Abstract:
The invention provides branched hydrophobes for the production of surfactants with improved properties over linear hydrophobes. The invention also provides branched C10-12 enals and aldehydes that are oxidized to branched fatty acids or hydrogenated to branched fatty alcohols and further derivatized to surfactants, through ethoxylation or esterification and other or subsequent reactions. The invention further provides surfactants made from the branched trialkylamine intermediates, including amphoteric, cationic and nonionic surfactants.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of organic isocyanates in which a furoxan is heated in the presence of a vicinal diketo compound containing two adjacent keto carbonyl groups. When the furoxan ring is fused to an organic ring system di-isocyanates are produced. An adduct of the furoxan and the diketo compound may be isolated from the reaction mixture and used as a stable isocyanate precursor, for example, a "one-pot" polyurethane composition.
Abstract:
Process for carrying out nitrosation reactions and diazotization reactions by reacting the concerning compound with a nitrite in the presence of an acid wherein ammonium-nitrite is used as the nitrite.
Abstract:
Processes for the preparation of 8,14-cedranoxide are disclosed, according to which 8,14-cedrane diol is prepared by reducing 8,14-cedranolide by treatment with the aid of diisobutyl-aluminum hydride followed by acid hydrolysis, or 8,14-cedrane diol is cyclized with dimethyl sulfoxide.
Abstract:
A pharmaceutical formulation of a compound of formula (II') ##SPC1##wherein Y is a lower alkyl group, in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as an antibacterial product, and methods involving the preparation and reductive cyclization of a compound of formula (IV) ##SPC2##wherein X is a lower alkyl group or a hydroxymethyl group.