Abstract: Rare earth, uranium and thorium values are separated and recovered from aqueous solutions of the chlorides thereof, said aqueous solutions having an acidity of less than 2 N and a concentration in such values, expressed as the oxides thereof, of at least 50 g/l, by liquid-liquid extracting said aqueous solutions with an organic extractant comprising at least one neutral organophosphorus compound.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of phenyl ketones, characterized in that, in a first stage, a halo- or trihalomethylbenzene is reacted with a trihalomethylated aliphatic or aromatic compound in the presence of boron trifluoride in an amount such that the absolute pressure of boron trifluoride within the reaction vessel exceeds 1 bar, and in the presence of hydrofluoric acid as a solvent, and in that, in a second stage, the resultant product is hydrolyzed. The products are used as intermediates in the synthesis of compounds having a pharmaceutical or phytosanitary (e.g., herbicidal) activity.

Abstract: Latex of an interpolymer composed of (1) a copolymer A of butadiene, styrene and at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and (2) a polymer B of at least one halogenoalkyl or halogenoacetoxyalkyl ester of an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid, polymer B being at least partially grafted onto the copolymer A.The latex is prepared by the emulsion polymerization of butadiene, styrene and at least one copolymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid to form a copolymer latex, followed by the polymerization in the presence of the copolymer latex of a halogenoalkyl or halogenoacetoxyalkyl ester of an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid.The latex may be used as a binder in aqueous compositions for coating paper.

Abstract: Latex of an interpolymer composed of (1) a copolymer A of butadiene, styrene and at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and (2) a polymer B of a halogenohydroxyalkyl ester of an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid, polymer B being at least partially grafted onto the copolymer A. The latex is prepared by the emulsion polymerization of butadiene, styrene and at least one copolymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, followed by the polymerization, in the presence of the copolymer latex, of a halogenohydroxyalkyl ester of an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid. The latex may be used as a binder in aqueous compositions for coating paper.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of .alpha.,.alpha.-difluoroalkoxy or .alpha.,.alpha.-difluoroalkylthiophenyl ketones, in which a polyhaloalkoxybenzene or a polyhaloalkylthiobenzene is reacted with a carboxylic acid, a precursor or a derivative of this acid in the presence of boron trifluoride in such an amount that the absolute pressure of the boron trifluoride within the reaction vessel exceeds 1 bar, and in the presence of hydrofluoric acid as a solvent. The resultant products are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of compounds having phytosanitary (e.g., herbicidal) or pharmaceutical activity.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of latices of vinyl acetate/olefin copolymers. Vinyl acetate is copolymerized with at least one olefin and, if desired, at least one other copolymerizable monomer, in aqueous emulsion, in the presence of an initiator, an emulsifier and a protective colloid comprising a water-soluble polymer (a) containing at least one monomer of acrylamide, methacrylamide or substituted or unsubstituted N-alkyl derivatives of acrylamide or methacrylamide and a water-soluble polymer (b) of ethylene glycol having a molecular weight between 1,000 and 50,000. The latices may be applied as binders in the manufacture of paints, glues, paper, textiles, floor coverings and mortar additives.

Abstract: Alloys comprising titanium and aluminum, or titanium, aluminum and at least one of the metals M, wherein M is vanadium, zirconium, chromium, niobium, tantalum and/or iron, are facilely prepared by reducing an alkali metal fluotitanate, or coreducing admixture of an alkali metal fluotitanate and at least one halide of a metal M, with aluminum, in the presence of an alkali metal oxide reactive flux, either Na.sub.2 O and/or K.sub.2 O; next solubilizing with water the fluorine compounds of reduction/coreduction which are in admixture of reduction/coreduction with dispersion of the aforesaid metals in metallic state; separating said dispersion of metals in metallic state from said admixture of reduction/coreduction; and then alloying by melting and cooling said separated dispersion of metals in metallic state.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of di- or trifluoromethoxyphenyl ketones or di- or trifluoromethylthiophenyl ketones, characterized in that, in a first stage, a di- or trihalomethoxybenzene or a di- or trihalomethylthiobenzene is reacted with a trihalomethylated aromatic or aliphatic compound in the presence of boron trifluoride in an amount such that the absolute pressure of boron trifluoride within the reaction vessel exceeds 1 bar, and in the presence of hydrofluoric acid as a solvent and in that, in a second stage, the product of the first stage is hydrolyzed. The resultant products are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of compounds having a pharmaceutical or phytosanitary (e.g., herbicidal) activity.

Abstract: Aromatic/aliphatic nitriles having the formula:Ar--A--CN (I)wherein Ar is phenyl or substituted phenyl and A is a direct chemical bond or a hydrocarbon having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, are conveniently prepared by heating to a temperature ranging from about 450.degree. C. to about 550.degree. C. a formamide or formanilide having the formula:Ar--A--NHCHO (II)or an amide having the formula:Ar--A--CONH.sub.2 (III)in the presence of a fluorinated siliceous catalyst, said catalyst having been prepared by (i) impregnating a particulate silica prepared by the precipitation of sodium silicate with sulfuric acid, with a dilute aqueous solution of hydrofluoric acid, said hydrofluoric acid solution having a concentration in HF of less than about 5% by weight, and the ratio by weight of the hydrofluoric acid contained in said aqueous solution thereof to the silica being less than about 5%, followed by (ii) drying the catalyst thus impregnated.

Abstract: Aromatic/aliphatic nitriles having the formula:Ar--A--CN (I)wherein Ar is phenyl or substituted phenyl and A is a direct chemical bond or a hydrocarbon having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, are conveniently prepared by heating to a temperature ranging from about 450.degree. C. to about 550.degree. C. a formamide or formanilide having the formula:Ar--A--NHCHO (II)or an amide having the formulaAr--A--CONH.sub.2 (III)in the presence of a fluorinated siliceous catalyst, said catalyst having been prepared by (i) impregnating a particulate silica containing from about 0.05 to about 2% by weight of fluorine, expressed as F.sup.- bonded to the silica, with a dilute aqueous solution of hydrofluoric acid, said hydrofluoric acid solution having a concentration in HF of less than about 5% by weight, and the ratio by weight of the hydrofluoric acid contained in said aqueous solution thereof to the silica being less than about 5%, followed by (ii) drying the catalyst thus impregnated.

Abstract: Polysiloxanes of relatively low molecular weight are catalytically polymerized/rearranged into high molecular weight polysiloxanes in the presence of a cationic catalyst comprising a porous, inorganic mineral particulate support having an average pore diameter in excess of 20 .ANG. and a pore volume ranging from 0.2 to 2 ml/g, said porous support being coated with less than 15 mg/m.sup.2 of a film of polymeric material comprising pendant sulfonic or phosphonic acid functions, and said polymeric material being characterized by an ion exchange capacity of less than 2 milliequivalents per gram.

Abstract: Industrial waste gases containing objectionable/polluting compounds of sulfur, e.g., H.sub.2 S, SO.sub.2 and such organo-sulfur derivatives as COS, CS.sub.2 and mercaptans, are catalytically desulfurized, e.g., by Claus process, employing an improved catalyst comprising titanium dioxide and calcium, barium, strontium or magnesium sulfate.

Abstract: The meta-dihalobenzenes are selectively 2-chlorinated by reacting same with a chlorine donor, e.g., hexachlorobenzene or pentachlorobenzene, in the presence of at least one alkali metal amide, e.g., sodamide, and at least one compound which complexes the cation of such at least one alkali metal amide.

Abstract: Monomeric or polymeric isocyanurates, e.g., polyisocyanate/polyisocyanurates, are prepared by catalytically cyclotrimerizing an isocyanate, e.g., an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic isocyanate, in the presence of an aminosilyl catalysis initiator, e.g., a mono- or diaminosilane, a silylurea or a silazane, having the structural formula:R.sub.(4-n) Si--NR'R"].sub.n (I)wherein R is a saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aryl, aralkyl or alkylaryl monovalent hydrocarbon radical, or halo or cyano substituted such radical, and further wherein any two radicals R may together form a single divalent such hydrocarbon radical; R' is R, SiR.sub.3 or an amido radical having the structural formula: ##STR1## wherein R'" is R or SiR.sub.3, with R being as above defined, and further wherein R', when R' is neither the amido radical nor SiR.sub.

Abstract: Silane, a useful intermediate in the production of silicon, is facilely quantitatively prepared by hydrogenating chlorosilanes in a bath of molten salts, said molten bath comprising a ternary mixture of lithium chloride and two other metal chlorides, such two other metal chlorides being either two different alkaline earth metal chlorides, or one alkaline earth metal chloride and one alkali metal chloride, or two different alkali metal chlorides, and said ternary mixture having a melting point not in excess of about 400.degree. C.

Abstract: The dismutation/redistribution of halogenosilanes into silane is carried out by contacting at least one halogenosilane comprising at least one Si-H function with a compound comprising at least one .alpha.-oxoamine group, then by contacting the products of such reaction with a compound also comprising at least one .alpha.-oxoamine group, to selectively dissolve all products of reaction except for the silane therein, and then separating the desired silane therefrom.

Abstract: Solventless organopolysiloxane compositions are well adopted as coating/impregnating materials for a wide variety of substrates to provide, e.g., water repellant/solvent resistant gaskets and various substrates possessing enhanced non-stick characteristics, are comprised of (i) an .alpha.,.omega.-dihydroxypolydiorganopolysiloxane having a viscosity, measured at 25.degree. C., ranging from 5 to 100,000 mPa.s and consisting essentially of recurring units of the formula Z.sub.2 SiO (ii) a polyorganopolysiloxane having from 1.60 to 1.90 organic radicals per silicon atom, having a viscosity ranging from 30 mPa.s at 25.degree. C. to 3,000 mPa.s at 25.degree. C., having from 0.2 to 10% of hydroxyl groups and consisting essentially of the recurring units RSiO.sub.1.5, R.sub.2 SiO and R.sub.3 SiO.sub.0.5 (iii) a crosslinking agent containing a polyalkoxysilyl group; and (iv) a catalytically effective amount of an organic iron or zirconium catalyst soluble in the organopolysiloxane medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of pyridine and substituted pyridines, in the vapor phase. These compounds are obtained by heating, at a temperature of 200.degree. to 500.degree. C., in the vapor phase:piperidine or piperidine substituted by one or more lower alkyl radicals;1,5-diaminopentane;1,5-diaminopentane containing, in its hydrocarbon part, from 1 to 3 linear or branched alkyl radicals having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; orcompounds such as: N,N'-bis-(piperidin-2-yl)hydrazines,in the presence of a catalyst consisting of palladium, platinum or ruthenium deposited on a macroporous solid.The products obtained by the process according to the invention have various uses. Pyridine is used in particular as a solvent. .beta.-Picoline (or 3-methylpyridine) is used for the preparation of nicotinic acid or nicotinamide, used in pharmacy and in nutrition.