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Klaus Wulz

Werner Streit

Karl-Heinz Beyer

Heinrich Hartmann

Walter Denzinger

Rolf Fikentscher

Hans-Juergen Degen

Hans-Juergen Raubenheimer

Rolf Schneider

Stefan Birnbach

Hermann Fischer

Otto Hertel

Guenter Frey

Josef Mueller

Karlheinz Messmer

Jochen Houben

Hans Mueller

Wolf Guender

Albrecht H Wallis

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Etherified polyoxyalkylene derivatives of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl or C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 -alkenyl, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently of one another are each hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R.sup.4 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl and m and n are identical or different and are each greater than or equal to 0, with the proviso that the sum of m and n is from 3 to 300, are prepared by reacting the corresponding hydroxyl-containing polyoxyalkylene derivative with a dialkyl sulfate in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide by a process in which the reaction is carried out at from 20.degree. to 60.degree. C. in the presence of an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide, the concentration of alkali metal hydroxide during the entire duration of the reaction being not less than 35% by weight, based on the aqueous phase, and not less than 1 mole of dialkyl sulfate and not less than one mole of alkali metal hydroxide are used per mole equivalent of organic hydroxyl groups.

Etherification of polyoxyalkylene derivatives

A process for coloring paper with an acid dye and/or direct dye in an aqueous medium in the presence of a water-soluble reaction product of an alkylating agent, possessing an aromatic substituent, with a cationic polyelectrolyte. The process gives papers with high color strength and substantially avoids cylinder twosidedness of the coloration.

Coloring of paper

Maleic anhydride copolymer powders are prepared by a process wherein a solution or dispersion of maleic anhydride in an alkyl vinyl ether and/or an alkene, containing from 3 to 25 moles of the alkyl vinyl ether and/or alkene per mole of maleic anhydride, is brought into contact with a powder bed under polymerization conditions, and is polymerized in the bed while the reaction mass is circulated and the powder state is maintained, and the heat generated during polymerization is removed by evaporating excess monomer which boils lower than maleic anhydride.

Preparation of maleic anhydride copolymers

A process for the preparation of an aminoalkyl half-ester of sulfuric acid by simultaneously adding an aminoalkanol and sulfuric acid to a suspending medium, boiling at 70.degree.-150.degree. C., with vigorous mixing, distilling off the water formed during the reaction, and any water introduced with the starting materials, together with a part of the suspending medium, as an azeotrope, separating off the water from the condensed azeotrope and recycling the suspending medium, as a gas, to the reaction mixture.

Preparation of aminoalkyl half-esters of sulfuric acid

A process for the manufacture of polyalkylenepolyamines by reacting a primary or secondary amine with a compound of the formula ##STR1## where X is --Cl, --Br, or --OSO.sub.3 H and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are H or saturated alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and with at least the stoichiometric amount, based on the compound of the formula I, of an aqueous solution, of from 15 to 45 percent strength, of an alkali metal hydroxide or alkaline earth metal hydroxide, at from 60.degree. to 200.degree. C., cooling the reaction mixture to a temperature at which 2 aqueous phases form, and separating off the upper phase, containing polyalkylenepolyamnines. The rate of reaction can be increased by adding catalytic amounts of compounds which initiate the polymerization of alkyleneimines.

Manufacture of polyalkylenepolyamines

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