Abstract: Polymerizable adhesives mixtures containing ethylenic double bonds capable of polymerizing and boron compounds as polymerization initiators, wherein the boron compounds are organoboron compounds and contain at least one boron-carbon bond or one boron-hydrogen bond and have practically no spontaneous combustibility in air. The adhesives harden after a short time to give stable adhesive bonds, even in the presence of moisture.

Abstract: A process for the continuous production of triacetin consisting essentially of continuously charging liquid glycerol into a first liquid reaction area through which acetic acid vapors and water vapors flow, said liquid reaction area being divided into a number of separate individual areas through which liquid glycerol and liquid acetin reaction products flow in one direction and gaseous acetic acid and water flow in a countercurrent direction, continuously charging acetic acid vapor to a separate individual area where said liquid mixture has an OH number of less than 600, continuously separating a liquid mixture of acetins and water having an OH number of less than 600, continuously passing said liquid mixture into a second liquid reaction area, continuously adding thereto liquid acetic acid anhydride in an amount sufficient to react with water dissolved in said liquid mixture to form acetic acid and to react with monoacetin and diacetin present to form triacetin and continuously recovering triacetin.

Abstract: A process for the conjugation of the double bonds of polyunsaturated fatty acids or mixtures of fatty acids containing polyunsaturated fatty acids comprising treating said fatty acids with SO.sub.2 in the presence of substoichiometric amounts of soap-forming bases in a closed reaction vessel or in a reaction vessel equipped with a reflux condenser, at a temperature range of from 170.degree. C. to 260.degree. C.; particularly wherein the process is performed in the presence of from 0.5 to 25 mol % of SO.sub.2, 0.5 to 25 mol % of soap-forming alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal compounds, and 0.05 to 2% by weight, based on the fatty acid starting material, of water.

Abstract: A stabilized thermoplastic composition comprised of polyvinyl chloride or mixed polymers containing mainly vinyl chloride units together with stabilizers and other conventional additives employed in thermoplastic compositions, which have as major stabilizer component, a content of 0.02 to 5 parts by weight of aliphatic polyhydroxyl compounds containing 4 to 6 OH-groups per 100 parts by weight of polymer. These polyhydroxyl compounds should contain at least one carboxyl and/or carbonyl group and/or double bond. Suitable compounds are gluconic acid, glucuronic acid, ketogluconic acid, ascorbic acid or the alkali metal salts or alkaline earth salts of the mentioned acids.Other conventional processing additives may be present. The invention concerns also a process for the manufacture of pipes, profiles, foils, hollow parts by hot forming, with the use of the mentioned additives, and the additional use of paraffin, free fatty acid, epoxidized soybean oil or higher molecular weight ester wax.

Abstract: Cyanacrylic acid ester based glues with a reduced setting time comprising a cyanacrylic acid ester and from 0.005% to 3% by weight, based on the cyanacrylic acid ester of a polyoxyalkylene glycol diester having the formula ##STR1## wherein x is an integer from 5 to 80, Alk is an alkylene having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent members selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, halogen, lower alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl having from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, alkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, cyanoalkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, haloalkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, nitroalkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, alkenyl having from 2 to 12 carbon atoms, alkynyl having from 2 to 12 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl having from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, phenyl, nitrophenyl, halophenyl, phenylalkyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl and alkylphenyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl.

Abstract: New cytostatic compounds based on isocyanuric acid derivatives having 2 or 3 epoxide group containing substituents on ring nitrogen atoms, of which at least one differs from a glycidyl, having the formula ##STR1## wherein Oxiranyl is the same or different and has the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are the same or different and members selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl and alkoxyalkyl and n in an integer from 1 to 8, with the proviso that if n is 1 in all oxiranyl groups, at least one of R.sub.1 or R.sub.3 is other than hydrogen, and R is a member selected from the group consisting of oxiranyl as defined above, hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, hydrocarbon aryl, hydrocarbon aralkyl, hydrocarbon alkaryl, cycloalkyl, and cycloalkenyl, optionally containing substituents.When R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and/or R.sub.3 denote alkyl or substituted alkyl in the oxiranyl radical, the alkyl radicals preferably have from 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of a concentrate containing sterol compounds of natural origin, which concentrate is suitable as a starting material for the transformation of sterol compounds by fermentation, which comprises the steps of:(a) transesterifying distillation residues from the processing of natural fats and/or oils with a lower alcohol; and(b) subjecting the product of step (a) to molecular distillation to produce a main fraction having a content of up to about 50 percent by weight of sterol compounds.The invention also relates to sterol concentrates produced thereby and their transformation to valuable secondary products.

Abstract: In the process for the preparation of high concentration, low-viscosity liquid pigment pastes comprising mixing pigments, a substantially non-volatile liquid organic media, a suspension assistant, and, optionally, fillers, the improvement consisting of using acidic reaction products of the reaction of:(A) unsaturated dicarboxylic acid compounds, and(B) an unsaturated ester of a dicarboxylic acid, which reaction product is produced by heating said component A and said component B in a weight ratio of 1:7 to 1:35 for from 1 to 25 hours at a temperature in the range of 200.degree. to 250.degree., as said suspension assistant;as well as the high concentration, low-viscosity pigment pastes and solutions of said acidic reaction products in organic liquid media.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a perfumery composition consisting essentially of at least one substituted 2-(1-methylbutyl)-1,3-dioxane and customary constituents and to the use of such a perfumery composition to impart a pleasant odor to a product.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing bleach activator granulates comprising from about 90 to 98 percent by weight of bleach activator and from about 10 to 2 percent by weight of granulating adjuvant, based on the weight of the anhydrous components, which comprises the steps of:(a) mixing powdered bleach activator which has a mean particle size of from about 0.01 to 0.8 mm with from about 50 to 100 percent by weight of the total granulating adjuvant to be used, which granulating adjuvant comprises a water-soluble cellulose ether, starch, or starch ether in the form of a free-flowing powder having a mean particle size of from about 0.01 to 0.8 mm;(b) moistening the mixture from step (a) with water or an aqueous solution containing the remainder of the granulating adjuvant in a solution of from about 0.

Abstract: This invention is directed to bis-(2,4-diaminophenoxy)-alkanols and salts thereof and to compositions of the developer-coupler type for the dyeing of hair, consisting essentially of bis-(2,4-diaminophenoxy)-alkanols or salts thereof as coupling components and, as developer components, the conventional components used in oxidation dyes.

Abstract: In a process for the production of an aqueous alkaline suspension of low-grit, crystallized zeolitic sodium aluminosilicate of the smallest particle size having the composition0.9 to 1.1 Na.sub.2 O. 1 Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 . 1.8 to 2.5 SiO.sub.2with a water content depending on the degree of drying, which contains at least 99.8% by weight of a particle size of less than 25 .mu.m and has a high cation exchange capability, comprising crystallization of an aqueous alkaline suspension of an x-ray-amorphous sodium aluminosilicate, said suspension having a composition corresponding of the molar ratios of 1.5 to 5 Na.sub.2 O:1 Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 :1 to 4 SiO.sub.2 :40 to 400 H.sub.

Abstract: A process for the partial reduction of C21-steroid carboxylic acids and their esters to C21-steroid alcohols and new C21-steroid alcohols.DELTA.4,17(20)-C21-steroid carboxylic acids optionally containing further double bonds in the 1- and/or 9(11)-position and their esters corresponding to general formula I below ##STR1## in which R represents hydrogen or a hydrocarbon radical and A represents hydrogen, hydroxyl or, together with the C-atom substituted by A, a carbonyl group and in which, finally, the substituent A may even be replaced by an additional olefinic double bond in the 9(11)-position, are reacted with diisobutyl aluminium hydride without the A-ring in the steroid skeleton being blocked in such quantities that all the oxygen-containing functional groups are reduced to the hydroxyl group. The aluminium-containing intermediate reaction product is then subjected to the selective Oppenauer oxidation to form the 3-keto compound. The 3-oxo-C21-steroid alcohols may be obtained in high yields in this way.

Abstract: This invention relates to the preparation of sodium metasilicate. More particularly, this invention relates to a process for the preparation of solid, crystalline, substantially anhydrous sodium metasilicate which comprises the steps of:(a) reacting an SiO.sub.2 -containing material with a concentrated aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide in an SiO.sub.2 to Na.sub.2 O molar ratio of from about 1.2:1 to 1:1.2 under elevated pressure and at an elevated temperature, to form a sodium metasilicate suspension;(b) filtering the suspension from step (a) to obtain a filter cake and filtrate;(c) crushing the filter cake from step (b) at elevated temperature;(d) removing water from the crushed filter cake to recover substantially anhydrous sodium metasilicate;(e) concentrating the filtrate from step (b); and(f) returning the concentrated filtrate from step (e) to the reaction mixture of step (a).

Abstract: A process for the purification of cold-water soluble cellulose ethers containing alkali metal halides consisting essentially of suspending a cold-water-soluble cellulose ether crude reaction product containing 25% by weight or more of alkali metal halides, based on the dry weight, in an aqueous solution containing from 4% to about 25% by weight of one or more water-soluble salts of acids selected from the group consisting of polybasic inorganic acids and organic polycarboxylic acids with agitation at a temperature of from 10.degree. C. to 50.degree. C., separating the purified cellulose ether solids and optionally repeating the suspending and separating steps one or more times. The resulting material can be employed in washing and cleansing composition slurries for spray-drying. The process is especially suitable for the treatment of methyl cellulose or water-soluble mixed ethers of methyl or ethyl cellulose with a sodium sulfate solution.

Abstract: An alkaline washing composition comprised of strongly alkaline reacting inorganic salts, optionally wetting agents and a defoaming effective amount of at least one mixed formal of an alkylpolyglycol ether having the formula:R.sub.1 --O--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.m --CH.sub.2 --(OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.n --O--R.sub.2wherein R.sub.1 is a straight or branched chain alkyl or alkenyl with from 8 to 22 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is a straight or branched chain alkyl with from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, m is a number from 2 to 30 and n is a number from 1 to 3; as well as the improvement in the process of washing rigid solid articles comprising contacting the soiled rigid solid articles with a strongly alkaline washing solution containing a defoaming effective amount of a defoaming agent, rinsing said rigid solid articles and recovering cleaned rigid solid articles, the improvement consisting of using said mixed formal as said defoaming agent.

Abstract: 4(5)-acetyl-9,9-dimethyltricyclo-[4,4,0,1.sup.8,10 ]-undec-1-ene having the formula ##STR1## its synthesis, its use as a perfumery agent and as an olfactant component in perfumery compositions and as an odorant for technical products.

Abstract: For the production of 17-C-steroid-.alpha.-propionic acid compounds by microbial side chain degradation on 17-C-side chain steroid substrates wild strain microorganisms selected in predetermined manner are subjected to a multi-stage mutation and selection. The resultant mutant strains are capable of supplying the desired compounds, e.g. .DELTA.-4 BNC and/or .DELTA.-1,4 BNC in high yields even in the absence of inhibitors arresting the growth and/or degradation of the steroid ring. Wild strains and mutants particularly suitable, and their choice, production and use, are described.

Abstract: 4-methyl-2,5-dioxabicyclo-[4,4,0]-decan-3-one having the formula ##STR1## its synthesis, its use as a perfumery agent and as an olefactant component in perfume compositions and as an odorant agent for technical products.

Abstract: This invention relates to an adhesive composition based upon an aqueous solution of alkali metal silicate with a content of powdered inorganic filler and optionally organic polymer, which comprises an aqueous alkali metal silicate solution containing:(a) from about 25 to 50 percent by weight of dispersed crystalline calcium carbonate;(b) from about 2 to 10 percent by weight of quartz powder with a particle size of up to about 15 .mu.m and a specific surface area of at least about 3.5 m.sup.2 /gm; and(c) from 0 to about 24 percent by weight of a 50 percent by weight stable, aqueous dispersion of an alkali-resistant organic polymer based upon acrylate, styrene/acrylate, styrene/butadiene, or a mixture thereofbased on the weight of the total composition.