Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Klaus Hestermann

Gero Heymer

Bernd Lippsmeier

Joachim Kandler

Hartfrid Vollmer

Alexander Maurer

Horst-Dieter Wasel-Nielen

Werner Gohla

Karl Merkenich

Martin Reuter

Horst Staendeke

Renate Adrian

Klaus Sommer

Georg Elsner

Gerhard Mietens

Christian May

Hans-Adolf Rohlfs

Ernst-Gunther Schlosser

Hartfried Vollmer

Herbert Beumling

Jurgen Stengel

The invention relates to a corrosion-inhibiting active pigment for use in the surface protection of iron and iron alloys. The pigment consists of a mixture of calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate, magnesium hydrogen phosphate trihydrate and zinc oxide. More specifically, the mixture contains 2 to 98 weight % of ZnO and 98 to 2 weight % of phosphate components. These in turn contain 3 to 97 weight % of CaHPO.sub.4 .multidot.2 H.sub.2 O and 97 to 3 weight % of MgHPO.sub.4 .multidot.3 H.sub.2 O. The active pigment is suitable for use in painting compositions or lacquers.

Corrosion-inhibiting pigment and paint composition

The invention provides cleaning and detergent compositions containing about:

Detergent and cleaning compositions containing polymeric phosphate

The invention relates to the production of phosphorus-containing anticorrosive pigments with a particle size of at most 20 microns by reacting one or more calcium or magnesium compounds with phosphoric acid or acid alkali metal or ammonium phosphates by intimately mixing an aqueous suspension or solution of the reactants inside a dispersing means rotating at a speed of 3000 to 10,000 rpm. More particularly, fine pulverulent calcium and magnesium compounds are converted, with agitation, together with water and, if desired, a water-soluble alkanol to a homogeneous suspension or solution. The suspension or solution is intimately mixed, inside the dispersing means at 0.degree. to 40.degree. C. and in an approximately stoichiometric ratio, with the phosphoric acid or acid phosphate solution. Resulting and precipitated pigment is separated and dried under mild conditions while maintaining its content of water of crystallization. The anticorrosive pigment is comprised of a homogeneous mixture and/or mixed crystals of which 10 to 95 mol % is calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate, the balance being magnesium hydrogen phosphate trihydrate. An at least 55 weight % proportion consists of particles with a size of up to 5 microns with a BET-surface of at least 1 m.sup.2 /g.

Production of an anticorrosive pigment on phosphate basis

The invention provides cleaning and detergent compositions which contain about 0.2 to 5 weight % of at least one compound of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R stands for a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R.sub.1 stands for a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal or NH.sub.4 -ion.

Detergent and cleaning compositions

Quaternary phosphonium hydroxides of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R stands either for hydrogen or an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and n stands for 1 or 2, are made by reacting a di- or trimethylphosphine in an aqueous medium with an epoxide of the general formula ##STR2## in which R has the meaning given above. More specifically a pH-value of .gtoreq.12 is established in the aqueous medium by means of a base and the starting materials are mixed in said medium.

Production of quaternary phosphonium hydroxides

Production of alkylphosphines

Alkyl phosphines are made. To this end, phosphorus in vapor form is reacted with steam and an alkyl amine at elevated temperature in contact with a carbon catalyst placed in a reactor, the reactants being used individually or in admixture with one another.

Production of alkyl phosphines

Phosphine (hydrogen phosphide) is made by reacting gaseous yellow phosphorus with steam at temperatures of 280 to 400.degree. C in the presence of ammonia in contact with a carbon catalyst.

Production of phosphine

Production of quaternary phosphonium halides of the general formula:

Production of quaternary phosphonium halides

Production of novel phosphobetaines of general formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each stand for organic groups having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and R.sup.1 or R.sup.2 may be identical with the substituent R, the substituent R being a radical of the general formula II ##STR2## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each stand for organic groups having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and/or hydrogen atoms, and R.sup.5 stands for a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, which may optionally have a halogen or hydroxylic group substituent attached thereto.

Phosphorbetaines and process for making them

Phosphine is produced from elementary yellow phosphorus and an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution in the presence of an alcohol. The phosphine is more particularly made by using an alcohol having from 5 to 10 carbon atoms and a dissolving power for yellow phosphorus of more than 5 g/l; suspending the phosphorus with agitation in the said alcohol in a reaction zone; reacting the resulting suspension with the alkali metal hydroxide solution at temperatures lower than the boiling point of the alcohol; and collecting the resulting issuing gaseous phosphine.

Production of tertiary phosphine oxides which contain nitrile groups and correspond to the following general formula I: ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sub.2 each stand for a straight or branched, identical or different alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl or aralkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and in which R.sup.1 or R.sub.2 may be identical with R, which stands for a radical of the following general formula II: ##STR2## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each stand for a straight or branched, identical or different alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl or aralkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and/or hydrogen atoms. The tertiary phosphine oxides are made by reacting a phosphine of the following general formula III: ##STR3## in which R.sup.5 has the same meaning as R.sup.3 and R.sup.6 has the same meaning as R.sup.4 but is no hydrogen, with an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated nitrile of the following general formula IV: ##STR4## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 have the meanings given above. The reaction is effected in a single stage in the presence of water or a water-solvent mixture and the above formula I compounds are separated from the reaction product.

Production of tertiary phosphine oxides

Production of (hydroxymethyl)-alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkylphosphines of the general formula:

Production of (hydroxymethyl)-alkyl, cycloalkyl and aralkylphosphines

Production of tertiary hydroxyalkylphosphine oxides of general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each stand for organic groups having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, where R.sup.1 may be identical with R.sup.2 and R.sup.2 may be identical with R which stands for a radical of general formula (II) ##STR2## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 equally stand for organic groups having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and/or more preferably for hydrogen. The compounds are made from phosphines of general formula (III) ##STR3## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 have the meanings given above, which are reacted in a single step operation with carbonyl compounds of general formula (IV) ##STR4## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 equally have the meanings given above. The reaction is effected while adding at least one substance yielding hydroxyl ions and in the presence of water, and the resulting hydroxyalkylphosphine oxides are separated from the reaction product.

Production of hydroxyalkylphosphine oxides

Production of organophosphines of the general formula R.sub.n PH.sub.3-n, in which R stands for identical or different, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl groups having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, preferably from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, more preferably from 1 to 2 carbon atoms, and n stands for a whole number within the range 1 and 3. The compounds are more particularly produced by continuously reacting hydrocarbon halides of the general formula RX, in which R has the meaning given hereinabove and X stands for halogen, especially for chlorine or bromine, with hydrogen phosphide, and primary or secondary organophosphines at temperatures within the range 100.degree. and 600.degree. C. and under pressures of up to 20 atmospheres in contact with a catalyst being placed in a reactor. Gaseous matter issuing from the reactor is cooled and the resulting organophosphonium halides (R.sub.n PH.sub.4-n)X are hydrolyzed in conventional manner to the corresponding organophosphines.

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