Abstract: An implant device is used for maintaining a distraction or compression element and includes a rod linked to implants by support devices having a threaded stud and a head for interaction with a support piece. The support piece has a device for attaching and blocking a distraction or compression element. The threaded piece includes two zones, namely a distal end zone having a conical profile and a screw thread with wide turns, configured for cancellous bone, and a proximal zone having a conical profile with a conicity angle smaller than the conicity angle of the distal portion, with a narrow screw thread, configured for bone cortex, namely including sharp, thin, deep screw threads, whereas the web is flat.

Abstract: A prosthetic sternum device with a manubrium includes a plate and a device for attachment to ribs. Each of the devices for attachment to ribs includes an end for rigid connection to the plate and an end provided with a device for engaging with a rib. The plate further includes, in the upper region of same, two elements. Each element rigidly connects a pin and includes a polyaxial joint shaped to allow the multidirectional mobility of the pin.

Abstract: An implant device is used for maintaining a distraction or compression element and includes a rod linked to implants by support devices having a threaded stud and a head for interaction with a support piece. The support piece has a device for attaching and blocking a distraction or compression element. The threaded piece includes two zones, namely a distal end zone having a conical profile and a screw thread with wide turns, configured for cancellous bone, and a proximal zone having a conical profile with a conicity angle smaller than the conicity angle of the distal portion, with a narrow screw thread, configured for bone cortex, namely including sharp, thin, deep screw threads, whereas the web is flat.

Abstract: A prosthetic sternum device with a manubrium includes a plate and a device for attachment to ribs. Each of the devices for attachment to ribs includes an end for rigid connection to the plate and an end provided with a device for engaging with a rib. The plate further includes, in the upper region of same, two elements. Each element rigidly connects a pin and includes a polyaxial joint shaped to allow the multidirectional mobility of the pin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: a) methylbiphenyl derivatives of general formula: in which R1 represents OH, C3-C7 alkyl or C3-C7 cycloalkyl, these compounds being in the form of individual isomers or mixtures thereof, b) their preparation by reaction: either of a hydroxylamine salt with an N-substituted o-(p-tolyl)benzaldimine, to give o-(p-tolyl)benzaldoxime or of an N-substituted 2-halobenzaldimine with a p-tolylmagnesium halide in the presence of an inorganic manganese derivative, to give the compounds of formula I in which R1 represents C3-C7 alkyl or C3-C7 cycloalkyl c) their use for the preparation of o-(p-tolyl)-benzonitrile, which is an intermediate in the synthesis of medicinal products.

Abstract: A method of cycloalkylating naphthalene with at least one cyclic group, characterized by the following points:a) as catalyst, there is used a zeolite of faujasite structure having pore openings greater than 6.7 .ANG., the silica/alumina ratio of this zeolite being greater than 2.5 and its residual content of alkaline ion(s) being less than 3%;b) the reaction is carried out batchwise in heterogenous liquid/solid phase at a temperature of between 20.degree. C. and 250.degree. C., under a pressure at most equal to 30 bars. Cycloalkylated naphthalenes are obtained by this method, in particular 2,6-dicyclohexyl naphthalene.

Abstract: A method of preparing an alkylated aromatic product (12) by alkylation of an aromatic compound (1), the alkylation producing several alkylated aromatic products, this method being characterized by the following points:(a) the aromatic compound (1) is reacted with an alkylating agent (2) in the presence of an alkylation zeolite (4);(b) the alkylated aromatic product (12) is separated by crystallization from the products of the alkylation;(c) the uncrystallized part (13) of the alkylated aromatic products is subjected to a dealkylation in the presence of a dealkylation zeolite (15);(d) the regenerated aromatic compound (1.sub.b) is recycled in order to react it again with the alkylating agent (2) in the presence of the alkylation zeolite (4). Alkylated aromatic compounds (12) obtained by this method, in particular 2-6 dicyclohexyl naphthalene.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of true acetylene hydrocarbons with a perfluoro chain, characterized by dehydroiodination with an alkali metal hydroxde in an alcoholic medium of the iodohydrin ##STR1## wherein R.sub.F is a straight or branched perfluoroalkyl chain C.sub.n F.sub.2n+1 -- where n is 1 to 20, and R and R' are identical or different alkyl radicals, followed by distillation, in the presence of solid alkali metal hydroxide, of the resulting acetylenic alcohol obtained to produce a true acetylene hydrocarbon of the formula R.sub.F --C.tbd.CH. The acetylene hydrocarbons are useful for forming compounds having the ability to carry gases such as oxygen for biological purposes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the process of preparing perfluoro functional compounds from a perfluorohalogenoalkane having the general formula:R.sub.F Xwherein R.sub.F is a saturated, unsaturated, straight, or branched chain perfluoroalkyl radical containing 2 to 12 carbon atoms, and X is selected from chlorine, bromine, or iodine, comprising reacting said perfluorohalogenoalkane with a functionalizing reagent in the presence of a metallic couple dispersed in a sulfoxide-type solvent, said metallic couple having the general formula:M.sub.1 /M.sub.2wherein M.sub.1 is metal selected from Group IB, IIA, IIB, or IIIA of the Periodic Table and M.sub.2 is a metal having an electrochemical potential such that it can be deposited on metal M.sub.1.