Abstract: A description is given of coating compositions comprising at least one strongly basic agent to set a pH of at least 10, at least one selected vinyl ester copolymer, if desired, pigment and/or filler, and, if desired, further additives customary per se. The coating compositions can be stored without use of additional preservatives and can be used to coat substrates of all kinds.

Abstract: A description is given of coating compositions comprising at least one pigment and/or filler and at least one aqueous dispersion of a selected emulsifier-stabilized vinyl ester copolymer which comprises as its stabilizer a mixture of at least one nonionic emulsifier and at least one salt of a bisester of a sulfonated dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 8 carbon atoms. The coating compositions formulated with these binders feature high scrub resistance.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-dilutable binding agents and coating agents with particularly quick drying surfaces. The invention also relates to a method for the production and use thereof. The water-dilutable binding agents are based on polymer dispersions, which are characterized in that they contain at least one poly acid/polyvinylpyrrolidone complex and optionally one or several water-soluble zircon compounds. The inventive binding agents have a quick drying surface and are suitable for use in the production of primers, paints and plasters with quick drying surfaces or quick-acting wash-fastness.

Abstract: Food coating composition comprising protective-colloid-stabilized polyacrylate dispersions, use thereof and coated foods produced therewith A description is given of food coating compositions comprising a) a plastics dispersion or a mixture of plastics dispersions comprising at least one homo- or copolymer poly(meth)acrylate having at least 55% by weight (meth)acrylate monomer units and also 0.1 to 30% by weight of at least one protective colloid, and also b) aids and/or additives used for producing food coatings. The coatings are distinguished by sufficiently high water vapor transmission rates, low water absorption capacity and also low reemulsification capacity and have good mechanical properties in the moist state.

Abstract: High-solids aqueous polymer dispersions, their preparation and use A description is given of an aqueous polymer dispersion derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and with a solids content of at least 60% by weight, based on the polymer dispersion. The polymer dispersion comprises at least one salt of a phosphorus acid. The preparation takes place by free-radical emulsion polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer in aqueous phase in the presence of at least one emulsifier, at least one initiator and at least one salt of a phosphorus acid. With the process it is possible to prepare aqueous polymer dispersions having a high solids content in combination with a low viscosity, these polymer dispersions being suitable for formulating adhesives.

Abstract: Fluoroalkyl-modified organosilanes, processes for preparing them, and their use, particularly in coating compositions for the purpose of reducing the soiling tendency of said compositions The present invention relates to organosilanes of the general formula (I) where R is a fluorinated or partly fluorinated alkyl radical of the formula CnZ2n+1(CH2)m—, with n?1, m?1, and Z either a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, with the proviso that at least one Z is a fluorine atom, Y is a hydrogen atom or alkyl radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, X is alternatively a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a radical of the formula ROC(O)(CHY)(CH2)—, a phenyl radical or a benzyl radical, R1 is a linear or branched alkylene radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and R2, R3, and R4 are linear or branched alkyl radicals having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or linear or branched alkoxy radicals having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, which are attached via the oxygen atom to the silicon atom, proce

Abstract: A description is given of an aqueous coating composition comprising a) a polymer dispersion based on (meth)acrylate homopolymers and/or (meth)acrylate copolymers and prepared by emulsion polymerization in the presence of a protective colloid, b) if desired, pigments and/or fillers, with a pigment volume concentration (PVC) of O to 30%, c) if desired, leveling assistants, d) if desired, coalescers, e) if desired, polymeric thickeners, and f) if desired, further, customary additives. The composition is distinguished by an increased open time.

Abstract: The invention relates to new rewettable adhesive systems containing colloidal dispersion mixtures obtained by copolymerization of at least one water-soluble monomer with at least one non-water-soluble comonomer in the presence of a micelle-forming emulsifier. The invention also relates to the use of the new adhesive systems.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing emulsion polymers, in which at least one monomer composition is introduced into a reactor and polymerized in a two-phase system, which comprises passing at least one monomer composition and at least one initiator composition into a micromixer via different supply lines and mixing them therein, the initiator composition being preheated, prior to its entry into the micromixer, to a temperature at which at least one of the initiators forms free radicals, and, after the mixture formed in the micromixer has emerged, polymerizing at least a fraction of the monomers.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-dilutable binding agents and coating agents with particularly quick drying surfaces. The invention also relates to a method for the production and use thereof. The water-dilutable binding agents are based on polymer dispersions, which are characterized in that they contain at least one poly acid/polyvinylpyrrolidone complex and optionally one or several water-soluble zircon compounds. The inventive binding agents have a quick drying surface and are suitable for use in the production of primers, paints and plasters with quick drying surfaces or quick-acting wash-fastness.

Abstract: Compounds of formula I where R1 is hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine or methyl, R2 and R3, which may be the same or different from each other, are hydrogen, halogen, cyano, (C1-C4)-alkyl, vinyl, ethynyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy, (C1-C4)-alkoxy-(C1-C4)-alkyl, fluorovinyl or fluoroethyl, or R2 and R3 together with the linking carbon atoms form a benzo ring, and R4 is (C2-C4)-alkyl, (C2-C4)-alkenyl or (C3-C4)-alkinyl, each of which is substituted by at least two fluorine atoms and optionally substituted by C1-4-alkoxy, cyanomethoxy, (C3-C4)-alkenyloxy or (C3-C4)-alkinyloxy, are useful as pesticides, especially against insects, acarids and fungi. The invention includes a novel process for fluorinating certain pyrimidines.

Abstract: Novel colloid dispersion mixtures as protective colloid for aqueous emulsion polymerization, processes for preparing them and their use.The present invention relates to novel colloid dispersion mixtures comprising a water-soluble monomer and a water-insoluble comonomer, to processes for their preparation and to their use as protective colloid for emulsion polymerization.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for reducing the concentration of organometallic and/or inorganic by-products in product mixtures formed in the synthesis of metallocenes, which comprises treating a mixture comprising one or more metallocenes and one or more organometallic and/or inorganic by-products with a polar extractant.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which R is a C.sub.1 - to C.sub.22 -alkyl radical,A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 are hydrogen or methyl or,A.sup.1 is hydrogen and A.sup.2 is the nitro group, andB is the cyano group, the nitro group or an electron-attracting organic group having a double bond which is in conjugation with the thieno?3,2-b!thiophene ring system,have a high dipole moment and a high polarizability and are suitable for purposes of nonlinear optics. If R in the formula I is a C.sub.12 - to C.sub.22 -alkyl radical, monomolecular layers can be applied to a substrate by the Langmuir-Blodgett method. The resulting layer elements are suitable, inter alia, as waveguides.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## which R is hydrogen or (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkyl, to a process for their preparation and to their use as electrophilic fluorinating agents.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, CF.sub.3, NO.sub.2, CN, halogen, --S(NSO.sub.2 CF.sub.3)CF.sub.3, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkyl, phenyl, SO.sub.2 R.sup.5, COOR.sup.5, NR.sub.2.sup.5, where R.sup.5 is (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkyl, which can also be fluorinated, or phenyl, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together form an aliphatic or aromatic ring which can also contain an oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen atom.The invention further provides a process for preparing the compounds of the formula (I), which comprises reacting compounds of the formula (II) ##STR2## where R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 are as defined above and X is hydrogen or an alkali metal, with elemental fluorine in the presence of an inert solvent and, if desired, an alkali metal fluoride at low temperatures.

Abstract: An optical component comprises an electromagnetic radiation-transparent polymeric medium having a second-order susceptibility of at least 10.sup.-9 electrostatic units where this polymeric medium comprises compounds having polar-aligned noncentrosymmetric molecular dipoles which have as structural element an electron acceptor which is bound to an electron donor via a conjugated .pi.-electron system, which makes possible an oscillation of the molecular dipole between a ground state having a first dipole moment and an electronically excited state having a second dipole moment different from the first, and the nonionic polymeric medium comprises an alternating arrangement of at least one Langmuir-Blodgett film each of at least two different nonionic polymers having nonlinear optical properties. Besides high mechanical and chemical stability the optical component of the invention has excellent nonlinear optical properties, for example frequency-doubling.

Abstract: Substituted thieno[3,2-b]thiophenes, processes for their preparation and their useCompounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which R is a C.sub.1 - to C.sub.22 -alkyl radical,A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 are hydrogen or methyl orA.sup.1 is hydrogen and A.sup.2 is the nitro group, andB is the cyano group, the nitro group or an electron-attracting organic group having a double bond which is in conjugation with the thieno[3,2-b]thiophene ring system,have a high dipole moment and a high polarizability and are suitable for purposes of nonlinear optics. If R in the formula I is a C.sub.12 - to C.sub.22 -alkyl radical, monomolecular layers can be applied to a substrate by the Langmuir-Blodgett method. The resulting layer elements are suitable, inter alia, as waveguides.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which X is a phenyl, [1]naphthyl or [2]naphthyl radical each substituted by at least one tert.-butoxycarbonyloxy group and, if appropriate, having one or more than one additional substituent,R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6)-alkyl radical, a (C.sub.6 -C.sub.10)-aryl radical or one of the radicals X andR.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are identical or different and are a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.12)-alkyl radical in which, if appropriate, up to three methylene groups are replaced by bridge members having at least one hetero atom, such as --O--, --S--, --NR.sup.4 --, --CO--, --CO--O--, --CO--NH--, --O--CO--NH--, --NH--CO--NH--, --CO--NH--CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.2 --O-- or --SO.sub.2 --NH--, a (C.sub.3 -C.sub.12)-alkenyl, (C.sub.3 -C.sub.12)-alkynyl, (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-cycloalkyl, (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-cycloalkenyl or (C.sub.8 -C.sub.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which X is a phenyl, [1]naphthyl or [2]naphthyl radical each substituted by at least one tert.-butoxycarbonyloxy group and, if appropriate, having one or more than one additional substituent,R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6)-alkyl radical, a (C.sub.6 -C.sub.10)-aryl radical or one of the radicals X andR.sup.2 is a (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-alkylene, (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-alkenylene or (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-alkynylene group in which, if appropriate, up to three methylene groups are replaced by bridge members having at least one hetero atom, such as --O--, --S--, --NR.sup.3 --, --CO--, --CO--O--, --CO--NH--, --O--CO--NH--, --NH--CO--NH--, --CO--NH--CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.2 --O-- or --SO.sub.2 --NH--, a (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-cycloalkylene, (C.sub.4 -C.sub.12)-cycloalkenylene or (C.sub.8 -C.sub.