Chemische Werke Huls Aktiengesellschaft

Huels Aktiengesellschaft

Fritz Gude

Herbert Haferkorn

Ferdinand Von Praun

Heinz Riemer

Felix Schulde

Hans Bellut

Gunter Dormann

A process for the preparation of a dicyclopentenol ester of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a C.sub.1-12 alkyl group, a C.sub.6-12 aryl group or a C.sub.6-12 substituted aryl group is disclosed. In this process dicyclopentadiene is reacted with an organic carboxylic acid of the formula:

Process for the preparation of dicyclopentenol esters

A process for the production of maleic anhydride by catalytic air oxidation of hydrocarbons capable of being so oxidized at a temperature in the range of 300.degree.-450.degree. C., which, after air oxidation, entails:

Process for the production of maleic anhydride

A process for the recovery of five-membered ring dicarboxylic acid anhydrides from aqueous solutions of the corresponding dicarboxylic acids which entails (a) washing the aqueous solution of the dicarboxylic acid with a water-insoluble tertiary amine, and separating the resulting amine-acid salt from the water layer; and (b) adding an aromatic hydrocarbon entrainer for the water, removing the entrainer/water azeotrope by distillation and separating the five-membered ring dicarboxylic acid anhydride after phase separation; or adding an aliphatic hydrocarbon entrainer for the water, removing a ternary azeotropic mixture consisting of a hydrolytically stable anhydride, water and entrainer by distillation and separating the five-membered ring dicarboxylic acid anhydride after phase separation.

Process for the recovery of five-membered ring dicarboxylic acid

The invention relates to a process for removing naphthoquinone from phthalic anhydride produced by the air oxidation of naphthalene or mixtures containing naphthalene. Specifically, crude phthalic anhydride containing naphthoquinone is treated at a temperature of 180.degree.-280.degree. C. with an unsaturated aliphatic oil produced by the polymerization of 1,3-dienes and optionally isomerized having a molecular weight of 800-5,000, and optionally in the presence of 1-40 ppm of alkali ions, relative to the crude phthalic anhydride.

Process for removing naphthoquinone from phthalic anhydride produced

The object of the invention is a process for the production of flat varnishes based on powder coatings of 1,2-epoxy compounds with at least one 1,2-epoxy group in the molecule and a lower melting point of &gt;40.degree. C., salts of aromatic carboxylic acids with 3 and more carboxyl groups and imidazolines as curing agents, as well as the usual additives and the application of the powdered varnish upon the objects to be varnished and heating of these objects to temperatures of 160.degree.-240.degree. C., whereby the salt of 2-phenyl-methyl-.DELTA.2-imidazoline and trimellitic acid is substituted up to 60 mole % by a salt of 2-phenyl-.DELTA.2-imidazoline and trimellitic acid.

Process for the production of flat varnishes

Terpolymers of maleic anhydride, dicyclopentadiene, and a vinylcyclohexene, preferably 1-vinylcyclohexene-3, are highly effective paper sizing materials.

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Fritz Gude