Patents Assigned to BASF
  • PROCESS FOR COATING PLASTIC OR METAL SURFACES
    Publication number: 20090186231
    Abstract: A method of coating surfaces of plastic or metal, which comprises treating the plastic or metal surface in question with an aqueous dispersion comprising (A) at least one ethylene copolymer having a molecular weight Mn in the range from 2000 to 20 000 g/mol, selected from ethylene copolymers comprising as comonomers in copolymerized form (a) 15.5% to 19.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated C3-C10 carboxylic acid and (b) 80.1% to 84.5% by weight of ethylene, (B) at least one base, in one step and subsequently providing in at least one further step the metal or plastic surface in question with at least one further coat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heike Pfistner, Andreas Fechtenkotter, Frank-Olaf Mähling, Helmut Witteler, Frank Dietsche, Stefan Fassbender, Claudia Simon
  • Protein Kinase Stress-Related Proteins and Methods of Use in Plants
    Publication number: 20090188004
    Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in 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 plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR AVOIDING SHOCK IN DIESEL FILTERS
    Publication number: 20090183499
    Abstract: Provided are systems and/or methods that facilitate regeneration of a soot filter for a diesel engine. The systems and/or methods can include a bypass tube that connects a compressor side of a turbocharger to an exhaust side of the turbocharger. Compressed air from the turbocharger is introduced through the bypass tube into the soot filter and reduced a soot filter temperature, thereby mitigating the risk of thermal shock and over temperature conditions in the soot filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF CATALYSTS LLC
    Inventor: R. Samuel Boorse
  • POROUS METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK BASED ON PYRROLES AND PYRIDINONES
    Publication number: 20090183996
    Abstract: Processes comprising: (i) providing an anode comprising zinc; and (ii) oxidizing the anode in a reaction medium in the presence of at least one organic compound to form a porous metal organic framework comprising the least one organic compound coordinated to at least one zinc ion; wherein the at least one organic compound comprises a ring system selected from the group consisting of compounds corresponding to the following structures wherein the ring system optionally bears one or more substituents selected independently from the group consisting of halogens, C1-6-alkyls, phenyl, NH2, NH(C1-6-alkyls), N(C1-6-alkyls)2, OH, O-phenyl and O—C1-6-alkyls, and wherein each C1-6-alkyl and phenyl substituent may independently and optionally bear one or more substituents selected independently from the group consisting of halogens, NH2, NH(C1-6-alkyls), N(C1-6-alkyls)2, OH, O-phenyl and O—C1-6-alkyls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Basf SE
    Inventors: Ingo Richter, Markus Schubert, Ulrich Müller
  • PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUSLY PREPARING N-ETHYL-2-PYRROLIDONE (NEP)
    Publication number: 20090187030
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Helmut Schmidtke, Ralph Versch, Silke Simon, Karl Ott, Ronald Drews, Stephanie Mollner
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLULOSE ACETALS
    Publication number: 20090187016
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparing acetals of polysaccharides, oligosaccharides or disaccharides by dissolving these in at least one ionic liquid and reacting them with a vinyl ether. The acetalated polysaccharides or oligosaccharides obtained in this way can be crosslinked by treatment with acid. The present invention also provides acetals of polysaccharides, oligosaccharides or disaccharides and also crosslinked polysaccharides or oligosaccharides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klemens Massone, Veit Stegmann, Giovanni D'Andola, Werner Mormann, Markus Wezstein, Wei Leng
  • METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE TOLERANCE OF PLANTS TO CHILLING TEMPERATURES AND/OR FROST
    Publication number: 20090186762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an active compound that inhibits the mitochondrial breathing chain at the level of the b/c1 complex for improving the tolerance of plants to low temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wilhelm Rademacher, Harald Köhle, Vince Ulstad
  • Microbicidal Compositions and their Use
    Publication number: 20090186860
    Abstract: A composition comprising a copper salt of N?-hydroxy-N-cyclohexyldiazenium oxide (CuHDO) and a diluent is useful for combating and/or killing bacteria, mould, yeast and algae in industrial materials and or industrial processes. In a preferred embodiment CuHDO is generated in-situ within the application or medium. The composition may additionally include at least one of certain other biocidal active components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Huff, Shoaib Qureshi, Darren Hodgkinson, Craig Nicklin, Reimer Goettsche, Helga Goettsche, Wendelin Hettler, David Vincent Roper
  • Production of 3-pentenenitrile from 1,3-butadiene
    Publication number: 20090187039
    Abstract: A process is described for preparing 3-pentenenitrile by hydrocyanating 1,3-butadiene, wherein 1,3-butadiene is reacted with hydrogen cyanide in the presence of at least one catalyst and the stream resulting therefrom is purified distillatively, the bottom temperature during the distillation not exceeding 140° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Scheidel, Tim Jungkamp, Michael Bartsch, Gerd Haderlein, Robert Baumann, Hermann Luyken
  • Heteroaroyl-Substituted Alanines with a Herbicidal Action
    Publication number: 20090186766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaroyl-substituted alanines of the formula I in which the variables A and R1 to R8 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kühn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Michael Rack, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
  • Method for producing an ethylamine
    Patent number: 7563933
    Abstract: Process for preparing an ethylamine by reacting ethanol with ammonia, a primary amine or a secondary amine in the presence of hydrogen and a heterogeneous catalyst, in which a biochemically prepared ethanol (bioethanol) in which the concentration of sulfur and/or sulfur-containing compounds has been reduced beforehand by bringing it into contact with an adsorbent is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Meier, Johann-Peter Melder, Till Gerlach, Frank Haese
  • Sugar and lipid metabolism regulators in plants
    Patent number: 7563948
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel nucleic acid and amino acid sequences associated with the metabolism of seed storage compounds in plants. More particularly novel lipid metabolism protein (LMP) sequences are provided herein. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko A. Haertel, Volker Mittendorf, Ruoying Chen, Karin Shank
  • 2-cyano-3(halo)alkoxy-benzenesulfonamide compounds for combating animal pests
    Patent number: 7563921
    Abstract: The invention relates to 2-cyano-3-(halo)alkoxy-benzenesulfonamide compounds I where the variables Alk and R1 to R5 are as defined in claim 1, and/or to their agriculturally useful salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang von Deyn, Henricus Maria Martinus Bastiaans, Matthias Pohlman, Michael Rack, Ernst Baumann, Michael Puhl, Michael Hofmann, Livio Tedeschi, Markus Kordes, Christopher Koradin, Douglas D. Anspaugh, Deborah L. Culbertson, Henry van Tuyl Cotter, Hassan Oloumi-Sadeghi
  • Fischer-Tropsch catalyst
    Patent number: 7563747
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising particles of a cobalt and zinc co-precipitate, having a volume average particle size of less than 150 ?m. Another aspect of the invention is the use of such a catalyst in a Fischer-Tropsch process. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing a catalyst comprising cobalt and zinc oxide, wherein an acidic solution comprising zinc ions and cobalt ions and a alkaline solution are contacted and the precipitate is isolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Cornelis Roeland Baijense, Tjalling Rekker
  • Carbodiimides comprising thiocarbamide acid ester groups
    Patent number: 7563837
    Abstract: Thiocarbamides comprising at least one carbodiimide group and at least one thiocarbamic ester group of the formula
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andre Burghardt, Karl Haeberle, Ulrike Licht, Karl-Heinz Schumacher
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS POLYMER DISPERSIONS CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE LIPOPHILIC ACTIVE SUBSTANCE AND THE USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20090178773
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of aqueous polymer dispersions comprising at least one lipophilic active substance by emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of at least one lipophilic active substance, wherein (i) at least one lipophilic active substance which has a water solubility of not more than 5 g/l (determined at 25° C. and 1013 mbar) and a melting point below 130° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Brockmeyer, Roland Ettl, Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger
  • Method of Preventing or Reducing Insecticidal Resistance
    Publication number: 20090182040
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preventing or reducing insecticidal resistance of adult insect pests of the family Nitidulidae, the family Curculionidae and Psylliodes spp. which method comprises contacting the plant or the soil or water in which the plant is growing, or the pest or its food supply, habitat, breeding grounds or locus, with pesticidally effective amounts of piperonyl butoxide and at least one pyrethroid, wherein piperonyl butoxide and the pyrethroid are applied in a weight ratio of from 0.0001 to 10000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Heger, Herve R. Vantieghem
  • Selective Ammonia Oxidation Catalysts
    Publication number: 20090180943
    Abstract: Catalysts, methods and systems for treating diesel engine exhaust streams are described. In one or more embodiments, the catalyst comprises a refractory metal oxide, a transition metal oxide, and platinum, the catalyst being effective to oxidize ammonia at temperatures less than about 300° C. and exhibiting no significant decrease in ammonia oxidation efficiency upon hydrothermal aging. Methods and systems including such catalysts are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Tyler Caudle
  • METHOD FOR ACYLATING CELLULOSE WITH A SPECIFIC AVERAGE DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION
    Publication number: 20090182138
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for acylating polysaccharides or oligosaccharides, which comprises dissolving a polysaccharide or oligosaccharide in at least one ionic liquid and, in step A) treating the solution with at least one acid, if appropriate with addition of water, (step A1) or, if appropriate with addition of water, at elevated temperature (step A2) and, in step B) reacting the polysaccharide or oligosaccharide obtained in this way, whose DP is lower than that of the polysaccharide or oligosaccharide used, with an acylating agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klemens Massonne, Veit Stegmann, Giovanni D'Andola, Werner Mormann, Markus Wezstein, Wei Leng
  • SEGMENTED POLYURETHANE ELASTOMERS WITH HIGH ELONGATION AT TEAR
    Publication number: 20090182113
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a polyurethane elastomer fiber, which comprises a) reacting polymeric diol with a substance reactive therewith to form an OH-terminated prepolymer, b) reacting the OH-terminated prepolymer with a diisocyanate to form an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer, c) reacting the isocyanate-terminated prepolymer with a chain extender, if appropriate a chain-terminating agent and if appropriate further additives to form the polyurethane elastomer, and d) spinning the polyurethane elastomer to form a fiber, in which there are less than 15% by weight of further polyurethane elastomers in the fiber. The present invention further relates to a polyurethane elastomer fiber obtainable by such a process, to its use for producing textiles, for example wovens or knits, and also to the use of a polyurethane elastomer for producing such a fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Dieter Rodewald, Hermann Graf