Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 6482774
    Abstract: Substituted (4-bromopyrazol-3-yl)benzazoles I and their salts where R1=H, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl; R2=CN, Cl-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio, C1-C4-haloalkylthio, C1-C4-alkylsulfinyl, C1-C4-haloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C4-alkylsulfonyl, C1-C4-haloalkylsulfonyl; R4=H, halogen; R5=H, CN, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or C1-C4-haloalkoxy; Z=—N═C(XR6)—O— or —N═C(XR6)—S—, attached to &agr; via the nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur; X=a chemical bond, oxygen, sulfur, —S(O)—, —SO2—, —NH— or —N(R7)—; R6, R7=Cl-C6-alkyl, Cl-C6-haloalkyl, cyano-Cl-C4-alkyl, hydroxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C6-alkenyl, cyano-C3-C6-alkenyl, C3-C6-haloalkenyl, C3-C6-alkynyl, cyano-C3-C6-alkynyl, C3-C6-haloalkynyl, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C4-alkenyloxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C4-alkynyloxy-C1-C4-alkyl,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Cyrill Zagar, Gerhard Hamprecht, Markus Menges, Olaf Menke, Robert Reinhard, Peter Schäfer, Karl-Otto Westphalen, Martina Otten, Helmut Walter
  • Patent number: 6482984
    Abstract: Iminooxy-substituted benzyl phenyl ethers of the formula I in which the substituents and the index are as defined below: Y is H, CH3, F or Cl; Q is C(═CHOCH3)—COOCH3, C(═CHCH3)—COOCH3, C(═NOCH3)—COOCH3, C(═NOCH3)—CONHCH3 or N(—OCH3)—COOCH3; X is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or CF3; m is 1 or 2, where the radicals X may be different if m=2; R1 is alkyl and R2 is hydrogen or alkyl; or R1 and R2 together are cyclopropyl, cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl; R3 is alkyl or CF3; and R4 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl or haloalkynyl; processes and intermediates for their preparation, compositions comprising them, and their use, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wassilios Grammenos, Hubert Sauter, Andreas Gypser, Markus Gewehr, Jordi Tormo i Blasco, Arne Ptock, Bernd Müller, Oliver Cullmann, Thomas Grote, Eberhard Ammermann, Siegfried Strathmann, Gisela Lorenz
  • Patent number: 6482772
    Abstract: Solid mixtures comprising a) an active compound from the group consisting of the sulfonylureas, and b) an alkylpolyglucoside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Bratz, Karl-Friedrich Jäger
  • Patent number: 6479572
    Abstract: Thermoplastic molding materials contain A) from 5 to 97.9% by weight of a polyphenylene ether B) from 1 to 93.9% by weight of a vinylaromatic polymer C) from 1 to 50% by weight of an elastomeric polymer D) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of a stabilizer mixture comprising d1) at least one sterically hindered phenol, d2) at least one phosphonite and d3) at least one alkyl aryl phosphite, E) from 0 to 70% by weight of a polyamide and F)from 0 to 60% by weight of further additives and processing assistants, the sum of the percentages by weight of components A) to F) being 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Weber, Hans Joachim Reinhardt, Joachim Seibring
  • Patent number: 6479564
    Abstract: A curable composition comprises a prepolymer which comprises, in copolymerized form: (a) an on-average at least bifunctional isocyanate based on a compound of the formula I  where R1 and R2 are independently C1-C12-alkylene, (b) an ethylenically unsaturated compound containing isocyanate-reactive groups and (c) if desired, a saturated compound containing isocyanate-reactive groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhold Schwalm, Bernd Bruchmann, Erich Beck
  • Patent number: 6479603
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the living free radical addition polymerization of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers using at least one free-radical polymerization initiator and in the presence of one or more stable N-oxyl radicals, wherein at least one stable N-oxyl radical has polymerizable double bonds. The invention additionally provides polymers obtainable by this process, having a polydispersity index PDI of from 1.0 to 1.8, and provides for the use of stable N-oxyl radicals having polymerizable double bonds in the living free radical addition polymerization of one or more different ethylenically unsaturated monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Yuliang Yang, Junpo He, Jizhuang Cao, Jingming Chen, Chengming Li
  • Patent number: 6479687
    Abstract: A process for preparing vinylphosphonic acid compounds of the formula (I) where R1 and R2 are, independently, H, C1-16-alkyl, C6-12-aryl, C7-12-alkaryl or C7-12-aralkyl, it being possible for the organic radicals to be substituted by one or more halogen atoms, hydroxyl, acyl or acetoxy groups, by reacting phosphorous acid compounds of the formula (II) with acetylene in the presence of a Pd(O) complexe or Pt(O) complex as catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Thomas Preiss, Arnd Böttcher
  • Patent number: 6479437
    Abstract: A herbicidal mixture comprising a) a herbicidally active amount of a 3-heterocyclyl-substituted benzoyl derivative of the formula I  in which the variables have the following meanings: R1,R2 are hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkylthio, C1-C6-alkylsulfinyl, C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-haloalkoxy; R3 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl; X is a heterocycle from amongst the group consisting of isoxazolyl, 4,5-dihydroisoxazolyl and thiazolyl, it being possible for the heterocycle to be optionally monosubstituted or polysubstituted by halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio; R5 is hydrogen or C1-C6-alkyl, R6 is C1-C6-alkyl, or their environmentally compatible salts; b) a nitrogenous fertilizer in a synergistically effective amount and c) an adjuvant in a synergistically effective amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Bratz, Rainer Berghaus, Martina Otten, Bernd Sievernich, Elmar Kibler
  • Patent number: 6479436
    Abstract: Hetaroyl derivatives of the formula I where: R1 and R2 are each hydrogen, nitro, halogen, cyano, thiocyanato, hydroxyl, mercapto, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkylthio, C1-C6-alkylsulfinyl, C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl or C1-C6-alkoxysulfonyl, where the last 6 radicals may be substituted and/or functionalized; phenyl, phenoxy, phenylthio, phenylsulfinyl or phenylsulfonyl, where the last 5 radicals may be substituted; Z is an unsubstituted or substituted four-membered unsaturated, partially or fully saturated chain consisting of three carbons and one nitrogen; Q is unsubstituted or substituted cyclohexane-1,3-dione linked at position 2; and their agriculturally useful salts. A process for preparing the hetaroyl derivatives, compositions comprising them, and the use of these derivatives or these compositions comprising them for controlling undesirable plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martina Otten, Norbert Götz, Wolfgang von Deyn, Stefan Engel, Uwe Kardorff, Peter Plath, Regina Luise Hill, Matthias Witschel, Ulf Misslitz, Karl-Otto Westphalen, Helmut Walter
  • Patent number: 6479617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to molding compositions comprising polycondensates, particulate graft copolymers, copolymer made from vinylaromatic monomer and acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile, fibers, polycarbonate, carbon black and customary additives. Moldings and composites made from this molding composition are described as are recycled materials from these, and the use of the molding compositions, moldings, composites and recycled materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Fischer, Graham Edmund Mc Kee, Gerd Blinne
  • Patent number: 6479543
    Abstract: The present invention provides a synergistic insecticidal composition comprising as essential active ingredients a neuronal sodium channel antagonist in combination with one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of pyrethroids, pyrethroid-type compounds, recombinant nucleopolyhedroviruses capable of expressing an insect toxin, organophosphates, carbamates, formamidines, macrocyclic lactones, amidinohydrazones, GABA antagonists and acetylcholine receptor ligands. Also provided are methods for synergistic insect control and crop protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Frank Treacy, Raymond Frank Borysewicz, Kurt Allen Schwinghammer, Paul E. Rensner, Hassan Oloumi-Sadeghi
  • Patent number: 6479680
    Abstract: A process for the reaction of an organic compound with a hydroperoxide comprises at least the steps (i) to (iii) below: (i) reaction of the hydroperoxide with the organic compound to give a mixture comprising the reacted organic compound and unreacted hydroperoxide, (ii) separation of the unreacted hydroperoxide from the mixture resulting from step (i), (iii) reaction of the hydroperoxide separated off in step (ii) with the organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Wolfgang Harder, Peter Resch, Norbert Rieber, Wilhelm Ruppel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Andreas Walch, Anne Wenzel, Peter Zehner
  • Patent number: 6479577
    Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of mixtures of (a) polyurethanes having hydrophilic groups which result in water dispersibility of the polyurethane and (b) radiation-curable (meth)acrylate prepolymers which are dilutable in at least 5% by weight of water, such as hydroxyl-containing polyether acrylates, are suitable, owing to their penetration behavior and their high solids absorption in paper, for use as radiation-curable coating or impregnating materials for paper substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Paulus, Wolfgang Reich, Matthias Lokai, Thomas Jaworek
  • Publication number: 20020165410
    Abstract: A method of transporting and/or storing pure acrylic acid comprises ensuring by means of appropriate measures that the pure acrylic acid is partly crystalline during the entire duration of transport and/or storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Aichinger, Gerhard Nestler, Paul Leon Kageler
  • Publication number: 20020164762
    Abstract: Modified forms of human interleukin-1&bgr; converting enzyme (ICE) that display proteolytic activity and, furthermore, have increased stability compared to unmodified human ICE are disclosed. Nucleic acid molecules encoding a modified p10 subunit of ICE, and recombinant vectors and host cells incorporating such nucleic acid molecules, are also disclosed. A modified ICE protein of the invention can be used to cleave proteolytically ICE substrates and to identify modulators of ICE activity in screening assays. Moreover, due to its enhanced stability, the modified ICE of the invention is particularly suitable for use in the preparation of ICE crystals for X-ray crystallography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert V. Talanian, John A. Mankovich, Tariq Ghayur, Catherine R. Ferenz
  • Publication number: 20020165288
    Abstract: Described is a water-absorbent composition containing from 30 to 100% by weight, based on the water-absorbent composition, of water-insoluble water-swellable hydrogels characterized by the following features:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Frenz, Norbert Herfert, Ulrich Riegel, William E. Volz, Thomas H. Majette, James Hill
  • Patent number: 6475957
    Abstract: Cycloalkyl-substituted benzoylpyrazoles of the formula I where the variables have, for example, the following meanings: R1 is hydrogen, nitro, halogen, cyano, thiocyanato, or an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic radical; R2 is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic radical, halogen, nitro, or substituted sulfonyl or amino groups, R3 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C2-C6-alkenyl or C2-C6-alkynyl; R4, R5 are hydrogen, nitro, halogen, cyano, thiocyanato, an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic radical or substituted sulfonyl or amino groups; R6 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C3-C8-cycloalkyl; R7 is a cyclic ring system having 3-14 ring atoms; R16 is hydroxyl or a substituted hydroxyl group; and their tautomers or agriculturally useful salts are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulf Neidlein, Norbert Götz, Ernst Baumann, Wolfgang von Deyn, Steffen Kudis, Roland Götz, Klaus Langemann, Guido Mayer, Ulf Misslitz, Matthias Witschel, Martina Otten, Karl-Otto Westphalen, Helmut Walter
  • Patent number: 6476097
    Abstract: An essentially solventless pigmented aqueous formulation which comprises: i) at least one polymer A in the form of polymer particles in disperse distribution, said particles comprising, from 80 to 99.9% by weight, based on the overall weight of the polymer A, of a water-insoluble polymer 1 having a glass transition temperature Tg1 in the range from −50 to +40° C., built up from ethylenically unsaturated monomers M1, and from 0.1 to 20% by weight, based on the overall weight of the polymer A, of one or more water-insoluble polymers i having a glass transition temperature Tgi of more than 50° C., built up from ethylenically unsaturated monomers Mi, ii) at least one pigment and, if desired, one or more extenders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Cheng-Le Zhao, Uwe Dittrich, Manfred Schwartz, Wolfgang Hümmer
  • Patent number: 6476253
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing monoacetylated hydroquinone compounds of the formula I, to the novel final products of the process and to a process for preparing the precursors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karin Schein, Kai-Uwe Baldenius, Wolfgang Siegel, Rainer Stürmer, Detlef Ruff, Hagen Jaedicke
  • Patent number: 6476089
    Abstract: The invention relates to expandable olefin bead polymers which comprise a blowing agent with a boiling point of from −5 to 150° C., selected from the group consisting of alkanes, alkanols, ketones, ethers and esters. The particles are unfoamed and have a bulk density above 500 g/l, and can be foamed to a bulk density below 200 g/l after storage for one hour at room temperature in free contact with the atmosphere. They are prepared by impregnating polyolefin pellets in suspension in a pressure vessel with the blowing agent, cooling the batch below 100° C., reducing the pressure and isolating the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Maletzko, Klaus Hahn, Isidor de Grave, Gerd Ehrmann, Franz-Josef Dietzen