Abstract: There is described a fiber-reinforced material composed of a sheetlike textile material and a thermoset resin with a fiber content of from 30 to 70% by weight, at least 30% of the fiber being synthetic fiber. The thermoset resin is preferably a phenolic resin which contains up to 25% by weight of a fluoropolymer. The sheetlike textile material is preferably 100% synthetic fiber, in particular polyacrylonitrile fiber. There are also described a prepeg formed from the textile material and the thermosetting resin and the process for producing these articles and the use of the material for producing construction elements, in particular for hydraulic systems, by application of mechanical shaping processes.

Abstract: Protoplasts which regenerate reproducibly in a short time to normal, fertile plants can be regenerated from an auxin-autotrophic genotype of Zea mays (L.). Starting from immature embryos on hormone-free media, an auxin-autotrophic, embryogenic callus is formed on the shoot basis of the seedlings, which callus retains its embryogenic potential over a substantial period of time when subcultured on hormone-free medium. In addition to fully-developed embryos, adventitious embryos are also formed under suitable culture conditions (6-9% of sucrose in the medium). When the sucrose content is reduced to 2-3% and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is added, soft, granular calli are formed which consist of embryogenic cell aggregates (type II callus). After subculturing the type II callus in the form of a cell suspension culture, totipotent protoplasts can be isolated. From these protoplasts, the maize plants according to the invention are regenerated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a molding composition based on fluoropolymers which additionally contain from 1 to 50% by weight of at least one polymer containing sulfoxide groups. The polymer containing sulfoxide groups comprises, in particular, polyarylene sulfoxide units of the formula: —(—C6H4—SO—)—.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite foam comprising from 10 to 90% by volume of SiO.sub.2 aerogel particles and from 90 to 10% by volume of a foam, preferably a polyurethane and/or polyolefin foam, a process for its preparation and its use.

Abstract: Selectable Herpesvirus saimiri vectors which have a selection gene inserted into a junction region of the L- and H-DNA are described. Vectors of this type are able persistently to infect human T cells and thus are suitable for the expression of foreign genes in human T cells. An additional advantage is that no infectious virus particles are produced during this.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a cycloolefin copolymer by polymerization of at least one cyclic olefin and at least one acyclic olefin in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one metallocene compound of the formula I, ##STR1## where L is a .pi.-ligand, L' is a .pi.-ligand, T is a bridge between L and L', M is a tetravalent transition metal, m is 1 or 2 and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -hydrocarbon radical.

Abstract: A molding material which contains a sinterable polymer and a wax as a binder and advantageously an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer, an organic peroxide, an azoester and an alcohol can be injection molded to give a molding, dewaxed without loss of dimensional stability of the molding and then sintered.

Abstract: This invention relates to a reactor 1 for the continuous production of linear or cyclic acetals, in particular trioxane, dioxolane, tetroxane, dimethoxymethane, diethoxymethane, diethoxyethane and dibutoxyethane. This reactor has internal adjacently arranged evaporator elements 2, which allow for flow-through of a heat transport medium, and which are at least two meters high so as to generate a thermosiphon flow. The clear cross section between the evaporator elements is 20 to 80% of the overall cross section. Using the reactor, circulation ratios of up to 250 can be achieved. Thus, the reliability and availability of a production plant is increased while the susceptibility to breakdown decreases.

Abstract: The invention relates to cobalt carbonyl catalysts of the formula (I) ##STR1## where R is --CH(CH.sub.2 OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.3).sub.2 or --C.sub.2 H.sub.4 (OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.n OY, with n=1 to 12 and Y=H or CH.sub.3, and also a process for their preparation and their use as hydroformylation catalysts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of aldehydes, which comprises reacting an olefinic compound having 2 to 20 carbon atoms with carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in the presence or absence of a solvent, in the presence of a catalyst comprising rhodium and a compound or a mixture of compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is H or an alkyl radical having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is a straight-chain alkylene radical having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an oxygen-containing alkylene radical having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, a radical of the formula (II) or (III) ##STR2## or a cycloalkylene radical having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 is an alkyl radical having 1 to 25 carbon atoms or an aryl radical having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, A is a radical --COO.sup.- or --SO.sub.3.sup.- and x=0, y=1, m=1 and n=1, or x=0.1, y=1, m=(1 or 2) and n=(1 or 2), or, if R.sup.2 is a radical of the formula (II) or (III), x=1, y=0, m=(0 or 1) and n=(0 or 1), at a temperature from 50.degree. to 190.degree. C.

Abstract: Xerogels and a process for their preparation involving acidifying an aqueous waterglass solution, polycondensing the resulting silica by addition of a base, removing most of the water from the gel by washing the gel with an organic solvent, reacting the resulting gel with a silylation agent and then drying the silylated gel under subcritical conditions.

Abstract: A process for the production of a biaxially oriented propylene polymer film contains, in its single ply (or, if it is a multi-ply film, in its base ply) a low molecular weight resin, and the film has improved stretchability and other desirable physical properties, even though the propylene polymer of the sole or base ply is preferably a homopolymer. The n-heptane-insoluble fraction of the film has a chain isotacticity index, measured by means of .sup.13 C-NMR spectroscopy, of at least 85 to 94%. The sole or base ply contains less than 10% by weight of resin. The film is stretched in such a way that the product of tensile strength in the longitudinal and transverse direction is greater than 50,000 (N/mm.sup.2).sup.2. The film is made by, among other steps, carrying out the orientation in the longitudinal and transverse directions such that the product of the longitudinal stretching ratio and the transverse stretching ratio is.gtoreq.60.

Abstract: 2,7'-Dimethyl-1,1'-binaphthyl and a process for preparing 2,2'-dimethyl-1,1'-binaphthyl and 2,7'-dimethyl-1,1'-binaphthyl by electrochemically oxidatively dimerizing 2-methylnaphthalene in the presence of acetonitrile/water/electrolyte salt mixtures which additionally contain at least one further component which, is immiscible or only partially miscible with water, and rectifying the reaction mixture obtained under reduced pressure.

Abstract: A fullerene derivative of the formula I ##STR1## where the symbols and indices have the following meanings: F is a fullerene radical of the formula (C.sub.20+2m), where m is a number from 1 to 50R.sup.1 to R.sup.8 are identical or different and are each H, CO.sub.2 R.sup.9, CN, COR.sup.10, Cl, Br, I, F, OR.sup.11, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, phenyl or H, R.sup.1 -R.sup.4 and/or R.sup.5, R.sup.7 can also be part of a cycloalipathic, cycloaromatic or cycloheteroaromatic system which in turn is substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, aryl, carboxyl, carbonyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, halogen, nitro, alcohol or amine, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 can together be ##STR2## where R.sup.15 -R.sup.18 are each H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, F, Cl, Br, I or phenyl, andAR is the radical of a fused cyclo-aromatic system, and n is from 1 to 20 and a process for its preparation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphorus-modified epoxy resins having an epoxy number from 0 to 1 mol/100 g, comprising structural units which are derived from(A) polyepoxy compounds having at least two epoxy groups per molecule, and(B) phosphinic and/or phosphonic anhydrides.The invention further provides a process for preparing these phosphorus-modified epoxy resins and provides for the use of the resins in producing moldings, coatings or laminates.

Abstract: A bowing value, expressed in terms of the curvature, of less than 10 mm is obtained by an additional heat treatment step at temperatures greater than 40.degree. C. to 80.degree. C. after the transverse stretching, the heat-setting and the cooling of the film. The polyolefin film contains a propylene polymer with at least 90% by weight of polypropylene or contains a polypropylene blend.

Abstract: The chiral manganese-triazonone complex of the general formula (I) is disclosed:?Mn.sub.u (L).sub.V (OR).sub.W (.mu.-O).sub.X (.mu.OAc).sub.y !X.sub.z(I)The complex is useful industrially to prepare chiral compounds.

Abstract: Cycloolefin copolymer having a solution viscosity (eta)>=0.25 dl/g, A) comprising polymerized units of at least one polycyclic olefin, B) polymerized units of at least one olefin which comprise at least one double bond and, if desired, C) polymerized units of one or more acyclic monoolefins, wherein the equivalent weight with regard to olefinic double bonds is less than or equal to the number-average molecular weight, and which additionally contains at least one repeating unit which possesses at least two electron withdrawing groups. The cycloolefin copolymer is suitable as a coating composition and as an additive.

Abstract: An abrasion-resistant fluoropolymer mixture comprising(A) from 75 to 99% by weight of a fluorocarbon polymer(B) from 1 to 25% by weight of an oxidized polyarylene sulfide and, based on the sum (A)+(B),(C) from 0 to 15% by weight of a filler,is used for the production of feed pipes for Bowden cables which are pressure-resistant and abrasion-resistant.

Abstract: The invention relates to 2-alkylmercapto-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoic esters of the formula (II), in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are, independently of each other, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6) alkyl, and a process for their preparation, which comprises reacting 3,4-dichlorobenzotrifluoride electrochemically at an anode with CO.sub.2 to give 2-chloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-benzoate, converting it into the corresponding benzoic ester of the formula (I), and then reacting it with an alkylmercaptide R.sup.2 S.sup.e.