Abstract: The invention provides a method of printing a textile comprising polyester, or a full-chrome, semi-chrome or vegetable-tanned leather, with a vat or a sulfur dye, comprising inkjet printing a solubilised vat dye or a solubilised sulfur dye onto the textile or the leather.

Abstract: The invention relates to basic polynucleate aluminum hydroxy silicate sulfate compounds and to a process for their preparation. The process involves first mixing an alkali metal silicate and an alkali metal aluminate solution and optionally a third component under continuous stirring to form an alkaline intermediate mixture and slowly adding the resulting alkaline intermediate mixture to an acidic aluminum sulfate solution under high shear mixing conditions. Compared to processes of the prior art, the present invention leads directly to solution products having higher Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 concentrations. Moreover, the products prepared through this invention exhibit enhanced stability over time, and improved performance in flocculation-coagulation application.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I are disclosed as useful intermediates in the preparation of prostanoids: ##STR1## wherein A represents O or H, OR.sup.z ;R.sup.z represents hydrogen or a protecting group;R.sup.x represents hydrogen or a protecting group; andR.sup.y represents halogen, a substituted thio group, di-substituted amino group, or a group of the formula R.sup.2, and R.sup.2 represents a straight- or branched-chain alkyl alkenyl or alkynyl group which may optionally be substituted by one or more carboxyl, carboxylic acid ester, or free or protected hydroxyl, thiol, aldehyde or keto groups;with the provisos that R.sup.x is not hydrogen when A is O and R.sup.y is R.sup.2 ; and that when A is H, OR.sup.z R.sup.y and R.sup.2 and R.sup.x and R.sup.z are not both hydrogen.Processes for the preparation of these compounds and of 2-substituted 4-hydroxy-cyclopent-2-en-1-one derivatives are also disclosed.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I are disclosed as useful intermediates in the preparation of prostanoids: ##STR1## wherein A represents O or H, OR.sub.z ;R.sup.z represents hydrogen or a protecting group;R.sup.x represents hydrogen or a protecting group; andR.sup.y represents halogen, a substituted thio group, di-substituted amino group, or a group of the formula R.sup.2, and R.sup.2 represents a straight-or branched-chain alkyl alkenyl or alkynyl group which may optionally be substituted by one or more carboxyl, carboxylic acid ester, or free or protected hydroxyl, thiol, aldehyde or keto groups;with the provisos that R.sup.x is not hydrogen when A is O and R.sup.y is R.sup.2 ; and that when A is H, OR.sup.z R.sup.y is R.sup.2 and R.sup.x and R.sup.z are not both hydrogen.Processes for the preparation of these compounds and of 2-substituted 4-hydroxy-cyclopent-2-en-1-one derivatives are also disclosed.