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Klaus Schmieder

Joachim Paust

Rolf Hartmuth Fischer

Hans-Martin Weitz

Dieter Horn

Hans-Heiner Wuest

Fritz-Frieder Frickel

Horst Hartmann

Peter Lechtken

Axel Nuerrenbach

Erik Lueddecke

Walter Ditter

Gerhard Mueller

Hans W Schmidt

Substituted hexatriene derivatives of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 has the meaning given in the description, and their preparation, are described. The compounds may be used to treat acne and psoriasis.

Substituted hexatriene derivatives and their use in treating acne and

.omega.,.omega.-Diacyloxy-2,6-dimethyl-octatrienoates and -octatrienals, as novel bifunctional asymmetric C.sub.10 building blocks for terpene syntheses, which possess a formyl or alkoxycarbonyl group at one chain end and 2 geminal acyloxy groups at the other, and a process for their preparation from readily obtainable industrial C.sub.5 building blocks and their use for the synthesis of terpene compounds by carbonyl olefination under conventional conditions.

.omega.,.omega.-Diacyloxy-2,6-dimethyl-octatrienoates and -octatrienals,

Finely divided, pulverulent carotinoid or retinoid compositions, in which the carotinoid or retinoid essentially has a particle size of less than 0.5 micron, are prepared by a process wherein a carotinoid or retinoid is dissolved in a volatile, water-miscible, organic solvent at from 50.degree. C. to 200.degree. C., if necessary under superatmospheric pressure, within the space of less than 10 seconds. The carotinoid is immediately precipitated, in a colloidally disperse form, from the molecularly disperse solution by rapidly mixing the latter with an aqueous solution of a swellable colloid at from 0.degree. C. to 50.degree. C., and the resulting dispersion is freed from the solvent and the dispersing medium in a conventional manner.

Preparation of finely divided pulverulent carotinoid and retinoid

Organic materials which contain from 0.001 to 10% by weight of an aminoreductone I ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are H, methyl or ethyl and R.sup.4 is the radical of a naturally occurring .alpha.- or .beta.-aminoacid or of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl ester thereof or, in the case of an .alpha.-aminoacid, a lactone having a 2--OH group in the cyclohexenone ring, or R.sup.4 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by --OH, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -acyloxy, or is --(CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O).sub.n H, which may be etherified with a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkanol or esterified with a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -fatty acid, and where n is from 2 to 10, or a mineral salt thereof. Novel compounds Ia differ from I in having the radical R.sup.4a, where R.sup.4a is R.sup.4 with the exception of methyl. Compounds I are prepared by reacting the corresponding 2,3-dihydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-one with an amine HN(R.sup.3)R.sup.4 or a mineral acid salt thereof.

Aminoreductones

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