Abstract: The invention concerns a method consisting: in passing the sea water through an electrically conductive catalyst (10), arranged in the cathode section of an electrolytic cell (1), comprising a cathode section (3) and an anode section (4) provided with, the former, with at least one cathode (11a, . . . ) and, the latter, with at least one anode (18) and separated by a wall (2) permeable only to the cations and in circulating, in the anode section (4), a conductive aqueous solution of a particular anolyte; in providing an electric voltage between the cathode and the anode of the cell (1) while maintaining the contents of the cathode and the anode sections at specific potentials, so as to produce, in the cathode section, consumption of oxygen dissolved in the treated water and in decomposing, in the anode section, an appropriate amount of solution for ensuring the electroneutrality of the treated water.

Abstract: A power semiconductor module includes a plastic housing having a bottom plane in which a substrate is disposed. Disposed inside the module are the substrate, structures on the substrate, a rubber-like soft encapsulation and a hard encapsulation above the soft encapsulation. Internal struts of the housing extend into the soft encapsulation and, if appropriate, have ends with transverse extensions disposed within the soft encapsulation. The effect of this module construction is that a back pressure or reaction opposes forces acting externally on the substrate.

Abstract: Substituted 1-phenyl-3-methyl-pyrrolidinediones of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R may represent fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, CN, SCN or methanesulfonyl, Z represents one or more of the same or different substituents selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, NO.sub.2, CN, SCN, sulfamoyl, phenoxy, an alkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a halogenalkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and 1 to 7 halogen atoms selected from fluorine, chlorine or bromine, an alkyloxy having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a halogenalkoxy having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and 1 to 4 halogen atoms selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine and bromine, an allyloxy or ethoxycarbonyl, and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 4 with the following types of substitutions: 2-, 4-, 2,3-, 2,4-, 2,5-, 2,6-, 3,4-, 2,3,4-, 2,3,5-, 2,3,6-, 2,4,5-, 2,4,6-, 3,4,5-, 2,3,4,5-, 2,4,5,6- and 2,3,5,6-. The invention also relates to a process for making the compounds, which are active ingredients of fungicidal agents.

Abstract: The invention concerns compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 can mean identical or different radicals in any desired position on the benzene ring, namely fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo, cyano, or nitro radicals, alkyl radicals having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, cyclo alkyl radicals having from 3 to 7 carbon atoms, phenyl, phenylsulfonyl and phenoxy radicals and hydrogen;n can mean a number with the value of 1 or 2 andx can mean CH.sub.2, and where n=1, O--CH.sub.2 as well.The named componds show efficiency as fungicides.

Abstract: Substituted phenylactic acid iodopropargyl ester compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R may represent hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, methoxy, 1-imidazolyl or 1,2,4-triazolyl, X represents one or more of the same or different substituents selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, cyano, nitro, carboxyl, an alkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, an alkoxy having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, formyl, acetyl, propionyl, benzoyl, phenylsulfonyl, phenyl, phenoxy, and substituted phenyl and phenoxy groups having from 1 to 3 substituents selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, nitro, methyl or methoxy, and n is an integer from 1 to 5 and may be zero provided that R does not represent hydrogen. The invention also relates to a process of making the compounds, which are effective ingredients of biocidal agents.

Abstract: N-phenylcarbamoyl-4-methylpiperidine herbicides having the formula ##SPC1##Wherein R is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and fluorine, compositions containing the same and the selective herbicidal method of use as a selective preemergence herbicide toward corn and a selective postemergence herbicide toward barley and, when R is H, toward corn.