Abstract: A process for preparing electronics-grade 2,2?-aminoethyoxyethanol by reacting diethylene glycol with ammonia in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor to give a reaction mixture from which a crude 2,2?-aminoethoxyethanol stream is separated off and is purified further by distillation in a pure column, wherein a sidestream comprising electronics-grade 2,2?-aminoethoxyethanol is taken off from the pure column as a result of the diethylene glycol being passed through a filter which ensures a degree of removal of at least 99% for solid particles having a maximum particle size of ?1.5 ?m before the diethylene glycol is fed into the reactor, is proposed.

Abstract: Copolymers comprising as comonomers in copolymerized form: (a) ethylene, (b) one or more compounds of the general formula I (c) if appropriate, one or more alkenylphosphonic diesters, (d) if appropriate, one or more other free-radically copolymerizable comonomers, whose variables are defined as follows: R1 is selected from hydrogen and unbranched and branched C1-C10-alkyl, R2 is selected from hydrogen and unbranched and branched C1-C10-alkyl, R3 is selected from hydrogen, phenyl, benzyl, and unbranched and branched C1-C10-alkyl and unbranched and branched hydroxy-C2-C10-alkyl, as free acid or partially or completely neutralized with alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonia or organic amine.

Abstract: Absorption heat pumps, absorption refrigeration machines and absorption heat transformers (referred to as apparatus for short) operated using A) methanol as refrigerant and B) a composition comprising the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate (EMIM acetate for short) as absorption medium.

Abstract: A process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters (E) of alcohols (A) comprising polyalkoxy groups, in which alcohols (A) which comprise polyalkoxy groups and are of the formula (I) RO—[(CH2)mO]n—H ??(I) in which m is an integer from 1 to 10, n is an integer from 1 to 100 and R is a straight-chain saturated or unsaturated alcohol having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, are transesterified with at least one (meth) acrylic ester (D) in the presence of at least one inorganic salt (S).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the milk and/or meat quantity of silage-fed animals comprising the steps: a) treating plants and/or propagules and/or sites where the plants are growing or are to grow with at least one strobilurin compound b) producing silage from the plants treated according to step a) c) feeding the milk and/or meat producing animals with the silage produced according to step b) made from the plants treated according to step a). Furthermore, the present invention relates to silage for feeding animals, produced from plants treated with at least one strobilurin compound prior to producing said silage. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of at least one strobilurin compound to increase the milk quantity of silage-fed milk-producing animals. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of at least one strobilurin compound to increase the meat quantity of silage-fed meat-producing animals.

Abstract: A process for preparing amines of the formula I, by reacting a carbonyl compound of the formula II with an amine of the formula III where R1 and R2 are different and are each an organic radical which has from 1 to 20 carbon atoms and may optionally also comprise heteroatoms, R3 is a C1-C6-alkyl group and R4 is an aryl group which may be partly or fully halogenated and/or may bear from one to three radicals from the group of cyano, nitro, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, hydroxyl, C1-C6-hydroxyalkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-haloalkoxy, hydroxycarbonyl, C1-C6-alkoxycarbonyl, C1-C6-alkylamino, di(C1-C6-alkyl)amino, aryl and aryl(C1-C6-alkyl); and * represents the S or R configuration, and ** represents the S and/or R configuration; which comprises performing the reaction in the presence of a heterogeneous imination catalyst, of a hydrogenation catalyst and of hydrogen.

Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, which processes comprise: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, nickel, and iron, and 0.2 to 5.5% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of tin, lead, bismuth, molybdenum, antimony or phosphorus, calculated as SnO, PbO, Bi2O3, MoO3, Sb2O3 and H3PO4 respectively; and wherein the catalytically active composition of the catalyst does not comprise any copper.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiple-stage process for the continuous preparation of organic, distillable polyisocyanates, preferably diisocyanates, more preferably aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates, by reaction of the corresponding organic poly-amines with ureas to form low-molecular monomeric polyureas, and the thermal decomposition thereof.

Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, the processes comprising: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, and 1.0 to 5.0% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, and 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of a polyoxometalate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of fungicidally active compounds comprising at least one substituted 2-[hydroxyl(pyridine-3-yl)methyl]acrylate compound of the formula I wherein: R1 is H, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy-C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, aryl or heteroaryl, wherein the cyclic moieties of the last two radicals are unsubstituted or substituted with 1, 2 or 3 radicals selected from halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C2-C4-alkynyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, cyano and nitro; A is a covalent bond or C1-C4-alkylen, which is unsubstituted or which may carry a substitutent selected from C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy and cyano; Ar is aryl or heteroaryl, wherein the cyclic moieties of the aromatic radicals are unsubstituted or substituted with 1, 2 or 3 radicals Ra, where the radicals Ra are identical or different and selected from halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C2-C4-alkenyl, C2-C4-alkynyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-haloal

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of coating a fiber-cement or concrete molding with a polymeric film, which comprises a) placing and securing the molding in a capsule, the polymeric film being mounted between capsule wall and molding, b) evacuating the air in the chamber between polymeric film and molding, c) heating the polymeric film, d) letting down a second chamber between polymeric film and capsule wall to atmospheric pressure with external air, and e) thereby pressing the polymeric film onto the molding, and maintaining a vacuum during this pressing operation; and also to fiber-cement and concrete moldings coated using this method.

Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles, wherein a product stream comprising water-absorbing polymer particles is tested for nonferritic metallic impurities by means of an eddy current detector.

Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, the processes comprising: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, nickel, no oxygen compounds of cobalt, and 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of phosphorus or gallium, calculated as H3PO4 and Ga2O3 respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of fungicidally active compounds comprising at least one substituted 3-hydroxymethylpyridin compound formula I and at least one further fungicidally active compound II.

Abstract: A protein having acrylation activity having a polypeptide sequence derived from SEQ ID NO: 1 or NO:2 by introducing at least one of the following amino acid substitutions: L278A, L278V, W104F, T42A, S47A.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a polyol (A) based on modified amino resins, prepared by reacting: an amino resin (B) comprising three acetalized or etherified N-methylol groups of the general formula (I)>N—CHR—OR1, wherein R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl group of 6 to 10 carbon atoms and R1 is an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; with a polyol (C) of the general formula (II) R2(—OH)n, wherein n is a number from 2 to 6 and R2 is a divalent to hexavalent organic radical; wherein an equivalent ratio of the acetalized or etherified N-methylol groups to the polyol (C) is 0.5:1 to 1.2:1; with elimination of at least 50 mol % of a monoalcohol (D) of the general formula R1—OH, wherein R1 is as defined above, from the amino resin (B).

Abstract: Diastereoselective conversion of chiral imines of the formula I to amines of the formula II where the R1 to R4 radicals are each as defined in the description and R1 and R2 are different than one another, by converting the imine of the formula I in the presence of hydrogen and a heterogeneous copper-containing catalyst.

Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, the processes comprising: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, 1.5 to 4.5% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, and 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of niobium, sulfur, phosphorus, gallium, boron, lead or antimony, calculated in each case as Nb2O5, H2SO4, H3PO4, Ga2O3, B2O3, PbO and Sb2O3 respectively, and wherein the catalytically active composition does not comprise any molybdenum.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new, allophanate-group-containing polyisocyanates based on isophorone diisocyanate and to their use.

Abstract: Catalytic articles, methods and emissions treatment systems for treating an engine exhaust gas stream containing NOx and particulate matter are disclosed and include a particulate filter comprising a first SCR catalyst for NOx conversion disposed downstream of the injector. The particulate filter is a partial filter with a particle filtration efficiency between about 30% and 60% and an SCR catalyst loading in the range of 0.1 g/in3-3.5 g/in3.