Abstract: A metallized, laminated substrate well adapted for the production of printed circuits is comprised of:(A) an electrically insulating support element which comprises (a) a central core member comprising a major proportion by weight of a cellulosic or mica filler and a minor proportion by weight of a thermosetting resin, and (b) and (b') a pair of skin laminae coextensively secured to each face surface, respectively, of said central core (a), each of said skin laminae comprising a fibrous glass, asbestos or heat-stable synthetic polymer reinforcing filler, and a thermosetting resin impregnant, which thermosetting resin may either be the same as or different from the thermosetting resin comprising said central core member (a); and(B) an electrically conducting metal foil (c) coextensively adhered to the exposed face surface of one or the other of said skin laminae (b) or (b').

Abstract: The invention pertains to the field of packaging and to a coating composition composed of a polyvinyl alcohol solution and a polymer latex for imparting gas and flavor tight packaging.

Abstract: Rare earth glass-polishing compositions of improved homogeneity and reproducibility are prepared by (a) simultaneously continuously admixing a cerium salt solution, a basic solution and a solution of at least one acid and/or one salt, the anion or anions of which being adopted to form insoluble rare earth compounds, the number of equivalents of base being equal to or greater than the number of equivalents of cerium, and the pH of the reaction medium being greater than about 6; (b) filtering the precipitate which reuslts from the reaction medium; (c) drying said recovered precipitate; and (d) calcining said dried precipitate.

Abstract: A process for purifying sugarcane juices by contacting the juices to be purified in succession with a hydrophobic adsorbent, a supported strong anion exchange material or a hydrophobic adsorbent having anion exchanger groups, an anion exchange resin, and a cation exchange resin. The process may be used to purify low-grade sugar solutions. The process may be used in the sugar industries to obtain sugar syrups, sucrose, aconitic acid, and amino acids.

Abstract: Concentrated phosphoric acid and calcium sulfate hemihydrate are directly produced by sulfuric acid attack upon calcium phosphate, the improvements comprising (i) continuously conducting the acid attack reaction, with concomitant formation of crystalline calcium sulfate hemihydrate, in but a single, homogeneous liquid reaction medium comprising the products of reaction, (ii) maintaining constant the temperature of the reaction medium as to effect formation of hemihydrated calcium sulfate, (iii) controlling the amount of reactants introduced to the reaction medium such as to maintain essentially constant, in liquid phase, a determined sulfate ion content, said content being at least 5 g/l and said determined content increasing with decreasing concentrations of P.sub.2 O.sub.5 at a given temperature, and (iv) withdrawing a fraction of reaction effluent, including the concentrated phosphoric acid, and individually separating and recovering hemihydrated calcium sulfate from said reaction effluent fraction.

Abstract: The invention provides new cephalosporin derivatives of the general formula, ##STR1## which are in the form of a bicyclooct-2-ene or bicyclooct-3-ene, in which formula R.sub.1 is a radical of the general formula ##STR2## [in which R.sub.5 is hydrogen, alkyl, vinyl, cyanomethyl, protected carboxyalkyl or a protective radical and R.sub.6 is a protective radical] or an amino-protecting radical, R.sub.2 is an acid-protecting radical and R.degree. represents various organic radicals, or alternatively R.sub.1 is an amino-protecting radical or various acyl radicals, R.sub.2 is a protective radical and R.degree. represents various organic radicals, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are alkyl radicals optionally substituted by alkoxy or dialkylamino, or phenyl radicals, or --NR.sub.3 R.sub.4 forms a heterocyclic ring. These products are intermediates for the synthesis of cephalosporins having antibacterial activity.

Abstract: Novel imido copolymers are prepared by copolymerizing:[i] a bis-maleimide of the structural formula: ##STR1## with [ii] a (meth)acrylic acid amide.The subject copolymers are applicable to the production of a variety of useful shaped articles, coatings, laminates, foams, and the like.

Abstract: Novel imido copolymers are prepared by copolymerizing:[i] a bis-maleimide of the structural formula: ##STR1## [ii] an olefinically unsaturated comonomer copolymerizable therewith. The subject copolymers are applicable to the production of a variety of useful shaped articles, coatings, laminates, foams, and the like.

Abstract: Water-soluble (meth)acrylic acid/methallylsulfonate copolymers, containing less than 20% by weight of the methallylsulfonate comonomer, are well suited as scale inhibitors for aqueous environments, especially those comprising essentially equal amounts by weight of both acrylic and methacrylic acids.

Abstract: Novel polyoxaalkyl aminoalcohols, well adapted for the complexation/solubilization of a wide variety of cations, have the structural formula: ##STR1##

Abstract: An at least double silicate of an alkali metal and at least one other metal is prepared by interreacting (i) an aqueous solution of an alkali metal silicate and (ii) a solution of an oxide of such at least one other metal, or salt thereof, in the presence of (iii) a water-miscible polar organic liquid, whereby said at least double silicate is suspended in the organic reaction medium in insoluble and finely divided form. The separated product is an admirable glass-former.

Abstract: Phenols, including the polyhydric phenols, are selectively monoetherified with an alkyl or alkenyl carboxylate, or admixture of compounds adapted to in situ form such carboxylate, in the presence of a salt of a carboxylic acid.

Abstract: This invention relates to a continuous process for the preparation of trifluoromethylbenzenes from the corresponding trichloro- or tribromo-methylbenzenes with hydrofluoric acid. The process is characterized by passing an ascending stream of gaseous hydrofluoric acid, countercurrently through a plurality of mobile successive liquid layers of the trichloro- or tribromo-methylbenzenes.

Abstract: Citral is prepared by heating dehydrolinalol in the presence of a vanadium compound as catalyst and an alkanol of 12 to 18 carbon atoms as co-catalyst, whereby isomerization is effected. There may also be present an alkanol or cycloalkanol of 7 to 11 carbon atoms as co-catalyst.

Abstract: New unsaturated fatty alcohols of the formula: ##STR1## in which n=2 or 4 are provided and are prepared by the novel process of reacting butadiene with water in the presence of a palladium salt and orthoboric acid, B(OH).sub.3, in a polar aprotic solvent.

Abstract: The selective addition of a compound having an activated carbon atom onto the carbon atom in the 4-position of a buta-1,3-diene carrying a hydrocarbon substituent on the carbon atom in the 2-position is achieved by reacting the compound having the activated carbon atom with the buta-1,3-diene carrying the hydrocarbon substituent in water or in an aqueous-alcoholic mixture in the presence of a catalyst which consists of at least one water-soluble phosphine and at least one rhodium compound, the catalyst being in solution in the water or aqueous alcoholic mixture. The products obtained are useful as precursors of intermediates for the synthesis of vitamins and perfumes.

Abstract: A method of preparing alkaline difluoromethane sulfonates by reacting an alkali-metal sulfite of the formula M.sub.2 SO.sub.3, in which M represents an alkali-metal of column 1 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, with at least an equimolecular quantity of chlorodifluoromethane in aqueous medium, in an autoclave under autogenous pressure, characterized by the fact that the reaction is carried out in the presence of at least one strong alkali-metal base of the formula M'OH, in which M' represents an alkali-metal of column 1 of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Abstract: A metallized, laminated substrate well adapted for the production of printed circuits is comprised of:(A) an electrically insulating support element which comprises (a) a central core member comprising a major proportion by weight of a cellulosic or mica filler and a minor proportion by weight of a thermosetting resin, and (b) and (b') a pair of skin laminae coextensively secured to each face surface, respectively, of said central core (a) each of said skin laminae comprising a fibrous glass, asbestos or heat-stable synthetic polymer reinforcing filler, and a thermosetting resin impregnant, which thermosetting resin may either be the same as or different from the thermosetting resin comprising said central core member (a); and(B) an electrically conducting metal foil (c) coextensively adhered to the exposed face surface of one or the other of said skin laminae (b) or (b').

Abstract: Water-soluble (meth)acrylic acid/methallysulfonate copolymers, containing less than 20% by weight of the methallylsulfonate comonomer, are well suited as scale inhibitors for aqueous environments, especially those comprising essentially equal amounts by weight of both acrylic and methacrylic acids.

Abstract: Olefins are hydroformylated to aldehydes in the presence of a catalytic system comprising a rhodium containing, aqueous solution of certain sulfonated aryl phosphine compounds.