Abstract: The invention provides for the use of copolymers containing structural units derived from the compounds of the formulae 1 and 2 in which R1 is H or C1-C4 alkyl, R2 is a branched or unbranched C1-C6 alkylene radical, and Y is an alkali metal or ammonium to prevent misting in water-based cooling lubricants.

Abstract: Water-soluble or water-swellable polymers, preferably having a particle size no greater than 10 &mgr;m, which, in addition to from 0.01 to 5% by weight of crosslinking structures originating from monomers having at least two olefinic double bonds, comprise, in random distribution, from 1 to 50% by weight of the repeat structural unit (1) and from 49.99 to 98.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing ethylenediphosphonic acids of the formula I, 1

Abstract: Pigment preparations comprise a) at least one diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment, and b) at least one perylene pigment dispersant of the formula (I)  and have advantageous rheological and coloristic properties.

Abstract: C.I. Pigment Yellow 191 is obtained in new crystal polymorphs (beta, gamma, delta and epsilon phases) if the known alpha phase or another inventive phase of this pigment is treated with certain solvents and reprecipitated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a CuPc composition consisting essentially of CuPc, e.g., C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3, and a hydroxymethylphthalimido CuPc, as a colorant in electrophotographic toners and developers, powders and powder coating materials, electret materials, inkjet inks, and color filters, wherein the phthalocyanines have a particle morphology with an average length-to-width ratio of more than 2.5:1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures comprising from 70 to 99.5% by weight of a compound of the formula (R)4P+X− (1) and from 30 to 0.5% by weight of a compound of the formula (R)3P═O (2), where R is in each case a radical and X− is an inorganic or organic anion or the equivalent of a multiply charged inorganic or organic anion, also to a process for preparing the mixtures by reacting a phosphorus pentahalide with pyrrolidine or piperidine in the molar ratio 1:6 to 1:50 in the presence of an inert solvent initially at −20 to 80° C., subsequently continuing the reaction at 90 to 180° C., treating the resulting reaction product at 0 to 80° C. with aqueous alkali at a pH of 7 to 15, and separating aqueous and organic phase from one another, and to the use of the mixtures as catalyst and cocatalyst for phase-transfer reactions, nucleophilic substitution reactions or halogen-fluorine exchange reactions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polypropylene wax having a melt viscosity of from 50 to 100,000 mPas at 170° C., a DSC heat of fusion less than 80 J/g, a DSC melting point of greater than 130° C. and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of less than or equal to 3.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crystalline alkali metal phyllosilicate of the formula aMI2O.bEO2.cX2O5.dZO3.SiO2.eH2O, in which MI is an alkali metal, E is an element of the fourth main group, X is an element of the fifth main group and Z is an element of the sixth main group of the Periodic Table of the Elements and the following also applies: 0.25≦a≦6.25 2.5·10−4≦b≦5.63 0≦c≦2.81 0≦d≦5.63 0≦e≦15.3. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of this crystalline alkali metal phyllosilicate and also to detergents and cleaners which comprise the crystalline alkali metal phyllosilicate according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention provides water-soluble acid dyes of the formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 independently of one another are A—X—COOM, A—X—SO3M, OR4 or NR5R6, A is NR7or S, X is a straight-chain or branched (C1-C16)-alkylene radical, a straight-chain or branched, hydroxyl-, carboxyl- or amino-substituted (C1-C16)-alkylene radical, an arylene radical or a hydroxyl-, carboxyl- or sulfo-substituted arylene radical; R4, R5, and R6 independently of one another are hydrogen or (C1-C4)-alkyl or are (C1-C4)-alkyl substituted by one or more hydroxyl, 2-hydroxyethoxy, (C1-C4)-alkoxy or amino groups, R7 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl; M is a monovalent cation or one equivalent of a polyvalent cation, and which are suitable for printing natural and synthetic fiber materials for recording liquids, especially for the inkjet process, and for pulp-dyeing paper.

Abstract: The invention relates to fine emulsions comprising at least one W/O emulsifier and at least one hydrophilic component, and to a process for their preparation. The fine emulsions are obtainable by converting a W/O preemulsion comprising at least one W/O emulsifier into an O/W fine emulsion by adding at least one hydrophilic component and, where appropriate, changing the temperature. Suitable W/O emulsifiers are preferably sorbitol esters. The fine emulsions are preferably spray emulsions for cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications.

Abstract: The invention relates to six new crystal polymorphs, &agr; (alpha), &bgr; (beta), &ggr; (gamma), &dgr; (delta), &zgr; (zeta), and &eegr; (eta), of the disazo colorant of the formula I, 1

Abstract: The invention relates to copolymers comprising a) 5-95% by weight of structural units which are derived from compounds of the formula 1 b) from 1 to 95% by weight of structural units which are derived from compounds of the formula 2  and c1) from 1 to 95% by weight of structural units which are derived from compounds of the formula 3  or, alternatively, to c1), c2) from 1 to 95% by weight of structural units which are derived from compounds of the formula 4  n which X is a cation. The copolymers according to the invention are suitable as a fluid loss additive for water-based drilling muds and for cement slurries in deep wells, for completion and clearing-out liquids and for water shut-off in production probes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to terpene ethers of the general formula (I) in which the substituents have the meanings defined in the description, to a process for their preparation and to their use. The novel terpene ethers are suitable as traction fluids, as fragrances, as solvents and as reactive intermediates.

Abstract: Detergents and cleaners which comprise fatty acid alkyl ester alkoxylates of the formula R1—COO(AO)n—R2 with narrow homolog distribution, where R1 is a straight-chain or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having from 5 to 22, preferably from 8 to 18, carbon atoms, R2 is C1-C6-alkyl or C2-C6-alkenyl, preferably methyl, AO is a C2-C4-alkylene oxide unit, and n is a number from 1 to 20, preferably from 3 to 12, in particular from 4 to 10, and these fatty acid alkyl ester alkoxylates contain less than 14% by weight of compounds with a content of no more than (a−3) —AO groups and less than 16% by weight of compounds with a content of not below (a+3) —AO groups, where A is the number of —AO groups with the maximum frequency.

Abstract: Aqueous liquids comprising a surfactant and an acetal. It has now surprisingly been found that readily biodegradable acetals are outstandingly suitable as solubility promoters in microemulsions and liquid-crystalline phases. On the basis of homogeneous single-phase liquids consisting of acetal and surfactant, it is also possible to prepare formulations without the addition of cosurfactants.

Abstract: A process for preparing phenylacetic acid derivatives of the formula (I) by reacting benzyl chlorides of the formula (II) 1

Abstract: What is claimed are copolymers consisting essentially of from 1 to 90% by weight of the repetitive structural unit of the formula (1) in which R1 is hydrogen or methyl, Z is a C1-C4-alkylene group and X is hydrogen, an alkali metal or ammonium, from 10 to 99% by weight of a repetitive structural unit which is derived from olefinically unsaturated comonomers containing at least one oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorus atom and from 0 to 20% by weight of crosslinking structures originating from monomers having at least two olefinic double bonds. These copolymers are suitable for use as drift control agents for crop protection compositions.

Abstract: Biaryls, e,g,. biphenyls, phenylpyridines, phenylfurans, phenylpyrroles, phenylthiophenes, bipyridines, pyridylfurans or pyridylpyrroles are prepared in high yields by coupling aromatics with an aromatic boric acid or boric ester in the presence of a palladaphosphacyclobutane catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous dispersions preparable by polymerization of an olefinically unsaturated, water-insoluble compound in the presence of a water-soluble allyl or vinyl ether of the formula 1 in which b is 0 or 1 n is 0 or 1 k is an integer from 1 to 20, X is O or N[(A—O)m—R] A is C2-C4-alkylene m is an integer from 5 to 900, and R is H or C1-C4-alkyl, and in which A is not exclusively C3- or C4-alkylene, by mixing the olefinically unsaturated water-insoluble compound with the water-soluble allyl and vinyl ether in water, and triggering the polymerization by a free-radical initiator.