Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of supplementing the catalyst in continuous hydroformylation during ongoing operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of supplementing the catalyst in continuous hydroformylation during ongoing operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an alcohol mixture which substantively comprises alcohols having 13 or 15 carbon atoms, to a process for its preparation, to a process for functionalizing these alcohol mixtures, and to the resultant functionalized alcohol mixtures and their use.

Abstract: The invention relates to phosphacyclohexanes of general formulae I and II, wherein the following designations, among others, apply: R can represent hydrogen, C1-100-alkyl, C7-20-aralkyl, C7-20-alkaryl, and C6-12-aryl: R1 to R10 can independently represent hydrogen, C1-20-alkyl, C7-20-aralkyl, C7-20-alkaryl, and C6-12-aryl: W, W? can independently represent single bonds or bridges comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which can form part of a cyclic or aromatic group and can be interrupted by heteroatoms. Said phosphacyclohexanes are used as ligands in transition metal complexes of transition metals belonging to groups VIII to X of the periodic table.

Abstract: A process for preparing a C13-alcohol mixture comprises a) bringing a butene-containing C4-hydrocarbon stream containing less than 5% by weight, based on the butene fraction, of isobutene into contact with a nickel-containing heterogeneous catalyst at elevated temperature, b) isolating a C12-olefin fraction from the reaction mixture, c) hydroformylating the C12-olefin fraction by reaction with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a cobalt catalyst and d) hydrogenating the product from c). The alcohol mixture is suitable for preparing surfactants by alkoxylation, glycosidation, sulfation, phosphation, alkoxylation and subsequent sulfation or alkoxylation and subsequent phosphation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst system for carbonylating olefinically or acetylenically unsaturated compounds with carbon monoxide and a nucleophile compound, containing (a) palladium; (b) a phosphine and (c) a polymer containing nitrogen which is soluble in the reaction mixture, with the exception of polyvinyl polymers with aromatic radicals containing nitrogen on the polymer chain. The invention also relates to a method for carbonylation in the presence of one such catalyst system.

Abstract: The invention relates to phosphacyclohexanes of general formulae I and II, wherein the following designations, among others, apply: R can represent hydrogen, C1-100-alkyl, C7-20-aralkyl, C7-20-alkaryl, and C6-12-aryl: R1 to R10 can independently represent hydrogen, C1-20-alkyl, C7-20-aralkyl, C7-20-alkaryl, and C6-12-aryl: W, W′ can independently represent single bonds or bridges comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which can form part of a cyclic or aromatic group and can be interrupted by heteroatoms. Said phosphacyclohexanes are used as ligands in transition metal complexes of transition metals belonging to groups VIII to X of the periodic table.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an alcohol mixture which substantively comprises alcohols having 13 or 15 carbon atoms, to a process for its preparation, to a process for functionalizing these alcohol mixtures, and to the resultant functionalized alcohol mixtures and their use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst system for carbonylating olefinically or acetylenically unsaturated compounds with carbon monoxide and a nucleophile compound, containing (a) palladium; (b) a phosphine and (c) a polymer containing nitrogen which is soluble in the reaction mixture, with the exception of polyvinyl polymers with aromatic radicals containing nitrogen on the polymer chain. The invention also relates to a method for carbonylation in the presence of one such catalyst system.

Abstract: The mixture described is a mixture of isomeric nonanol diesters of a dicarboxylic acid, selected from the class consisting of a mixture of diesters of adipic acid in the 1H NMR spectrum of which, observed in CDCl3, the ratio of the area under the resonance signals at chemical shifts in the range from 1.0 to 2.0 ppm with respect to TMS to the area under the resonance signals at chemical shifts in the range from 0.5 to 1.0 ppm with respect to TMS is from 1.20 to 5.00 and a mixture of diesters of phthalic acid, in the 1H NMR spectrum of which, observed in CDCl3, the ratio of the area under the resonance signals at chemical shifts in the range from 1.1 to 3.0 ppm with respect to TMS to the area under the resonance signals at chemical shifts in the range from 0.5 to 1.1 ppm with respect to TMS is from 1.00 to 4.00.

Abstract: A process for selectively hydrogenating ethylenically unsaturated double bonds in polymers P involves reacting the polymers P with hydrogen in the presence of at least one hydrogenation catalyst selected from the salts and complex compounds of rhodium and/or of ruthenium in an aqueous dispersion of the polymers P that comprises not more than 20% by volume of an organic solvent. This process can be used to give hydrogenated polymer dispersions and, from these dispersions, polymers. Also claimed are aqueous polymer dispersions comprising polymers P′, which include structural units I, II and III as in claim 10, with or without structural units IV and/or V as in claim 11.

Abstract: Functionalized cyclopentene-derived oligomer mixtures are prepared by reacting oligomer mixtures which contain ethyleneic double bonds in one or more reaction steps starting from cyclopentene-derived oligomer mixtures of the formula I R1R2C═[═CH—(CH2)3—CH═]n═CR3R4  (I) where n is an integer from 1 to 15, and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are, independently of one another, hydrogen or alkyl, and are used as described.

Abstract: Process for preparing compounds of the formula I in which R is alkyl or aryl, in each case unsubstituted or substituted, R3 is hydrogen, alkyl or aryl, in each case unsubstituted or substituted, and X═O or NH, which comprises reacting an aldehyde R—CHO with CO and a compound of the formula II in which R2 is a group which reacts with a —CO2H group, which is formed during the reaction, with ring-closure to give compounds of the formula I, in the presence of a transition metal catalyst described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of aldehydes or aldehydes and alcohols by hydroformylation of olefins in the presence of a complexing catalyst homogeneously dissolved in a reaction mixture, containing a metal of Group VIIIa of the periodic table of the elements and a phosphorus-free, polydentate nitrogen compound suitable for complex formation as ligand at temperatures ranging from 50 to 100° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition featuring increased solids contents, which comprises at least one polyol I obtainable by subjecting at least one oligomer of the general formula I R1R2C═[═CH—R—CH═]n—CR3R4  (I) in which R=—(—CH2—)m—, in which the index m is an integer from 2 to 6, or in which X=—CH2— or an oxygen atom R1,R2,R3 and R4 independently of one another=hydrogen atoms or alkyl; and the index n=an integer from 1 to 15; to hydroformylation and reducing the resultant aldehyde-functional products I to give the polyols I, which, if desired, are subjected to partial or complete hydrogenation.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of phosphabenzene compounds of the formulae I and II where R1 to R6, independently of one another, are hydrogen, COOM SO3M, NR3X, NR2, OR, COOR or SR, where M is hydrogen, NH4 or an alkali metal, X is an anion, R is hydrogen, C1-6-alkyl, or C1-12-alkyl, C6-12-aryl, C7-12-aralkyl or C3-6-heterocycloalkyl having 1 to 3 heteroatoms which may be substituted by the above radicals or linked to form fused rings, and —W— is a bridge comprising a covalent bond, an oxo group, a sulfur group, an amino group, a di-C1-6-alkylsilicon group or a C1-16-radial, which may be part of one or more linked cyclic or aromatic rings and may be interrupted by 1 to 3 heteroatoms, where the phosphabenzene ring o- or m-position not bonded to the bridge may carry one of the radicals R1 to R6, with the exception of bis-3,3′-(2,4,6-triphenyl-3-phosphabenzene)-1,1-biphenyl, by reacting corresponding pyrilium salts with PH3 in the presence of a catalytic amount of acid and in

Abstract: Graft copolymers are obtainable bya) reacting vinylaromatic compounds with conjugated dienes to form polymers A) which contain C.dbd.C double bonds,b) hydroformylating C.dbd.C double bonds present in the polymer A) in the presence of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and a hydroformylation catalyst to form a polymer B),c) isolating the partially or completely hydroformylated polymer B),d) carrying out a C--C-coupling reaction on the formyl groups of the polymer B) with incorporation of a vinylaromatic unit to form a polymer C) ande) reacting the polymer C) with vinylaromatic compounds in the presence of a metallocene catalyst system.

Abstract: Polymers containing ethylenically unsaturated double bonds are hydroformylated by reacting aqueous dispersions of the polymers with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of suitable hydroformylation catalysts.Also provided are the polymer dispersions obtainable by this process and the hydroformylated polymers themselves.