Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing difluoromethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylates of the formula I in which R1 is C1-C8-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, etc.; and R2 is hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, benzyl or phenyl, wherein a) a compound of the general formula II in which X is fluorine, chlorine or bromine, R1 has one of the meanings given above and R4 is C1-C8-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, C2-C8-alkenyl, benzyl or phenyl, is reacted with a silane compound of the general formula R3nSiCl(4-n) in which n is 1, 2 or 3 and the substituents R3 are independently of one another selected from the group consisting of C1-C8-alkyl and phenyl and with a metal selected from the metals of groups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 12 of the Periodic Table of the Elements having a redox potential of less than ?0.7 V, based on a normal hydrogen electrode (at 25° C. and 101.

Abstract: Microcapsules wherein the capsule wall is formed from an organic polymer (capsule wall polymer for short) and the core of the microcapsules comprises compounds containing carbodiimide groups (carbodiimide compound for short).

Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous coating material for metallic substrates, comprising a water-dispersible and/or water-soluble polymer P with covalently bonded ligands A, which form chelates with the metal ions released during the corrosion of the substrate and/or with the substrate surface, and having crosslinking functional groups B, which with themselves, with further complementary functional groups B? of the polymer P and/or with further functional groups B and/or B? are able to form covalent bonds to crosslinkers V, and at least one surface-active substance OS at the surface of the substrate to be coated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphate-containing machine dishwasher detergent comprising 0.01-20% by weight of at least one alcohol alkoxylate, 0.01-10% by weight of at least one alcohol ethoxylate, 0-15% by weight of at least one sulfonate-containing polymer, 0-15% by weight of at least one hydrophilically modified polycarboxylate, 0-8% by weight of at least one polycarboxylate, 1-70% by weight of at least one phosphate and 0.1-60% by weight of at least one further additive, where the sum of components (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) is 100% by weight, to a process for rinsing surfaces of articles by treating these surfaces with the composition, and to the use of the composition for increasing the rinsing performance in the machine washing of articles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel enzyme-comprising granules which are suitable as feed additives, and also to a method for production thereof. The invention also relates to the use of the enzyme-comprising granules in feed compositions and, in particular, pelleted feed compositions, which are obtainable using the enzyme-comprising granules. The particles of the enzyme granules have A. an enzyme-comprising core having a water content below 15% by weight, preferably in the range from 1 to 12% by weight, in particular in the range from 3 to 10% by weight, and especially in the range from 5 to 9% by weight, based on the weight of the enzyme-comprising core, which comprises i) 50 to 96.9% by weight, preferably 55 to 94.85% by weight, and in particular 60 to 89.7% by weight, of at least one solid support material suitable for feeds, ii) 0.1 to 10% by weight, preferably 0.15 to 5% by weight, in particular 0.2 to 2% by weight, and especially 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyrimidylmethyl-sulfonamide compounds and to their N-oxides, their agriculturally acceptable salts and their veterinarily acceptable salts and also to agricultural compositions comprising at least one such compound as active component, and also to their use for controlling harmful fungi. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling arthropod pests.

Abstract: The use of oligo- or polyamines which have a number-average molecular weight of from 46 to 70 000 and are free of phenolic hydroxyl groups for increasing the oxidation stability of biofuel oils based on fatty acid esters, or of mixtures of such biofuel oils with middle distillates of fossil origin and/or of vegetable and/or animal origin, which are essentially hydrocarbon mixtures and are free of fatty acid esters.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor (1) and a process for continuously preparing H2S by converting a reactant mixture which comprises essentially gaseous sulfur and hydrogen over a catalyst, comprising a sulfur melt (9) at least in a lower subregion (8) of the reactor (1), into which gaseous hydrogen is introduced. The catalyst is arranged in at least one U-shaped tube (21) which is partly in contact with the sulfur melt (9), the at least one U-shaped tube (21) having at least one entry orifice (23) on a limb (26) above the sulfur melt (9), through which the reactant mixture can enter the U-shaped tube (21) from a reactant region (10) of the reactor (1), having a flow path within the at least one U-shaped tube, along which the reactant mixture can be converted in a reaction region comprising the catalyst (22), and having at least one exit orifice (24) in another limb (27) through which a product can exit into a product region (7).

Abstract: The present invention concerns microcapsules comprising a capsule core and a capsule wall, the capsule wall being constructed from 30% to 90% by weight of one or more C1-C24-alkyl esters of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and/or maleic acid (monomers I), 10% to 70% by weight of a mixture of divinyl and polyvinyl monomers (monomers II), the fraction of polyvinyl monomers being in the range from 2% to 90% by weight based on the monomers II, and also 0% to 30% by weight of one or more miscellaneous monomers (monomer III), all based on the total weight of the monomers, a process for their production and their use in textiles, bindered building materials and heat transfer fluids.

Abstract: Use of an aqueous polymer composition as a binder for fibrous and granular substrates

Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a 1-AminoCyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase-like Polypeptide (ACCDP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the crop plant results in the plant's increased root growth, and/or increased yield, and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic crop plants. Also provided are isolated novel ACCDPs, and isolated novel nucleic acids encoding ACCDPs, and vectors and transgenic plant containing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of increasing the resistance to one or more penetrating pathogen(s) in a monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plant or a part of a plant, for example in an organ, tissue, a cell or a part of a plant cell, for example in an organell, wherein a DNA sequence which codes for an armadillo repeat ARM1 protein and which mediates an increased pathogen resistance, preferably an increased resistance to fungal pathogens, is increased into, and expressed in, the plant or plant cell; or wherein an endogenous DNA sequence which codes for an armadillo repeat ARM1 protein and which mediates an increased pathogen resistance, preferably an increased resistance to fungal pathogens, is increased in the plant or plant cell in comparison with the original, or wild-type, plant, or wherein the endogenous gene sequence or preferably the 5?-untranslated region (5?UTR) is modified in comparison with the original sequence.

Abstract: A novel polynary metal oxide phosphate of the general formula I Ma(VO)(P2O7)b(PO4)c is described, in which M is one or more metals selected from V, Ti, Zr, Hf, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, Pd, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, B, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, a is from 1.5 to 2.5, b is from 0.5 to 1.5, c is from 0.5 to 1.5, having a crystal structure whose powder X-ray diffractogram is characterized by defined reflections. A preferred representative is Fe2VO(P2O7)(PO4). The metal oxide phosphates are suitable as gas phase oxidation catalysts, for example for preparing maleic anhydride from a hydrocarbon having at least four carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of combating pest, which method comprises contacting said pest or their food supply, habitat, breeding ground or their locus with a 3-pyridyl compound of the formula (I). In formula (I) n is 1 or 2, y is 0 or 1 and X, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined in the claims and in the specification. The invention also relates to novel 3-pyridyl compounds which are useful for combating animal pests, in particular insects and to pesticidal composition, which comprises at least one 3-pyridyl compound and an agriculturally acceptable carrier.

Abstract: Finely divided, starch-containing polymer dispersions which are obtainable by free radical emulsion copolymerization of (a) from 30 to 60% by weight of at least one optionally substituted styrene, acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile, (b) from 5 to 50% by weight of at least one C1-C12-alkyl acrylate and/or C1-C12-alkyl methacrylate, (c) from 5 to 30% by weight of at least one olefin, (d) from 0 to 10% by weight of at least one other ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomer and (e) from 15 to 35% by weight of a degraded starch, the sum (a)+(b)+(c)+(d)+(e) being 100% and being based on the total solids content, in an aqueous medium in the presence of at least one redox initiator, processes for the preparation of the aqueous polymer dispersions by free radical emulsion copolymerization of the components (a) to (e) in an aqueous medium in the presence of a redox initiator and use of the finely divided, starch-containing polymer dispersions thus obtainable as sizes for paper, board and cardboard.

Abstract: A method for protecting crop plants from harmful organisms, which comprises the step of covering one or more of the plants with a device, comprising a stabilizing structure and a meshed fabric, where the meshed fabric is impregnated with a pesticide and is penetrable by light, air and water.

Abstract: A process for preparing free-radically polymerizable carboxylic esters by reacting ethyllenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, carboxylic anhydrides or carbonyl halides (referred to collectively as carboxylic acid component) with a hydroxyl compound composed of at least 60% by weight of C2 to C4 alkoxy groups (and referred to for short as polyalkoxy compound), which comprises said reacting taking place in the presence of a polymerization inhibitor and of a reducing agent.

Abstract: A process for preparing halogenated rylenecarboximides of the general formula I in which the variables are each defined as follows: A, B together are an imide radical or, in the case that n is 1, A and B are also each Hal or one radical is Hal and the other radical is halogen; R, R? are each independently hydrogen; optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl; Hal is chlorine, bromine or iodine; n is 1, 2 or 3; x is from 2 to 8, by reacting a rylenecarboximide of the general formula II in which the A? and B? radicals together are an imide radical or, in the case that n is 1, are also each hydrogen with elemental halogen in the presence of an inert organic solvent S1, which comprises continuously withdrawing the hydrogen halide formed in the course of the reaction from the solvent S1.

Abstract: Iridescent magnetic pigments are produced by depositing a ferrite layer and a second metal oxide layer in succession on a substrate. The substrate may be platy and is coated with the ferrite, which is then coated with the second metal oxide layer to provide interference color effect. At least one of the layers is magnetic. The magnetic pigment may be used in coatings such as paints.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for removing carbon monoxide from a hydrogenous gas stream by reacting the carbon monoxide with hydrogen to give methane and water in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst. In this process, the catalyst is present in the form of a thin-layer catalyst on a support material. The invention further relates to an apparatus for carrying out the process.