Abstract: The invention relates to novel nucleic acid molecules, to the use thereof for constructing genetically improved microorganisms and to methods for preparing fine chemicals, in particular amino acids, with the aid of said genetically improved microorganisms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant nucleic acid encoding a hybrid polypeptide which comprises a transit peptide for the translocation of the polypeptide into an appropriate organelles such as plastids, a starch-encapsulating region from maize starch synthase and a payload polypeptide, wherein said payload polypeptide can be either N- or C-terminal to the starch encapsulating region. The invention also relates to the expression vectors comprising said nucleic acid, and hosts comprising the said vector. Also, the invention encompasses methods of producing the hybrid polypeptide thereof from starch and particularly from starch granules, and industrial uses of the payload polypeptide recombinantly produced in said hybrid polypeptide wherein said payload polypeptide is a biologically active molecule.

Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous process for producing pseudoionones of general formulas (I) and (I?) as well as isomers thereof, whereby: R1 represents CH3 or (a); R2 and R3 represent hydrogen, CH3 or C2H5, and; R4 and R5 represent hydrogen or CH3. These pseudoionones are produced by reacting an aldehyde of formula (II) with an excess of a ketone of general formula (III), whereby R1, R2 and R3 have the aforementioned meanings, in the presence of water and alkali hydroxide at an increased temperature and in a homogeneous solution. The inventive process is characterized in that: a) the intermixing of the homogeneous solution consisting of aldehyde, ketone and aqueous alkali lye occurs at a temperature ranging from 10 to 120° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel nucleic acid molecules, to the use thereof for constructing genetically improved microorganisms and to methods for preparing fine chemicals, in particular amino acids, with the aid of said genetically improved microorganisms.

Abstract: A process for wrinkleproofing cellulosic textiles comprises treating the textiles with a finish and drying the treated textiles, wherein the finish comprises one or more water-soluble or water-dispersible hydrophobically modified polyethyleneimines and/or polyvinylamines. Suitable hydrophobically modified polyethyleneimines are hydrophobically modified homopolymers of ethyleneimine, hydrophobically modified graft polymers of polyamidoamines or of polyvinylamines. Suitable hydrophobically modified polyvinylamines are hydrophobically modified at least partially hydrolyzed homo- or copolymers of N-vinylcarboxamides. The polyethyleneimines and polyvinylamines can be crosslinked by polyfunctional crosslinking compounds, quaternized and/or modified by reaction with alkylene oxides, dialkyl carbonates, alkylene carbonates and/or C1–C4-carboxylic acids.

Abstract: A method of reducing the level of bacteria and viruses in a volume of water during aquaculture comprises:—(a) providing the volume of water to be stocked with farmed aquatic organisms or eggs thereof; (b) prior to the stocking, introducing into the water an aqueous solution of glutaraldehyde in an amount such as to provide in the water from 0.1 to 2 ppm of glutaraldehyde; (c) stocking the water with the farmed aquatic organisms or eggs thereof at a time when the concentration of glutaraldehyde is 0.1 to 2 ppm. (d) allowing the farmed aquatic organisms or eggs thereof to grow; and (e) optionally during a period of the growth, introducing into the water at least one further portion of an aqueous solution of glutaraldehyde in an amount such as to maintain the concentration of the glutaraldehyde at 0.1 to 2 ppm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing chlorine by catalytic gas-phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride, which comprises the steps: a) providing a feed gas stream I comprising hydrogen chloride and a feed gas stream II comprising oxygen; b) in a first oxidation stage, feeding the feed gas stream I, the feed gas stream II, if desired a recycle stream la comprising hydrogen chloride and if desired an oxygen-containing recycle stream IIa into a first oxidation zone and bringing them into contact with a first oxidation catalyst so that a first partial amount of the hydrogen chloride is oxidized to chlorine and a gas stream III comprising chlorine, unreacted oxygen, unreacted hydrogen chloride and water vapor is obtained; c) in a second oxidation stage, feeding the gas stream III into a second oxidation zone and bringing it into contact with at least one further oxidation catalyst so that a second partial amount of the hydrogen chloride is oxidized to chlorine and a product gas stream IV comprising chlorin

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of combating animal pests which comprises contacting the animal pests, their habit, breeding ground, food supply, plant, seed, soil, area, material or environment in which the animal pests are growing or may grow, or the materials, plants, seeds, soils, surfaces or spaces to be protected from animal attack or infestation with a pesticidally effective amount of at least one 6-halogeno[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]-pyrimidine of the general formula (I), wherein X, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in claim 1 and/or the agriculturally useful salts thereof.

Abstract: A process for hydrocyanating an olefinically unsaturated nitrile in the presence of an Ni(0)-containing catalyst, which comprises carrying out the reaction in the presence of a hydrocarbon which leads under certain pressure, concentration and temperature conditions to the formation of at least two liquid phases of the overall system, of which one phase has a higher proportion of the Ni(0)-containing catalyst, based on the total weight of this phase, than the other phase or other phases.

Abstract: Process for preparing an aqueous polymer dispersion by polymerizing at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer B in an aqueous medium in the presence of polymer particles A and at least one dispersant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the single-stage preparation of polyoxyalkylene glycols by copolymerization of THF and neopentyl glycol in the presence of a heteropolyacid, wherein the total amount of all impurities of the formula (I) where R1 and R2 are each hydrogen when R3 is an oxyformyl or isopropionate radical, R1 is hydrogen and R2 is hydroxy when R3 is an isopropyl radical and R1 is hydrogen when R2 and R3 together form an —OCH2—C(CH3)—CH2— radical, in the neopentyl glycol is less than 1000 ppm.

Abstract: Process for preparation of solid blends composed of polyvinylpyrrolidones and of ethoxylated fatty acid derivatives via processing of the components in an extruder, which comprises introducing the polyvinylpyrrolidones into the extruder in the form of aqueous solutions, and removing the solvent during the extrusion procedure.

Abstract: A binder solution comprising, based on the solution, (A) from 30 to 50% by weight of an alkyl and/or cycloalkyl acetate of 3 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl and/or cycloalkyl radical, (B) from 30 to 50% by weight of an alkoxyalkyl, cycloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxycycloalkyl and/or cycloalkoxycycloalkyl acetate of 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkoxy and alkyl radical and of 3 to 10 carbon atoms in the cycloalkoxy and cycloalkyl radical, (C) from 10 to 30% by weight of an alkylaromatic compound having at least two alkyl radicals of 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the molecule, (D) from 0.01 to 1% by weight of an alcohol of 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the molecule, (E) from 0.005 to 1% by weight of an additive, and (F) from 0.5 to 5% by weight of an organic solution of a (meth)acrylate copolymer having a solids content, based on the solution (F), of from 50 to 90% by weight, and its use for automotive spot repair.

Abstract: Rylene derivatives of the general formula I where the variables have the following meanings: R is hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted C1–C30-alkyl, aryl or hetaryl; R1 is hydrogen or bromine; R2 is hydrogen or C1–C6-alkyl; R3 is hydrogen, C1–C18-alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl or hetaryl; and n is 2 or 3.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel nucleic acid molecules, to the use thereof for constructing genetically improved microorganisms and to methods for preparing fine chemicals, in particular amino acids, with the aid of said genetically improved microorganisms.

Abstract: A method for controlling a population of social insects such as ants, wasps or cockroaches by administering to a minor fraction of the population an effective amount of a composition that includes a bait and a 1-phenylpyrazole-type compound, particularly 5-amino-3-cyano-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl)sulphinyl]-1H-pyrazole.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a solid herbicide formulation containing a) a herbicide from the group of sulfonylurea, or the salts thereof which are useful in the agricultural domain. b) optionally at least one other herbicide. c) optionally a safener, and d) at least one formulation adjuvant. A suspension is formed in water, consisting of the sulfonylurea a). optionally at least one other herbicide b), optionally a safener c) and at least one formulation adjuvant d). The suspension is adjusted to a pH value between 6.5 and 8 by adding an acid or a base, and is then dried to obtain the solid formulation.

Abstract: A carbamate or terminal urea functional vinyl polymer is prepared by reacting a compound having an hydroxyl group and a carbamate group, terminal urea group, or a group that can be converted to a carbamate or terminal urea group, with a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group to form an ester bond and a free acid group from the anhydride; and reacting the free acid group with a compound having an epoxide group. The cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group may be pendant to a vinyl polymer, or one of the compound having an hydroxyl group, a compound having the cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride group, and the compound having an epoxide group may have polymerizable ethylenic unsaturation that is polymerized, optionally with one or more copolymerizable monomers to form a vinyl polymer. When the compound having an hydroxyl group has a group that can be converted to a carbamate or terminal urea group, the group is converted to the carbamate or terminal urea group after step (a).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the single-stage preparation of polyoxyalkylene glycols by copolymerization of THF and alpha, omega-diols in the presence of a heteropolyacid, wherein the content of organically bound nitrogen in the alpha, omega-diol is less than 15 ppm.

Abstract: Mixture (1) comprising from 1 to 40% by weight of (A) thermoplastic polyurethane based on aliphatic isocyanate and from 60 to 99% by weight of (B) acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate copolymer (ASA) and/or acrylonitrile-ethylene homo- or copolymer-styrene (AES) material, based in each case on the total weight of the mixture (1).