Abstract: The invention provides epoxy resins having the following structure: ##STR1## The cross-linked epoxy resins have non-linear optical properties. The group "Z" constitutes a nonlinear optical chromophone having stilbene, azo, azomethine or propargyl moieties as linking units.

Abstract: Novel laser-optical recording elements which can be repeatedly erased and recorded on contain recording layers (a) which exhibit enantiotropic, ferroelectric smectic liquid crystalline (S.sub.C*) behavior, so that they can be switched back and forth between two thermodynamically stable, optically distinguishable ferroelectric smectic liquid crystlaline S.sub.C* order states on exposure to a laser beam of sufficient luminous power, by applying an external electric field. The recording layers (a) themselves consist mainly or exclusively of novel polymers P having chiral mesogenic side groups.

Abstract: The liquid crystalline compounds of the structure ##STR1## where Ar represents phenylene (e.g., bonded in their para positions) and B represents a cyclohydrocarbylene bridging group such as cyclohexylene or phenylene, are disclosed.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, methyl of C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 alkyl and R.sup.1 is O-phenylene, a saturated or unsaturated 1,2-cyclohexylene group; a 2,3-bicyclo[2.2.2]-hept-5-enyl group of the formula (II) ##STR2## or a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic group of about 2 to about 20 carbon atoms; said O-phenylene is optionally substituted in the ring by one or two alkyl groups of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; said 1,2-cyclohexylene and bicyclo groups are optionally substituted by one or two alkyl groups of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and/or by one to six chlorine or bromine atoms; and said aliphatic group is optionally substituted by one or more chlorine or bromine atoms. This compound can be used as a coating compound when mixed with curing agents.

Abstract: Compounds having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: M is an alkali or alkaline-earth metal or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl group;X is a group selected from --CH.sub.2 --, --CO--, --CH.sub.2 --CO--, --CH(CH.sub.3)--CO--,p is 0 or 1;Ar is a simple or condensed aromatic ring or Ar represents two or more aromatic nuclei bonded either by a simple bond or by an --O--, --S--, --SO.sub.2 --, --SO--, --CO--, --CS--, or --NH-- group;y is H or CH.sub.3 ;m is 1 when Y=--CH.sub.3, or an integer from 1 to 5 (including both values) when Y=H; n is a number ranging from 1 to 500 (including both values); andZ is H; a C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl; benzyl; glycidyl; acetyl; allyl; --CO--NH--R or --CO--NH--R.sub.1 --NCO group.

Abstract: A method for reducing pesticide drift caused by crystallization of a pesticide from a pesticide spraying formulation. Crystallization of a pesticide from a pesticide spraying formulation is suppressed by incorporating an expoxidized vegetable oil into the formulation. The method increases pesticidal efficacy of a pesticide applied in the form of a pesticide spraying formulation. A pesticide spraying formulation is provided which comprises a pesticide, a diluent and an epoxidized vegetable oil.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel monoesters and diesters of 9,10-endoethano-9,10-dihydroanthracene-11,11-dicarboxylic acid.These novel monoesters and diesters correspond to the following structural chemical formula (II): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different and can represent H, an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alicyclic group having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, defined in their cis or trans variety, or an alkynyl group having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, the said groups optionally being substituted by one or more functional groups such as ether, epoxide, halogeno, cyano, ester, aldehyde, ketone, aryl etc., where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 cannot be H or ethyl simultaneously. These addition products constitute valuable intermediates for the preparation of methylidenemalonates in high yields and with a high purity.

Abstract: Optically active 3-(4-methoxyphenyl)glycidic acid alkyl esters of high enantiomeric purity can be prepared through optical resolution of a racemic or optically enriched sample of a 3-(4-methoxyphenyl) glycidic acid. The alkali metal salt of the acid, generated in situ by hydrolysis of the corresponding alkyl ester with an alkali metal hydroxide is contacted with a suitable resolving agent such as an optically pure amine to form the corresponding diastereomeric salts. The desired diastereomeric salt is separated from the mixture and transformed to an alkali metal salt, which optionally without isolation is converted into the desired alkyl ester of high enantiomeric purity.

Abstract: Chiral, nonracemic compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein n=1 or 2, Y is a hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom, R' is an alkyl or alkoxy group having three to fifteen carbons, and R is an alkyl group having three to fifteen carbons, which are useful as ferroelectric liquid crystal components having high polarization are described. Also described are compounds of the same general formula in which X is OH, which are useful as synthetic intermediates in the preparation of the FLC components of the present invention.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is an improved process for the industrial scale preparation of the compounds of the formula ##STR1## and salts thereof by acylating the hexitols of the formula (II) with an anhydride of the formula (II) at a temperature of 0.degree.-30.degree. C. in the presence of an organic base and a catalyst of the formula (IV) in a dipolar-aprotic or aprotic solvent.

Abstract: The invention relates to new, liquid-crystalline diglycidyle compounds of optionally ring-substituted 4-hydroxyphenyl 4-hydroxybenzoates, a synthesis of p-epoxypropoxy-phenyl p-epoxy-propoxybenzoate, furthermore epoxy resin mixtures containing the new diglycidyle compounds, and the use of the new diglycidyl compounds and the epoxy resin mixtures thereof in curable mixtures.

Abstract: This invention relates to herbicidally active propylene oxide derivatives, agriculturally suitable compositions thereof, and a method of using them as herbicides or plant growth regulants.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for the purification of glycidyl acrylate or glycidyl methacrylate. Specifically, the invention effects the purification by using a residual catalyst-inactivating additive and consequently produces highly purified glycidyl acrylate or glycidyl methacrylate containing substantially no epichlorohydrin and having a low chlorine content.

Abstract: Ferroelectric (chiral) smectic liquid crystal compounds having an achiral core and chiral tail units derived from (2,3)-epoxyalkyloxiranemethanols possess a high ferroelectric polarization density. These newly made compounds exhibit high speed, multistate electro-optic switching properties which make them ideally suited to certain electro-optic display device applications.

Abstract: The application discloses certain benzoic acid compounds, the same being more adequately described as benzoic acid derivatives having a para substituent which is a substituted phenyl radical attached to the benzoic acid in the para position by any one of a variety of linking groups, representative compounds being p-(3,4-diisopropylphenylcarbamoyl) benzoic acid and p-(5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthylcarbamoyl)benzoic acid, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, method of treating therewith, method of diagnosis therewith, and method for the preparation thereof. The compounds and compositions are useful for diagnosis of leukemia types, the treatment of dermatological disorders, and as differentiation-inducing agents for neoplastic cells.

Abstract: Aromatic mono or polycarboxylic acid glycidyl esters are obtained in good yields and high purity by transesterification of the corresponding aromatic carboxylic acid alkyl esters with glycidol in the presence of weakly toxic catalysts, namely the alkali, ammonium, and alkaline earth metal salts of pseudohalogen hydride acids with readily polarizable anions.

Abstract: Phenoxypropanol derivatives having a 2-acetylenic moiety on the phenyl group thereof of the following formula (I): ##STR1## and their use as anti-hypertensives, e.g. in man. Also part of the invention are pharmaceutical compositions and intermediates used in the synthesis.

Abstract: Ferroelectric (chiral) smectic liquid crystal compounds having an achiral core and chiral tail units derived from (2,3)-epoxyalkyloxiranemethanols possess a high ferroelectric polarization density. These newly made compounds exhibit high speed, multistate electro-optic switching properties which make then ideally suited to certain electro-optic display device applications.

Abstract: There is described a novel process for the manufacture of hydroquinone derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents an ether protecting group, and their conversion into d-.alpha.-tocopherol starting from compounds of the formula ##STR2## wherein R has the above significance.

Abstract: An epoxy resin of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 are --OH or ##STR2## and X.sub.3 is --OH, ##STR3## or a group of the general formula: ##STR4## in which X.sub.4, X.sub.5 and X.sub.6 are --OH or ##STR5## provided that at least one of X.sub.1 to X.sub.6 is ##STR6## The epoxy resin is prepared by reacting gallic acid or tannic acid with an epihalohydrin in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst and reacting the obtained reaction mixture with an aqueous alkali solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to new hexitols having the general formula (I) and (II), ##STR1## wherein the hexitol skeleton is dulcitol, mannitol or iditol,X represents halogen, preferably bromine,R is a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.4-10 alkylcarbonyl group which also contains a free carboxy group, andR.sup.1 is hydrogen, a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.4-10 alkylcarbonyl group which also contains a free carboxy group, a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.2-10 alkylcarbonyl group, a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.4-10 alkylcarbonyl group which also contains an alkoxycarbonyl group, or a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.8-10 aralkylcarbonyl group,and salts of these compounds. The new compounds according to the invention have tumor-inhibiting affects.The above compounds are prepared according to the invention so that(a) a compound of the general formula (IX), whereinthe hexitol skeleton is dulcitol, mannitol or iditol,Q is a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.

Abstract: Certain substituted thioglycolates and thiopropionates were found useful as secondary stabilizers for polymers, particularly polyvinyl chloride, when used in conjunction with metal octanoates, such as zinc octanoate, as the primary stabilizer. The specific thioglycolates and thiopropionates are those formed by thio adducts to the double bond of a monomer, such as the product of reacting isooctyl thioglycolate with glycidyl acrylate, to provide isooctyl S-2(glycidyloxycarbonyl)ethyl thioglycolate, as an example.

Abstract: Processes for preparing (S) or (R) epihalohydrin and an (S) substituted glycerol intermediate are disclosed.