Abstract: The present invention addresses the challenges of making water stable granules and/or water stable tablets without the use of a binder or heat. Disclosed herein are methods of forming water stable granules and/or water stable tablets, their composition and methods of their use.

Abstract: The use of a mixture comprising (A) 5 to 95% by weight of at least one oil-soluble polar nitrogen compound which can interact with paraffin crystals in middle distillate fuels under cold conditions, and (B) 5 to 95% by weight of at least one oil-soluble aliphatic compound with an alkyl or alkenyl chain having at least 8 carbon atoms, obtainable from aliphatic mono- or dicarboxylic acids having 4 to 300 carbon atoms or derivatives thereof with mono- or polyamines or with alcohols, for lowering the cloud point in middle distillate fuels which, before the addition of additives, have a CP of ?8.0° C. or lower by at least 1.5° C. compared to the unadditized middle distillate fuel at a dosage of the mixture of 50 to 300 ppm by weight, with no simultaneous deterioration in the response behavior for the lowering of the cold filter plugging point on addition of cold flow improvers.

Abstract: In a process for the accelerated reduction of organic substrates, selected from the group consisting of esters, amides, nitriles, acids, ketones, imines or mixtures thereof, they are reacted with an amine borane, sulfide borane or ether borane complex as a borane source in the presence of organic accelerator compounds containing either Lewis acidic or Lewis basic sites in their structure, of which the Lewis acidic site can coordinate with the carbonyl or nitrile or imine group of the substrate or the Lewis basic site can coordinate with the borane.

Abstract: The use of a mixture comprising (A) 5 to 95% by weight of at least one oil-soluble polar nitrogen compound which can interact with paraffin crystals in middle distillate fuels under cold conditions, and (B) 5 to 95% by weight of at least one oil-soluble aliphatic compound with an alkyl or alkenyl chain having at least 8 carbon atoms, obtainable from aliphatic mono- or dicarboxylic acids having 4 to 300 carbon atoms or derivatives thereof with mono- or polyamines or with alcohols, for lowering the cloud point in middle distillate fuels which, before the addition of additives, have a CP of ?8.0° C. or lower by at least 1.5° C. compared to the unadditized middle distillate fuel at a dosage of the mixture of 50 to 300 ppm by weight, with no simultaneous deterioration in the response behavior for the lowering of the cold filter plugging point on addition of cold flow improvers.

Abstract: A process for producing a 1,3,2-dioxaborinane compound of the general formula (I) in which each R individually is selected from the group consisting of H and C1-8-alkyl, by reacting a diol of the general formula (II) HO—CRR—CRR—CRR—OH ??(II) with diborane is performed without using a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a borane ether complex of the formula 1, wherein R1 to R4 represent independently from each other hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl or a substituent of the formula CH2OR5, wherein R5 is C1-C4-alkyl or C3-C6-cycloalkyl, or two adjacent substituents R1 to R4 together are a divalent group selected from the group consisting of —CH2CH2—, —CH(CH3)CH2—, —CH2CH2CH2—, —CH(CH3)CH(CH3)—, —CH(CH2CH3)CH2—, —C(CH3)2C(CH3)2—, —CH2C(CH3)2CH2— and —(CH2)6— to form with the —CH—CH— moiety of the tetrahydrofuran ring a cyclic structure, with the provision that at least one of the substituents R1 to R4 is not hydrogen. The invention also relates to a method of using new borane complexes with substituted tetrahydrofuran ethers for organic reactions.

Abstract: In a process for the accelerated reduction of organic substrates, selected from the group consisting of esters, amides, nitriles, acids, ketones, imines or mixtures thereof, they are reacted with an amine borane, sulfide borane or ether borane complex as a borane source in the presence of organic accelerator compounds containing either Lewis acidic or Lewis basic sites in their structure, of which the Lewis acidic site can coordinate with the carbonyl or nitrile or imine group of the substrate or the Lewis basic site can coordinate with the borane.