Abstract: Disclosed herein is a game ball, such as a golf ball, having an indicia formed from a UV curable ink. An ink composition and a method for applying an indicia to a game ball also are disclosed. The UV curable ink has excellent pad transfer properties and durability.

Abstract: Benzoylguanidines substituted by heterocyclic N-oxide, process for their preparation, their use as a medicament or diagnostic agent, medicament containing them and intermediate products for their preparationBenzoylguanidines of the formula I ##STR1## with the meanings given in the text for the substituents, are described. These are compounds which have an outstanding activity on the cardiovascular system.

Abstract: A process for preparing acetic acid from methanol and carbon monoxide or a mixed gas of carbon monoxide with hydrogen, which process comprises contacting methanol with a gaseous component selected from a group consisting of carbon monoxide and a mixed gas of carbon monoxide with hydrogen of 2% by volume or less in the presence of a carbon-supported rhodium metal catalyst and methyl iodide promoter in vapor phase under the conditions of a reaction temperature of 180.degree.-220.degree. C., a reaction pressure of 5-10 kg/cm.sup.2 .multidot.G, and a weight of catalyst to feed gas flow rate ratio (W/F) of 10-20 g.multidot.h/mole; and a process for preparing acetic acid from methanol and carbon monoxide, which process comprises contacting methanol with carbon monoxide in the presence of a carbon-supported rhodium metal catalyst, methyl iodide promoter and water in vapor phase.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of enriched reaction mixtures containing 2,2'-oxydisuccinate (alkaline earth metal salts) is disclosed, by pH reduction and removal of alkaline earth metal malates.

Abstract: The synthesis and compound of a new caged calcium which is an ortho-nitrophenyl derivative of EGTA and various intermediates. It is synthesized in ten steps and 24% overall yield. The photosensitive chelator, nitrophenyl-EGTA, has a K.sub.d for Ca.sup.2+ of 80 nM and for Mg.sup.2+ of 8.8 mM. Upon exposure to ultra-violet light (in the region of 350 nm), the chelator is cleaved, yielding iminodiacetic acid photoproducts with known low Ca-affinity (K.sub.d =1 mM). The quantum yield of photolysis of nitrophenyl-EGTA in the presence of Ca.sup.a+ is 0.23 and in the absence of Ca.sup.2+ is 0.20. In experiments with chemically skinned skeletal muscle fibers, a fully relaxed fiber equilibrated with nitrophenyl-EGTA:Ca.sup.2+ complex, in the presence of physiological [Mg.sup.2+ ] (i.e. 1.0 mM), produced maximal contraction after a single flash from a frequency doubled ruby laser (347 nm). Half-maximal tension was achieved in 18 ms at 15.degree. C.

Abstract: The present invention provides inhibitors of kynureninase having the formula ##STR1## where X is CHOH, S, SO.sub.2, SO, SONH.sub.2, PO.sub.2 H or PONH.sub.2, R.sub.a and R.sub.b, independently of one another are H, a halogen, CF.sub.3 or a small alkyl group having one to three carbon atoms; R.sub.1 is H, NH.sub.2, NR.sub.6 RT, NO.sub.2, halogen, CF.sub.3 or a small alkyl group having from one to three carbon atoms, wherein: R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, independently of one another, are H, a formyl group or a small alkyl group having from one to three carbon atoms with the exception that only one of R.sub.6 or R.sub.7 can be a formyl group; R.sub.2 is OH, H, halogen, CF.sub.3 or a small alkyl group having from one to three carbon atoms; and R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5, independently of one another, are H, halogen, CF.sub.3, NO.sub.2, NH.sub.2, or small alkyl group having from one to three carbon atoms. In particular, compounds of this formula in which X is CHOH, S or SO.sub.2 are provided.

Abstract: A catalyst for synthesizing a carbonic diester includes at least one copper compound selected from among copper oxides, copper hydroxides, a salt of copper with a weak acid consisting of the elements other than halogen such as copper borates, and complexes or complex salts consisting of the elements other than halogen and formed with copper or a copper compound a and ligand. The catalyst has a high activity, a high reaction selectivity and excellent stability with a minimal risk of corroding equipment. The catalyst can include, as a co-catalyst component, a platinum-group metal such as palladium or a halogen-free platinum-group metal compound such as palladium acetate. The catalyst component may be supported on a carrier, for example, an activated carbon. A carbonic diester is advantageously produced by allowing an alcohol to react with carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of the catalyst.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for obtaining 10-deacetylbaccatin III from various parts of yew (Taxus sp.) by extraction and selective crystallization starting with a methanolic extract of the vegetable matter.

Abstract: A phospholipid composition which satisfies the following requirements (i) and (ii):(i) a weight ratio of a nitrogen-containing phospholipid to the sum of a phospholipid, a glycolipid and a sterol derivative of less than 0.5; and(ii) a ratio of an area of a high-polar substance on a silica gel thin-layer chromatogram to the sum of areas of a phospholipid, a glycolipid and a sterol derivative on a silica gel thin-layer chromatogram of less than 500 area/.mu.g. A fat and oil composition containing from 0.001 to 30% by weight of the phospholipid composition is also disclosed. The present invention enables the blending of phospholipids with a frying oil, which has been considered difficult since it causes heat coloration. Thus a fat and oil composition, which is excellent in mold-release characteristics during cooking, has a good smell during heating, suffers from no coloration of oil after heating and shows a good flavor, can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for refining glyceride oil comprising a neutralization treatment in which alkali is mixed into crude or water degummed glyceride oil and a separation treatment in which the soapstock formed is separated from the glyceride oil by subjecting the oil to two centrifugal separators in series, in which at least 1 wt. % of the oil passes through both separators twice.

Abstract: An oleophilic molybdenum compound comprising an aliphatic amine group and a heteropolyanion group containing at least one molybdenum atom as a polyatom is disclosed. The oleophilic molybdenum compound is a catalyst precursor capable of being changed, in the hydroconversion reaction system, to a catalyst having excellent catalytic activity in hydroconversion of a hydrocarbon feedstock to a hydrocarbon product having a decreased molecular weight. The oleophilic molybdenum compound is efficiently produced from an aliphatic amine and a heteropolyacid.

Abstract: A process for the asymmetric reduction of carboxylic acids of the formula ##STR1## or the amine salts thereof, where R and R.sub.1 are the same or different and are hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl or haloalkyl and Ar is aryl or substituted aryl is disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to radiation curable alk-1-enyloxy carbonate reaction products of a polyhydroxylated compound having the formula ROH and a dialk-1-enyloxy carbonate having the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a C.sub.3 to C.sub.50 saturated or unsaturated, linear, branched or cyclic polyhydroxylated hydrocarbon radical optionally substituted with halo, alkoxy, lower alkyl, cyano or nitro;R' is hydrogen or lower alkylB is a linear, branched or cyclic divalent radical having from 2 to 12 carbon atoms and is selected from the group of alkylene, mono- or poly- alkoxylated alkylene, alkenylene, alkynylene, arylene, alkarylene and aralkylene radicals, which radicals are optionally substituted with halo, lower alkyl, cyano, nitro or alkoxy and m has a value of from 1 to 10.

Abstract: A fractionation process of a methylene bridged polyphenylene polyisocyanate mixture obtained by phosgenating condensation product of aniline and formaldehyde is disclosed.In order to apply the above mixture to a variety of uses, the process separates the mixture into fractions by giving primary attention to the content of 4,4'-and 2,4'-isomer of diphenylmethane diisocyanate and at the same time reduces the content of impurities having acidity and hydrolyzable chlorine.

Abstract: A process for selectively hardening a surface layer of a polymeric photoresist to make such surface layer opaque and insoluble in photoresist carrier solvents, where such selectivity is coextensive with the polymeric/monomeric pattern created in the photoresist. Representative hardening processes include controlled exposure to certain gas plasmas, ion bombardment, or irradiation by ultraviolet radiation of chosen wavelength range. The selectively hardened polymeric regions act as a barrier to the carrier solvent in which the polymer film is laid down and to the developer subsequently employed to remove the monomeric regions. The hardened polymeric regions further exhibit an actinic radiation barrier property preventing radiation depolymerization. In one form the process may be used in a two-layer photoresist structure, where the pinhole-covering thicker second layer is laid down and exposed before developing the monomeric regions of the thinner first layer.

Abstract: Printed wiring boards have a first liquid photopolymer layer placed on the wiring board conductive layer over which a second photopolymer layer is laminated and both layers are photo cured in place to bond the two layers together and adhere them to the board. The liquid photopolymer layer covers wiring pattern ridges or other uneven surfaces in air free surface contact. The second layer is carried by a thin transparent plastic film for lamination onto the first photopolymer layer by a squeegee, and the plastic film is peeled off for reuse in further cycles. The carrying film is preferably pivotable in a clamshell arrangement to permit the photopolymer layer to be placed on the film and then to be laminated in two pivot positions. To prevent starvation of the liquid polymer from wiring ridges when the second layer is laminated thereon, the second layer is carried on a contoured surface with a complementary pattern to the wiring ridge pattern.