Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant or plant part comprising (i) a recombinant polynucleotide encoding a wildtype or mut-PPO polypeptide, and (ii) a recombinant polynucleotide encoding a CYP450 polypeptide, the expression of said polynucleotides (i) and (ii) confers to the plant or plant part tolerance to PPO-inhibiting herbicides.

Abstract: An acrylic acid polymer having a weight average molecular weight Mw in the range from 3500 to 2000 g/mol and a polydispersity index Mw/Mn?2.5, wherein 30% to 60% of the acid groups of the acrylic acid polymers have been neutralized with calcium ions, 30% to 70% of the acrylic acid polymers have been neutralized with sodium ions and 0% to 10% of the acid groups of the acrylic acid polymers have not been neutralized.

Abstract: A process for isolating pure 1,3-butadiene from a crude C4 fraction, which produces pure 1,3-butadiene having a prescribed maximum content of at least one low boiler and a prescribed maximum content of 1,2-butadiene, in each case based on 1,3-butadiene, wherein (a) a low boiler fraction and a high boiler fraction are separated off by distillation from the crude C4 fraction, giving a purified C4 fraction whose content of the at least one low boiler, based on 1,3-butadiene, is equal to or lower than the prescribed maximum content of the at least one low boiler and whose content of 1,2-butadiene, based on 1,3-butadiene, is equal to or lower than the prescribed maximum content of 1,2-butadiene; (b) the purified C4 fraction is subjected to at least one extractive distillation using a selective solvent, giving at least a fraction comprising butanes and butenes and a pure 1,3-butadiene fraction, is described. The process makes a pure distillation column dispensable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing high-reactivity isobutene homo- or copolymers with a content of terminal vinylidene double bonds per homo- or copolymer chain end of at least 70 mol % which comprises polymerizing isobutene or an isobutene-comprising monomer mixture in the presence of an aluminum trihalide-donor complex effective as a polymerization catalyst or of an alkylaluminum halide-donor complex, said complex comprising, as the donor, a mixture of at least two organic compounds with at least one ether function each.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a bound stopper, which has high mechanical strength, is excellent in durability against fatigue breaking, settling or the like when a heavy load is repeatedly received, and is easy to be produced, in which the bound stopper comprises a polyurethane foam obtained from a polyurethane foam composition containing an isocyanate component and a blowing agent, and the isocyanate component contains a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group, the urethane prepolymer being obtained from a polyol component, a polyrotaxane containing a cyclic molecule having an active hydrogen group as a constituent, and an isocyanate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising at least one phenylpyrimidine of formula (I) or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds and safeners.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a new cotton variety FM 2498GLT. The disclosure relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 2498GLT with other plants. The disclosure also relates to plants of variety FM 2498 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from cotton variety FM 2498GLT.

Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to a process for producing particular phosphinates (phosphonous acid monoesters) and use thereof for producing biologically active substances which may be used in the pharmaceutical or agrochemical sector, preferably for producing phosphorus-containing amino acids.

Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a biodegradable polyalkylene glycol, an inherently-biodegradable polyalkylene glycol, and a non-biodegradable polyalkylene glycol. The biodegradable polyalkylene glycol satisfies the biodegradability requirements set forth in OECD 301B. The inherently-biodegradable polyalkylene glycol satisfy the inherently-biodegradability requirements set forth in OECD 301B. The non-biodegradable polyalkylene glycol is defined by OECD 301B and satisfies the non-bioaccumulative requirements set forth in OECD 107. The lubricant composition includes the biodegradable polyalkylene glycol in an amount of at least about 30 parts by weight, the inherently-biodegradable polyalkylene glycol in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 10 parts by weight, and the non-biodegradable polyalkylene glycol in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 5 parts by weight, each based on 100 parts by weight of the lubricant composition.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell has a cathode active material selected from mixed lithium transition metal oxides containing Mn and at least one second transition metal; lithium intercalating mixed oxides containing Ni, Al and at least one second transition metal; and lithium metal phosphates, wherein the outer surface of the particulate cathode active material is at least partially coated with an oxide selected from transition metal oxides, lanthanide oxides, and oxides of metals and half metals of groups 2, 13, and 14 of the periodic system; and an electrolyte composition containing at least one silyl ester phosphonate of formula (I) and at least one silyl ester phosphonate of formula (II)

Abstract: Polyoxazolin with a photoactivatable group The present invention relates to a polyoxazoline of the formula I as defined below; to a method for synthesizing the polyoxazoline of the formula I, comprising the reaction of an aryl ketone which comprises a deprotonated phenolic hydroxy group with an intermediate polyoxazoline of the formula X as defined below; to a polymer comprising the polyoxazoline of the formula I, where E comprises an ethylenically unsaturated group in polymerized form; to a coated material comprising a coating which contains the polyoxazoline of the formula I or the polymer; and to a use of the polyoxazoline of the formula I or the polymer as antifouling coating.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing of an alkanesulfonic acid, and an alkanesulfonic acid manufactured by the process. Aspects of the process may involve manufacturing an alkanesulfonic acid by reaction of an initiator composition with an alkane and sulfur trioxide by preparing an initiator composition by reacting aqueous hydrogen peroxide with alkanesulfonic acid and/or H2SO4; and reacting the initiator composition with sulfur trioxide and alkane to form an alkanesulfonic acid, wherein an alkane with a purity of at least 98.0 mol-% is used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing polyisocyanates of (cyclo)aliphatic diisocyanates that are stable to color drift in solvents and in the presence of Lewis acids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to sulfur-containing polyester polyols and to the preparation and use thereof.

Abstract: A process produces a composite component, which includes an insert and a plastics part made of a thermoplastic polymer. The plastics part at least partly encloses the insert. The process includes (a) placing at least one part of the insert or the insert into an injection mold, (b) closing the injection mold, and (c) injecting the thermoplastic polymer into the mold thereby overmolding the insert at least partly. The insert is modified before placing it into the injection mold or the insert is modified in the injection mold before the injection mold is opened to remove the composite component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the purification of pyrazolpyridazines of formula I wherein the variables are as defined in the specification, by adding HCl to a solution of the pyrazolpyridazine in an inert solvent under non-aqueous conditions, effecting crystallization of the HCl-salt, isolating the resulting precipitate.

Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to a process for preparing certain phosphorus-containing cyanohydrins of the formula (I), and also to certain phosphorus-containing cyanohydrins per se and to their use for the preparation of glufosinate and/or glufosinate salts. The present invention further relates to certain mixtures particularly suitable for preparing the phosphorus-containing cyanohydrins of the formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing benzylic amides of formula I wherein the variables have the meaning as defined in the description, by reductive amidation of a nitrile of formula II wherein the variables have the meanings given for formula I, with an activated carbonyl compound of formula III, and which nitrile is obtained by reaction of a compound of formula IV with a halogen compound of formula V, wherein X is a halogen atom, preferably bromo, which halogen compound V in turn is obtained by Sandmeyer reaction of an aniline derivative of formula VI novel compounds of formula I, and processes for preparing compounds of formula XII wherein the variables have the meaning as defined in the description by condensing compounds of formula I with compounds of formula X and subjecting the resulting ?,?-unsaturated ketone of formula XI to a reaction with hydroxylamine to yield compounds of formula XII.

Abstract: Aqueous formulations comprising (A) at least one organic complexing agent selected from (A1) alkali metal salts of aminopolycarboxylic acids and (A2) polymers bearing at least two —CH2—N(CH2COOH)-units per molecule, partially or fully neutralized with alkali, (B) at least one salt of at least one of the following acids: nitric acid, sulphuric acid, sulphamic acid, methanesulfonic acid, C1-C2-carboxylic acids, C2-C4-hydroxymonocarboxylic acids, C2-C7-dicarboxylic acids, unsubstituted or substituted with hydroxyl, and C4-C6-tricarboxylic acids, each unsubstituted or substituted with hydroxyl, (C) at least one compound selected from (C1) phosphoric acid C2-C10-monoalkyl esters, (C2) a C3-C10-alkynol, optionally alkoxylated with one to 10 alkoxide groups per hydroxyl group, and (C3) a C4-C10-alkynediol, optionally alkoxylated with one to 10 alkoxide groups per hydroxyl group, said aqueous formulations having pH values in the range of from 7.5 to 10.

Abstract: Provided herein is a process for isolating at least one (thio)phosphoric acid derivative, which has a boiling point of at least 70° C., from a product mixture including the at least one (thio)phosphoric acid derivative, at least one salt selected from ammonium salts and alkali metal chlorides, at least one polar solvent selected from the group consisting of ester solvents and ether solvents, and optionally at least one HCl scavenger; wherein the process is based on first dissolving the (thio)phosphoric acid derivative to be able to remove the at least one salt, and then causing solids formation of the (thio)phosphoric acid derivative.