Degussa Aktiengesellschaft

Evonik Degussa Gmbh

Evonik Operations Gmbh

Uhde Gmbh

Degussa - Huls Ag

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E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Sasol Wax Gmbh

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions Ag

Evonik Roehm Gmbh

Perstorp Specialty Chemicals Ab

Thomas Haas

Willi Hofen

Jan Christoph Pfeffer

Dietrich Arntz

Guido Stochniol

Steffen Schaffer

Rudolf Vanheertum

Thomas Tacke

Bernd Jaeger

Wolfgang Wöll

Georg Thiele

Hans-Georg Joerg Hennemann

J&ouml;rg Sauer

Mirja Wessel

Harald Haeger

Arne Skerra

Martin Roos

Oliver Thum

Andreas Freund

Norbert Ullrich

Andreas Martin

Matthias Beller

Emmanouil Spyrou

Ralf Jackstell

Markus Poetter

Claudia Brasse

Frank Erhardt

Florian Klasovsky

Markus Pötter

Werner Burkhardt

Gernot Meyer

Angela Koeckritz

Jürgen Glenneberg

Marcus Morawietz

Jens Deutsch

Eva Maria Wittmann

Christian Gehring

Achim Marx

Herbert Klenk

Monika Berweiler

Christian Lettmann

Wolfgang Kroutil

Olivier Zehnacker

Daniel Demicoli

Marc Brendel

Christoph Brossmer

Harald Häger

Bärbel Kolbe

Andreas Schmid

Sebastian Imm

Dieter Most

Volker Sieber

Liv Reinecke

Armin Neher

Norbert Finke

Katrin Grammann

Robert Jahn

Yvonne Schiemann

Hans-Christian Dietz

Mike Farwick

Uwe Dingerdissen

Takuya Matsumoto

Stefan Wieland

Martina Ortelt

Dirk Fuchsmann

Wilhelm Keim

Reinhold Brand

Ralf Meier

Harald Schmidt

Thorsten Eggert

Andreas Karau

Christoph Kobler

Ulrich Schneider

Anja Thiessenhusen

Dieter Buss

Axel Ronneburg

Rudolf M Wagner

Britta Kohlstruk

Kurt Faber

Roland Burmeister

Bruno Keller

Hubertus Eickhoff

Lars Mathias Blank

Joerg Sauer

Jorg Sauer

Dirk Weuster-Botz

Werner Pohl

Peter Welters

Christoph Schorsch

Michael Kleiber

Matthias Creutz

Melanie Hall

J&uuml;rgen Glenneberg

Klaus Stadtmueller

Kai Doderer

Oliver Herzog

Jan Wolter

Manfred Bärz

Bruno Buehler

Jürgen Schemel

The invention relates to wood plastic composite compositions comprising a wax composition, wherein the wood plastic composite composition has superior properties in the processing thereof. The wax composition is characterized by its dynamic viscosity at 120&#xb0; C., congealing point, content of molecules in which the carbon chain is linear and content of oxidized hydrocarbons.

Wood plastic composite composition comprising a wax composition, method for producing a wood plastic composite therefrom and the use of wax compositions as lubricants for the production of wood plastic composites

A method for oxidizing an alkyl, including a) contacting the alkyl with an aqueous solution comprising a microorganism where the microorganism has a reduced fatty acid degradation capacity compared to its wild type, wherein the fatty acid degradation capacity is reduced by deletion, inhibition or inactivation of a gene encoding an enzyme involved in the &#x3b2;-oxidation pathway; and the microorganism expresses a recombinant alkane oxidase, and b) contacting the aqueous solution from a) with a water-immiscible organic solvent.

Biotechnological production of alcohols and derivatives thereof

Provided is a method of producing at least one omega-hydroxyl fatty acid, the method comprising: (a) contacting at least one alkane with at least one recombinant yeast cell in an aqueous medium, wherein the yeast cell is capable of oxidising the alkane to the corresponding omega-hydroxyl fatty acid and the yeast cell comprises a reduced fatty acid degradation capacity.

Process of producing omega-hydroxyl fatty acid from alkane

There is provided an acetogenic microbial cell which is capable of producing at least one higher alcohol from a carbon source, wherein the acetogenic microbial cell is genetically modified to comprise an increased expression relative to its wild type cell of at least one enzyme, E, a butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA transferase (cat3). There is also provided a method and use of the cell to produce higher alcohols.

Genetically modified acetogenic cell

The present invention relates to a compound of general formula I  The present invention also relates to a method of producing N-acetyl homoserine and/or derivatives thereof, the method comprising

N-acetyl homoserine

There is provided a microbial cell expressing a mutant AlkB enzyme, the mutant AlkB enzyme comprising at least one point mutation in the wild type sequence of AlkB, wherein the point mutation is at amino acid position V129 and/or T136 of the wild type AlkB enzyme. There is also provided a method for producing omega-hydroxy carboxylic acid and/or ester thereof using this cell.

Microorganism expressing mutant AlkB enzyme and use to prepare omega-hydroxy carboxylic acid and/or ester

A microbial cell, which is genetically modified to increase the expression relative to the corresponding genetically unmodified cell of an AlkB alkane hydroxylase (E) having an amino acid sequence at least 95% identical with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and a wax-ester synthase (E) having an amino acid sequence at least 95% identical with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2. The cell does not have a genetic modification that increases formation of a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate ester from a simple carbon source.

Biotechnological production of omega-functionalised carboxylic acids and esters thereof

In a process for the epoxidation of propene, comprising continuously reacting a propene feed with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of an epoxidation catalyst in a reaction step, using propene in excess to hydrogen peroxide, to provide a liquid reaction mixture comprising non-reacted propene, extra safety measures caused by the presence of oxygen during work-up of the liquid reaction mixture of the epoxidation reaction can be avoided by stripping liquid reaction mixture from step a) with an inert gas to provide an oxygen depleted stripped liquid reaction mixture and a strip gas stream, selecting the amount of inert gas to provide an oxygen concentration in the strip gas stream in the range of from 0.1 to 10% by weight, separating non-reacted propene from the strip gas stream and recycling it to the reaction step, and separating propene oxide from the stripped liquid reaction mixture.

Process for the epoxidation of propene

The present invention relates to a reaction mixture and a method of producing at least one higher alcohol comprising a reaction mixture comprising a mixed culture of a first and a second microorganism in an aqueous medium comprising carbon monoxide gas, wherein wherein the first microorganism is further capable of converting the acid to the corresponding higher alcohol and the higher alcohol comprises at least 6 carbon atoms.

Method of producing higher alcohols

The invention provides a process for the preparation of hydrocarbons substituted with at least one group containing at least one oxygen atom, comprising the process steps

Multi-stage synthesis method with synthesis gas

The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a gypsum slurry by bringing together and mixing gypsum, water, wax powder and optionally other components, applying the gypsum slurry in a process for manufacturing a gypsum product and a gypsum product such as a plasterboard or wallboard obtained by the process and the use of the wax powder for the manufacturing of a moisture resistant gypsum product.

Process for manufacturing a gypsum slurry or a gypsum product with the use of a wax powder, products obtained by the process and use of the wax powder for obtaining a moisture-resistant gypsum product

The present invention relates to water based wax dispersion comprising a hydrocarbon wax and a dialkylether for the coating of paper products, the use thereof, the method of coating paper products therewith and the coated printed paper product.

Water based wax dispersion comprising a hydrocarbon wax and a dialkylether for coating paper products

The invention relates to a process for preparing an &#x3b1;,&#x3c9;-alkanediol comprising the steps of a) reacting an alkanoic acid with an alkanol to give an ester, b) oxidizing at least one terminal carbon atom of the ester by contacting with a whole-cell catalyst, which expresses an alkane hydroxylase, in aqueous solution and in the presence of molecular oxygen, to give an oxidized ester, c) hydrogenating the oxidized ester to form the alkanediol and alkanol, and d) removing the alkanol by distillation, forming a reaction mixture depleted with respect to the alkanol, and recycling the alkanol in step b).

Process for preparing an alpha, omega-alkanediol

In a process for the epoxidation of propene, comprising the steps of reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide, separating propene oxide and a recovered propene stream from the reaction mixture, separating propane from all or a part of the recovered propene stream in a Csplitter column, and passing the overhead product stream of the Csplitter column to the epoxidation step, a propane starting material with a propane fraction of from 0.002 to 0.10 is used, the epoxidation is operated to provide a propane fraction in the reaction mixture of from 0.05 to 0.20 and the Csplitter column is operated to provide an overhead product stream which comprises a propane fraction of at least 0.04 in order to reduce the size and the energy consumption of the Csplitter column.

There is provided a method of producing aminohexanoic acid and/or aminohexanoic acid ester from synthesis gas, the method comprising:

Method of producing nylon

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