Abstract: The invention provides a continuous process for preparing DMC catalysts, which comprises continuously feeding the solutions of a metal salt and of a hexacyanometallate compound and, if appropriate, organic ligands and/or organic additives into a continuous reactor, and continuously withdrawing the resulting suspension of the DMC compound from the reactor.

Abstract: Solid pigment preparations comprising as essential constituents (A) from 5% to 80% by weight of at least one pigment, (B) from 1% to 90% by weight of at least one filler without self color, the sum total of said components (A) and (B) being in the range from 60% to 95% by weight, and (C) from 5% to 40% by weight of at least one water-soluble surface-active additive, and also production and use of the pigment preparations for coloration of macromolecular organic and inorganic materials and also of plastics.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel polynucleotides encoding plant prenyl protease polypeptides, fragments and homologs thereof. Also provided are vectors, host cells, and recombinant methods for producing said polypeptides. The invention further provides novel polynucleotides encoding plant promoters, polypeptides, fragments and homologs thereof. The invention additionally provides methods of constructing transgenic plants that have altered levels of prenyl protease polynucleotides and polypeptides. Methods for identifying prenyl protease enzymes substrates and inhibitors are also provided. The invention further relates to methods of applying these novel plant polypeptides to the identification, prevention, and/or conferment of resistance to various plant diseases and/or disorders, particularly drought resistance.

Abstract: A system comprising a) Ni(0) b) from 4 to 10 mol per mol of Ni(0) in a) of a compound (I) of the formula P(X1R1)(X2R2)(X3R3) ??(I) where X1, X2, X3 are each, independently of one another, oxygen or a single bond, R1, R2, R3 are, independently of one another, identical or different organic radicals and c) from 1 to 4 mol per mol of Ni(0) in a) of a compound (II) of the formula where X11, X12, X13 X21, X22, X23 are each, independently of one another, oxygen or a single bond, R11, R12 are identical or different, individual or bridged organic radicals, R21, R22 are identical or different, individual or bridged organic radicals and Y is a bridging group is suitable as catalyst for preparing mixtures of monoolefinic C5 mononitriles having nonconjugated C?C and C?N bonds by hydrocyanation of a 1,3-butadiene-containing hydrocarbon mixture and for preparing a dinitrile by hydrocyanation of a mixture of monoolefinic C5 mononitriles having nonconjugated C?C and C?N bonds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to soil-applied CR granules obtainable by applying an active-ingredient-comprising coating to a solid carrier in a fluidized bed, to a process for the preparation of these soil-applied granules, and to a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, undesired vegetation, undesired attack by insects and/or for regulating the growth of plants using the soil-applied CR granules according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of storing a liquefied gas in a container containing a metal-organic framework material, the container filled with such a gas, a process for filling container and the use of the container to release the gas.

Abstract: A process is described for preparing tetrahydrogeranylacetone in which pseudoionone, geranylacetone and/or dihydrogeranylacetone in a liquid phase, in which particles of a catalyst which is capable of preferentially hydrogenating carbon-carbon double bonds over carbon-oxygen double bonds are suspended, is conducted through a device which inhibits the transport of the catalyst particles in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas.

Abstract: A process for preparing maleic anhydride by oxidizing n-butane in the gas phase under heterogeneous catalysis with oxygen-containing gases over a vanadium-, phosphorus- and oxygen-containing catalyst in a reactor unit at a temperature in the range from 350 to 500° C., removing the maleic anhydride formed to form a gas stream which comprises unconverted n-butane and water and recycling at least a portion of the unconverted n-butane to the reactor unit, by feeding to the reactor unit an inlet stream having an n-butane concentration of from 0.5 to 1.5% by volume and an oxygen concentration of from 5 to 21% by volume, establishing a pressure at the inlet to the reactor unit of from 0.4 to 2 MPa abs, and converting from 40 to 100% of the n-butane from the inlet stream per reactor pass.

Abstract: Process for preparing high-concentration formaldehyde solutions having a CH2O content of ?50% by weight from an aqueous formaldehyde solution having a lower CH2O content by evaporation of part of this solution (partial evaporation), in which the aqueous formaldehyde solution is heated to an evaporation temperature T at which the gas phase becomes enriched in water relative to the liquid phase and the gas phase formed is taken off continuously or discontinuously, wherein the evaporation temperature T obeys the relationship: T[° C.]<Tmax[° C.] where Tmax(c)=A+B×(c/100)+C×(c/100)2+D×(c/100)3 and A=+68.759, B=+124.77, C=?12.851, D=?10.095, where c is the instantaneous CH2O content of the aqueous formaldehyde solution during the evaporation in percent by weight and is from 20 to 99% by weight.

Abstract: In a process for the purification of triethylenediamine (TEDA) in which TEDA is vaporized and the gaseous TEDA is passed into a liquid solvent and is subsequently crystallized from this, the mother liquor obtained after the TEDA has been crystallized is extracted with an extractant which is immiscible or only slightly miscible with the solvent of the mother liquor and in which TEDA is readily soluble, and the TEDA-depleted mother liquor obtained after extraction and/or the TEDA-enriched extractant which has been used for the extraction are/is returned to the process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of alkoxylated alcohols (alcohol alkoxylates) as adjuvant for improving the fungicidal action of benzamide oxime derivatives of the formula (I) such as, for example, N-phenylacetyl-2-difluoromethoxy-5,6-difluorobenzamide (O-cyclopropylmethyl)oxime or N-phenylacetyl-2-trifluoromethoxy-5,6-difluorobenzamide (O-cyclopropylmethyl)oxime. The present invention also relates to corresponding compositions and kits.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of polyether alcohols, wherein the alkoxylation is carried out in the presence of sheet silicates.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising, as active components, 1) a sulfamoyl compound of the formula I, in which the substituents are as defined below: R1 is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkoxycarbonyl, phenyl, benzyl, formyl or CH?NOA; A is hydrogen, alkyl, alkylcarbonyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxycarbonyl; R3 is halogen, cyano, nitro, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkoxycarbonyl, formyl or CH?NOA; n is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, alkyl or haloalkyl; and 2) at least one active compound selected from the following groups: A) azoles; B) strobilurins; C) acylalanines; D) amine derivatives; E) anilinopyrimidines; F) dicarboximides; G) cinnamides and analogs; H) dithiocarbamates; I) heterocylic compounds; K) sulfur and copper fungicides; L) nitrophenyl derivatives; M) phenylpyrroles; N) sulfenic acid derivatives; O) other fungicides; according to the description; in a synergistically effective amount, methods for contro

Abstract: A process for hydrogenating an organic compound which has at least one carbonyl group, in which the organic compound is brought into contact in the presence of hydrogen with a shaped article which can be produced in a process in which (i) an oxidic material comprising copper oxide, aluminum oxide and at least one of the oxides of lanthanum, tungsten, molybdenum, titanium or zirconium is prepared, (ii) powdered metallic copper, copper flakes, powdered cement, graphite or a mixture thereof is added to the oxidic material, and (iii) the mixture resulting from (ii) is shaped to a shaped article.

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.

Abstract: Catalytic titanium dioxide mixtures comprising: a first anatase titanium dioxide having a BET surface area greater than 15 m2/g and a hydrogen uptake for the reduction of Ti4+ to Ti of from 5 to 20 ?mol/m2; and a second anatase titanium dioxide having a BET surface area less than or equal to 15 m2/g and a hydrogen uptake for the reduction of Ti4+ to Ti3+ of from 0.6 to 7 ?mol/m2, processes for preparing catalysts containing the same, catalysts containing active compositions including such titanium dioxide mixtures on support materials, and catalyst systems using the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new azine compounds which are useful combating animal pests, in particular insects and nematodes and to the salts thereof. The invention also relates to a method for combating insects, nematodes and arachnids. The azine compounds of the invention are described by the general formula (I) wherein . . . is absent or a covalent bond; n is 0 or 1, in particular 0; A is an optionally substituted cyclic radical selected from phenyl and a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic radical with 1, 2, 3, or 4 heteroatoms; Ar is an optionally substituted aromatic radical selected from phenyl, pyridyl, pyrimidyl, furyl and thienyl, x is selected from halogen, OR7, SR7, SOR7, SO2R7, C1-C4-alkyl and C1-C4-haloalkyl; and wherein R1 to R4 and R7 are as described in the claims and the specification.

Abstract: A thermoplastic molding composition comprising A) from 10 to 99.99% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polyester, B) from 0.01 to 50% by weight of a mixture composed of B1) at least one highly branched or hyperbranched polycarbonate having an OH number of from 1 to 600 mg KOH/g of polycarbonate (to DIN 53240, Part 2), and B2) at least one highly branched or hyperbranched polyester of AxBy type, where x is at least 1.1 and y is at least 2.1, and C) from 0 to 60% by weight of other additives, where the total of the percentages by weight of components A) to C) is 100%.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid molecules, designated PTS nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel PTS proteins from Corynebacterium glutamicum are described. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing PTS nucleic acid molecules, and host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced. The invention still further provides isolated PTS proteins, mutated PTS proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and methods for the improvement of production of a desired compound from C. glutamicum based on genetic engineering of PTS genes in this organism.

Abstract: Catalyst in the form of an extrudate which comprises from 5 to 85% by weight of copper oxide and in which the same oxidic support material is present in the active composition and as binder, and the use of the catalyst for the hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds.