Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed with an 'SLSRP coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased growth under water-limited conditions and/or increased tolerance to an 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 SLSRPs, and isolated SLSRP coding nucleic acids, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing compounds, which are useful as bleach boosters, as well as to the compounds, which are obtainable using said process, and to their use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing a porous metal-organic framework comprising at least two organic compounds coordinated to at least one metal ion, the porous metal-organic frameworks prepared by the process and their use, in particular for gas storage and gas separation.

Abstract: A composition comprising a polypropylene glycol, a polyethylene glycol ester, an amine, and optionally an alcohol. The composition can be used as a purge solution to clean paint equipment.

Abstract: A reactor (1) for carrying out a continuous oxydehydrogenation of a feed gas stream (2) of saturated hydrocarbons after premixing with an oxygen-comprising gas stream (3) over a moving catalyst bed (4) which is introduced in the longitudinal direction of their reactor between two concentric cylindrical holding devices (5, 6) so as to leave a central interior space (7) and an intermediate space (8) between the moving catalyst bed (4) and the interior wall of the reactor to give a reaction gas mixture, wherein the reactor (1) has two or more reactor sections (9) which are separated from one another by disk-shaped deflection plates (10) arranged alternately in the central interior space (7) and divided in subregions by annular deflection plates (11) arranged in the intermediate space between the moving catalyst bed (4) and the interior wall of the reactor, in each case with a mixing-in device (12) which is located upstream of the moving catalyst bed (4) in the flow direction of the reaction gas mixture and compr

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyisobutenes by polymerizing isobutene in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst in liquid organic phase, terminating the reaction by admixing the organic phase with an aqueous terminator in a dynamic mixer which has a rotationally symmetric mixing chamber formed from one circumferential wall and two end walls, and a mixing rotor driven such that it rotates therein, the organic phase being introduced through a first inlet orifice provided in the circumferential wall and the aqueous terminator via a second inlet orifice provided in the circumferential wall, and removing a finely dispersed mixture of the organic phase and of the terminator through an outlet orifice provided in the circumferential wall and feeding it to a phase separation. The process serves to prepare high-reactivity polyisobutenes and/or polyisobutenes with narrow molecular weight distribution.

Abstract: An integrated coating material system comprising (I) at least one solventborne coating material system which is free from hiding pigments and is curable thermally or both thermally and with UV-A radiation and comprises (I.1) at least one separate component which is free from isocyanate groups and contains isocyanate-reactive functional groups, and (I.2) at least one separate component which is free from isocyanate-reactive functional groups and contains isocyanate groups, ?none of components (I.1) and (I.2) or at least one of components (I.1) and/or (I.

Abstract: A superabsorbent foam comprising from 0.01% by weight to 10% by weight of fibers composed of woodpulp or waste paper, based on the dry weight of the foam.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing aqueous formulations (A) comprising at least one polyaromatic compound bearing acid groups, in particular a sulfonated polyaromatic compound, and also aqueous formulations (A) which have been prepared by the process of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process for preparing dried formulations (B) by removing the water from the aqueous formulations (A) and also the dried formulations (B) themselves. The present invention further provides a formulation (C) comprising the dried formulation (B) of the invention and water or the formulation A of the invention and a water-comprising formulation (D) comprising the aqueous formulation (A) or the formulation (C) of the invention and additionally at least 2% by weight of an organic solvent. Furthermore, the present invention relates to dry formulations (E) which are obtained by removing water and solvent from the water-comprising formulations (D) of the invention.

Abstract: Metalizable foils or sheets produced from a plastics mixture comprising, components A, B, C, and D, which gives a total of 100% by weight, a from 5 to 50% by weight of a thermoplastic polymer as component A, b from 50 to 95% by weight of a metal powder with an average particle diameter of from 0.01 to 100 ?m where the normal electrode potential of the metal in acidic solution is more negative than that of silver, as component B, c from 0 to 10% by weight of a dispersing agent as component C, and d from 0 to 40% by weight of fibrous or particulate fillers or their mixtures as component D, wherein the tensile strain at break of component A is greater by a factor of from 11 to 100 than the tensile strain at break of the plastics mixture comprising components A, B, and, if present, C and D, and wherein the tensile strength of component A is greater by a factor of from 0.5 to 4 than the tensile strength of the plastics mixture comprising components A, B, and, if present, C and D.

Abstract: Method for the production of 1,3,5-trifluoro-2,4,6-trichlorobenzene from fluorobenzene comprising steps A) and B): A) chlorination of fluorobenzene derivatives of formula (II), in which X=fluorine of H, Z=nitro, bromo or chloro and n=0 or 1-4 and B) fluorination of the distillation residue and separation by distillation of the 1,3,5-trifluoro-2,4,6-trichlorobenzene thus produced.

Abstract: The invention relates to processes for preparing water absorbing polymers by polymerization of a monomer solution comprising allyl acrylate and/or allyl alcohol, the solution comprising not more than 0.002% by weight of allyl acrylate and/or allyl alcohol, based on acrylic acid, to aqueous monomer solutions for producing water absorbing polymers, to water absorbing polymers, to processes for producing hygiene articles and also to hygiene articles.

Abstract: Process for removing unconverted residual monomers from polyoxymethylenes, wherein a devolatilization step is carried out in an extrudate devolatilizer.

Abstract: A polyurethane dispersion whose polyurethane comprises anionic groups at least 10 mol % of which are neutralized by alkanolamines having at least two hydroxyl groups, excluding polyurethane dispersions comprising water-emulsifiable polyisocyanates.

Abstract: A process for preparing a xylylenediamine by heterogeneously catalyzed hydrogenation of a phthalonitrile, wherein the hydrogenation is carried out in the presence of a cobalt skeletal catalyst, of an alkali metal hydroxide and of an alcohol and/or ether as the solvent, at an absolute pressure in the range from 1 to 100 bar and a temperature in the range from 40 to 150° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing enriched isopulegol by crystallization from a melt comprising isopulegol. The invention relates specifically to a process for preparing enantiomerically enriched n-isopulegol proceeding from optically active isopulegol having a relatively low enantiomeric excess by crystallization from the melt. The invention further relates to a process for preparing menthol proceeding from enantiomerically and/or diastereomerically enriched n-isopulegol prepared by crystallization from the melt.

Abstract: Use of copolymers comprising alkylene oxide units, which copolymers comprise incorporated randomly or blockwise by polymerization (a) 50 to 93 mol % of acrylic acid and/or a water-soluble salt of acrylic acid, (b) 5 to 30 mol % of methacrylic acid and/or a water-soluble salt of methacrylic acid and (c) 2 to 20 mol % of at least one nonionic monomer of the formula I where the variables have the following meaning: R1 hydrogen or methyl; R2 a chemical bond or unbranched or branched C1-C6-alkylene; R3 identical or different unbranched or branched C2-C4-alkylene radicals; R4 unbranched or branched C1-C6-alkyl; n 3 to 50, as additive to phosphate- and/or phosphonate-comprising aqueous systems in industrial technical plants.

Abstract: The invention concerns improved moisture-regulating composites comprising a sheetlike substrate material, a water-soluble hygroscopic substance and a water-absorbing polymer polymerized onto the substrate material in the presence of the hygroscopic substance and obtainable by polymerization of a monomer mixture comprising at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer i) and at least 6 parts by weight of crosslinker iii) based on 100 parts by weight of monomer i), methods of making them and their use for moisture regulation.

Abstract: Light-colored woodbase boards are manufactured from wood fiber bleached and colored with liquid colorant preparations comprising at least one pigment and at least one dye which absorbs in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Abstract: A process for producing sheets, in which a free-radically crosslinkable coating composition (K) which after crosslinking to completion gives a transparent coating (KE) is applied to a backing sheet (T), a coating (KT), dried but not yet crosslinked to completion, is produced from the coating composition (K), on (KT) a pigmented coating (PB) is produced and optionally on (PB) a tiecoat is applied, the crosslinkable coating composition (K) comprising a free-radically crosslinkable component (KK) based on urethane acrylate and containing carbamate and/or biuret and/or allophanate and/or urea and/or amide groups, (KK) having a number-average molecular weight of from 1000 to 50 000 g/mol, having a double bond content of from 1.0 to 5.