Abstract: The invention relates to the use of polymers which comprise, in copolymerized form, an ?-olefin, an alkenyl ester of a carboxylic acid and an ester of an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid as an additive for turbine fuels and in particular as a cold flow improver for turbine fuels, to the turbine fuels additized with these polymers, and to additive packets comprising such copolymers.

Abstract: A process for preparing butadiene from n-butane, comprising the steps of A) providing a feed gas stream a comprising n-butane; B) feeding the feed gas stream a comprising n-butane into at least one first dehydrogenation zone and nonoxidatively catalytically dehydrogenating n-butane to obtain a product gas stream b comprising n-butane, 1-butene, 2-butene, butadiene, hydrogen and low-boiling secondary constituents, with or without carbon oxides and with or without steam; C) feeding the product gas stream b of the nonoxidative catalytic dehydrogenation and an oxygenous gas into at least one second dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butane, 1-butene and 2-butene to obtain a product gas stream c comprising n-butane, 2-butene, butadiene, low-boiling secondary constituents, carbon oxides and steam, said product gas stream c having a higher content of butadiene than product gas stream b; D) removing the low-boiling secondary constituents and steam to obtain a C4 product gas stream d substantially

Abstract: Novel 5-hydroxypyrazolines of the formula I in which the substituents are as defined below: B is phenyl, naphthyl or 5- or 6-membered hetaryl which contains one to four heteroatoms from the group consisting of O, N and S; A is C?O, C?S or SO2; W is CX1X2; X1, X2 are hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine; R1 is alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl, haloalkenyl, alkynyl or haloalkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkynyl, phenyl, 5- or 6-membered heterocyclyl or hetaryl which contains one to four heteroatoms from the group consisting of O, N and S; R2 is hydrogen or alkyl; R3 is hydrogen, nitro, cyano, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkenyl, haloalkenyl, alkynyl, haloalkynyl or NR?2, where R? independently of one another are hydrogen or alkyl; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, nitro, cyano, NR?2, alkyl, haloalkyl, COOR? or 5- or 6-membered hetaryl or heterocyclyl; where the variables mentioned above may be substituted according to the description; processes for their preparation, their use for controlli

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing and using a solid sodium diformate having a high formic acid content, to the use thereof in animal foods in the form of an acidifier, preservatives, ensilage auxiliary agents, fertilizers, and a growth and productivity-stimulating agent and the inventive animal food additives containing sodium diformate.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion comprises a pigment (B) at least partially enveloped by at least one radiation-curable polyurethane (A), at least one radiation-curable polyurethane (A) being obtainable by reaction of (a) at least one di- or polyisocyanate comprising on average from 1 to 10 allophanate groups and on average from 1 to 10 C—C double bonds per molecule, with (b) at least one further diisocyanate and with (c) at least one compound having at least two isocyanate-reactive groups.

Abstract: The present invention relates to interference pigments on the basis of multiply coated, platelet-shaped substrates which comprise at least one layer sequence comprising: (A) a metal oxide coating having a refractive index n?2.0, (B) a colorless metal oxide or fluoride coating having a refractive index n?1.8, (C) a nonabsorbing metal oxide coating of high refractive index, and, wherein the pigment further comprises (D) an oxide of calcium, magnesium, or zinc. The present pigment may be used in paints, printing inks, and for producing counterfeit-protected documents of value, such as bank notes, cheques, cheque cards, credit cards, identity cards, etc.

Abstract: A description is given of (meth)acrylic acid copolymers comprising methacrylic acid units and units based on isopropanol, the polymer being functionalized with aminoalkylsulfonic acid. In addition, a description is given of a process for the preparation thereof and the use thereof for watertreatment, scale inhibition in mineral oil extraction and corrosion inhibition in aqueous systems.

Abstract: Process for the continuous preparation of an amine by reaction of a primary or secondary alcohol, aldehyde and/or ketone with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary and secondary amines at a temperature in the range from 60 to 300° C.

Abstract: Horny substances are removed from hides, pelts or skins of dead animals by treating the hides, pelts or skins in aqueous liquor with one or more compounds of the formula I or their corresponding alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salts or ammonium or phosphonium salts, the variables being defined as follows: R1 is selected from hydrogen and C1-C12-alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted by one or more S—H or O—H groups; X1 to X4 are identical or different and are selected from hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, O—H, S—H and N—HR2, R2 is hydrogen or C1-C12-alkyl or a C1-C4-Alkyl-C?O group, at least one radical X1 to X4 being S—H when R1 contains at least one sulfur atom and at least two radicals X1 to X4 being S—H when R1 contains no sulfur atom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel (meth)acrylic esters of polyalkoxylated glycols of the formula where AO is independently at each instance is —O—CHR3-CHR4- or —CHR3-CHR4-O— where R3 and R4 are independently H, linear or branched C1-C8-alkyl, p1 is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, or 35, p2 is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, or 35, n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 447, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, R1 and R2 are independently H or CH3, wherein there is at least one AO in (AO)p1 and also at

Abstract: Continuous processes comprising: oxidizing a ketone with a solution comprising active oxygen in a reactor in the presence of a buffer substance and a stripping gas to form a gas stream comprising a dioxirane and a liquid stream; and continuously drawing the gas stream comprising the dioxirane and the liquid stream from the reactor; wherein a liquid phase residence time of 1 minute to 4 hours and a normalized condensate mass flow rate of at least 500 g/mol of active oxygen are maintained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyol alkyl ethers by reacting compounds comprising at least three hydroxyl functionalities with olefins in the presence of acidic catalysts at temperatures of from 20 to 250° C. and pressures of from 0.5 to 10 bar, wherein the olefins correspond to the general formula (I) in which R1 is hydrogen and R2 is a linear or branched carbon radical having from 7 to 28 carbon atoms, or R1 and R2 are each linear or branched carbon radicals having from 1 to 27 carbon atoms, the sum of the carbon number of R1 and R2 being at most 28, to polyol alkyl ethers derived from compounds having at least three hydroxyl functionalities, not more than all but one hydroxyl functionality being replaced by a moiety of the general formula (VIII) to the use of these polyol alkyl ethers as surfactants and to laundry detergents and cleaning compositions comprising these polyol alkyl ethers.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of 4-aminopyrimidines of formula (I), in which R1?H, halogen, cyano, alkyl, alkylhalide, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, benzyloxyalkyl, alkoxyalkenyl or alkoxyalkinyl, R2?H, halogen, cyano, alkyl, alkylhalide, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl and alkylthioalkyl, whereby the hydrocarbon chain in R1 and/or R2 can be substituted as given in the description, R1 and R2 can form, together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded, a 5-7-membered ring which can contain one to three same or different heteroatoms selected from the group O, N or S, R3?H, halogen, cyano, hydroxy, mercapto, azido, alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkylhalide, —O-D, —S(O)m-D, ON?CRaRb, CRc?NORa, NRcN?CRaRb, NRaRb, NRcNRaRb, NORa, NRcC(?NRc)NRaRb, NRcC(?O)NRaRb, NRaCN, —NRaC(?O)Rc, NRaC(?NORc)Rc?, OC(?O)Ra, C(?NORc)NRaRb, CRc(?NNRaRb), C(?O)NRaRb, C(?O)Ra, CO2Ra, C(?O)NRzRb, C(?O)—N—ORb, C(?S)—NRzRb, C(?O)NRa—NRzRb, C(?N—NRzRc)NRaRb, C(?NORb)Ra, C(?N—NRzRb)Ra, CRaRb—ORz, CRa

Abstract: The provision of a paint composition that affords a paint film of excellent acid rain resistance, contamination resistance, water resistance, weather resistance and painting workability, with particularly excellent resistance to vehicle wash damage; and a painting and finishing method, and painted articles.

Abstract: A process for preparing shaped catalyst bodies whose active composition is a multielement oxide, in which a finely divided precursor mixture with addition of graphite having a specific particle size is shaped to the desired geometry and then treated thermally.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of saturated nitrites by catalytic hydrogenation of the corresponding olefinically unsaturated compounds in the presence of a supported transition metal catalyst at a pressure of from 1 to 95 bar. Specifically, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of tetrahydrogeranonitrile (3,7-dimethyloctanenitrile) by catalytic hydrogenation of geranonitrile.

Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Transcription Factor Stress-Related Protein (TFSRP) 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 TFSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.

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 PKSRP, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRP, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. Further provided are methods of producing transgenic plants expressing PKSRP, and methods of identifying novel PKSRP and methods of modifying the expression of PKSRP in plants.

Abstract: A process for preparing biphenols of the general formula I by reaction of monophenols of the general formula II where the radicals R1, R2 and R3 are each, independently of one another, hydrogen, alkyl, aryl or arylalkyl having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, in the presence of an oxidant in a reactor, wherein a) the reactor comprises no stationary internals which act as baffles, b) a total of not more than 0.6 mol of oxidant is used per one mol of monophenol, and c) the oxidant is introduced either continuously or discontinuously in a plurality of portions over a period of from 10 minutes to 24 hours, with the amount of oxidant introduced per unit time not being constant over the total period of time but instead being varied.

Abstract: The invention relates to 2-substituted pyrimidines of the formula I in which the index n and the substituents L and R1 to R3 are as defined in the description and X is a group —CH—Ra, —N— or —S—; R1 may be hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, cyano or C1-C6-alkoxycarbonyl; Rb is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl or C3-C6-cycloalkyl; T is a group —CH—Ra—; p is an integer from 1 to 4; Y is a group —CH—Ra— or —N—Rb o is 0 or 1; Z is O, S or a group N(Rc) Rc is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl or C1-C6-alkoxy, and to processes for their preparation, to pesticidal compositions comprising them and to their use as pesticides.