Abstract: Substituted 7- to 12-membered cycloalkanes which have leaving groups, in particular chlorine atoms, on tertiary ring carbons, a process for preparing them and their use as initiators for cationic polymerization, in particular the cationic polymerization of isobutene are described. Preferred compounds are 1,4-dichloro-1,4-dimethylcyclooctane, 1,5-dichloro-1,5-dimethylcyclooctane and mixtures thereof. They are prepared by addition of hydrogen chloride onto appropriately substituted cycloalkapolyenes.

Abstract: A curable clearcoat coating composition demonstrates increased gloss retention with the addition of from about 1% to about 10% by weight of a silylated dimer fatty alcohol diol.

Abstract: Mixtures, comprising a) a 4,5-dihydroisoxazol-3-yl-substituted benzoyl derivative of the formula I, where R is chlorine or methyl, or one of its environmentally compatible salts, esters or amides; and b) esters of C6-C22-fatty acids of vegetable origin.

Abstract: A method for the production of C1-C10-alkyl 2-keto-L-gulonates by esterification of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid anhydrate with an anhydrous C1-C10-alkyl alcohol in the presence of an acidic homogeneous catalyst in a reactor cascade comprising at least two reactors, one of these reactors being a tubular reactor, without the water forming in the esterification being removed from the reaction space.

Abstract: Aqueous polyurethane formulations, their use and substrates which are coated with such formulations are described.

Abstract: Process for preparing barium titanate or strontium titanate by reacting titanium alkoxides with barium hydroxide hydrate or strontium hydroxide hydrate in a C1–C8-alcohol or a glycol ether at from 50 to 150° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of separating an olefin from a gas stream, said gas stream comprising the olefin and at least one other component, said method comprising (i) compressing and cooling the gas stream; (ii) separating the olefin from the gas stream by absorbing the olefin in an absorbent; (iii) separating the olefin from the absorbent by desorption; wherein compressing or cooling or compressing and cooling in (i) is carried out at least twice.

Abstract: The invention relates to composite elements comprising the following layered structure: (i) 2 to 20 mm metal, (ii) 10 to 300 mm plastic, (iii) 2 to 20 mm metal, whereby (i) and/or (iii) optionally comprise a closable opening.

Abstract: A method for the safe operation of a continuously operated heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase partial oxidation of an organic compound in a reactor, the composition of the feed gas mixture being controlled by pressure-controlled concentration determination of relevant constituents.

Abstract: A coating composition includes a polyurethane polyol and a cross-linking agent. The coating composition is used in original equipment manufacturer (OEM) coating industries. The polyurethane polyol includes the reaction product of an isocyanate component and a first compound having at least two hydroxyl groups. The two hydroxyl groups of the first compound are separated by at least four carbon atoms. The separation of the two hydroxyl groups of the first compound allows the first compound to react with an amount of the isocyanate required to facilitate drying of the coating composition and reduce a chance that contaminants may settle into the coating composition.

Abstract: A method of matching a color of a powder paint system including a metallic pigment with a color of a liquid paint system includes applying the liquid paint system onto a substrate. A color effect-providing pigment different than the metallic pigment is added to the liquid paint system to match the color of the powder paint system with the color of the liquid paint system. The color of the liquid paint system including the color effect-providing pigment substantially matches the color of the powder paint system that includes the metallic pigment.

Abstract: Copolymers which contain tert-butyl (meth)acrylate, at least one ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated amido-containing compound and acrylic acid incorporated in the form of polymerized units, cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions which contain at least one such copolymer and the use of these copolymers are described.

Abstract: A method repairs damage of a finish on a substrate. The method applies an ultraviolet-curable (UV curable) primer composition to the area of damage and force flashes the primer composition. Light is irradiated to cure the primer composition and form a cured primer layer. Next, a basecoat composition is applied to the cured primer layer. The basecoat composition is force flashed to form a dried basecoat layer. A UV curable clearcoat composition is then applied to the dried basecoat layer, and the UV curable clearcoat composition is force flashed. Light is irradiated to cure the UV curable clearcoat composition and form a cured clearcoat layer.

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

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of water-soluble polymers of ethylenically unsaturated anionic monomers are obtainable by free radical polymerization of the monomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of at least one stabilizer, the polymerization being carried out in the presence of at least one water-soluble polymer of the groups consisting of (a) graft polymers of vinyl acetate and/or vinyl propionate on polyethylene glycols, polyethylene glycols blocked at one or both terminal groups with alkyl, carboxyl or amino groups, copolymers of alkyl polyalkylene glycol acrylates or alkyl polyalkylene glycol methacrylates and acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid, polyalkylene glycols, polyalkylene glycols blocked at one or both terminal groups with alkyl, carboxyl or amino groups, and (b) hydrolyzed copolymers of vinyl alkyl ethers and maleic anhydride in the form of the free carboxyl groups and in the form of the salts at least partly neutralized with alkali metal hydroxides or ammonium bases, and/or of water-soluble starch

Abstract: Herbicide-resistant sunflower plants, isolated polynucleotides that encode herbicide-resistant and wild-type acetohydroxyacid synthase large subunit (AHASL) polypeptides, and the amino acid sequences of these polypeptides, are described. Expression cassettes and transformation vectors comprising the polynucleotides of the invention, as well as plants and host cells transformed with the polynucleotides, are described. Methods of using the polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of plants to herbicides, and methods for controlling weeds in the vicinity of herbicide-resistant plants are also described.

Abstract: A method of preparing a polymer system which is capable of proton-exchange on the basis of at least one polyaryletherketone, comprising the step (i): (i) Reacting the at least one polyaryletherketone with at least one alkanesulfonic acid to obtain sulfur-containing polyaryletherketones (I), and sulfonated polyaryletherketones which can be prepared via the method according to the invention and their use as a polymer electrolyte membrane.

Abstract: A process for preparing acrolein, or acrylic acid or a mixture thereof as a target product from propane, in which propane is partially dehydrogenated under heterogeneous catalysis in a reaction zone A, molecular hydrogen thus formed is incinerated partly to water and the product gas A thus formed in reaction zone A is used without secondary component removal to charge a reaction zone B in which propylene present in product gas A is partially oxidized to the target product. From the product gas B formed in reaction zone B, the target product is removed and the residual gas I remaining after an aftertreatment comprising a CO2 scrubbing and a partial discharge thereof is recycled into reaction zone A.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures comprising, as active components, (1) the triazolopyrimidine derivative of the formula I, and (2) dinocap of the formula II consisting of the dinitrophenol derivatives of the formulae IIa and IIb where n is 0, 1 or 2, in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi and compositions comprising these mixtures are described.

Abstract: An isolation assembly for use with a vehicle. The isolation assembly includes a collar having a continuous wall. A carriage is disposed within a cavity of the wall and is displaceable relative to the collar. A fastener supports the carriage relative to a frame portion of the vehicle. An insulator is disposed between the carriage and the wall of the collar for coupling the carriage to the collar and for isolating the carriage and the fastener from the collar. The insulator has a first portion and a plurality of second portions. The first portion encapsulates one of the second end surface and the peripheral surface of the carriage. The second portions are movable relative to the first portion about a living hinge to encapsulate the other of the peripheral surface and second end surface of the carriage such that the carriage is adequately isolated from the collar.