Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a catalyst comprising a fluorinated metal oxide is provided. A catalyst comprising a fluorinated metal oxide is provided. A catalytic hydrogenation process is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of aryliodonium and/or arylsulfonium salts of the tetrakis(perfluoro-t-butyloxy)aluminate anion of the following formula (I): as cationic initiators cleavable by light and/or free radicals for polymerizing cationically polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: Use of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are selected independently from each other from C1-C10 alkyl, which may be substituted by one or more F, or wherein R1 and R2 are linked and jointly selected from C2-C3 alkanediyl forming together with the group —OPO—a five- or six-membered heterocycle which may be substituted by one or more substituents selected from F and optionally fluorinated C1-C10 alkyl, as gelling agent in an aprotic organic solvent or solvent mixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of aryliodonium and/or arylsulfonium salts of the tetrakis(perfluoro-t-butyloxy)aluminate anion of the following formula (I): as cationic initiators cleavable by light and/or free radicals for polymerizing cationically polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a catalyst comprising a fluorinated metal oxide is provided. A catalyst comprising a fluorinated metal oxide is provided. A catalytic hydrogenation process is also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for ionization of a sample and mass separation of the ions by a mass spectrometer are disclosed herein.

Abstract: Use of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are selected independently from each other from C1-C10 alkyl, which may be substituted by one or more F, or wherein R1 and R2 are linked and jointly selected from C2-C3 alkanediyl forming together with the group -OPO- a five- or six-membered heterocycle which may be substituted by one or more substituents selected from F and optionally fluorinated C1-C10 alkyl, as gelling agent in an aprotic organic solvent or solvent mixture.

Abstract: Preparation of homo- or copolymers, especially of high-reactivity isobutene homo- or copolymers with a number-average molecular weight Mn of 400 to 1 000 000, by polymerizing one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the liquid phase in the presence of a dissolved, dispersed or supported catalyst complex based on a protic acid compound obtainable by reacting a reactive inorganic or organic pentavalent phosphorus compound with three equivalents of an organic alpha,beta-dihydroxy compound, for example a tris(oxalato)- or tris(ortho-phenylenedioxy)phosphoric acid stabilized by a dialkyl ether.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for simultaneous microstructuring and doping of semiconductor substrates with boron, in which the semiconductor substrate is treated with a laser beam coupled into a liquid jet, the liquid jet comprising at least one boron compound. The method according to the invention is used in the field of solar cell technology and also in other fields of semiconductor technology in which a locally delimited boron doping is important.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of salts of weakly coordinating anions of the type according to the following formula (1), (2) or (3): M[F—X(OR F)m]z (1), M[(FRO)mX—F—X(ORF)m]z (2), M[(FRO)mX—F—X(ORF)n—F—X(ORF)m]z (3), these salts of weakly coordinating anions and use thereof.

Abstract: Preparation of highly reactive isobutene homo- or copolymers having Mn=from 500 to 1 000 000 by polymerizing isobutene in the liquid phase in the presence of a dissolved, dispersed or supported metal-containing catalyst complex by using, as the catalyst complex, a compound I Zn+[MXa(OR)b]n?·Lx ??(I) M metal atom from the group of boron, aluminum, gallium, indium and thallium, R each independently aliphatic, heterocyclic or aromatic hydrocarbon radicals which have in each case from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and may comprise fluorine atoms, or silyl groups comprising C1 to C18 hydrocarbon radicals, X halogen atoms, Z proton (n=1), optionally substituted ammonium (n=1) or n-valent metal cation, L neutral solvent molecules, a integer from 0 to 3, b integer from 1 to 4, where a+b=4, and x?0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of salts of weakly coordinating anions of the type according to the following formula (1), (2) or (3): M[F—X(OR F)m]z (1), M[(FRO)mX—F—X(ORF)m]z (2), M[(FRO)mX—F—X(ORF)n—F—X(ORF)m]z (3), these salts of weakly coordinating anions and use thereof.