Abstract: A catalyst for gas-phase oxidations which comprises an inert support and a catalytically active composition comprising transition metal oxides applied thereto, or a precatalyst, is described. The (pre)catalyst is obtained by treating the inert support with an aqueous suspension or solution of the transition metal oxides or their precursor compounds, where the suspension contains a binder dispersion and the binder is a copolymer of an ?-olefin and a vinyl-C2-C4-carboxylate whose vinyl C2-C4-carboxylate content is at least 62 mol %.

Abstract: The present invention relates to colorant preparations comprising a) at least one colorant in particulate form, b) at least one organic solvent having a boiling point of at least 247° C., measured at atmospheric pressure, and c) water, and less than 0.25% by weight of organic solvents having a boiling point below 247° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film-forming composition comprising a binder and a pigment mixture present in a pigment to binder ratio of at least 0.8. The pigment mixture consists of at least 80% of titanium dioxide by weight and no more than 20% by weight of non-titanium dioxide pigments, based on the total weight of the pigment mixture, said non-titanium dioxide pigments being selected from the group consisting of carbon black, talc, barium sulfate, magnesium silicate, and combinations comprising two or more of the foregoing. The composition has an adjusted VOC of no more than 100 g/L, is free of all pigments other than those in the pigment mixture, has a viscosity of no more than 200 cps at 384 sec?1, and provides a cured film having an elasticity of at least 20%. The composition provides multilayer coating systems having improved chip performance.

Abstract: The invention relates to expandable thermoplastic polyurethanes, capable of preparation via mixing of thermoplastic polyurethanes with expandable microspheres, wherein the expandable microspheres have a TMA density smaller than 10 kg/m3.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing carotenoids or their precursors using genetically modified organisms of the Blakeslea genus. Said method comprises the following steps (i) transformation of at least one of the cells, (ii) optional homokaryotic conversion of the cells obtained in step (i) to produce cells, in which one or more genetic characteristics of the nuclei are all modified in an identical manner and said modification manifests itself in the cells, (iii) selection and reproduction of the genetically modified cell or cells, (iv) cultivation of the genetically modified cells, (v) preparation of the carotenoids produced by the genetically modified cells or the carotenoid precursor produced by said genetically modified cells. The invention also relates to carotenoids or their precursors produced according to said method and to the use thereof.

Abstract: A mixture and method for preparing a composition curable thermally and with actinic radiation comprising a binder free from carbon-carbon double bonds activatable with actinic radiation, at least one blocked or unblocked polyisocyanate having at least one soft, flexibilizing segment, and at least one unsaturated polyfunctional urethane that is free from isocyanate-reactive functional groups and contains on average per molecule more than four carbon-carbon double bonds activatable with actinic radiation and at least one hardening segment.

Abstract: The invention relates to high-functionality polyether polyols of the general formula where each R?1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic or aromatic radical and each R?2 is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic or aromatic radical, H, OH, polyalkyl ether chain or halogen, each X is a polyalkyl ether chain or H, where at least one X is a polyalkyl ether chain, and m is an integer from 0 to 20, where Xm is H when m is 0, and n is an integer from 4 to 12, to processes for preparing such high-functionality polyether polyols and also to the use thereof for preparing polyurethanes and nonionic surfactants.

Abstract: The invention relates to a powder-slurry that can be hardened by actinic radiation or by thermal means, comprising (I) components containing functional groups (A) which render them hardenable by actinic radiation and components containing complementary functional groups (B) which render them thermally hardenable, in a weight ratio of 50:1 to 1:50 and/or comprising (II) components containing the functional groups (A) and (B) which render them thermally hardenable and hardenable by actinic radiation in a molar ratio of 100:1 to 1:100.

Abstract: Coated catalysts which are suitable for the gas-phase catalytic oxidation of propene to acrolein are prepared by a process in which rings are used as supports and water is used as a binder.

Abstract: A Taylor reactor for conducting material conversions, having an external reactor wall (1) located within which there is a concentrically or eccentrically disposed rotor (2), a reactor floor (3) and a reactor lid (4), which together define the annular reactor volume (5), at least one means (6) for metered addition of reactants, and a means (7) for the discharge of product, wherein during the conversion there is a change in the viscosity ? of the reaction medium and the reactor wall (1) and/or the rotor (2) are or is geometrically designed in such a way that the conditions for Taylor vortex flow are met over essentially the entire reactor length in the reactor volume (5).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making an acrylic graft polymer, especially a urethanized acrylic graft polymer. The method of the invention requires an ethylenically unsaturated monomer mixture (a) comprising a monomer (ai) of a particular structure having at least one cyclic carbonate group and the polymerization of the monomer mixture (a) under free radical polymerization conditions to make an acrylic backbone polymer (b) comprising one or more cyclic carbonate functional groups (bi). At least one grafting moiety (c) is then provided, said grafting moiety (c) comprising at least one amine group (ci) selected from primary amines, secondary amines, and mixtures of both primary and secondary amines. The grafting moiety (c) is then grafted onto acrylic backbone polymer (b) via reaction between the at least one amine group (ci) and cyclic carbonate functional groups (bi) so as to make an urethanized acrylic graft polymer.

Abstract: Process for the catalytic hydrogenation of an aliphatically unsaturated group in an organic compound in the presence of a catalyst whose preparation has involved precipitation of catalytically active components onto monoclinic, tetragonal or cubic zirconium dioxide.

Abstract: To express selection genes and resistance genes, it would be desirable to have available plant constitutive promoters which has a strong uniform constitutive activity in as many plant tissues or cell types as possible and which, moreover, show an even stronger activity, or are not repressed, under stress conditions. The invention provides DNA constructs which encompass a plant V-ATPase promoter which is operatively linked with a heterologous gene. The invention furthermore relates to the use of these constructs in the form of expression cassettes, recombinant vectors and in transgenic plants, plant cells or protoplasts. In particular the invention relates to the promoter of the Beta vulgaris V-ATPase subunit c isoform 2.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of homopolymers or copolymers by homopolymerization or copolymerization of free-radically polymerizable water-soluble and/or water-dispersible monomers, optionally with further comonomers and optionally with at least one crosslinker, in an inverse emulsion polymerization in the presence of at least one redox initiator pair comprising an oxidizing agent and a reducing agent, where the reducing agent is 2-hydroxy-2-sulfinatoacetic acid and/or salt thereof; homopolymers or copolymers preparable by the process according to the invention, water-in-oil emulsions which comprise at least one homopolymer or copolymer according to the invention, solid compositions which comprise at least one homopolymer or copolymer according to the invention, the use of 2-hydroxy-2-sulfinatoacetic acid and/or salt thereof as reducing agent in a process for the preparation of homopolymers or copolymers; the use of the water-in-oil emulsion comprising at least one homopolymer or copolymer according to the inv

Abstract: A 9-cyano-substituted perylene-3,4-dicarboxylic monoimide I where the variables are defined as follows: X is a chemical bond; optionally substituted C1-C30-alkylene, C5-C8-cycloalkylene, arylene, hetarylene, C1l-C20-alkylarylene, C1-C20-alkylhetarylene, aryl- or hetaryl-C1-C20-alkylene; Y is a functional group Y? or a polymerizable group P; or X—Y together is an R radical; Y? is amino, hydroxyl, —COOH, —SO3H, chlorine or bromine; P is a radical II A, B are each independently hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl or phenyl, or are together a cyclopentene or cyclohexene ring which contains the double bond to which A and B are bonded; Q is a chemical bond; an —O—, —NR2—, —S—, —OCO—, —OCOO—, —OCONR3—, —NR3CO—, —NR3COO—, —NR3CONR4—, —CO—, —COO—, —CONR3—, —SO2—O—, —SO2NR3—, —O-SO2— or —NR3SO2— moiety; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; R is hydrogen; optionally substituted C1-C30-alkyl, C5-C8-cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl.

Abstract: A method detecting change of a physically measurable property of a sample due to an environmental effect, including (i) subjecting the sample to the environmental effect for an action time, the environmental effect acting on the sample with a known position-dependent intensity distribution based on a pattern function, (ii) subsequently detecting transmission, reflection, or scattering of analysis radiation by the sample as a function of position coordinates of the sample and wavelength of the analysis radiation, to determine a response function describing intensity of the transmitted, reflected, or scattered analysis radiation as a function of the position coordinates wavelength, (iii) determining correlation of the known position-dependent intensity distribution of the environmental effect, or of the pattern function on which it is based, with the response function by correlation analysis, this correlation being a measure of the change of the physically measurable property of the sample due to the environmen

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of acylcyclohexanedione derivatives together with ethephon for the treatment of pome fruit.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of acylphosphines formula (1) wherein m is 1 or 2; R1, R2, and R3 are organic residues derived from aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons; by (1) reacting organic phosphorus halides of formula (II) wherein Y is Br or Cl,with an alkali metal in a solvent in the presence of an activator, wherein the alkali metal is present in the form of a dispersion of alkali metal particles having a mean particle size of ?500 ?m in the solvent, (2) subsequent reaction with acid halides of formula (III) which process is carried out without isolation of the intermediates. Preferably, R1, R2 and R3 are independently from each other phenyl, naphthyl and bi-phenyl, being unsubstituted or substituted by one to five halogen, C1-C8 alky and/or C1-C8 alkoxy. Most preferably, R1 and R3 are phenyl and R2 is 2,4,6-trimethylphenyl. The alkali metal is preferably sodium, the activator is preferably chlorobenzene and/or n-butanol.

Abstract: The present invention describes a Pd-catalyst, further consisting of La, Ti, Nb, K or Si, which have high ethylene selectivity even after a low temperature reduction in the se-lective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene and the production method of the same. A catalyst of the invention consists essentially of 0.05 to 2.0% by weight, based on the supported catalyst, of palladium and one or two metals chosen form the group consist-ing of lanthanum, niobium, titanium, potassium and silicon. The said catalyst is pre-pared by the following procedure: 1) Impregnating a support in aqueous solution of tetra amine palladium hydroxide, followed by drying and calcination; 2) The second and, if necessary, a third metal is impregnated by impregnating the Pd-catalyst in the solution of the metal precursor followed by drying and calcina-tion; 3) The catalyst according to step (2) is then reduced in hydrogen at 200° C. to 600° C. for 1 to 5 hours.

Abstract: Graft polymers containing (A) a polymeric grafting base devoid of monoethylenically unsaturated units, and (B) polymeric side chains formed by polymerization of a cyclic N-vinylamide of the general formula I where R is C1–C5-alkyl and R1 is hydrogen or C1–C4-alkyl, wherein said side chains (B) account for ?60% by weight of the total polymer.