Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Guenther Seybold

Heinz Eilingsfeld

Guenter Hansen

Georg Zeidler

Bruno Wuerzer

Bernardo Wolff

Ernst Schefczik

Udo Mayer

Werner Ostertag

Udo Bergmann

Manfred Mielke

Walter Breitschaft

Frieder Hohwiller

Hartmut Lardon

Gerhard Hamprecht

Peter Neumann

Gerhard Wagenblast

Norbert Meyer

Hardo Siegel

Erwin Hahn

Dieter Lenke

Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger

Johannes P Dix

Andreas Stange

Ortwin Schaffer

Fritz Graser

Ulrich Koehler

Ludwig Friedrich

Erwin Czech

Horst Bruder

Andreas Guentner

Jochen Fricke

Heinz Krueger

Ruediger Iden

Dietmar Augart

Johannes D Dix

Roland Caps

A process for preparing tertiary amine oxides with a low nitrosamine content by reacting a tertiary amine with an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide, which comprises using as starting material tertiary amines whose total content of primary and secondary amines is not more than 0.05% by weight.

Preparation of tertiary amine oxides

Fluorescent pigments have a mean particle size of from 8 to 16 lm and contain apolar polymer matrices based on polymethyl methacrylate, polystyrene, polybutadiene-modified polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyvinyl chloride or polyamide and one or more apolar fluorescent dyes of the coumarin or perylene series.

Fluorescent pigments

Tryptanthrine derivative of the formula ##STR1## where the rings A and B may be benzofused and/or substituted and X is a radical which is derived from a CH-acidic heterocyclic structure which may have a further tryptanthrine radical or from a hydrazinoanthraquinone or, if one or both of the rings A and B are benzofused and/or substituted by phthaloyl, is furthermore oxygen, are used as colorants.

Tryptanthrine derivatives

A molding based on supercritically dried silica aerogel parts in the form of spherical particles having a diameter of from 0.1 to 10 mm or sheet-like pieces having a thickness of from 2 to 30 mm and a diameter of from 1 to 5 cm, wherein the molding is produced by pressing at from 500.degree. to 1000.degree. C. and at from 0.5 to 10 bar, if necessary under a protective gas, such as nitrogen, without addition of binders.

Moldings or sheets made from silica aerogels

A composite foam of low thermal conductivity comprises

Composite foams of low thermal conductivity

A thermal insulating material based on a pigment-containing silica aerogel is obtainable by

Thermal insulating material based on pigment containing silica aerogels

The process of manufacturing thiazolo-(2,3-b)-quinoazolones of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are defined in the disclosure, wherein either a) an anthranilamide derivative of the formula II ##STR2## where R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, is reacted with a thiazole derivative of the formula III ##STR3## where X is fluorine, chlorine, bormine, alkylsulfonyl or arylsulfonyl, or b) for certain radicals R.sup.4' from the group R.sup.4 - a thiazolo-(2,3-b)-quinazolone of the general formula IV ##STR4## is reacted with a nucleophile R.sup.4' -H, where R.sup.4' is alkoxy, alkylthio or unsubstituted or halogen-, alkyl-, haloalkyl-, nitro- or alkoxy-substituted phenoxy or thiophenyl, or an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salt of an alcohol.

Preparation of thiazolo (2,3-b) zuinazolones

Compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## where R is alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted aryl and K is a radical of the formula ##STR2## B is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or substituted amino, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, methyl, methoxy or ethoxy, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently of one another are each unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, R.sup.3 may furthermore be hydrogen, R.sup.4 is a radical of the formula --A--OCO--Y--R, Z is hydrogen or methyl, X is hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, chlorine or acylamino, A is C.sub.2 - or C.sub.3 -alkylene and Y is --O-- or --NH--, are very useful for dyeing cellulose esters and synthetic polyesters.

Isothiazolylazo dyes having aminophenyl and aminonaphthyl components

An electrostatic toner consists of a polymer a charge controlling component and an optional color-giving component, wherein the charge controlling agent component comprises one or more compounds of the formula `(I)`, ##STR1## ps where R.sup.1 is chlorine or methyl, R.sup.2 is C.sub.4 -C.sub.22 -alkyl, benzyl or 2-phenylethyl, A.THETA. is an anion, n is 0, 1 or 2, m is 1 or 2 and r is 1 or 2.

Electrostatic toner

The novel compounds of the general formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radicals which are free of groups which impart water solubility,

Fluorescent aryloxy-substituted perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid

Compounds which, in the form of the free acid, are of the general formula I ##STR1## where D is phenyl which unsubstituted or substituted by fluorine, chlorine, bromine, nitro, cyano, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylsulfonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, carboxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl or hydroxysulfonyl or by unsubstituted or substituted carbamyl or sulfamyl, and

Novel heterocycle-containing trisazo dyes

An isothiazolylazo dye of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group or unsubstituted aryl or substituted aryl group selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## and K is a radical of the formula ##STR3## where B is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or a substituted amino radical selected from the group consisting of ##STR4## R.sup.1 is hydrogen, methyl, methoxy or ethoxy, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently of one another are each unsubstituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or substituted alkyl groups selected from the group of C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyls which are substituted by chlorine, bromine, cyano, hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, benzyloxy, phenoxy, phenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylcarbonyloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, phenoxy or phenyl, phenycarbonyloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by chlorine, bromine, methoxy, ethoxy, methyl or ethyl, oxycarbonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyloxy, carbamyl, phenalkyloxycarbonyloxy, phenoxyalkyloxycarbonyloxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxyalkoxycarbonyloxy, phenylaminocarbonyloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by chlorine, methoxy or methyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxyalkoxycarbonyl, phenylalkyloxycarbonyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylaminocarbonyloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, chlorine or bromine; or R.sup.3 is hydrogen, R.sup.4 is a radical of the formula --A--OCO--Y--R, Z is hydrogen or methyl, X is hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, chlorine or an acylamino radical selected from the group consisting of  A is C.sub.2 - or C.sub.3 -alkylene and Y is --O-- or --NH--. The dyes are very useful for dyeing cellulose esters and synthetic polyesters; the dyeings obtained are from yellow to blue, and very fast.

Compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or nitro, B is aliphatic or a sulfo-substituted phenylene radical, and X is a dye radical, are useful for dyeing hydroxyl-containing textile material, in particular cotton.

Reactive dyes containing substituted 4-fluoropyridaz-6-one radicals

Light is concentrated in plastic sheets by a method in which the fluorescent centers used are perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimides of the formula ##STR1## The compounds (I) are prepared by chlorinating (I) in which n is 0 with sulfuryl chloride in an inert organic liquid in the presence of a catalyst. In the formula, n is 2, 3, 4 or 5 or 6, and R and R.sup.1 independently of one another are each (a) straight-chain or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by cyano, hydroxyl, cycloalkyl, alkylcarbonyloxy, alkenylcarbonyl-oxy or cycloalkylcarbonyloxy and in which the alkyl chain may furthermore be interrupted by O or S, or (b) C.sub.5 -C.sub.18 -cycloalkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by alkyl, carboalkoxy or trifluoromethyl. Novel perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimides of the formula I, where n is 4 and R and R.sup.1 are each 3-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-propyl, 2-ethylhexyl, butyl, octyl, tridecyl, octadecyl, pinan-3-ylmethyl, 6-(2'-ethylhexanoyloxy)-6-methylhept-2-yl, 4-methylcyclohexyl, 3,5-dimethylcyclohexyl, 2,6-dimethylcyclohexyl, 2,6-diisopropylcyclohexyl or norbornyl, or R is C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl-substituted cyclohexyl or cyclohexyl-C.sub.1 - or C.sub.2 -alkyl, and R.sup.1 is 2-hydroxyethyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.19 -alkylcarbonyloxy-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.12 -cycloalkylcarbonyloxy-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkenylcarbonyloxy-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl. The dyes (I) give lightfast fluorescent colorations in plastics.

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Guenther Seybold