Abstract: The present invention relates to direct dyes of azomethine type of formula (I) below; and also to the use thereof for dyeing keratin fibres, in particular human keratin fibres such as the hair. The invention also relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibres, comprising such direct dyes in a suitable dyeing medium. Similarly, a subject of the invention is a process for dyeing keratin fibres using the said dye composition, and also a device comprising the same. Finally, the present invention also relates to precursors of these direct dyes.

Abstract: The present application provides methods for decarboxylation of amino acids via imine formation with a catalyst under superheated conditions in either a microwave or oil bath.

Abstract: A chiral hydrogenated H8-BINOL bisphosphine compound is provided, with the structure shown as the following formula (I), wherein both R1 and R2 are halogen, H or C1-C10 aliphatic group; R3 is H or C1-C10 aliphatic group; R4 is halogen, amino, nitro, H, C1-C10 aliphatic group or C1-C10 aromatic group; and X is phenyl, substituted phenyl, cyclohexyl, substituted cyclohexyl, C6-C30 aromatic group, or C6-C30 heterocyclic aromatic group containing one or more heteroatoms selected from N, S, O. The present invention further provides a catalyst for an asymmetric catalytic hydrogenation reaction which contains the compound, wherein the catalyst can produce more than 90% of enantiomers and efficiency with the turnover number of greater than 100,000 in the asymmetric hydrogenation reaction of imines.

Abstract: The present application relates to novel alpha, beta-unsaturated imines, to processes for their preparation, to their use for controlling animal pests including arthropods and in particular insects and to their use in the control of vectors.

Abstract: Disclosed are a compound that emits fluorescence, particularly in its solid state, and is suited to provide a color converting material with various improved performance properties over prior art and a light emitter, a color conversion filter, a color conversion device, and a photoelectric device each containing the compound; particularly a Schiff base type compound of formula (I) and a coloring material, a color conversion layer, a light absorbing layer, a color conversion filter, a light absorbing filter, a color-converting light-emitting device, and a photoelectric device each containing the compound. The definition of the symbols in formula (I) is the same as in the specification.

Abstract: Asymmetrical 2,5-disubstituted-1,4-diaminobenzenes are provided, along with a process for forming both symmetrical and asymmetrical 2,5-disubstituted-1,4-diaminobenzenes.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of zwitterionic molecules for forming a hole or electron transport layer. The preferred zwitterionic molecules of the invention are derivatives of p-benzoquinonemonoimines. The invention is useful in the field of electronic devices in particular.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for catalysts such as those shown in FIG. 1.1 and in the Examples, methods of making catalysts, methods of using catalysts, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to various processes for the preparation of N?-(4-{[3-(4-chloro-benzyl)-1,2,4-thiadiazol-5-yl]oxy}-2,5-dimethylphenyl)-N-ethyl-N-methylimidoformamide.

Abstract: A process for producing an optically active cyclopropanecarboxylic acid ester compound represented by the formula (4): (wherein R5, R6 and * each represents the same meaning as defined below), comprising reacting a diazoacetic acid ester represented by the formula (2): N2CHCO2R5??(2) (wherein R5 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms or the like) with a compound represented by the formula (3): (wherein R6 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms or the like), in the presence of an asymmetric copper complex obtained by reacting a copper compound and an optically active salicylideneaminoalcohol compound represented by the formula (1): (wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R3 and R4 independently represent a hydrogen atom or the like, and * represents an asymmetric center).

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a compound represented by Formula (4), the method including Step I of adding a solution in which hydrogen chloride is dissolved in an alcohol, to a mixture containing an organic solvent and a compound represented by Formula (1), and Step II of mixing a compound obtained in Step I, represented by Formula (3), with water.

Abstract: Disclosed are a compound that emits fluorescence, particularly in its solid state, and is suited to provide a color converting material with various improved performance properties over prior art and a light emitter, a color conversion filter, a color conversion device, and a photoelectric device each containing the compound; particularly a Schiff base type compound of formula (I) and a coloring material, a color conversion layer, a light absorbing layer, a color conversion filter, a light absorbing filter, a color-converting light-emitting device, and a photoelectric device each containing the compound. The definition of the symbols in formula (I) is the same as in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention provides a complex of formula I wherein M is Ca, Mg, Ba or Sr; L1 is selected from R1O, R2S, R3R4N, R5R6P, a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienide, and a substituted or unsubstituted pyrazolyl group, where R1-6 are each independently H or hydrocarbyl; L2 is selected from R7R8O, R7R8S, R7R8R9N, R7R8C?NR9, PR7R8R9, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocycle containing one or more O, N or S atoms, where R7-9 are each independently H or a hydrocarbyl group; or L1 and L2 are linked to form a bidentate ligand; L3 is absent or is a solvent molecule, or a neutral ligand as defined for L2, wherein L3 may be the same or different to L2; or L3 is linked to a further metal centre; or L1, L2 and L3 are linked to form a tridentate ligand; and X is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aryloxide, an amide group, or an enolate group of formula R10R11C?CR12O—, wherein R10-12 are each independently H or hydrocarbyl; with the proviso that when L1 and L2 are {HC(C(CH3)?N-2,6-iPr2C6H3)2} and M i

Abstract: The invention relates to the dyeing of keratinous fibres using azomethine direct dyes of formula (I) or reduced precursors of azomethine direct dyes of formula (II) obtained from 2-chloro-3-amino-6-methylphenol. A subject-matter of the invention is a dyeing composition comprising at least one chlorinated azomethine direct dye or one reduced precursor of a chlorinated azomethine direct dye, a method for dyeing keratinous fibres which employs the said composition and their uses in the dyeing of keratinous fibres. This composition makes it possible to obtain a particularly stable and consistent colouring.

Abstract: The invention relates to the dyeing of keratin fibres using azomethine direct dyes or precursors of azomethine dyes obtained from 2-alkylresorcinols. The invention relates to a dye composition comprising at least one azomethine direct dye or pre-cursor of an azomethine direct dye, to a process for dyeing keratin fibres, using the said composition, and to their uses in the dyeing of keratin fibres. This composition allows a particularly stable and fast coloration to be obtained.

Abstract: Sulfanyl-tetrahydropyran-based compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and methods of their use for the treatment of diseases and disorders such as diabetes and obesity are disclosed.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (I), wherein ring A and ring B each independently represent a benzene, naphthalene, or heterocyclic ring which may be substituted; R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms which may be substituted; R1 and R2 may be linked together to form a ring; a methylene group of the alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms may be replaced by —O— or —CH?CH—; Anq- represents a q-valent anion, where q is 1 or 2; p represents a coefficient to keep the charge neutral.

Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to aromatic imine compounds and methods of their use are described. The compounds are formed from aromatic aldehydes and amino or amino derivatives. The compounds and their derivatives are useful, for example, as hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan scavengers for use in both water and petroleum products.

Abstract: The invention provides fungicidal compounds of formula I and salts thereof: wherein the various radicals and substituents are as defined in the description, fungicidal compositions containing them and method for combating fungi which comprises applying these.

Abstract: Process for producing a nitroetheneamine derivative or its stereoisomer, its tautomer or a salt thereof comprising reacting a compound of the formula with a compound of the formula R6—CH2NO2 to obtain a compound of the formula and reacting the resulting compound with a compound of the formula

Abstract: The present invention includes a number of novel intermediates such as the (S)-secondary alcohol of formula (VIIIA) X2—CH2—C*H(OH)—CH2—NH—CO—RN  (VIIIA) and processes for production of pharmacologically useful oxazolidinones.

Abstract: A medical composition containing, as an active constituent, a nitroetheneamine derivative represented by the formula (I): wherein the substituents are as defined in the disclosure, its stereoisomers, its tautomers or a salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention includes a number of novel intermediates such as the (S)-secondary alcohol of formula (VIIIA) X2—CH2—C*H(OH)—CH2—NH—CO—RN  (VIIIA) and processes for production of pharmacologically useful oxazolidinones.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method for stereospecific isomerisation of prochiral allylamines into enamines and chiral imines, by using catalysts of Rh, Ir and Ru having phosphine chiral ligands immobilised on a solid material. The immobilised ligands are derivatives of phosphines of the type bis(diphenylphosphino)biaryl such as, for example, the phosphine known by the name BINAP. The method is particularly suitable for the production of optically active citronellal which may be obtained in optical purities above 95%.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of cyclopropylglycine by a 5-step process wherein cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde is reacted with an .alpha.-aminoalkylaromatic compound to obtain an imine which is reacted with a cyanide to produce an aminonitrile compound; the aminonitrile compound is hydrolyzed to the corresponding aminocarboxylic acid and finally the arylalkyl residue is removed from the amino group by hydrogenolysis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of cyclopropylglycine by a 5-step process wherein cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde is reacted with an .alpha.-aminoalkylaromatic compound to obtain an imine which is reacted with a cyanide to produce an aminonitrile compound; the aminonitrile compound is hydrolyzed to the corresponding aminocarboxylic acid and finally the arylalkyl residue is removed from the amino group by hydrogenolysis.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vinyl aromatic, especially styrene, polymerization inhibitor system comprising an N-phenyl-1,4-benzoquinoneimine compound and optionally an aryl-substituted phenylenediamine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically active, substituted phenylalkylamine derivative represented by Formula [1]: ##STR1## wherein A is a substituted or non-substituted phenyl or thienyl; X.sup.1 is hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl or a substituted or non-substituted C.sub.1-5 alkoxy; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are equally or differently hydrogen, C.sub.1-7 alkyl, C.sub.3-7 alkenyl or C.sub.3-7 alkynyl; R.sup.3 is C.sub.1-10 alkyl, C.sub.2-10 alkenyl or C.sub.2-10 alkynyl; n is an integer from 2 to 5; and m is an integer from 1 to 4,or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and pharmaceutical use of such compound or salt. The compound of the invention is excellent in sigma 1 receptor antagonism and useful for treating schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, cerebrovascular diseases/senile troublesome behaviors, and cognitive dysfunctions and motor dysfunctions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease which are neurodegenerative diseases.

Abstract: A circuit on a circuit board is encapsulated using a first mold section and a second mold section. The first mold section closes on one side of the board, and the first mold section has an exposed first conduit. The second mold section closes on another side of the board, and the second mold section has a second conduit for pushing molding compound into a mold cavity in at least one of the mold sections. The second conduit has a side opened to the first mold section when the first and section mold sections are closed on the circuit board. A piston extends through the first conduit to close the side of the second conduit.

Abstract: Aromatic azomethines are produced by continuous reaction of an aniline with a formaldehyde source, with continuous evaporation to remove residual water of reaction. The azomethine product may be further reacted, either continuously or in batch process, with a haloacetylating agent, and, additionally, with an aliphatic alcohol.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of aliphatic imines of the general formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, arylalkyl or heteroarylalkyl, each of which is optionally substituted, andR.sup.2 is optionally substituted alkyl andcharacterized in thatamines of the general formula (II):R.sup.1 --NH.sub.2 (II)in whichR.sup.1 is as defined above,are reacted with aldehydes of the general formula (III): ##STR2## in which R.sup.2 is as defined above,in the presence of a practically water-immiscible organic solvent, at temperatures between -30.degree. C. and +50.degree. C.

Abstract: A dianilinoglutacondialdehyde compound is described, which is represented by the following formula (Ia) or (Ib): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group and may be connected to each other; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or a halogen atom; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or a non-metallic atom which is required to be connected to each other to form a 5- or 6-membered ring; and X.sup.- represents BF.sub.4.sup.-, SbF.sub.6.sup.- or PF.sub.6.sup.-. A process for the preparation of the compound as described above is also described.

Abstract: A method of making (R)-N- 1-(3-methoxyphenyl)ethyl!-3-(2-chlorobenzene)propanamine which involves reducing the appropriate amidyl or iminyl precursor with an appropriate reducing agent. The appropriate amidyl or iminyl precursor is made from a synthesis involving the use of (R)-3-methoxy-.alpha.-methylbenzylamine. A method of condensing a nitrile with a primary or secondary amine to form an imine involves the reaction of a nitrile with diisobutylaluminum hydride; and then reacting the resultant compound with a primary or secondary amine to form the imine. The process is especially useful for producing enantiomerically pure chiral imines, and, ultimately, amines. Typical such imines have the formula: ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl and aralkyl.

Abstract: The invention relates to an azomethine of the following composition: ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is H or a branched or unbranched C.sub.1-14 -alkyl radical, andR.sup.2 is a branched or unbranched C.sub.1-14 -alkyl radical, an C.sub.1-14 alkyl-substituted phenyl radical or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -(cyclo)-alkyl radical.It further relates to a process for preparing an azomethine, in which ##STR2## is reacted with the corresponding carbonyl compounds ##STR3## The invention also relates to the use of the azomethines for the preparation of certain polyazomethines (poly-Schiff bases), where the azomethines are reacted with diisocyanates or their adducts with polyols or their trimers, and to polyazomethine compounds.

Abstract: Dermatological and/or cosmetological compositions containing at least one retinoid of general formula (I), ##STR1## and the use of such compounds for preparing dermatological and/or cosmetological compositions.

Abstract: The present process is directed to preparing optically active 2-aryl alkyl aldehydes by various processes through the use of an optically active amine, (-)-2'-amino-3-phenyl propane. The aldehyde formed can then be oxidized to produce the corresponding acid.

Abstract: A formaldehyde reactant is provided to a chemical process or reaction, in the form of a formaldehyde-alcohol complex, by contacting paraformaldehyde with from about 0.25 to about 3 mole equivalents of an aliphatic alcohol in the presence of a catalytic amount of a base. In a preferred embodiment the chemical process is a process for the production of an aromatic azomethine by reaction of an aniline with formaldehyde. The azomethine may then be used to produce a haloacetanilide.

Abstract: Azomethines can be prepared by the condensation of cycloalkanones and anilines in the presence of acid homogeneous catalysts while the water of reaction is removed azeotropically, the condensation being carried out in a continuous reaction in a column-like reactor to which a temperature profile is applied, the starting materials being fed in in the low-temperature region, and, of the reaction products, the water of reaction to be removed azeotropically being discharged also in the low-temperature region and the azomethine produced being discharged in the high-temperature region.

Abstract: Azomethines can be prepared by the condensation of cycloalkanones and anilines in the presence of acid heterogeneous catalysts, with azeotropic removal of the water of reaction, the condensation being carried out in a continuous reaction in a column-like reactor having an applied temperature profile, and the starting materials being fed in the low-temperature zone and, of the reaction products, the water of reaction to be removed as an azeotrope also being removed in the low-temperature zone and the azomethine formed being removed in the high-temperature zone.

Abstract: There is disclosed an imine derivative of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl or aryl, with the proviso that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are not simultaneously hydrogen; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are joined together to form C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 alkylene. Also disclosed is a process for the production of the imine derivative.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with the preparation of erythro N-substituted vicinal aminoalcohol derivatives from hydroxyl-protected cyanohydrin derivatives by successive Grignard reaction, transimination using a primary amine, reduction of the resulting imine and removal of the hydroxyl-protecting group. The products are obtained either as a racemate or in an optically pure form, depending upon the stereochemical composition of the cyanohydrin derivatives.

Abstract: A series of novel imidate insecticides distinguished by the general formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is an optionally substituted aryl group in which the substituents are halo, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkylthio, C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl, nitro, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 carboalkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, cyano, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylsulfonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkylsulfonyl; C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 alkylcarbonyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkyleneoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylenedioxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 halo-substituted alkylenedioxy, phenyl, mono-substituted phenyl, pyridyloxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkylene, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl, and/or amido;R.sub.2 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 haloalkyl, cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, mono- or poly- halo- or methyl-substituted cyclopropyl, cyano, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkoxyalkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 haloalkenyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkenyl; andR.sub.

Abstract: Insecticidal compounds having the formula ##STR1## in which R is an optionally substituted aryl moiety; R.sub.2 is an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or alkenyl moiety, X is sulfur, amino or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 monoalkylamino; and R.sub.3 is: (a) an optionally substituted 3-phenoxyphenalkyl, 3-phenoxypyridylalkyl or 3-(4-pyridyloxy)phenalkyl moiety; (b) pentafluorobenzyl; or (c) 2-methyl-3-phenylbenzyl.

Abstract: A process for producing arylglyoxal arylimine intermediates, by the DMSO/HBr oxidation of arylmethylketones. The imine compounds are intermediates in the synthesis of carbapenem antibiotics, i.e. imipenem.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## where X is iodine or hydrogen; A is a linking portion; and R is an iodinatable aryl or heteroaryl group having electron donating substituents. These compounds are useful precursors to the iodinated thyroid hormones for radioimmunoassay determination of thyroid hormones in biological fluids.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## where E is --CH.dbd. or --N.dbd., K is the radical of an amine or of a coupling component of the benzene, naphthalene, pyrazole, pyridine, pyrimidine, quinoline or isoquinoline series, or the radical of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound which can be coupled, X is --O-- or --COO--, Y is --O--, --COO-- or --NH--, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 independently of one another are unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or cycloalkyl, and one of them may furthermore be unsubstituted or substituted aryl, or Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 together with the nitrogen atom are a heterocyclic radical, and Z is unsubstituted or substituted C.sub.2 - or C.sub.3 -alkylene, from 1 to 4 sulfonic acid groups can be present and the rings A and B can be further substituted or can carry a fused benzene ring.The compounds of the present invention are suitable for dyeing or printing natural or synthetic N-containing materials, i.e., wool, leather or polyamide or polyurethane fibers, as wells as for coloring inks.

Abstract: Novel 4,4'-dithiodianil compounds are prepared by reacting 4,4'-dithiodianiline with an aromatic or pyridine aldehyde, such as 4-nitrobenzaldehyde. The novel dithiodianil compounds can be employed for detecting thiol compounds. They react with thiols to yield reaction products which possess a different color from the novel dithiodianil compound itself. The color change obtained in this manner with the novel compounds in many cases is stronger than that obtained with Ellman's reagent frequently employed for detecting thiols.

Abstract: 2,4-Dichloro-3-alkylidene-aminophenols having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl radical, with the proviso that R.sub.2 can only be an aryl radical when R.sub.1 is hydrogen.The 2,4-dichloro-alkylidene-aminophenols can be produced by reaction of 2,4-dichloro-3-aminophenol with the corresponding aldehydes or ketones. They are suitable as such, or in the form of their salts with inorganic or organic acids, as coupler components in oxidation hair dyes.

Abstract: This invention is directed to 2-(2-chloro-4-cyclopropyl-phenyl-imino)-imidazolidine, and acid addition salts thereof, the preparation of said compounds, and the use of said compounds as bradycardiacs.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with the preparation of erythro N-substituted vicinal aminoalcohol derivatives from hydroxyl-protected cyanohydrin derivatives by successive Grignard reaction, transimination using a primary amine, reduction of the resulting imine and removal of the hydroxyl-protecting group. The products are obtained either as a racemate or in an optically pure form, depending upon the stereochemical composition of the cyanohydrin derivatives.