Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Method for producing organic phosphorous compounds containing halogens
    Patent number: 7851656
    Abstract: Method of producing compounds of the general formula XPR2(OR1)??Ia where X is chlorine, bromine or iodine and R1 is an organic radical, by reacting compounds of the general formula X2PR2??II, in which X has the meaning given above and R2 is an organic radical, with compounds of the general formula R1OH??III, in which R1 has the meaning given above, to give a mixture IV, in that a) the postreaction is carried out at a temperature of from 50 to 240° C. and a pressure of from 0.001 to 0.9 bar, b) from the mixture IV the compounds Ia are separated off from the compounds PR2(OR1)2??Ib and, if appropriate, the compounds II and c) compounds Ib and, if appropriate, unreacted compounds II are returned to the synthesis stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Baumann, Tobias Aechtner, Wolfgang Siegel, Hermann Luyken, Peter Pfab, Jens Scheidel, Andreas Leitner, Andreas Glass
  • Catalytic titanium dioxide mixtures, catalysts and catalyst systems containing the same, processes for making the same, and uses therefor
    Patent number: 7851398
    Abstract: Catalytic titanium dioxide mixtures comprising: a first anatase titanium dioxide having a BET surface area greater than 15 m2/g and a hydrogen uptake for the reduction of Ti4+ to Ti3+ of from 5 to 20 ?mol/m2; and a second anatase titanium dioxide having a BET surface area less than or equal to 15 m2/g and a hydrogen uptake for the reduction of Ti4+ to Ti3+ of from 0.6 to 7 ?mol/m2, processes for preparing catalysts containing the same, catalysts containing active compositions including such titanium dioxide mixtures on support materials, and catalyst systems using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Samuel Neto, Sebastian Storck, Jürgen Zühlke, Frank Rosowski
  • MALONATE DECARBOXYLASES FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20100311037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the enzymatic decarboxylation of malonic acid (propanedioic acid) derivatives catalyzed by enzymes structurally and/or functionally related to arylmalonate decarboxylase (AMDase) as isolated from microorganisms of the genus Bordetella. The present invention also relates to novel enzymes with a decarboxylase activity, useful for performing the claimed method, mutants thereof, corresponding coding sequences and expression systems, methods of preparing said novel enzymes, and screening methods for obtaining further suitable enzymes also having said decarboxylase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Basf SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Nina Schneider, Krzysztof Okrasa, Jason Micklefield, David Leys, Colin Levy
  • ALKANE DEHYDROGENATION CATALYSTS
    Publication number: 20100312035
    Abstract: Disclosed are dehydrogenation catalyst composites and methods of making the dehydrogenation catalyst composites. The dehydrogenation catalyst composites contain alumina, lithium oxide, alkaline earth metal oxide, chromium oxide, and sodium oxide. Also disclosed are methods of dehydrogenating a dehydrogenatable hydrocarbon involving contacting the dehydrogenatable hydrocarbon with a dehydrogenation catalyst composite containing alumina, lithium oxide, alkaline earth metal oxide, chromium oxide, and sodium oxide to provide a dehydrogenated hydrocarbon, such as an olefin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF CATALYSTS LLC
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruettinger, Michael Joseph Breen, Richard Jacubinas, Saeed Alerasool
  • GRAFT COPOLYMER AS A GAS HYDRATE INHIBITOR
    Publication number: 20100311617
    Abstract: Graft copolymers based on a polyamide which was reacted with maleic anhydride and which has at least one vinylically unsaturated side chain are proposed, this grafted side chain containing at least one representative selected from a) N-vinylcaprolactam and/or b) N-vinylpyrrolidone. Inter alia, natural but also synthetic polyamides are provided as preferred polyamide components. Such graft copolymers, but also generally polyamide-based graft copolymers composed of at least one side chain containing ethylenically unsaturated compounds, are in general suitable in construction chemistry applications but also in the development, exploitation and completion of underground mineral oil and natural gas deposits and in deep wells and moreover in the extraction and the transport of oil or gas and here in particular as a gas hydrate inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Roland Reichenbach-Klinke, Karin Neubecker
  • Catalytic Article for Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds in Low Temperature Applications
    Publication number: 20100310441
    Abstract: Catalysts are provided that are capable of use at low temperatures (<80° C.) to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in an enclosed space. The catalyst is combined with an adsorbent to form a catalytic article. Methods of manufacturing catalytic articles are described in which the catalyst is mixed with discrete particles of adsorbent or supported directly on the adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard D. Lapadula, Pascaline Tran, Dana Rehms Mooney, Mark T. Buelow
  • MOLDINGS OF SUPPORT MATERIALS COMPRISING FOAMABLE REACTIVE RESIN
    Publication number: 20100310833
    Abstract: The invention provides a molding producible by a process comprising the following steps: a) introduction of a foamable reactive resin into a support material and b) compressive deformation of the support material comprising the foamable reactive resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Dietrich Scherzer, Frank Prissok, Markus Schutte, Armin Alteheld, Jurgen Mertes, Klaus Hahn, Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger
  • USE OF SUBSTITUTED TRIS(DIPHENYLAMINO)TRIAZINE COMPOUNDS IN OLEDS
    Publication number: 20100308308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one tris(diphenylamino)triazine compound with at least one alkoxy or aryloxy radical, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one tris(diphenylamino)triazine compound with at least one alkoxy or aryloxy radical, to the use of the aforementioned compounds as a matrix material, hole/exciton blocker material, electron/exciton blocker material, hole injection material, electron injection material, hole conductor material and/or electron conductor material, and to a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units and illumination units comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Evelyn Fuchs, Nicolle Langer, Christian Lennartz, Peter Strohriegl, Michael Rothmann
  • PROCESS FOR THE DIRECT SYNTHESIS OF Cu CONTAINING SILICOALUMINOPHOSPHATE (Cu-SAPO-34)
    Publication number: 20100310440
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of pure silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO-34) and which contains Cu wherein said molecular sieve material is obtained in a single process stage. This process stage is a hydrothermal crystallization stage to which an aqueous solution is subjected which, apart from source of silica, alumina and phosphorous usually employed framework elements of the zeolite framework, already contains all the Cu necessary for the preparation of the final Cu containing silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO34). In addition, the present invention relates to a pure copper containing molecular sieve material as such, having framework structure SAPO-34, having a molar composition according to formula: Cu0.007-0.125Si0.01-0.25Al0.44-0.54P0.25-0.49O2, having an amount of impurity phase of less than 25% and having a BET surface area of at least 400 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ivor BULL, Ulrich MULLER
  • USE OF ZERO-ORDER DIFFRACTIVE PIGMENTS
    Publication number: 20100310787
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of tungsten oxide or of tungstate to increase the heat-input amount of near infrared radiation in processes selected from laser welding of plastics, NIR curing of coatings, drying of printing inks, fixing of ink toners to a substrate, heating of plastic preforms, laser marking of plastics or paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Urs Lehmann, Urs Leo Stadler, Marc Mamak, Ralf Knischka
  • METHOD FOR OLIGOMERIZING ALKENES
    Publication number: 20100312031
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the oligomerization of alkenes, in which an alkene-comprising feed is provided and is subjected to an oligomerization in two successive reaction zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Thomas Heidemann
  • METHOD FOR REMOVING WATER-INSOLUBLE SUBSTANCES FROM SUBSTRATE SURFACES
    Publication number: 20100311629
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing water-insoluble substances from substrate surfaces by means of a solid dry carrier comprising hydrophobin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heiko Barg, Thomas Subkowski, Marvin Karos, Claus Bollschweiler
  • THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYAMIDES
    Publication number: 20100311882
    Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compisitions, comprising A) from 19.9% to 59.9% by weight of thermoplastic polyamide B) from 40 to 80% by weight of an aluminum oxide or magnesium oxide or a mixture of these C) from 0.1 to 2% by weight of nigrosin D) from 0 to 20% by weight of other additives, where the total of the percentages by weight of A) to D) is 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Eibeck, Jochen Engelmann, Ralf Neuhaus, Uske Klaus
  • PHOTOACTIVE TIO2 IN COATING MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20100311572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating material comprising (A) at least one binder as component (A) and (B) at least one photocatalytically active particle comprising a core composed of at least one first substance having a diameter of 0.1 to 1 ?m and at least one envelope at least partly surrounding the core and composed of at least one second substance having an average layer thickness of 0.1 to 10 nm as component (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexandra Seeber, Götz-Peter Schindler, Katrin Freitag, Ekkehard Jahns, Antonino Raffaele Addamo, Frank Kleine Jäger, Dirk Klingler
  • Phenothiazines, S-Oxides, And S,S-Dioxides As Well As Phenoxazines As Emitters For Oleds
    Publication number: 20100308714
    Abstract: The use of phenoxazine, phenothiazine, phenothiazine S-oxide or phenothiazine S,S-dioxide derivatives as emitter substances in organic light-emitting diodes, an organic light-emitting diode comprising a light-emitting layer, the light-emitting layer comprising at least one phenoxazine, phenothiazine, phenothiazine S-oxide or phenothiazine S,S-dioxide derivative as an emitter substance, and a light-emitting layer comprising or consisting of the aforementioned phenoxazine, phenothiazine-phenothiazine, phenothiazine S-oxide or phenothiazine S,S-dioxide derivative as an emitter substance, a hole- and exciton-blocking layer comprising or consisting of the aforementioned phenoxazine derivative, phenothiazine derivative, phenothiazine S-oxide derivative or phenothiazine S,S-dioxide derivative, and a device which comprises an inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Gessner, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Mukundan Thelakkat, Markus Baete
  • MULTI-LAYER COMPOSITE MATERIAL, PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100310822
    Abstract: A multilayered composite material comprises as components: (A) a sheet material, (B) a material capable of absorbing water or aqueous fluids, (C) at least one bonding layer and (D) a polyurethane layer with capillaries passing through the entire thickness of the polyurethane layer, wherein the polyurethane layer (D) comes into direct contact with sheet material (A) or absorption-capable material (B) in one or more places.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carl Jokisch, Jürgen Weiser, Peter Rudolf
  • METHOD FOR COATING A MOLDED FOAM PART
    Publication number: 20100310844
    Abstract: 1. The invention relates to a process for the coating of a foam molding with a plastics foil, which comprises a) arranging and securing the foam molding in a capsule, the plastics foil having been applied here between capsule wall and foam molding, b) evacuating the air in the chamber between plastics foil and foam molding, and c) thus pressing the plastics foil onto the foam molding and, during this pressing procedure, maintaining a vacuum below 30 mbar, and also to foam moldings which are obtainable for the first time by this process, and to the use of the foam moldings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christof Möck, Bernhard Vath, Lars Koppelmann
  • ANTI-DANDRUFF COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING PEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20100310644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of special peptides in composition which can be used in particular in hair and skin cosmetics, and to such peptide-containing compositions. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of such peptides as active ingredient for inhibition or treatment of dandruff which does not accumulate in the body or in the environment. Furthermore, the invention relates to the production of such compositions, to the peptides used themselves, to their production and to coding nucleotide sequences for such peptides, to dispensing systems for such peptides and to screening methods for identifying suitable further peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF ,Trademarks and Licenses
    Inventors: Burghard Liebmann, Heike Brüser, Heiko Barg, Daniel Hümmerich, Hubertus Peter Bell
  • INSECTICIDE-EQUIPPED PARTICLES MADE OF EXPANDABLE POLYSTYRENE AND INSECTICIDE-EQUIPPED MOLDED PARTS WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED THEREFROM
    Publication number: 20100307101
    Abstract: Insecticide-modified bead material composed of expandable polystyrene (EPS) coated with (A) one or more insecticides (B) one or more glycerol esters (C) if desired, one or more binders, and (D) if desired, further additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Ishaque, Olaf Kriha, Carsten Schips, Norbert Güntherberg, Daniela Longo, Klaus Hahn, Bernhard Schmied, Clark D. Klein, Keith A. Holmes
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING 1,2-PROPANDIOL BY LOW-PRESSURE HYDROGENATION OF GLYCERINE
    Publication number: 20100312024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1,2-propanediol, in which a glycerol-containing stream, especially a stream obtained on the industrial scale in the production of biodiesel, is subjected to a low pressure hydrogenation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Stephan Maurer, Jochen Steiner, Heiko Urtel, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl, Michael Becker