Abstract: A powder comprising a blowing agent powder core which is coated with at least one oil-like substance on its surface, and a process for producing a powder comprising a blowing agent powder core which is coated with at least one oil-like substance on its surface, comprising the following steps (a) and (b): (a) adding at least one oil-like substance in the form of a mist to a blowing agent powder; and (b) mixing the oil-like substance with the blowing agent powder under such mixing conditions that the blowing agent powder is less susceptible to pulverization.

Abstract: It provides a blowing agent which is significantly inhibited from solidification and is exceedingly useful as a blowing agent satisfactory in flowability, dispersibility into resins, and the like, even after the lapse of a prolonged period of time, and a process for producing the same. The blowing agent of the present invention is substantially anhydrous blowing agent, and it is obtained by treating a blowing agent with a surface-treating agent capable of removing water from the blowing agent, followed by optionally heating during or after the treatment.

Abstract: It provides a blowing agent which is significantly inhibited from solidification and is exceedingly useful as a blowing agent satisfactory in flowability, dispersibility into resins, and the like, even after the lapse of a prolonged period of time, and a process for producing the same.

Abstract: 1-Aminopyrrolidine which is obtained by reacting hydrazine hydrate with a compound represented by the following formula (I):X.sup.1 --C.sub.4 H.sub.8 --X.sup.2 (I)wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are the same or different, and each represents a leaving group, in methanol; and a process for producing 1-aminopyrrolidine, comprising the step of reacting hydrazine hydrate with the above compound represented by formula (I) in methanol.

Abstract: This invention provides a process for preparing semicarbazide comprising reacting the compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## with ammonia in the absence or presence of chloride, hydroxide, sulfate, carbonate, acetate, salicylate, ammine complex or ethylenediamine complex of zinc or of cadmium, or a mixture thereof as catalyst. This process has the advantage of being free of the use of sodium hydroxide in large amounts or formation of byproduct sodium carbonate.

Abstract: A process for preparing o-methallyloxyphenol by reacting catechol with methallyl chloride in the presence of at least one of KI and NaI serving as a catalyst with use of a base, and an organic solvent or a mixture of an organic solvent and water, the process being characterized in that methallyl chloride is reacted with the catalyst after the reaction to recover the catalyst as converted to methallyl iodide and reuse the catalyst.

Abstract: A process for preparing o-methallyloxyphenol characterized in that catechol and methallyl chloride are reacted with use of:A. at least one base selected from among carbonates and bicarbonates of alkali metals, bicarbonates of alkaline earth metals and amines at least 10 in pKa,B. at least one catalyst selected from among iodides of alkali metals or alkaline earth metals, hydrogen iodide and methallyl iodide, andC. a ketone solvent or ketone-water mixture solvent.

Abstract: A process for preparing 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-hydroxybenzofuran which comprises subjecting o-methallyloxyphenol to a rearrangement and cyclization reactions in the presence of, as a catalyst, aluminum halide and N-substituted aniline derivative, or a complex of both these compounds.