A particulate composition comprising particles having a core comprising a hydrophobic polymer within a shell, characterised in that the shell comprises a semi-permeable membrane. Particulate composition can be used for making a stable dispersion of particles uniformly distributed throughout a first hydrophobic liquid, wherein the particles comprise a core within a shell and the core comprises a hydrophobic polymer into has been imbibed a second hydrophobic liquid, Compositions can be used to enc...

The invention relates to novel processes and intermediates for the preparation of 5-amino-4-hydroxyvaleric acid derivatives of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, aryl, aryl-lower alkyl or the radical of a natural amino acid, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, aryl, aryl-lower alkyl, amino, hydroxy, mercapto, sulphinyl, sulphonyl or the radical of a...

The present application describes a method for information storage and data processing comprising the steps of thermo inducing or photo inducing double-bond shifts (DBS) in substituted (4n)-annulenes thus generating transitions between two different conjugation states with at least one substituent. The two different conjugation states are the conjugation on-state and conjugation off-state of the annulene core .pi.-electrons with the substituent .pi.-electrons. The present invention is furthermor...

Novel upstream activation sites of the yeast PHO5 gene are used to produce inducible yeast hybrid promoters. The yeast hybrid promoters can be used to control transcription of a polypeptide coding region foreign to yeast in a yeast expression vector.

Hydropyridine derivatives of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 represents carboxy, lower alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl, N-lower alkylcarbamoyl or N,N-di-lower alkylcarbamoyl, R.sub.2 represents hydrogen, an optionally etherified or acylated hydroxy group or an optionally acylated amino group, and R.sub.3 represents a radical of the formula R-- (Ia), R--alk.sub.1 -- (Ib) or R'.dbd.alk.sub.2 -- (Ic) in which R represents a benzocycloalkenyl radical having a total of from 8 to 12 ring carbon atoms ...

Compounds of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R denotes an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, cycloaliphatic-aliphatic or araliphatic radical having 2 or more carbon atoms, and wherein one of the groups R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents hydrogen or an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic radical, another one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is hydrogen or, in the case of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, is hydroxy, and the remaining one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is hydrogen, and their salts h...

Compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which R is C.sub.8 -C.sub.14 alkyl, phenyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.9 aralkyl or R"OOC-CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2, R' is C.sub.2 -C.sub.18 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl, phenyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.30 alkaryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.18 -aralkyl and R" is C.sub.1 -C.sub.14 alkyl, phenyl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.9 aralkyl and x is 1 or 2, are heat stabilizers for chlorine-containing thermoplastics, in particular for PVC.

Curable compositions comprise (A) a polyglycidyl ether of a polyhydric phenol, (B) a polyglycidyl ether of a polyhydric alcohol, (C) a nitrogen-containing latent hardener for epoxide resins and (D) as cure accelerator dispersed as a powder in the composition, a solid solution of a polymeric phenol with an aliphatic polyamine having two or more amine groups, each of the amine groups being tertiary and at least two of the amine groups being dimethylamino groups.

A process for enhancing the filterability of organic pigments, which comprises adding to an aqueous pigment suspension 0.5 to 15% by weight, based on the pigment, of an unbranched aliphatic 1,2-dihydroxy compound containing 8 to 22 carbon atoms, and stirring the mixture for at least 15 minutes in the temperature range from 20.degree. to 100.degree. C. Pigments treated by the process of this invention have substantially enhanced filterability as compared with identical pigments which have not bee...

Curable mixtures containing (a) an aromatic bismaleimide of formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are identical or different and each is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently of the other a hydrogen or halogen atom, and (a) a propenyl compound of formula II ##STR2## wherein m and n are each independently of the other 1 or 2, Z is a hydrogen atom or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, and A is a radical of formula IIa, IIb or IIc ##STR3## wherein D is --SO.sub.2 -- or...