Abstract: Monoblocked diisocyanates which contain little free and diblocked diisocyanate are obtained by a process which involves adding 1 mole of a blocking agent to a diisocyanate which is present in excess and subsequently removing the excess diisocyanate by thin film evaporation. The compounds produced are useful for the production of cataphoresis resins.

Abstract: A circulation process for the production of (cyclo)aliphatic diisocyanates, in which the biscarbamate is produced from diamines, by-products from the thermal cracking, urea, and alcohol in the presence of N-unsubstituted carbamates and dialkyl carbonates, and with separation of NH.sub.3 ; the subsequent cracking of the biscarbamate is carried out in the liquid phase without solvent; the diisocyanate and alcohol are condensed; the diisocyanate is subjected to a purifying distillation; and a portion of the cracking reaction mixture is discharged with the by-products formed and recycled to the biscarbamate production step after prior reaction with the crude alcohol formed, effectively utilizes the by-products formed in the cracking step and is an industrially practical and economical process.

Abstract: A stabilizer system for stabilization of polyolefins against light, heat, and oxidative degradation, comprising:(a) a monocarboxylate ester of a polyalkyl-4-piperidinol of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, a C.sub.1-5 alkyl group, an allyl or benzyl group, or a C.sub.1-4 acyl group, and R.sub.2 represents a straight or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated C.sub.16-24 aliphatic carboxylic acyl group; and(b) a benzophenone or benzotriazole UV-absorber.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a uretedione, comprising the steps of:(i) reacting at least one C.sub.6-15 (cyclo)aliphatic diisocyanate under substantially anhydrous conditions with a pyridine of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are, independent from one another, a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together with the attached nitrogen form a pyrrolidine, piperidine or morpholine ring, to form a reaction mixture containing said uretedione, and(ii) isolating said uretedione from said reaction mixture by vacuum thin layer evaporation after the degree of dimerization in said reaction mixture has reached 10-80%.

Abstract: Cis-2,6-dimethylmorpholine is manufactured by catalytic isomerization of trans-2,6-dimethylmorpholine. A previously hydrogen-activated copper chromite catalyst is used for catalytic isomerization of the trans-2,6-dimethylmorpholine. The catalyst preferably also contains barium oxide and/or manganese dioxide. The process is carried out at 180.degree.-300.degree. C. and 1-500 bar absolute. The inexpensive novel catalyst enables conversions which are better than those with known methods.

Abstract: A polyurethane coating composition comprising:(a) a synthetic organic polymer containing at least two hydroxyl groups,(b) a polyisocyanatoisocyanurate having the formula: ##STR1## wherein the R groups may be the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of divalent hydrocarbon radicals having the formulas: ##STR2## and n represents a whole or a fractional number from 1 to 5, and (c) optionally, conventional auxiliary agents selected from the group consisting of solvents, dispersing agents, pigments, fillers, and spreading agents, can be subjected to cold or hot curing, and provides a cured coating composition having good resistance to thermal oxidation, good solvent resistance and good mechanical film properties.

Abstract: Isocyanate-uretdiones having the formula: ##STR1## wherein the R groups are identical or different and are hydrocarbon groups having the formulas: ##STR2## and n is an integral or fractional number from 1 to 5. Production of the isocyanate-uretdiones, which can be dissociated by heat up to an extent of greater than 70%, is accomplished through dimerization of aliphatic diisocyanates having the formula: ##STR3## with a phosphine catalyst having the formula:X.sub.m P(NR.sub.2).sub.3-mwherein:m is 0, 1 or 2;x is a --Cl, --OR or --R group, wherein R is identical or different alkyl-, arylalkyl-, cycloalkyl, or alkyl-substituted cycloalkyl groups. The reaction temperatures are 0.degree.-80.degree. C.The reaction product is subjected to thin-layer distillation after a conversion of 5-70%, by weight, without deactivation of the catalyst. The compounds of the present invention are useful as intermediates in the production of starting materials for the production of polyurethanes.

Abstract: A method for preparing an aqueous polyurethane dispersion, comprising (a) preparing a prepolymer with free NCO groups by reacting an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanate with a polyol, and an anionic compound; (b) dispersing said prepolymer in water; (c) reacting said water-dispersed prepolymer with a diamino hydrazide of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkylene group of 2 to 15 carbon atoms or a cycloalkylene or arylene group of 6 to 15 carbon atoms as a chain lengthening agent; (d) reacting the prepolymer of step (c) in said dispersion with formaldehyde to effect crosslinking.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the production of organic isocyanates by the continous hot phosgenation of amines, whereby the solids are retained in the reactor by an appropriate separator and the isocyanate formed during the reaction is constantly removed from the reactor. Preferably the amount of solids of the suspension in the reactor is set so that the amount of the isocyanate taken off per unit of time reaches a maximum.

Abstract: A process for producing polyalkylpiperidylamines of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkylradical; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkylradicals or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, taken together, are --(CH)--.sub.a or --CH.sub.2 --NR.sub.1 --C(R.sub.5,R.sub.6)--CH.sub.2 --; R.sub.4 is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.18 alkylene radical, which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl; a C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 cycloalkylene radical, which is unsubstituted or is methyl-substituted; a cycloalkylene radical of the formula ##STR2## where the cyclohexyl rings are unsubstituted or are methyl-substituted; or groups of the formula --(CH.sub.2).sub.k --X--[CH.sub.2).sub.m --X]--.sub.n (CH.sub.2).sub.p --, where X is --O--, --NH--, --NR.sub.5 and R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are each a C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: Moisture-hardening varnishes which have an isocyanate resin base of adducts of a mixture of diisocyanates, wherein the diisocyanate mixture has 88 to 99% by weight of 2-methyl-1,5-diisocyanatopentane and 12 to 1% by weight of 2-ethyl-1,4-diisocyanatobutane.These varnishes exhibit excellent thermal and oxidative stability and have excellent storage stability. They also exhibit excellent compatibility with solvents, pigments and other auxiliary materials.

Abstract: A mixture of substances suitable as a powder varnish or a binder for powder varnishes containing an isocyanate component with partially or totally blocked isocyanate groups, and a polyhydroxyl component, wherein mixed trimers or mixtures of individual trimers are used as the isocyanate component from a mixture of 2-methyl-1,5-diisocyanato-pentane (MPDI) and 2-ethyl-1,4-diisocyanatobutane (EBDI) in the amounts of 88 to 99% by weight of (MPDI) and about 12 to 1% by weight of (EBDI), in combination with 3-isocyanato-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexylioscyanate (IPDI) or mixed urethane adducts obtained from the reaction of the (MPDI/EBDI) mixture in combination with (IPDI) with diols, triols or a mixture thereof.

Abstract: One-component baking enamels of polyesters, which contain hydroxyl groups, and a polyisocyanate component, wherein the polyisocyanate component is a totally or partially blocked adduct or adducts of a mixture of 2-methyl-1,5-diisocyanatopentane (I) and 2-ethyl-1,5-diisocyanatobutane (II) according to the formulas (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein the mixture of diisocyanates contains 88 to 99% by weight of totally or partially blocked (I) and about 12 to 1% by weight of totally or partially blocked (II).The enamel films exhibit excellent flexibility and weather resistance and can be coated on metal, glass and plastic.

Abstract: A method for producing a polyaddition product of isophorone diisocyanate and diols which comprises, reacting a uretidione group-containing dimer of isophoronediisocyanate, which is decomposable by heat into 98% isophorone diisocyanate, with a diol, wherein the ratio of NCO to OH groups is such that the final polyaddition product has free terminal NCO groups, or free terminal OH groups.

Abstract: A process for producing a substantially isocyanurate-free uretidione dimer of isophorone diisocyanate, which is more than 98% decomposable by heat to isophorone diisocyanate, which comprises dimerizing isophorone diisocyanate, optionally in an inert organic solvent, in the presence of a catalyst of the formula X.sub.m P(NR.sub.2).sub.3-m wherein m=0, 1, 2; X=Cl OR of R wherein R is selected from the group consisting of the same or different aklyl radical, aralkyl radical, cycloalkyl radical, substituted cycloalkyl radical and radicals wherein two or more of the aforementioned radicals form a hererocyclic ring together with the nitrogen atom; at temperatures of 0.degree.-80.degree. C., isolating the resulting 1,3-diazacyclobutane-2,4-dione, after 5-70% conversion, without previous inactivation of the catalyst, from the reaction mixture as the residue of a thin film distillation and isolating the catalyst and monomer as the distillate.

Abstract: Polyisocyanatoisocyanurates of the formula ##STR1## wherein the R groups may be the same or different and are aliphatic divalent radicals selected from the group consisting of divalent aliphatic radicals having the formulas ##STR2## and n is a whole or fractional number from 1 to 5, are useful as isocyanate hardeners in polyurethane resin coatings.

Abstract: A polyurethane powder enamel free of volatile cleavage products comprising an adduct of the uretidinedione dimer of isophorone diisocyanate with a diol, wherein the adduct has the formula ##STR1## wherein R= ##STR2## X=NCO or ##STR3## R"=a divalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic hydrocarbon radical or a diol, n>1, andR'=a monoalcohol radical or primary or secondary monoamine radical with 1-30 C-atoms, wherein the NCO/OH ratio of the dimer to the diol is from 1:0.5 to 1:0.9, the dimer/diol molar ratio is from 2:1 to 6:5, the average molecular weight is between 550 and 4300, and the melting point is .gtoreq.70.degree. C. and .ltoreq.130.degree. C., and wherein the uretidinedione groups present in the adduct are cleavable with heat into .gtoreq.98% --NCO groups, and a polyol having an OH functionality .gtoreq.3.4 to .ltoreq.7, an average molecular weight of 2000 to 5000, an OH number between 30 and 100 mg KOH/g, a viscosity of <100,000 mpa.s at 160.degree. C., and a melting point .

Abstract: In a process for the trimerization of diisocyanates in the presence of a catalyst comprising quaternary ammonium salts of organic acids having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X represents the same or different radicals selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, and C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 aralkyl; two X radicals taken together with at least one other heteroatom forming a hetero-ring and three X radicals taken together with the quaternary nitrogen atoms forming a hetero-ring through a common hetero-atom such that said heterocyclic ring structure is selected from the group consisting of triethylene diamine, methyl triethylene diamine, quinuclidine, N-methylmorpholine, N-ethylmorpholine, and N,N'-dimethylpiperazine; R is alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl, R" is R or hydrogen; R+R" together form a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl radical; R' is hydrogen, hydroxyl or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl radical, optionally containing a CH.sub.(3-b) Z.sub.

Abstract: A stoving enamel comprising (a) 30-70% by weight of a mixture of a polymer containing hydroxyl groups having a hydroxyl number between 40 and 240 mg KOH/g with an isocyanurate-free derivative of isophorone diisocyanate containing uretidinedione groups and blocked isocyanate groups, (b) 0-3% by weight of a cross-linking catalyst, (c) 30-60% by weight of an organic solvent, (d) 0-65% by weight of a filler or pigment, (e) 0-5% by weight of a dye, and (f) optionally 0.1-3% by weight of leveling agents, gloss improvers, antioxidants, and/or stabilizers, has improved storage stability, reduced curing time and reduced liberation of blocking agent during cure.

Abstract: Primary amines and/or diamines can be prepared from oxo compounds, optionally containing additional reducible groups, by a process comprising:(1) reacting the oxo compound with ammonia in the presence of an imine-forming catalyst, preferably an ion exchanger loaded with ammonia ions, at a temperature of 10.degree. to 120.degree. C. and a pressure of 1 to 300 bar, whereby a Schiff base is formed; and(2) reducing the Schiff base by reaction with ammonia and hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst.