Abstract: Plastics comprise sterically hindered, esterified amine (I) which contains less than 100 ppm, based on the weight of (I), of titanium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of storing a liquefied gas in a container containing a metal-organic framework material, the container filled with such a gas, a process for filling container and the use of the container to release the gas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for one-stage preparation of polyoxyalkylene glycols by copolymerizing tetrahydrofuran and alpha,omega-diols in the presence of a heteropolyacid and of a hydrocarbon, which comprises distilling water in a mixture with this hydrocarbon out of the copolymerization.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for producing fungicidal triazolopyrimidine compounds, agents containing said compounds, and the use thereof for controlling harmful fungi. Also disclosed are triazolopyrimidines of formula (I), in which the substituents have the following meaning: L1 represents alkyl; L2 represents halogen; L3represents hydrogen or halogen; X represents halogen, cyano, alkyl, alkoxy, or haloalkoxy; R1, R2 represent hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkadienyl, alkinyl, or cycloalkinyl, phenyl, naphthyl, or a five-unit to ten-unit saturated, partially unsaturated, or aromatic heterocycle containing one to four heteroatoms from the group O, N, or S, R1 and R2 can also form a five-unit or six-unit ring along with the nitrogen atom to which they are linked. Said ring can be interrupted and/or substituted by an atom from the group O, N, and S while R1 and/or R2 can be substituted according to the description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of a compound of the formula wherein W is nitrogen or —CR3; R1 is halogen, haloalkyl, haloalkoxy, R4S(O)n— or —SF5; R2 is hydrogen or halogen; R3 is halogen; R4 is alkyl or haloalkyl; and n is 0, 1 or 2; and processes for using a compound of the formula (I) in the synthesis of compounds of the formula

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing thixotropic agents containing 0.1–30 wt.-% of at least one ethylene terpolymer wax, 5–7 wt.-% of at least one solvent, which is incompatible with the ethylene terpolymer wax, 5–85 wt.-% of of at least one solvent which is compatible with the ethylene terpolymer wax and with one or more of the first-named solvents.

Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of composite particles composed of addition polymer and finely divided inorganic solid is described.

Abstract: A process for increasing the stress-cracking resistance of polystyrene molding compositions, stress-cracking-resistant, glossy polystyrene molding compositions, composite layered sheets or composite layered films with an outer layer of this type, and also processes for producing moldings for refrigeration equipment.

Abstract: An aqueous polymer dispersion prepared by free-radical polymerization of vinyl acetate in the presence of at least one ionic emulsifier, at least one free-radical initiator and at least one protective colloid, wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of a polymerization regulator and wherein the ratio by weight of protective colloid to ionic emulsifier is at least 4:1 and wherein the ratio by weight of vinyl acetate monomer to protective colloid is between 19:1 and 4:1.

Abstract: This invention relates to mutant G protein-coupled receptors with improved G-protein coupling and receptor response, yeast cells expressing such receptors, vectors useful for making such cells, and methods of making and using same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymeric products obtainable by mixing (A) polymers which are obtainable by free-radical polymerization of (A-1) ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of (A-2) unsaturated polyalkylene glycols with (B) silicones at a temperature greater than or equal to 30° C. In addition, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of these polymeric products, and to their use in cosmetic preparations, in particular in hair cosmetic preparations.

Abstract: In a process for concentrating an at least partially crystalline solid containing at least one zeolite in a mixture comprising at least one auxiliary, for example a template compound, and said solid, the mixture is ultrafiltrated in a step (II) to divide the mixture into a retentate and a permeate, the solids content in the retentate being higher than that in the mixture and the solids content in the permeate being lower than that in the mixture. This procedure allows auxiliaries, in particular template compounds, present in the permeate to be recycled into a crystallizing step (I) upstream of step (II).

Abstract: ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated aldehydes and/or carboxylic acids are prepared by means of a two-stage catalytic gas-phase oxidation in which a gas mixture comprising at least an alkane or alkene having from three to six carbon atoms and oxygen is subjected to a catalytic oxidation reaction, in the first stage (1). Oxygen is added to the gases produced in the first stage (1) and the resulting mixture is introduced into the second stage (2) in which it is subjected to a further catalytic oxidation reaction. In the process of the present invention, a signal which correlates with the oxygen content of the reaction gases before and/or after the addition of oxygen between the first and second stages (1, 2) is generated and the oxygen addition is regulated as a function of the signal.

Abstract: Method of regenerating an Re2O7-doped supported catalyst which has been deactivated by use in the metathesis of a hydrocarbon mixture comprising C2-C6-olefins (C2-6= feed) (deactivated catalyst), which comprises treating the deactivated catalyst with an inert gas (regeneration gas K1) at from 400 to 800° C. and subsequently treating the deactivated catalyst which has been pretreated with regeneration gas K1 with an oxygen-containing gas (regeneration gas K2).

Abstract: A material useful as catalyst for the hydrogenation of alpha, omega-dinitriles comprises (a) iron or a compound based on iron or mixtures thereof, (b) from 0.001 to 0.3% by weight based on (a) of a promoter based on 2, 3, 4 or 5 elements selected from the group consisting of aluminum, silicon, zirconium, titanium and vanadium, (c) from 0 to 0.3% by weight based on (a) of a compound based on an alkali and/or alkaline earth metal, and also (d) from 0.001 to 1% by weight based on (a) of manganese.

Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Phosphatase Stress-Related Polypeptide (PPSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression or repression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PPSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PPSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing amines by catalytic hydrogenation of nitroaromatics and subsequent removal of the catalysts from the reaction mixture, which contains at least one aromatic amine and water, which comprises carrying out the removal of the catalysts by means of membrane filtration, which is carried out at a pressure on the suspension side of from 5 to 50 bar, a pressure difference between the suspension side and the permeate side of at least 0.3 bar and a flux rate on the suspension side of from 1 to 6 m/s.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing 2-keto-L-gulonic acid-C4–C10 alkyl ester by esterifying 2-keto-L-gulonic acid (KGS) with an unsaturated, branched or unbranched C4–C10 alcohol. The inventive method is characterized by the fact that an aqueous KGS solution is reacted with a C4–C10 alcohol up to an esterification degree of 20 to 70 percent in a pre-esterification process carried out under acidic catalysis conditions; and the obtained product is dehydrogenated with an unsaturated, branched or unbranched C4–C10 alcohol in a continuous rectification device, whereby the esterification reaction continues, n-butanol preferably being used as the alkyl alcohol. In a preferred embodiment, the aqueous KGS solution is concentrated up to or beyond the limit of solubility prior to the esterification process, preferably by catalyzing a homogeneous or heterogeneous catalyst, especially sulfonic acid, at temperatures of 50 to 120° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives of the formula I where R is unsubstituted or substituted C1 to C3 alkyl, C6 to C10 aryl or aralkyl having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms in the aryl moiety and from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety as copolymerizable photoinitiators. The invention further relates to copolymers containing acetophenone or benzophenone derivatives of the formula I in copolymerized form, to processes for preparing said copolymers, and to the use of said copolymers in UV crosslinkable compositions.

Abstract: A dividing-wall column having a dividing wall which is essentially disposed along the long direction of the column is proposed, which divides the column interior into a feed part, a take off part, an upper shared column part and a lower shared column part, with feed in whole or in part in the vaporous state of a mixture to be separated between the upper region of the feed part and the lower region of the feed part and/or side stream take off in whole or in part in the vaporous state between the upper region of the take off part and the lower region of the take off part, where if feed is in whole or in part in the vaporous state the cross-sectional area of the upper region of the feed part is increased by plane-parallel displacement of the dividing wall toward the upper region of the take off part, and/or if the side stream take off is in whole or in part in the vaporous state, the cross-sectional area of the lower region of the take off part is increased by displacement of the dividing wall toward the lower r