Abstract: Trace impurities such as allyl methacrylate and methacrylic acid are removed by contacting methacrylamidopropyltrimethylammonium chloride with a hydrophobic/organophilic microporous crystalline silica.

Abstract: Processes for preparing the useful intermediates having the formula ##STR1## are disclosed herein, utilizing novel chemical compounds having the formula ##STR2##

Abstract: This invention is directed to compositions of the developer-coupler type of the dyeing of hair consisting essentially of bis-(2,4-diaminophenyl)-alkanes or salts thereof as coupling components and, as developer components, the conventional components used in oxidation dyes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of N,N'-bis-salicyloyl hydrazine by a catalytic reaction of salicylic-acid alkyl esters with hydrazine or salicylic-acid hydrazide and has the object to develop such a method in such a manner that not only an N,N'-bis-salicyloyl hydrazine with reduced eye irritation is obtained, but wherein the product is also produced with a high yield and purity. For this purpose, the invention provides that hydrazine or salicylic-acid hydrazide is heated with a 1-to-10 times excess of salicylic-acid alkyl ester in the presence of a halogenide, hydroxide or oxide of boron, aluminum or zinc to temperatures of up to 150.degree. C. The N,N'-bis-salicyloyl hydrazine prepared by the method according to the invention is suitable particularly as an additive to polymers for cable and wire insulation in power and communication engineering.

Abstract: Polychlorobenzenes are isomerized/rearranged, by reacting (i) at least one tetrachlorobenzene, or at least one tetrachlorobenzene in admixture with at least one trichlorobenzene, pentachlorobenzene and/or hexachlorobenzene, or (ii) pentachlorobenzene, or pentachlorobenzene in admixture with at least one trichlorobenzene and/or hexachlorobenzene, or (iii) hexachlorobenzene, or hexachlorobenzene in admixture with at least one trichlorobenzene and/or dichlorobenzene, with at least one alkali metal amide, or at least one alkali metal alcoholate, or admixture thereof, said reaction being conducted in the presence of an agent which complexes the cation of the amide, alcoholate, or admixture thereof.

Abstract: N-(.alpha.,.alpha.-dialkylbenzyl)-phenylacetamide compounds represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein each of X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 is a halogen atom, an alkyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, an alkoxyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R.sub.1 is an alkoxyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R.sub.2 is an alkyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and alkoxyalkyl group containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, an allyl group or a hydrogen atom; each of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is an alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and each of m and n is an integer of 1-3. This invention also provides herbicidal compositions comprising at least one of said compounds and a carrier.

Abstract: 3-Aryloxy-3-phenylpropylamines and acid addition salts thereof are useful in blocking uptake of monoamines by brain neurons, and are thus effective in treating disorders of sleep, sexual performance, appetite, muscular function, and pituitary function.

Abstract: The new compound ##STR1## is prepared and converted to the new acetal ##STR2## which is reacted with an alkali phenolate or alkaline earth metal phenolate in the presence of copper or a copper compound as a catalyst and in the presence of a diluent at a temperature between about 100.degree. and 200.degree. C. to produce the new acetal ##STR3## which can be hydrolyzed to the corresponding aldehyde which is a known intermediate for pyrethroid-like insecticides.

Abstract: Novel benzoxazocines of formula (I) ##STR1## and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts, wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, or one or more halogen, trifluoromethyl, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro, amino acylamino, mono- or di- (lower)alkyl-amino or cyano substituents, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each represent hydrogen or lower alkyl or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together represent --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --or --(CH.sub.2).sub.4 --, R.sup.5 represents hydrogen, lower alkyl, phenyl(lower)alkyl or cycloalkyl(lower)alkyl, and Ar is a phenyl radical optionally substituted by one or more halogen, trifluoromethyl, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro or amino groups exhibit activity on the central nervous system, particularly as antidepressants. The compounds can be prepared from novel alcohols of formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and Ar are as defined above and X is fluorine, chlorine or bromine.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to 1-p-aminoalkoxy phenyl-1-p-hydroxyphenyl-2-phenylalk-1-ene derivatives, processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The compounds possess anti-oestrogenic activity and are useful in the treatment of anovulatory infertility and the breast tumors. Representative of the compounds disclosed is 1-(p-.beta.-dimethylaminoethoxyphenyl)-trans-1-p-hydroxyphenyl-2-p-tolylbu t-1-ene.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds of the formula ##STR1## Z' is chlorine or fluorine, with the proviso that Z' is chlorine when Q is the moiety of Formula III. The invention also relates to the preparation of the compounds, their use in controlling animal pests in plant protection, and pesticidal agents comprising the compounds as active ingredients.

Abstract: Optical filter agents and photographic products and processes using same are disclosed. The optical filter agents are pH-sensitive hydrazone compounds conforming to the following structural formula: ##STR1## where R is any group which can provide a double bond for conjugation with the ##STR2## portion of the compound to provide light-absorbing capability or color for the agent at a pH above its pKa, X is a substituent of R providing at least one electron-withdrawing group and each R' can be defined as any substituent that does not impair the light-absorbing capacity of the compound at a pH above the pKa thereof. The pH-sensitive optical filter agents have a highly colored light-absorbing form at a pH above the pKa and are substantially non-absorbing at a pH below the pKa. The pH-sensitive optical filter agents are useful in photographic film units and processes for the protection of photoexposed photosensitive elements against the occurrence of fogging during in-light development.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing 2'-methyl-2-haloacetanilides by selective catalytic hydrogenation of 2'-(halomethyl)-2-haloacetanilides. The 2'-(halomethyl)-2-haloacetanilides are initially prepared by reacting an ortho-(halomethyl) aniline or its anilinium salt with a haloacetyl halide.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for the production of 3-amino-4,6-diacetyl phenol, or a derivative thereof, which comprises reacting a compound of formula III, ##STR1## or a protected derivative thereof, in which R is acetyl or hydrogen, with an excess of acetyl chloride or acetyl bromide and aluminium chloride or aluminium bromide at a temperature of from 30.degree. to 50.degree. C. in an halogenated hydrocarbon solvent.

Abstract: The invention relates to new aminopropanol derivatives of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is halogen, trihalomethyl, alkoxy having from one to 3 carbon atoms or alkyl having from one to 3 carbon atoms,R.sub.2 is alkyl having from one to 3 carbon atoms, andR.sub.3 is cycloalkyl having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, orR.sub.2 and R.sub.3 together with the nitrogen they are attached to form an up to 8 membered ring optionally containing oxygen or a further nitrogen as an additional hetero atom, and optionally substituted with alkyl having from one to 4 carbon atoms or benzyl,and acid addition and quaternary ammonium salts thereof.According to another aspect of the invention there are provided processes for the preparation of these compounds.The new compounds are suitable for the treatment of acute ethanolic intoxication. Pharmaceutical compositions containing them are also within the scope of the invention.

Abstract: Preparation of 3,3'- or 3,4'-diaminobenzophenone by nitrating a chloronitrobenzophenone mixture obtained by the Friedel-Crafts reaction between 3- or 4-nitrobenzoyl chloride and chlorobenzene, and catalytically reducing and dechlorinating the resulting chlorodinitrobenzophenone mixture in the presence of a reduction catalyst and a dehydrochlorinating agent.

Abstract: A process for isolating liquid urea and its thermal decomposition products from the off-gas of melamine synthesis, which gas has been freed from melamine by fractional condensation and then been washed with molten urea, wherein the off-gas, containing 2-10 kg of melt per kg of pure gas, is passed at 8-30 m/sec tangentially into the upper part of an axially symmetrical separation zone. As a result of the rotation imparted to the gas/liquid mixture, the two phases are separated from one another, and both pass downward through the separation zone. The gas and liquid are separately taken off at the bottom end of the separation zone. The residence time of the gas mixture in the separation zone is not less than 0.5 second.

Abstract: Nitrodiarylamines, useful as intermediates, are produced by combining a formyl derivative of an aromatic primary amine with a nitrohaloarene, at condensation temperature for forming nitrodiarylamine, and adding an alkoxide or cycloalkoxide of an alkali metal, excluding lithium.

Abstract: N-substituted acrylamide or methacrylamide derivatives of the general formula ##STR1## where m is 0 or 1, n is 1, 2, 3 or 4, n-m is 1, 2, 3 or 4, X is Br or Cl, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each CH.sub.3 or H, are prepared by reacting an aromatic haloalkyl compound with N-methylolacrylamide or N-methylolmethacrylamide in the presence of a strong acid.

Abstract: New dopamine derivatives are disclosed, which are tertiary amines and which exhibit especially dopaminergic properties, and which have the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 signifies an alkyl group containing at least 4 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or a phenylalkyl group and R.sub.2 signifies an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or a phenylalkyl group.