Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a highly pure, aqueous hydroxylamine solution by distilling an aqueous solution, devoid of salt, of a hydroxyl ammonium salt in a plate column comprising at least two mechanical plates. Said method is characterised in that packing bodies are arranged between at least two plates of the plate column over the cross-section of said column.

Abstract: A method of preparing a carbamate or urea-functional compound is described comprising the step of reacting a lactone or hydroxy carboxylic acid with a compound (A) comprising a carbamate or urea group or a group that can be converted to a carbamate or urea group, and an active hydrogen group capable of reacting with the hydroxy carboxylic acid or in a ring-opening reaction with a lactone. The compound thus prepared is useful in curable compositions.

Abstract: Mercury is removed from solutions contaminated with mercury, the solution contaminated with mercury being introduced into a distillation column above the column bottom, solvent being distilled off and solution depleted in mercury being stripped off at the column bottom.

Abstract: A method comprising applying a composition to a textile material with a composition comprising (A) from 10 to 90% by weight of at least one C6- to C18-alkyl ester or C5- to C8-cycloalkyl ester of 2-cyano-3,3-diphenylacrylic acid and (B) from 90 to 10% by weight of at least one compound which has at least one UV absorption maximum in the range from 280 nm to 450 nm and is different from compound (A) to thereby obtain an impregnated textile material comprising the composition.

Abstract: Rylene dyes of the general formula I where the variables are defined as follows: R is hydrogen; optionally substituted C1-C30-alkyl, C5-C8-cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl; R? is bromine; cyano; —NR32; optionally substituted aryloxy, arylthio, hetaryloxy or hetarylthio; optionally substituted C3-C18-alk-1-ynyl; X, Y are both hydrogen or together are a radical of the formula Ia n is 2, 3, 4 or additionally 1 when X and Y are a radical of the formula Ia; n? is from 1 to 4; m is from 0 to 6.

Abstract: A semifinished leather product is produced from an animal hide by pretanning with the use of a chromium-free tanning agent and of a clay mineral which, after stirring for 30 minutes in water at 50° C. at a circumferential rotor speed of from 5 to 25 m/s, has a number average particle diameter of less than 2 ?m or a bimodal particle size distribution with a first, finely divided fraction whose number average particle diameter is less than 0.5 ?m and a second, coarser fraction whose number average particle diameter is less than 5 ?m, determined in each case by the method according to ISO 13320-1, by combined laser light diffraction and light scattering, a proportion of the first, finely divided fraction being from 10 to 90% by weight, and drying of the pretanned animal hide to a water content of from 5 to 45% based on the total weight of the semifinished leather product.

Abstract: Suspensions comprising A) at least one oxidation-sensitive substance selected from the group consisting of carotenoids, retinoids and unsaturated fatty acids and B) solid particles of one or more salts of ascorbic acid in a dispersant in which the salts of ascorbic acid are insoluble.

Abstract: The invention relates to processes for the production of unsaturated fatty acids, preferably of conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids such as conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), by the recombinant expression of desaturases from insects of the order Lepidoptera. Expression preferably takes place in an organism selected from the group of the plant organisms, yeasts, fungi and algae. Also according to the invention are recombinant expression cassettes for the recombinant expression of desaturases from insects of the order Lepidoptera, and the transgenic organisms transformed with these.

Abstract: In the continuous process for preparing alkylamines by reacting C1-4-alkanols with ammonia in the gas phase in the presence of a shape-selective fixed-bed catalyst in a cooled reactor, the shape-selective fixed-bed catalyst is present in a single contiguous fixed bed in the reactor and tubes through which coolants are passed run within the fixed bed to regulate the temperature of the fixed bed.

Abstract: An organic compound having at least one C—C double bond is epoxidized by means of hydrogen peroxide in the presence of at least one catalytically active compound and at least one solvent, wherein a product mixture comprising ?-hydroperoxyalcohols is reduced using at least one reducing agent.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising as active components a) a morpholine or piperidine derivative I selected from the group of the compounds Ia, Ib, Ic and Id and b) compounds of the formula II in a synergistically effective amount are described.

Abstract: An open-celled, inorganic foam based on an aluminosilicate and having a density of less than 25 g/l can be prepared by reacting and foaming an alkali metal silicate solution with an alkali metal aluminate solution in the presence of a volatile blowing agent and an emulsifier.

Abstract: The catalyst can be prepared by reduction of a precursor of a hydrogenation-active metal, which may be present on an oxidic support, by reaction with at least one compound of the formula (I) HnM(OR)3?n??(I) where M is Ga or Al, R is CR?3 or SiR?3 where R? is C1-20-alkyl, and n is 1 or 2, or dimers or oligomers thereof, wherein the crystallite size of the hydrogenation-active metal in the finished catalyst is from 5 to 30, preferably 5 to 15 nm.

Abstract: In a photovoltaic cell having a photovoltaically active semiconductor material constituted by a plurality of metals or metal oxides, the photovoltaically active material is selected from a p- or n-doped semiconductor material constituted by a ternary compound of the general formula (I) MexSAySBz??(I) with Me=Al, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu or Ag, SA, SB=B, C, Si, Ge, Sb, Se or Te, where SA and SB respectively come from different groups of the periodic table, x, y, z are independent of one another and can take values from 0.

Abstract: A process is proposed for reducing the aerosol-related discharge from a separation column (1) in which one or more components are separated off from a gaseous or liquid starting mixture (G) at actively separating internals (2), aerosols being present or formed in a gas phase, which comprises the actively separating internals (2) being segmented at one or more separation points, which are determined in such a manner that the aerosols have at least 50% of their maximum particle size at the separation point or separation points, and an internal (3) being provided at each separation point, which internal is operated under at least partially flooded conditions, a continuous liquid phase being formed at least in partial regions of the internal (3), to which region the aerosols are bound.

Abstract: Higher (meth)acrylates IV are prepared by transesterification of a lower (meth)acrylate I with a higher alcohol R2OH in the presence of a stabilizer or stabilizer mixture and of a catalyst or catalyst mixture, by a process in which the liberated lower alkanol R1OH is separated off and is fed at least partly to the preparation of the lower (meth)acrylate I.

Abstract: In a process for the preparation of acrylic acid by heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase oxidation of propene with molecular oxygen in a reaction zone, the catalytically active material is a multimetal oxide which contains the elements Mo, V, Te and/or Sb and has a specific structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to copolymers which can be obtained by radical polymerisation of (A) at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C8 dicarboxylic acid anhydride, (B) at least one vinylaromatic compound from the group containing styrol and substituted styrols, and (C) at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer which contains at least one heteroatom and is different from (A); by partial esterification of the obtained copolymers with (D) alcohol alkoxylates of formula (I) wherein the variables have the following designations: R represents C2-C6 alkylene radicals which can be the same or different for n>1, R1 represents C1-C30 alkyl, and n represents a number between 1 and 200; and as desired, by hydrolysis of the anhydride groups still contained in the copolymers in order to form carboxyl groups. The invention also relates to the use of said copolymers as additives for washing and cleaning products.

Abstract: Including a triazine UV light absorber having a silane group in a coating improves scratch and mar resistance after weathering.

Abstract: An adhesion promoting composition includes a polymer, such as an acrylic copolymer, having acetoacetoxy functionality and adhesion-promoting functionality and a metal alkoxide, chelate, and/or alkoxide chelate. The composition is applied in a first layer over a metal substrate or a coated substrate, then coated with a desired refinish coating composition.