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Holscher, F. BASF Company Archives Series, Ludwigshafen, 1972, p. 48... 

In 1913, methanol was identified by A. Mittasch at the BASF Company [1] as a byproduct in the synthesis of ammonia. Subsequently, in 1923, the first industrial unit went on stream to convert syngas, in the presence of significant amounts... 

C. Larre, D. Bressolles, C. Turrin, B. Donnadieu, A. M. Caminade, J. Majoral, /. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 13070-13082 Polyethylene imines are commercially available under trademarks Lupa-sol and Polymin (BASF Company,... 

Pluronics are the trade name of Poloxamers from the BASF company, which are composed of a central hydrophobic chain of polyoxypropylene [poly(propylene oxide)] flanked by two hydrophilic chains of polyoxyethylene [poly(ethylene oxide)]. For the generic term poloxamer, these copolymers are commonly named with the letter P (for poloxamer) followed by three digits. For the Pluronic trade name, coding of these copolymers starts with a letter to define its physical form at room temperature [L = liquid, P = paste, F = flake (solid)] followed by two or three digits. 

A variety of organic transformations in aqueous media using BDD anodes have been studied. The pronounced stability of the BDD material in the presence of water makes it obvious that is should be used in oxidation processes. However, the yields are usually low and therefore less attractive for synthetic purposes. The BASF company investigated the anodic oxidation of butyn-l,4-diol 32. The anodic treatment in an electrolyte of dilute sulfuric acid gave small amounts of the monoacid 33 and the acetylene dicarboxylic acid 34. The moderate product efficiency might be attributed to electrochemical incineration processes (Scheme 15). 

The surfactant used in the experiments was a polyethylen glycol ether of BASF company with the trade name Lutensol T03. General structure of the reagent is R0(CH2CH2 0)x H where R is iso-Cu H2 and x is 3,5,7,8,12.. The reagent has a nonionic character and does not give much froth in water. It was used as 500 g/t of solid material in the suspension. 

The use of amidinato catalyst systems for the polymerization of olefins has first been reported in a patent application by us in cooperation with BASF company [6,7,46]. Since then various other patents dealing with the use of amidinato metal complexes as catalysts for olefin polymerizations have appeared. However, the main focus of these studies was on the use of group 4 metal amidinates as these have been found... 

Strategic arguments apply equally to industrial and laboratory syntheses. The BASF company manufactures a (56) and 0 (57) sinensals, compounds responsible for the odour of orange oil. Analysis of the syntheses combines aspects of key reactions, linear and convergent strategies, and available starting materials. 

Polyaniline (PAni), which has been known for more than a hundred years, was modified in the 1980s. The conductivity of polyaniline was raised from 10 to 10 Ohm -cm at BASF Company (Nuarman H.) in conditions of high experimental reproducibility and strict control over polymerization. The indicated values surpass the conductivity of metals such as Fe and Pt,... 

On the development of BASF, see the unpublished manuscripts (in German) of Walter Voigtlander-Tetzner, especially History of BASF 1865-1914, Chronicle of BASF 1865-1940, and Commercial Development of BASF, all in the BASF company archive. 

I wish to thank the staff members of the BASF Company Archives, Ludwigshafen,... 

The industrial-scale availability of nitrogen and hydrogen at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century enabled a host of new applications. The BASF company, for example, succeeded in developing an ammonia synthesis from nitrogen and hydrogen in 1913. This paved the way for mass production of fertilisers. 

M.J. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Grants CTS-0553014 and CHE-0093707. The authors also acknowledge BASF Company and Dow Chemicals for providing triblock copolymers and would like to thank Kamil Gierszal from Kent State University for performing modification of SBA-15 silica. 

According to Fox, op. cit. (11), Perkin Sons needed to both expand and relocate the factory (which was without rail connections) to compete successfully. The partners considered this to be too risky and sold out at the end of 1873 (p. 99). The BASF company, which had a trading arrangement with Perkin Sons over artificial alizarin, expressed no interest in purchasing the Greenford Green factory, the equipment of which was almost outmoded. 

Bernhard Rieger obtained his PhD in chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich in 1988. After a postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering from 1988 till 1989, he joined the BASF Company for research about metallocene polymerizations, from 1989 till 1991. After his habilitation from 1991 till 1995 at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tubingen, he was a Professor at the University of Ulm from 1995 on, as well as Head of the Department of Materials and Catal) until 2006. Since thea he has been head ofthe WACKER Chair of Macromolecular Science at the Technische Universitat Miinchen. His main research interests are homogeneous polymerization catalysis, where numerous publications concern the alkene/CO copolymerizatioa as well as silicon-containing polymers and self-assembled functional surface structures. 

To meet the increasing demands on quality and efficiency of spectroscopic services a new approach to fully automated structure elucidation has been developed by the BASF company. Unlike other structure generators, such as the above-described Specinfo/Molgen combination, the BASF generator SpecSolv uses only C NMR spectra and does not require any further information from other spectroscopic techniques, not even knowledge of the molecular formula or element composition. 

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