Basf Se Corporation

Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Merial Limited

Thomas Schmidt

Toni Bucci

Gerhard Hamprecht

Johann-Peter Melder

Michael Rack

Deborah L Culbertson

Michael Puhl

Michael Keil

Joachim Gebhardt

Henry Van Tuyl Cotter

Marta Reinoso Garcia

Hassan Oloumi-Sadeghi

David G Kuhn

Guido Mayer

Joachim Dickhaut

Douglas D Anspaugh

Henricus Maria Martinus Bastiaans

Franz-Josef Braun

Jan Hendrik Wevers

Bernd Wolf

Sandra Löhr

Wolfgang Von Deyn

Robert Reinhard

Norbert Götz

Gerhard Cox

Markus Kordes

Michael Hofmann

Michael Klemens Mueller

Verena Mormul

Jeremy T Manning

Sandra Loehr

Alfred Oftring

Ernst Baumann

Cyrill Zagar

Bernd Sievernich

Peter Erk

Werner Seitz

Armin Stamm

Heidi Emilia Saxell

Michael Frank Treacy

Kati Schmidt

Carsten Sueling

Alfred Michel

Axel Pleschke

Thomas Grote

Thomas Zierke

Gerd Steiner

Sylke Haremza

Oliver Molt

Frank Schieweck

Alexander Panchenko

Juergen Detering

Matthias Rauls

Paul Klingelhoefer

Kirsten Dahmen

Markus Hartmann

Ingo Sagasser

Stephanie Jaegli

Frank Jaekel

Michael Schoenherr

Gazi Tuerkoglu

Helmut Zech

Monika Charrak

Livio Tedeschi

Frank Mrzena

Rudolf Haeberle

Somnath Shivaji Kadam

Hans-Juergen Kinder

Dan-Tam Daniel Tang

Tile Gieshoff

Christopher Orr

Hong-Ming Shieh

Volker Huett

Daniel Dan-Tam Tang

Jeremy Manning

Michael F Treacy

Process for manufacturing granules or powders comprising the steps of (a) providing an aqueous solution or slurry of (A) at least one chelating agent according to general formula (I a) [CH—CH(COO)—N(CH—COO)]MH(I a) wherein M is selected from alkali metal cations and ammonium, same or different, and x is in the range of from 0.01 to 1.0 or (I b) [OOC—CHCH—CH(COO)—N(CH—COO)]MH(I b) wherein M is as defined above, and x in formula (I b) is in the range of from 0.01 to 2.0, and (B) at least one polymer selected from (B1) polyaspartates with an average molecular weight Min the range of from 1,000 to 20,000 g/mole, and (B2) copolymers comprising, in copolymerized form, (α) at least one ester of an ethylenically unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid, and (β) at least one ethylenically unsaturated N-containing monomer, and (b) spray drying or granulating said solution or slurry.

Granules or powders and methods for their manufacture

Process for making a powder or granule containing

Process for making a granule

The present application is related to a container made of a polymer and containing a single unit dose of a detergent composition. The detergent composition contains at least two complexing agents (A) dissolved in an aqueous medium. The complexing agents (A) are (A1) at least one alkali metal salt of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA), and (A2) at least one alkali metal salt of glutamic acid diacetic acid (GLDA). The complexing agents (A1) and (A2) are partially neutralized with alkali and the weight ratio of (A1) and (A2) ranges from 1:9 to 9:1. The aqueous medium contains at least 25% by weight of water relative to the entire liquid phase.

Container comprising a detergent composition containing salts of MGDA and GLDA

The present invention is directed towards a process for manufacturing a complexing agent, said process comprising the steps of (a) Providing a nitrile according to general formula (I a) or (I b)  With M being selected from alkali metal and hydrogen and combinations thereof, (b) Saponification with a total alkali amount of 2.5 to 2.9 mol of alkali metal hydroxide per mole of nitrile according to general formula (I a) or (I b), respectively, and a pH value in the range of from 9.5 to 11.5 at the end of step (b), (c) Adding an amount of alkali metal hydroxide so that the total alkali content is 2.9 to 3.15 moles per mole nitrile according to general formula (I a) or (I b), respectively, and (d) Allowing further conversion.

Process for manufacturing a complexing agent

The present invention is directed towards mixtures comprising (A) 90 to 99.999% by weight of racemic methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) or of MGDA with predominantly the L-isomer in an enantiomeric excess of up to 9.5% or their respective mono-, di- or trialkali metal or mono-, di- or triammonium salts, and (B) in total 0.001 to 10% by weight of the diacetic acid derivative of aspartate as free acid or as mono-, di-, tri- or tetraalkali metal salt or as mono-, di-, tri- or tetraammonium salt, percentages referring to the sum from (A) and (B).

Mixtures of chelating agents, and process for making such mixtures

Process for making a chelating agent according to the general formula (I), R&#x2014;CH(COOX)&#x2014;N(CH2COOX)wherein Ris selected from hydrogen, C-C-alkyl, phenyl, benzyl, CHOH, and CHCHCOOX, Xis (MH), M being selected from alkali metal, x is in the range of from 0.6 to 1, said process comprising the following steps: (a) providing a solid, a slurry or a solution of a compound according to general formula (II a) R&#x2014;CH(COOX)&#x2014;N(CHCN)wherein Xis (MH), M being selected from alkali metal, y is in the range of from zero to 1, (b) contacting said solid or slurry or solution with an aqueous solution of alkali metal hydroxide, wherein the molar ratio of alkali metal ions to nitrile groups is in the range of from 0.6:1 to 0.95:1, (c) reacting said compound according to general formula (II a) with said alkali metal hydroxide.

Process for making mixtures of chelating agents

The present invention relates to a process for preparing sulfuric diamides of the general formula IRRN&#x2014;S(O)&#x2014;NH&#x2003;&#x2003;(I)in which Rand Rare each independently a primary alkyl radical having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, a secondary alkyl radical having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl radical having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, or, together with the nitrogen atom, form a 5- to 8-membered, saturated nitrogen heterocycle which, as well as the nitrogen atom, may have a further heteroatom selected from O and S as a ring member, where the nitrogen heterocycle is unsubstituted or may have 1, 2, 3 or 4 alkyl groups having in each case from 1 to 4 carbon atoms as substituents. The process comprises the following steps:

Methods for producing sulfonic acid diamides

Container comprising a single unit dose of a detergent composition containing at least one complexing agent (A) dissolved in an aqueous medium, said complexing agent (A) being a mixture of the L-and D-enantiomers of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) or its respective mono-, di- or trialkali metal or mono-, di- or triammonium salts, said mixture containing predominantly the respective L-isomer with an enantiomeric excess (ee) in the range of from 5 to 85%, wherein said container is made from a polymer.

Container comprising a detergent composition containing MGDA with an enantiomeric excess of the L-isomer

Mixture of L- and D-enantiomers of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) or its respective mono-, di or trialkali metal or mono-, di- or triammonium salts, said mixture containing predominantly the respective L-isomer with an enantiomeric excess (ee) in the range of from 10 to 75%.

Mixtures of MGDA enantiomers, and process for making such mixtures

The present invention relates to 2,6-bis(aminomethyl)piperidine derivatives as such (in the following text abbreviated to '2,6-BAMP derivatives') which are defined by the general formula (I) shown in the following text. In addition, the present invention relates to a process for preparing such 2,6-BAMP derivatives by hydrogenation of the corresponding 2,6-dicyanopiperidine derivatives (hereinafter abbreviated to '2,6-DCP derivatives') in the presence of a catalyst. The present invention further provides for the use of the 2,6-BAMP derivatives of the invention as hardeners for epoxy resins, as intermediate in the preparation of diisocyanates, which play an important role in the production of polyurethanes, as starters in the preparation of polyetherols and/or as monomers for polyamide production. The present invention further relates to the diisocyanates as such prepared from the 2,6-BAMP derivatives and also the corresponding preparative process.

2,6-bis-(aminomethyl)piperidine derivatives

N-Thio-anthranilamid compounds of formula (I) wherein A is A wherein the variables and the indices are as defined per the description, processes for preparing the compounds I, pesticidal compositions comprising compounds I, use of compounds I for the control of insects, acarids or nematodes, and methods for treating, controlling, preventing or protecting animals against infestation or infection by parasites by use of compounds of formula I.

N-Thio-anthranilamid compounds and their use as pesticides

N-Thio-anthranilamid compounds of formula (I)  

The present invention relates to a method of combating animal pests which comprises contacting the animal pests, their habit, breeding ground, food supply, plant, seed, soil, area, material or environment in which the animal pests are growing or may grow, or the materials, plants, seeds, soils, surfaces or spaces to be protected from animal attack or infestation with a pesticidally effective amount of at least one 6-halogeno[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]-pyrimidine of the general formula (I), wherein X, R, R, Rand Rare as defined in claimand/or the agriculturally useful salts thereof. 

6-Halogeno-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines for combating animal pests

A process is proposed for the preparation of a powder comprising one or more derivatives of glycine-N,N-diacetic acid and/or one or more derivatives of glutamine-N,N-diacetic acid with a degree of crystallinity of &#x2267;30%, starting from an aqueous solution comprising the one or more derivatives of glycine-N,N-diacetic acid and/or the one or more derivatives of glutamine-N,N-diacetic acid in a concentration range from 20 to 60% by weight, based on the total weight of the aqueous solution, wherethe aqueous solution is concentrated in a first process step in an evaporator with rotating internals, which are arranged at a distance relative to the inside wall of the evaporator of &#x2266;1% of the diameter of the evaporator, to give a crystal slurry with a solids concentration in the range from 60 to 85% by weight, based on the total weight of the crystal slurry, and wherein a second process step the crystal slurry is left to ripen in a paste bunker and then in a thin-film contact dryer, and where the residence time in the paste bunker and in the thin-film contact dryer is in total &#x2267;15 minutes.

Process for the preparation of a powder comprising one or more derivatives of glycine-N,N diacetic acid and/or one or more derivatives of glutamine-N,N diacetic acid and methylglycine-N,N diacetic acid trisodium salt powder

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