Abstract: The invention relates to a continuously operated process for the purification by distillation of the oxirane formed in the oxirane synthesis by reaction of a hydroperoxide with an organic compound, wherein the crude oxirane is separated in a dividing wall column into low-, intermediate- and high-boiling fractions and the oxirane is taken off as intermediate boiler at the side offtake in a concentration of at least 99.9%.

Abstract: A process for the production of semifinished products and intermediates in the production of leather using one or more organic polyelectrolytes comprises at least one of the following steps: (a) Addition of one or more polyelectrolytes and from 0 to 0.7% by weight, based on the salted weight, of lime immediately before or during liming, (b) addition of one or more polyelectrolytes before or during deliming, (c) addition of one or more polyelectrolytes before or during bating, (d) addition of one or more polyelectrolytes and a total of from 0 to 3% by weight, based on the pelt weight, of alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt immediately before or in the pickle.

Abstract: A blend comprising a) from 5 to 40% by weight of a linear block copolymer of vinylaromatic monomers and dienes of the structure (I) S1—(B/S)1—S2 having a flexible phase fraction (B/S)1 of not more than 55% by weight, based on the block copolymer (I) and b) from 95 to 60% by weight of a linear block copolymer of vinylaromatic monomers and dienes of the structure (II) S3—(B/S)2—S4 having a flexible phase fraction (B/S)2 of at least 65% by weight, based on the block copolymer (II), where S1 is a block of vinylaromatic monomers having a number average molar mass Mn in the range from 40 000 to 100 000 g/mol, S2, S3 and S4 are in each case blocks of vinylaromatic monomers having a number average molar mass Mn in the range from 5000 to 20 000 g/mol, (B/S)1 and (B/S)2 are in each case copolymer blocks of dienes and vinylaromatic monomers having a number average molar mass Mn in the range from 15 000 to 40 000 g/mol.

Abstract: In a process for rectificatively separating (meth)acrylic monomer-containing fluids, a rectification column is employed which has at least one sieve tray without runoff segment in which the passages are arranged regularly.

Abstract: A membrane comprising a composition including (a) 1 to 99 wt-% of at least one polyurethane elastomer comprising at least one hard segment and at least one soft segment, and (b) 99 to 1 wt-% of a solid, wherein said solid is incorporated in said at least one polyurethane elastomer.

Abstract: A coating material curable thermally and with actinic radiation, comprising at least one constituent (a1) containing at least two functional groups (a11) which serve for crosslinking with actinic radiation, and if desired at least one functional group (a12) which is able to undergo thermal crosslinking reactions with a complementary functional group (a22) in the constituent (a2), and at least one constituent (a2) containing at least two functional groups (a21) which serve for crosslinking with actinic radiation, and at least one functional group (a22) which is able to undergo thermal crosslinking reactions with a complementary functional group (a12) in the constituent (a1), and also, if desired, comprising at least one photoinitiator (a3), at least one thermal crosslinking initiator (a4), at least one reactive diluent curable thermally and/or with actinic radiation (a5), at least one coatings additive (a6), and/or at least one thermally curable constituent (a7), with the proviso that the coating material cont

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing arylsulfonyl isocyanates by reacting an arylsulfonamide with phosgene in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of an alkyl isocyanate.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising A) the compound of the formula I and B) a pyrimidine derivative of the formula II, in which R is methyl, cyclopropyl or 1-propynyl, in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi using mixtures of compounds I and II and the use of the compounds I and II for preparing such mixtures are described.

Abstract: A composition for the surface treatment of metals and for the deposition of metals or metal alloys and plastics surfaces comprises a) at least one polymer as component A, comprising at least one structural unit of the formula (I) ?where this structural unit may be part of a polymer main chain or may be bound to a polymer main chain via an anchor group, and ?M is hydrogen or an ammonium or metal cation; b) water or another solvent which is suitable for dissolving, dispersing, suspending or emulsifying the polymer (component A), as component B; c) if required, surface-active compounds, dispersants, suspending media and/or emulsifiers as component C; ?either d) if required, a salt, an acid or a base based on transition metal cations, transition metal oxoanions, fluorometallates or lanthanoids as component D, and/or e) at least one acid selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, sulfonic acid, nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid and hydrochloric acid as component E, or a base and/or f) a

Abstract: A process for the removal of water from a mixture comprising water and zinc chloride, which comprises adding to said mixture comprising water and zinc chloride an aprotic, polar diluent whose boiling point in the case where an azeotrope is not formed between said diluent and water under the pressure conditions of the distillation mentioned below is higher than the boiling point of water and which is in liquid form at this boiling point of water or which forms an azeotrope or heteroazeotrope with water under the pressure and temperature conditions of the distillation mentioned below, and distilling the mixture comprising water, zinc chloride and the diluent with removal of water or said azeotrope or said heteroazeotrope from this mixture, giving an anhydrous mixture comprising zinc chloride and said diluent.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing a low-odor hydrogel-forming acrylic acid polymer, which comprises the steps of: a) preparing a polymeric hydrogel by free-radically polymerizing a monomer composition comprising at least 50% by weight of acrylic acid in an aqueous polymerization medium and converting said hydrogel into a particulate hydrogel or into hydrogel-forming powder; and optionally b) treating said particulate hydrogel or said hydrogel-forming powder with a crosslinking substance which, actually or latently, contain at least two functional groups capable of reacting with the carboxyl groups on the addition polymer; characterized by the acrylic acid used in step a) containing less than 400 ppm of acetic acid and propionic acid. It further relates to the hydrogel-forming addition polymers obtainable by the process and to their use.

Abstract: A roofing membrane based on a bonded fibrous web coated with bitumen on both sides and consolidated with a mixture of at least one polymeric binder and an aluminum hydroxide and the use of a bonded fibrous web consolidated with a mixture of at least one polymeric binder and at least one aluminum hydroxide as a base material for a bituminized roofing membrane.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for analyzing plant acetohydroxy acid synthase large subunit (AHASL) genes. In particular, the invention relates to methods for the detection of wild-type AHASL alleles and mutant AHASL alleles that encode imidazolinone-tolerant AHASL proteins. The methods involve the use of PCR amplification and novel compositions comprising allele-specific and gene-specific primers to detect the presence of mutant and/or wild-type alleles present at the individual AHASL genes of a plant. Specifically, the methods and compositions are useful for analyzing the three AHASL genes of Triticum aestivum and the two AHASL genes of Triticum turgidum ssp. durum.

Abstract: Aqueous polyurethane formulations, their use and substrates which are coated with such formulations are described.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of grafted polymers as greying inhibitors during the washing and aftertreatment of textile goods. Said polymers are obtained by polymerising A) 10 to 95 wt. % of grafted monomers containing, in relation to A), a) 1 to 99 wt. % of at least one vinyl ester, b) 1 to 99 wt. % of at least one N-vinyl lactam, c) 0 to 90 wt. % of at least one other monoethylenically unsaturated monomer which can be copolymerized with monomers a) and b), and d) 0 to 5 wt. % of at least one monomer having at least two ethylenically unsaturated, non-conjugated double bonds in the molecule, in the presence of A) 5 to 90 wt. % of at least one polymer B), chosen from polyalkylene oxides containing at least 3 units of a C2 to C4 alkylene oxide, and polytetrahydrofuranes containing at least 3 units of tetramethyl oxide units, and the mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixing apparatus at least composed of a screw-based machine S1 and a screw-based machine S2, where S1 has heating equipment, at least in the plasticizing and homogenizing zone, and where the outlet from S2 has been connected to the screw-containing barrel of S1, within the plasticizing or homogenizing zone of S1, a substantive feature of which is that the connection between S1 and S2 is brought about by a connector which has cooling equipment effective as far as the inner wall of the screw-containing barrel of S1, and to a process for preparing thermoplastically processable molding compositions, in particular additive masterbatches, from at least one thermoplastic component C1 and at least one component C2, where the melting point or decomposition temperature TMC2 of C2 is lower, by at least about 50° C., than the temperature THC1, which is the lower limit of the thermoforming range of C1, and where most of C2 is melted only after contact with C1.

Abstract: A method for producing an aqueous polymer dispersion by radical emulsion polymerization of an aqueous monomer emulsion, wherein the monomer emulsion is produced continually according to consumption by mixing the components thereof using a mixing device.

Abstract: Use of a copolymer (A) preparable by free-radical polymerization of a) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer and b) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer different than the olefinically unsaturated monomer (a) and of the general formula I R1R2C?CR3R4??(I), in which the radicals R1, R2, R3 and R4, in each case independently of one another, are hydrogen atoms or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkylcycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, cycloalkylaryl, arylalkyl or arylcycloalkyl radicals, with the proviso that at least two of the variables R1, R2, R3 and R4 are substituted or unsubstituted aryl, arylalkyl or arylcycloalkyl radicals, especially substituted or unsubstituted aryl radicals; in an aqueous medium for producing molding compounds and moldings.

Abstract: A coating material consisting of at least three components, comprising a component (I) comprising at least one oligomeric or polymeric resin containing functional groups which react with isocyanate groups, as binder (A), a component (II) comprising at least one polyisocyanate as crosslinking agent (B), and a component (III) which comprises water, wherein component (I) and/or (III) comprise or comprises at least one low molecular weight and/or oligomeric, substantially unbranched, hydrophobic polyester (C) containing at least two hydroxyl groups in the molecule and having an OH number of from 56 to 500 mg KOH/g, an acid number <10 mg KOH/g and a number-average molecular weight Mn of from 450 to 2 000 daltons.

Abstract: A method of joining shaped parts by adhesive bonding comprises A) first coating at least one of the shaped part surfaces that are to be joined by adhesive with a polymer composed of at least 5% by weight of glycidyl (meth)acrylate and B) then adhesively bonding the shaped parts, with crosslinking of the glycidyl groups.