Abstract: A roofing membrane based on a bonded fibrous web coated with bitumen on both sides and consolidated with a mixture of at least one polymeric binder and an aluminum hydroxide and the use of a bonded fibrous web consolidated with a mixture of at least one polymeric binder and at least one aluminum hydroxide as a base material for a bituminized roofing membrane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising a preferably oxidic, core material, a shell of zinc oxide around said core material, and a catalytically active material in or on the shell, based on one or more of the metals cobalt, iron, ruthenium and/or nickel, preferably a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst, to the preparation of such a catalyst and the use thereof in GTL processes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a soybean (Glycine max) plant utilizing meristematic cells of primary or higher leaf nodes as target tissue by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and subsequent regeneration of the transformed cells into a whole plant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining thermal effusivity and/or thermal conductivity of a sheet material or of coated substrate having a thickness of less than about 100 ?m. The method contains providing a sample by layering more than 2 sheet materials or coated substrates and measuring thermal effusivity and/or thermal conductivity of the sample by a thermal effusivity probe and/or thermal conductivity probe.

Abstract: Provided is an emissions treatment system for an exhaust stream, having a NOx storage reduction (NSR) catalyst with a NOx sorbent at a concentration of at least 0.1 g/in3 and a platinum group metal component dispersed on a refractory metal oxide support; and, an SCR catalyst disposed downstream of the NSR catalyst. The emissions treatment system is advantageously used for the treatment of exhaust streams from diesel engines and lean burn gasoline engines.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for providing a library of composite or novel composition samples on a support. The method involves depositing one or more components as concentration gradients on the surface of the support. The concentration gradients are placed on the support in the form of superimposed triangles which allow ready formation of composite or composition samples containing three or more components. The samples can be removed from the support by drilling out portions of the coated support so as to yield individual tablets containing the support with one or more component layers thereon. By using this method, a vast number of samples can be made.

Abstract: Thermally curable one-component coating materials having a solids content of from 40 to 80% by weight and an electrical resistance in the range from 600 to 1300 k?, and process for preparing them, and their use.

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.

Abstract: A process is proposed for distillatively removing dinitrotoluene from process wastewater from the preparation of dinitrotoluene by nitrating toluene with nitrating acid, which comprises basifying the process wastewater to a pH of >8.5, feeding it to a stripping column in the upper region thereof and stripping it with steam in countercurrent to obtain a vapor stream laden with dinitrotoluene and a bottom stream depleted in dinitrotoluene compared to the process wastewater used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing essentially isometric nanoparticulate lanthanide-boron compounds or solid mixtures comprising essentially isometric nanoparticulate lanthanide-boron compounds, which comprises a) mixing i) one or more lanthanide compounds selected from the group consisting of lanthanide hydroxides, lanthanide hydrides, lanthanide chalcogenides, lanthanide halides, lanthanide borates and mixed compounds of the lanthanide compounds mentioned, ii) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of crystalline boron, amorphous boron, boron carbides, boron hydrides and boron halides and iii) if appropriate one or more reducing agents selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, carbon, organic compounds, alkaline earth metals and alkaline earth metal hydrides dispersed in an inlet carrier gas with one another, b) reacting the mixture of the components i), ii) and, if appropriate, iii) in the inert solvent by means of thermal treatment within a reaction zone,

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing vitamin A acetate by reacting ?-vinylionol with triphenylphosphine in the presence of sulfuric acid in a solvent mixture consisting of 60 to 80% by weight methanol, 10 to 20% by weight water and 10 to 20% by weight aliphatic, cyclic or aromatic hydrocarbons having 5 to 8 carbon atoms to give ?-ionylideneethyltriphenylphosphonium salts and subsequent Wittig reaction with 4-acetoxy-2-methylbut-2-enal.

Abstract: A process is proposed for production of low-emission moldings for continuous operating temperatures >50° C. composed of a thermoplastic molding composition comprising A) from 10 to 99.9% by weight of polybutylene terephthalate or a mixture thereof with polyethylene terephthalate and/or polypropylene terephthalate, B) from 0.1 to 50% by weight of at least one terpolymer obtainable from b1) at least one vinylaromatic monomer, b2) at least one C1-C4-alkyl (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylonitrile, and b3) from 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to solutions comprising water and at least one metal cyanide, at least a part of the water being obtained from wastewater which occurs as depleted wastewater in a process for extracting noble metals from noble metal-containing ores by the cyanide process, the process for the preparation of solutions according to the invention and to the use of the solutions according to the invention in a process for extracting noble metals from noble metal-containing ores by the cyanide process, to a process for extracting noble metals from noble metal-containing ores by the cyanide process, wherein the solution according to the invention is used, and to the use of depleted wastewater occurring in the extraction of noble metals from noble metal-containing ores by the cyanide process to the preparation of solutions comprising water and at least one metal cyanide.

Abstract: The invention relates to fungicide mixtures containing in the form of active componenets: 1) at least one type of 3,5-disubstituted pyrazol-carboxylic acid biphenylamide of (formula I), wherein X=oxygen or sulfur, R1 and R2=cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-halogenalkyl, methoxy, difluormethoxy or trifluormethoxy; R3=halogen, C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-halogenalkyl; R4=hydrogen or halogen; and (2) at least one type of active substance II selected from A) to F) groups: A) azole; B) strobilurin; C) carboxylic add amides; D) heterocyclic compounds; E) carbamates and F) other fungicides in synergistically active quantity. A method for combating parasitic fungi by means of mixtures consisting of at least one type of compound I and at least one type of active substance II, the use of the compound(s) I with the active substances II for producing said mixtures and substances and seeds containing them are also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for preparing heteroaromatic alcohols by catalytically hydrogenating heteroaromatic carboxylic acids or esters thereof by hydrogenating with hydrogen in the presence of a ruthenium-phosphine complex in an organic solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a porous metal-organic framework material comprising the step reacting a reaction mixture in the liquid phase of at least one copper compound having at least one at least bidentate, organic compound which can bind by coordination to the copper in the presence of a nonaqueous solvent, the at least one at least bidentate, organic compound being derived from a polycarboxylic acid having at least three carboxyl groups, and the reaction proceeding at atmospheric pressure above 80° C.

Abstract: A herbicidal composition comprising a) at least one 3-phenyluracils of formula I wherein the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the specification; and b) at least one 3-sulfonylisoxazoline of formula II wherein the variables R8 and R9 are as defined in the specification; and c) optionally at least one safener III selected from the group as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A process for producing expandable styrene polymers (EPS) having improved expandability, wherein from 0.1 to 1% by weight, based on the styrene polymer, of a free-radical former is metered into a styrene polymer melt containing blowing agent at a melt temperature in the range from 150 to 220° C. and the melt is extruded through a die plate with subsequent underwater pelletization.

Abstract: Polymeric compositions comprising polyolefins, amphiphilic block copolymers composed of polyisobutene blocks and polyoxyalkylene blocks and also optionally other polymers and/or fillers. Processes for dyeing or for printing such compositions and the use of amphiphilic block copolymers as auxiliaries for dyeing and printing polyolefins.

Abstract: Compositions comprising: (a) at least one hyperbranched polymer comprising nitrogen atoms; and (b) at least one substance exhibiting a solubility in water at 25° C. and 1013 mbar of less than 10 g/l are disclosed along with methods of preparing such compositions.