Patents Assigned to BASF
  • 2-Methyl-6-solanylbenzoquinone methyltransferase as target for herbicides
    Publication number: 20070003934
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of 2-methyl-6-solanylbenzoquinone methyltransferase which, when absent, brings about retarded growth and chlorotic leaves, as target for herbicides. In this context, there are provided novel nucleic acid sequences comprising SEQ ID NO:5 and SEQ ID NO:7 and corresponding functional equivalents. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of 2-methyl-6-solanylbenzoquinone methyltransferase and its functional equivalents in a method for identifying herbicidal or growth-regulatory compounds, and to the use of the compounds identifed via the method as herbicides or growth regulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: BASF AKIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Andreas Reindl, Annette Freund, Ralf-Michael Schmidt, Uwe Sonnewald, Marc Nigel, Wolfgang Lein, Frederik Bornke
  • Method for the production of polymer powders
    Publication number: 20070004834
    Abstract: A process for preparing a polymer powder by evaporating the volatile constituents from an aqueous dispersion of a film-forming polymer P, wherein prior to the evaporation of the volatile constituents the aqueous polymer dispersion still comprises drying assistants T, present in an amount of from 0.1 to 80% by weight, based on the polymer P of the dispersion, and there being used as drying assistant T polyvinylformamide. The polyvinylformamide used preferably has a K value (KW), determined by the method of Fikentscher in accordance with DIN 53726, of from 5 to 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Pakusch, Markus Koppers, Wolfgang Gaschier, Heinrich Sack, Jurgen Schmidt-Thummes, Hans-Jurgen Denu
  • Method for releasably connecting a column plate to a supporting ring in a column via a clamp
    Patent number: 7155801
    Abstract: A method for using a clamp for detachable connection of a column tray to a support ring in a column including using a clamp which includes a bolt lower clamp part connected to the bolt. The lower clamp part has at least one orifice through which a liquid present in the column can flow away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Hammon, Juergen Schroeder
  • Method for producing an aqueous alkali acrylate solution
    Patent number: 7157598
    Abstract: A process prepares an aqueous alkali metal acrylate solution by distillatively removing acrylic acid from a mixture as vapors and taking up the vapors immediately from the gas phase into an aqueous alkali solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Fuchs, Hans Martan, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of acrolein to acrylic acid
    Patent number: 7157597
    Abstract: In a process for heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of acrolein to acrylic acid, the starting reaction gas mixture is oxidized over a fixed catalyst bed 1 which consists of at least two fixed catalyst bed zones and is accommodated in two successive temperature zones A, B, and the transition from temperature zone A to temperature zone B does not coincide with a transition from one fixed catalyst bed zone to another fixed catalyst bed zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Dieterle, Jochen Petzoldt, Heiko Arnold, Wilhelm Ruppel, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Aqueous primary dispersion, substantially or completely devoid of volatile organic substances, method for the production thereof and use of the same
    Patent number: 7157526
    Abstract: Aqueous primary dispersion, substantially or entirely free of volatile organic compounds, and comprising dispersed and/or emulsified, solid and/or liquid polymer particles and/or dispersed solid core/shell particles with a particle diameter?500 nm, preparable by free-radical micro- or miniemulsion polymerization of at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer in the presence of at least one hydrophobic additive and of at least one oligomeric polyester with a number-average molecular weight of from 150 to 1 500 daltons, a hydroxyl number of from 100 to 1 000 mg KOH/g, and an acid number<20 mg KOH/g and also a process for preparing it and its use as a coating material, adhesive or sealing compound or to prepare a coating material, an adhesive or a sealing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Coatings AG
    Inventors: Ralf Nickolaus, Heinz-Peter Rink, Reinhold Clauss, Elisabeth Wessling, Wilma Löcken, Nicole Freitag, Dunja Mikolajetz
  • Catalyst-precursor for the production of maleic acid anhydride and method for the production thereof
    Patent number: 7157403
    Abstract: A process for preparing a vanadium, phosphorus, and oxygen catalyst precursor for preparing maleic anhydride by heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon having at least four carbon atoms, by reacting vanadium pentoxide (I) in the presence of a primary or secondary, noncyclic or cyclic, unbranched or branched, saturated alcohol having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms (II) with a pentavalent or trivalent phosphorus compound (III) in a temperature range from 80 to 160° C. with stirring and subsequently filtering the resultant suspension, in which (a) the way in which the phosphorus compound (III) and the vanadium pentoxide (I) are combined in the presence of the alcohol (II), (b) the action of a stirring power of from 0.01 to 0.6 W/kg suspension, and/or (c) the filtration at a temperature from 65° C. to 160° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Weiguny, Sebastian Storck, Mark Duda, Cornelia Dobner
  • Catalysts or carriers which consist essentially of monoclinic zirconium dioxide
    Patent number: 7157406
    Abstract: Catalysts or carriers which consist essentially of monoclinic zirconium dioxide are prepared by pecipitation of zirconium salts with ammonia, by adding a zirconyl nitrate or zirconyl chloride solution to an aqueous ammonia solution at a decreasing pH from 14 to 6 and drying, calcining and pelletizing the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Irgang, Michael Hesse, Werner Schnurr
  • Esters of phosphorus-oxygen acids, these esters comprising alkoxy groups, and their use as corrosion inhibitors and flameproofing agents
    Publication number: 20060289833
    Abstract: The invention relates to esters or ester salts of phosphorus-oxygen acids, these esters or ester salts comprising alkoxy groups, and to the use of compounds of this type as corrosion inhibitors, particularly in alkaline media, and as flameproofing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF ATKIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Helmut Witteler, Fernandez Gonzalez, Gerhard Wagenblast
  • Aqueous multicomponent system, process for its preparation, and its use
    Publication number: 20060293485
    Abstract: An aqueous multicomponent system comprising (I) at least one aqueous component comprising dissolved and/or dispersed therein at least one polyurethane-based graft copolymer (P) containing isocyanate-reactive functional groups and preparable by graft copolymerizing at least one polyurethane (P?) selected from the group consisting of hydrophobic or hydrophilic polyurethanes containing on average at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of thiocarbamate groups, thiol groups and sulfide groups with at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer, ?or alternatively (II) at least one liquid organic component comprising at least one water soluble and/or dispersible, polyurethane-based graft copolymer (P) and (III) at least one aqueous component, and (IV) at least one liquid organic component comprising or consisting of at least one polyisocyanate, processes for preparing it, and its use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF COATINGS AG,
    Inventors: Heinz-Peter Rink, Susanne Piontek, Christine Alpert, Lutz-Werner Gross, Andreas Jansen
  • Method for the double-bond isomerisation of olefins
    Publication number: 20060293549
    Abstract: A process for preparing a C4- to C12-olefin (olefin A) from another C4- to C12-olefin (olefin B), wherein olefin (A) and olefin (B) differ with regard to the position of the double bond, and wherein a gaseous mixture comprising olefin (B) and from 0.01 to 10% by weight, based on the total amount of hydrocarbon compounds in this mixture, of a compound having a dipole moment of from 0.5 to 5 debye (compound P) is contacted with a basic catalyst at a temperature of from 200 to 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marcus Sigl, Ulrich Steinbrenner
  • Mehtod for producing 3-phenyl(thio)uracils and 3-phenyldithiouracils
    Publication number: 20060293520
    Abstract: A process is described for preparing 3-phenyl(thio)uracils or 3-phenyldithiouracils of the formula I, by reacting a phenyl iso(thio)cyanate of the formula II with an enamine of the formula III and, if appropriate, in a further step, the resulting 3-phenyl(thio)uracil or 3-phenyldithiouracil of the formula I where R1=R1a, when R1=hydrogen, is reacted with an aminating agent of the formula IV to give 3-phenyl(thio)uracils or 3-phenyldithiouracils of the formula I where R1=amino where the variables R1, R1a, R2, R3, R4, X1, X2, X3, Ar, A and L1 are each as defined in claim 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Gerhard Hamprecht, Michael Puhl, Bernd Wolf, Michael Keil, Robert Reinhard, Werner Steitz, Guido Mayer
  • Herbicidal mixtures based on 3-phenyluracils
    Publication number: 20060293187
    Abstract: A herbicidal mixture comprising 3-Phenyluracils of the formula (I) in which the variables R1-R7 are as defined below: R1 is methyl or NH2; R2 is haloalkyl; R3 is hydrogen or halogen; R4 is halogen or cyano; R5 is hydrogen, cyano, alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, cyclo-alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or optionally substituted benzyl; R6, R7 are hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, phenyl or benzyl; or R6, R7 together with the nitrogen atom form a 3- to 7-membered saturated or unsaturated optionally substituted hetero-cycle, including their agriculturally acceptable salts; and at least one further herbicide B; and optionally at least one safener C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Cyrill Zagar, Matthias Witschel, Andreas Landes
  • Method for separating triethanolamin from a mixture obtainable by ammonia and ethylene oxide reaction
    Publication number: 20060293541
    Abstract: Process for separating triethanolamine continuously by distillation from a mixture of monoethanolamine, diethanolamine and triethanolamine together with ethanolamine ethers and water obtained by reaction of ammonia with ethylene oxide in the liquid phase under superatmospheric pressure and at elevated temperature, in which the mixture is distilled in two stages. The low-boiling fraction and the high-boiling fraction are taken off and discharged in the first stage and the intermediate-boiling fraction comprising >99.4% by weight of triethanolamine and <0.2% by weight of diethanolamine is distilled in the second stage. The distillation of the mixture is preferably carried out in a first column and a second column connected to this or in a dividing wall column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reif, Hans Hammer, Gunther Ruider, Anton Meier, Philip Buskens, Matthias Frauenkron
  • Corynebacterium glutamicum genes encoding phosphoenolpyruvate: sugar phosphotransferase system proteins
    Publication number: 20060292674
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AG
    Inventors: Markus Pompejus, Burkhard Kroger, Hartwig Schroder, Oskar Zelder, Gregor Haberhauer
  • Long-term operation of a heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase partial oxidation of propene to acrolein
    Patent number: 7154009
    Abstract: A process for the long-term operation of a heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase partial oxidation of propene to acrolein, in which the temperature of the fixed catalyst bed is increased over the time and the gas phase partial oxidation is interrupted at least once per calendar year and the gas mixture G consisting of molecular oxygen, inert gas and optionally steam is conducted through the fixed catalyst bed at a temperature of the fixed catalyst bed of from 250 to 550° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Dieterle, Jochen Petzoldt, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Coating material, related production method and use
    Patent number: 7153357
    Abstract: A coating material comprising (A) at least one kind of hydrophobic nanoparticles based on silica and (B) at least one kind of hydrophilic nanoparticles based on silica having a BET internal surface area of >300 m2/g; process for preparing it, and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Coatings AG
    Inventors: Hubert Baumgart, Simone Jurczik, Beate Gebauer
  • Rod shaped apatite crystals having a specific length-to-width ratio
    Patent number: 7153482
    Abstract: The rod-shaped apatite crystals of the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH)xFy have the following features a) the length-to-breadth ratio of the crystals is at least ?5 and b) x+y=1, where if x or y?0 the total amount of the crystals is present as a mixture of individual hydroxyapatite crystals and fluoroapatite crystals and/or as mixed crystals, such that, based on the total amount of the crystals, (1?x)·100% of the hydroxide ions present if y=0 are replaced by fluoride ions. The invention furthermore describes dispersions which contain such rod-shaped apatite crystals, and a process for the preparation of the dispersions or of the apatite crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Noerenberg, Hans-Josef Sterzel, Volker Koch
  • Method for the production of 1,4- butanediol
    Patent number: 7154011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing optionally alkyl-substituted 1,4-butanediol by two-stage catalytic hydrogenation in the gas phase of C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or of derivatives thereof having the following steps: a) introducing a gas stream of a C4-dicarboxylic acid or of a derivative thereof at from 200 to 300° C. and from 10 to 100 bar into a first reactor or into a first reaction zone of a reactor and catalytically hydrogenating it in the gas phase to a product which contains mainly optionally alkyl-substituted ?-butyrolactone; b) introducing the product stream obtained in this way into a second reactor or into a second reaction zone of a reactor at a temperature of from 140° C. to 260° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Hesse, Stephan Schlitter, Holger Borchert, Markus Schubert, Markus Rösch, Nils Bottke, Rolf-Hartmuth Fischer, Alexander Weck, Gunther Windecker, Gunnar Heydrich
  • Structurally viscose clear lacquer slurry
    Patent number: 7153900
    Abstract: A pseudoplastic clearcoat slurry comprising solid and/or highly viscous particles which are dimensionally stable under storage and application conditions and at least one water soluble salt, preferably from 0.1 to 50 mmol per 1 000 g of water, which can be decomposed without residue or virtually without residue; process for preparing it, and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Coatings AG
    Inventors: Joachim Woltering, Michael Tecklenborg, Günther Ott