydrin dehalogenase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Dirk Barend Janssen, Maja Majeric Elenkov
  • Dropping method for liquids
    Patent number: 7994266
    Abstract: In a process for dropletizing a liquid by means of a dropletizer plate at least the underside of the dropletizer plate has at least in part a contact angle of at least 60° with regard to the liquid to be dropletized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carolin Nadine Dücker, Dennis Loesch, Volker Seidl
  • Azolylmethyloxiranes, their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, and compositions comprising them
    Patent number: 7994340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to azolylmethyloxiranes of the general formula (I) in which A stands for phenyl which is optionally substituted by one to three of the following substituents: halogen, NO2, amino, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylamino, C1-C4-dialkylamino, thio or C1-C4-alkylthio, with the proviso that A does not stand for 2-methylphenyl, and also their plant-compatible acid addition salts or metal salts, and also to the use of the compounds of the formula I for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, and to compositions comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jens Renner, Thomas Grote, Bernd Müller, Jan Klaas Lohmann, Sarah Ulmschneider, Alice Glättli, Jochen Dietz
  • Catalyzed preparation of (meth)acrylates of N-hydroxyalkylated amides
    Patent number: 7993886
    Abstract: The claimed invention relates to a process for preparing (meth)acrylates of N-hydroxyalkylated amides, in which open-chain N-hydroxyalkylated amides are esterified with (meth)acrylic acid or transesterified with at least one (meth)acrylic ester in the presence of at least one heterogeneous catalyst selected from the group consisting of an inorganic salt and an enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellshaft
    Inventors: Frank Hoefer, Dietmar Haering
  • Multilayer effect pigment
    Patent number: 7993443
    Abstract: A multilayer effect pigment includes a transparent substrate, a layer of high refractive index material on the substrate, and alternating layers of low refractive index and high refractive index materials on the first layer, the total number of layers being an odd number of at least three, all adjacent layers differing in refractive index by at least about 0.2 and at least one of the layers having an optical thickness which is different from all of the other layers. The resulting multilayer effect pigment is not a quarter-wave stack. The present multilayer effect pigment may be used in cosmetics or personal care products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S. Fuller, Curtis J. Zimmermann
  • Process for continuously preparing N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (NEP)
    Patent number: 7994350
    Abstract: Process for the continuous preparation of N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (NEP) by reacting gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) with monoethylamine (MEA) in the liquid phase, wherein GBL and MEA are used in a molar ratio in the range from 1:1.08 to 1:2 an the reaction is carried out at a temperature in the range from 320 to 420° C. and an absolute pressure in the range from 70 to 120 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Helmut Schmidtke, Ralph Versch, Silke Simon, Karl Ott, Ronald Drews, Stephanie Mollner
  • Moderate-pressure gas phase phosgenation
    Patent number: 7994361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aromatic diisocyanates by reaction of phosgene with diamines in the gas phase, in which the reaction is carried out in a reaction zone at moderate pressures, i.e. the pressure in this reaction zone is more than 3 bar and less than 20 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Woelfert, Christian Mueller, Eckhard Stroefer, Markus Weber, Joachim Pfeffinger, Carsten Knoesche
  • Nanoparticulate active substance formulations
    Patent number: 7994227
    Abstract: The invention relates to nanoparticulate formulations comprising at least one active compound or compound with a special effect and at least one random radical copolymer. The copolymers are formed from monomers carrying sulfonic acid groups and additional olefinically unsaturated compounds. The formulations are dispersible as nanoparticles in an aqueous medium. The invention includes, in addition, processes for the preparation of the solid and liquid formulations, and their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Koltzenburg, Stephan Lehmann, Bernhard Steinmetz, Wolfgang Schrof, Joachim Hadeler, Winfried Mayer, Matthias Bratz, Werner Goedel
  • BLENDS COMPRISING EPOXY RESINS AND MIXTURES OF AMINES WITH GUANIDINE DERIVATIVES
    Publication number: 20110190419
    Abstract: The present invention provides a blend comprising one or more epoxy resins and a mixture which comprises 0.3 to 0.9 amine equivalent, per equivalent of epoxide of the epoxy resin used, of a hardener component a) and as hardener component b) a compound of the formula I, a process for preparing this blend, the use of the blend of the invention for producing cured epoxy resin, and an epoxy resin cured with the blend of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lars Wittenbecher, Michael Henningsen, Gregor Daun, Dieter Flick, Joerg-Peter Geisler, Juergen Schillgalies, Erhard Jacobi
  • Method for Producing and Purifying Trifluoromethanesulfinic Acid
    Publication number: 20110190510
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for purifying trifluoromethanesulfinic acid by azeotropic distillation with an aromatic solvent, to processes for preparing purified trifluoromethanesulfinic acid and to the use of the purified trifluoronnethanesulfinic acid for preparing trifluoromethylsulfinylated pyrazole derivatives, especially fipronil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Sukopp, Alexander Korte, Stefan Fülster, Michael Keil, Michael Rack
  • USE OF SURFACTANT MIXTURES FOR TERTIARY MINERAL OIL EXTRACTION
    Publication number: 20110190175
    Abstract: The use of a surfactant mixture comprising at least one surfactant having a hydrocarbon radical composed of from 12 to 30 carbon atoms and at least one cosurfactant having a branched hydrocarbon radical composed of from 6 to 11 carbon atoms for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Steinbrenner, Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Marcus Guzmann
  • FLAME RETARDANT COMPOSITIONS WITH POLYMERIC DISPERSING AGENTS
    Publication number: 20110190428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flame retardant composition, wherein the following components: a) At least one flame retardant component selected from the group consisting of phosphinic acid salts and nitrogen containing compounds; and b) At least one polymeric dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of styrenemaleic acid anhydride copolymers, long chain carboxylic acid salts and aliphatic polyether substituted by acidic groups; and c) A polymer substrate; are present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Simon Kniesel, Rudolf Pfaendner