Abstract: A method for the isolation of 2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutyric acid (MHA), wherein MHA is isolated from a reaction mixture obtained by addition of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) to methylmercaptopropionaldehyde (MMP) and hydrolysis by sulphuric acid of the methylmercaptopropionaldehyde cyanohydrin (MMP-CH) thus obtained. The reaction mixture is brought into contact in a liquid/liquid extraction system with an organic solvent substantially immiscible with water, in order to form an extraction solution which contains the solvent and the MHA transferred out of the reaction mixture. By bringing the salt content of the reaction mixture, prior to the liquid/liquid extraction, to a concentration of about >50 wt. % (wt./wt.), preferably >55 wt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of cyanuric chloride moldings, particularly in rod or flake form. Cyanuric chloride melt is cooled in a pressure cell equipped with a die capable of strand formation, wherein solidification takes place in the channel or channels of the die. The solidified cyanuric chloride is pressed out of the die in strand form at a temperature of 140.degree. C. or less, preferably 40 to 60.degree. C., and reduced in size as required. The process reduces the sublimation which is otherwise conventional during solidification and cooling.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of aqueous sodium methioninate solutions having a low sodium carbonate content from the crude hydrolysis mixtures obtained in the hydrolysis of 5-(.beta.-methylmercaptoethyl)-hydantoin with from 1.1 to 6 equivalents of sodium hydroxide and/or sodium carbonate, by separating off sodium carbonate monohydrate while heating, and granulates subsequently prepared from those solutions by various processes.

Abstract: A method and a device for producing aerosols highly charged with liquid phase and with small droplets by using ultrasonic transmitters in which an ultrasonic transmitter oscillates in a plane parallel to, or in an inclined plane of 1.degree. to 20.degree. relative to, the surface level of the liquid. When several transmitters are used in a compact unit, each transmitter is seated in a recess and each individual transmitter oscillates in a plane parallel to, or in a plane inclined at 1.degree. to 20.degree. relative to, the plane of the surface level of the liquid. The aerosols can be used as raw material for pyrolysis, coating, the doping of substances and in medicine.

Abstract: The invention relates to granulates based on silicate fillers, the surface of which was modified with organosilicon compounds, a process for manufacturing the granulates by spraying a suspension of these fillers together with the organosilicon compounds in a spray granulator and the use of the granulates in vulcanizable rubber mixtures.

Abstract: Granulates which contain titanium silicalite-1 are composed of silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide and titanium silicalite-1 crystals. The granulates can be prepared by spray-drying or spray granulating the crystallization suspension. The granulates may be used as suspension catalysts, such as for the epoxidation of olefins using hydrogen peroxide.

Abstract: Preparation of 2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone diesters by rearrangement of 2,6,6-trimethylcyclohex-2-ene-1,4-dione (4-oxo-isophorone, ketoisophorone) in the presence of a solid, acid catalyst and an acylating agent, for example carboxylic acid anhydrides or carboxylic acid halides. The 2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone diester may then optionally be saponified to the free 2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone, which is a valuable building block in the synthesis of vitamin E.

Abstract: A process for the production of an epoxide and/or its corresponding vicinal diol by a reaction of an olefinic compound with hydrogen peroxide, wherein the reaction is performed in the presence of a carbon dioxide phase at a temperature and a pressure above the critical point of carbon dioxide.

Abstract: The phytotoxic action of too high a concentration of peroxygen compounds such as peroxycarboxylic acids and hydrogen peroxide in the combating of phytopathogenic microorganisms, such as fusaria, in the water systems of plant irrigation systems, especially greenhouses, can be eliminated. The water is treated with a peroxycarboxylic acid solution which is brought in contact with a solid decomposition catalyst for active-oxygen compounds before the water is used for irrigation, in order to reduce the content of peroxycarboxylic acid and hydrogen peroxide. The water contacts and flows through a fixed bed of decomposition catalyst, by trickling over it or flowing through the conduits of a monolithic block coated with a decomposition catalyst such as platinum, palladium or rhodium.

Abstract: A boron oxide-silicon dioxide mixed oxide which has a BET surface of less than 100 m.sup.2 g, and optionally containing oxides of aluminium, titanium or zirconium, is prepared pyrogenically by flame hydrolysis. The mixed oxide is used in glass making.

Abstract: A process for preparing microporous separating elements for batteries by intensive mixing of a high molecular weight polyethylene with a precipitated silica having specific chemical and physical characteristics, a process liquid and a stabilizer to form a powder mixture, which is extruded to form a film, from which the process liquid is removed, thereby leaving the desired microporous separating elements which are recovered.

Abstract: Titanium-containing molecular sieves are prepared by adding an aqueous template solution to a mixture of tetraalkyl orthosilicate and tetraalkyl orthotitanate, crystallizing the reaction mixture in an autoclave and separating the solid obtained optionally, the solid is washed and calcined. The titanium-containing molecular sieves can be used as catalysts, inter alia in the epoxidation of olefins.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of producing oxazolidinones of formula (I), wherein R.sup.1 -R.sup.5 have the meanings given in the description, by reacting cyclical anhydrides of formula (II) with carbonyl compounds of general formula (III) at temperatures between ambient temperature and approximately 150.degree. C. The invention also concerns the production of the cyclical anhydrides of formula (II) by reacting N-protected aminodicarboxylic acids of formula (IV) with a dehydrating agent in situ. The invention further concerns the use of oxazolidinones of formula (I) for the .alpha.-selective production of esters of formula (V) and amides of general formula (VII).

Abstract: A process for the production of .alpha.-tocopherol esters, derivatives or homologs thereof of the general formula ##STR1## in which the mono- or diester of a hydroquinone is reacted with an allyl alcohol derivative or an allyl alcohol in the presence of zinc halides and proton-liberating acids at a temperature of 25.degree. to 100.degree. C.

Abstract: A process for the production of primary and/or secondary amines from imines or nitriles, comprising an aminating hydrogenation of imine or of nitrile with hydrogen in the presence of ammonia, of a hydrogenation catalyst based on cobalt, nickel, ruthenium or mixtures of these metals and of a base, at a temperature within the range of 50.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and at a pressure within the range of 0.3 to 30 MPa. The yield of amine is increased by the use of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide as base. Preferably a tetraalkylammonium hydroxide is used in a quantity of from 0.01 to 100 mMol per mol of amine or of nitrile. The process is suitable in particular for the production of isophoronediamine from isophorone nitrile imine.

Abstract: A process for the separation and purification of pyrimidine derivatives, such as tetrahydropyrimidines, in particular 1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2-methyl-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acids (ectoine) from aqueous solutions by a combination of adsorption using inorganic solids and crossflow filtration.

Abstract: A process for producing 2-[3(S)-amino-2-(R)-hydroxyl-4-phenyl butyl]-N-tert,butyl decahydro-(4aS,8aS)-isoquinoline-e(S)-carboxamide of the formula (I) via 3(S)-[lower alkoxy carbonyl amino, phenoxy carbonyl amino or benzyl oxycarbonyl amino]-2-hydroxy-4-phenyl butyric acid and process for producing said acid.

Abstract: A supported catalyst includes: a) 0.5-15 wt. % of one or more Cu-II compounds, the quantitative amounts referring to copper metal; b) 0.1-8 wt. % of one or more alkali metal compounds, the quantitative amounts referring to alkali metal; c) 0.1-10 wt. % of an oxide mixture including; c1) 80-95 mole % of oxides of cerite rare earths with atomic Nos. 57 to 62, except promethium, and c2) 5-20 mole % of zirconium dioxide, where c1) and c2) must together total 100 mole % and the quantitative amount of c) refers to the oxides of the mixture, and d) the remainder up to 100 wt. % being .gamma. and/or .alpha.-aluminum oxide as support material, wherein e) the support material d) has a total pore volume in the range from 0.65 to 1.2 cm.sup.3 /g, and wherein f) the supported catalyst is present in the form of cylindrical hollow bodies having at least one passage channel, the ratio of height h to external diameter d.sup.e being less than 1.5 for diameters d.sub.e of up to 6 mm, and the ratio h/d.sub.e being less than 0.

Abstract: Pyrogenically produced silica having a specific surface of less than 90 m.sup.2 /g, preferably of less than 60 m.sup.2 /g, and a DBP absorption of less than 60 wt. % (less or equal to 57.30 ml dibutyl phthalate/100 g) is produced by vaporizing silicon halides and/or organosilicon halides, mixing the vapors with a carrier gas, heating the mixture to temperatures definitely above the boiling point of the silicon-halogen compound, mixing with hydrogen and combustion in a known manner in a burner.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of 2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone by rearrangement of 4-oxoisophorone (ketoisophorone, 3,5,5-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1,4-dione) to yield a trimethylhydroquinone diester and the subsequent saponification thereof. Trimethylhydroquinone is in turn an important starting material for the production of vitamin E.