Abstract: A process for the soil release treatment of surfaces of textile and nontextile materials, in which cationically modified hydrophilic nanoparticles based on crosslinked polymers of (a) 60 to 99.99% by weight of one or more carboxyl-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomers or salts thereof, (b) 0 to 40% by weight of one or more water-insoluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, (c) 0.

Abstract: A process is described for preparing ammonium salts of aromatic carboxylic acids by reacting an aromatic carboxylic acid with ammonia in an aprotic solvent, which comprises carrying out the reaction in a closed vessel by continuously introducing a solution of the aromatic carboxylic acid in the aprotic solvent and passing in gaseous ammonia so that an ammonia partial pressure in the range from 0.1 to 3 bar is maintained in the gas space of the vessel, and discharging a suspension of the ammonium salt in the aprotic solvent. The process allows the preparation of ammonium salts of defined crystal size having a narrow size distribution.

Abstract: A continuously operated heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase partial oxidation of at least one organic compound in an oxidation reactor is operated safely by a process in which an explosion diagram for the feed gas mixture is deposited as the basis of a cut-out mechanism in a computer.

Abstract: In a process for preparing alkylamines by reacting olefins with ammonia, primary or secondary amines under hydroaminating conditions over a calcined zeolitic catalyst, the calcined zeolitic catalyst is thermally activated at from 100 to 550° C. in a gaseous stream of air, nitrogen, other inert gases or mixtures thereof not more than 24 hours before commencement of the reaction.

Abstract: Curable compositions comprising: (A) at least one constituent curable physically or thermally and/or with actinic radiation, (B) at least one kind of inorganic nanoparticles having an electrophoretic mobility ?e??0.5 (?m/s)/(V/cm) at a pH of 3 to 7, and (C) at least one light stabilizer based on sterically hindered amines (HALS) having a pKb of at least 9.0; process for preparing them, and their use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates by preparing a poly(meth)acrylate containing hydroxy-functional side chains and transesterifying or esterifying the poly(meth)acrylate containing hydroxy-functional side chains with a (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylic acid. The present invention further relates to the actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates themselves and to the use of the actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylates in the preparation of dispersions or as a component in coating formulations and topcoats comprising at least one actinic-radiation-curable and/or dual-cure poly(meth)acrylate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polyisobutenephosphonic acids and their derivatives, to a process for preparing them and to their use.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a stable aqueous copolymer dispersion by free-radically initiated aqueous emulsion polymerization of a) from 19.9 to 80 parts by weight of conjugated aliphatic dienes [monomers a)], b) from 19.9 to 80 parts by weight of vinylaromatic compounds [monomers b)], c) from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and/or dicarboxylic acids [monomers c)], d) from 0 to 20 parts by weight of ethylenically unsaturated carbonitriles [monomers d)], and e) from 0 to 20 parts by weight of copolymerizable compounds other than monomers b) [monomers e)], the total amount of ethylenically unsaturated monomers a) to e) being 100 parts by weight, in the presence of water and from 0.

Abstract: Process for preparing purified 1,3-substituted imidazolium salts of the formula (I) by reacting a 1,3-substituted imidazolium salt of the formula (II), with a strong base at from 20 to 250° C. while distilling off the 1,3-substituted imidazol-2-ylidene formed, in which the 1,3-substituted imidazol-2-ylidene which has been distilled off is brought into contact in the gaseous state with the protic acid HaA (III) and/or the 1,3-substituted imidazol-2-ylidene which has been distilled off is passed in the gaseous or condensed state into a receiver comprising the protic acid HaA (III).

Abstract: The invention relates to a degreaser for treating hides, skins, pelts and other intermediates in leather and fur manufacture and also wool or related proteinaceous materials that is based on nonionic surfactants of the type of alcohol alkoxylates, comprising alcohol alkoxylates obtained by reaction of at least one alcohol ROH with n mol of at least one alkylene oxide per mole of alcohol ROH, where R is an alkyl radical of 5 to 30 carbon atoms which has a main chain, of 4 to 29 carbon atoms that has at least one C1— to C10-alkyl branch attached in the chain middle; the alkylene oxide has 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and n is an integer from 1 to 100. The invention further relates to a process for degreasing hide, skins, pelts and other intermediates of leather and fur manufacture and wool or related proteinaceous materials, which comprises using a degreaser according to the present invention, and to the use of the degreasers.

Abstract: Water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers comprising alkoxylated diallylamine derivatives, ethylenically unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acids, the anhydrides thereof or mixtures thereof and, if required, one or more further ethylenically unsaturated monomers C are prepared and are used as additives in mineral building materials, in detergents or in cosmetic formulations.

Abstract: Catalysts produced by electroless deposition of at least one platinum metal on a nonporous nonmetallic support can be used for the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from the elements and for the hydrogenation of organic compounds.

Abstract: A coil coating composition producing a coil coating with excellent properties at a lower peak metal temperature includes (a) a first, branched polyester with an hydroxyl number of at least about 80 mg KOH/g, (b) a second, essentially linear polyester with an hydroxyl number of at least about 44 mg KOH/g, and (c) a crosslinking agent. The branched polyester is prepared by condensation of a polyol component consisting essentially of a flexibilizing diol, a branched diol, and, optionally, a polyol having at least three hydroxyl groups and a polyacid component consisting essentially of one or more aromatic or cycloaliphatic dicarboxylic acids and polymerizable anhydrides and esters thereof and, optionally, a polyacid having at least three carboxylic acid groups or poymerizable anhydrides or esters thereof, wherein at least one of the polyol having at least three hydroxyl groups and the polyacid having at least three carboxyl groups or an anhydride or methyl ester thereof is included.

Abstract: A mount assembly for use in an automotive suspension system, body mount, cradle mount, or other like device. The mount assembly includes a polyurethane elastomer carrier mounted to a frame and having a peripheral outer rim. A microcellular polyurethane insulator is coupled to the frame and extends beyond the peripheral outer rim. The polyurethane elastomer of the carrier has a first modulus of elasticity. The microcellular polyurethane of the insulator has a second modulus of elasticity that is less than the first modulus of elasticity of the carrier such that the mount assembly can provide two distinct rates of elasticity, or stiffness, for adequately isolating both low amplitude, high frequency vibrations and high amplitude, low frequency impacts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel structured catalyst bed which optionally comprises at least one part bed comprising at least one catalytically active mixture of oxides of the main group metals and transition metals and additionally comprises at least one catalytically active part bed comprising at least silver, at least one alkali metal and a porous support material and finally and necessarily at least one catalytically active part bed comprising at least one alkali metal phosphate and at least one sheet silicate.

Abstract: 6-(2-Chloro-6-fluoro-phenyl)-triazolopyrimidines of formula (I), in which R1 and R2 independently denote hydrogen or alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkadienyl, or haloalkyl, cycloalkyl, bicycloalkyl, phenyl, naphthyl, or 5- or 6-membered heterocyclyl, containing one to four nitrogen atoms or one to three nitrogen atoms and one sulfur or oxygen atom, or 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl, containing one to four nitrogen atoms or one to three nitrogen atoms and one sulfur or oxygen atom, or where R1 and R2 radicals may be unsubstituted or partially or fully halogenated or may be substituted as defined in the description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the recovery of N-phosphonomethylglycine from an aqueous mixture which contains N-phosphonomethylglycine, ammonium halides, and alkali metal or alkaline earth metal halides and optionally organic impurities in dissolved form, where (a) the pH of the mixture is adjusted to a value in the range from 2 to 8, (b) a separation of the mixture on a selective nanofiltration membrane is performed, a retentate which is richer in N-phosphonomethylglycine and poorer in halides and a permeate which is richer in halides and poorer in N-phosphonomethylglycine being obtained, and (c) the N-phosphonomethylglycine is recovered from the retentate. The process according to the invention makes possible the recovery of the N-phosphonomethylglycine with simultaneous separation of the halide salts.

Abstract: The invention describes polyisobutenyl derivatives of succinic acid obtainable by: i) reacting a polyisobutene which has a reactive end group content of at least 80% and whose molecular weight distribution is characterized by a maximum MP in the distribution curve in the range from 500 to 20 000 daltons and a ratio of weight average molecular weight to number average molecular weight MW/MN of below 1.4 with maleic acid or maleic anhydride; ii) reacting the polyisobutene-succinic acid derivative obtained in i) with at least one compound I which has at least one primary or secondary amino group and/or an OH group to form an amide or ester bond, and also a process for preparing them and their use as additives in lubricant compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing dry powders of one or more carotenoids by a) dispersing one or more carotenoids in an aqueous molecular or colloidal solution of a mixture of lactose and a protective colloid and b) converting the dispersion which has formed into a dry powder by removing the water and, where appropriate, additionally used solvents and drying, where appropriate in the presence of a coating material, wherein at least one soybean protein is used as protective colloid in process step a).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparation of graft copolymers which have repeat units derived from vinyl alcohol and have polyether groups, via reactive extrusion of corresponding graft copolymers based on esters of vinyl alcohol in the presence of water and/or of at least one C1-C6 alkanol, and of a base.