Patent Watch Archive

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

• 11/16/09
  Here’s a robust process for synthesizing a potential atherosclerosis drug
• 11/9/09
  Here’s a safe and inexpensive route to arylsulfur pentafluorides
• 11/2/09
  This propylene is at least partly "green"
• 10/26/09
  Oxidize benzene cleanly to phenol
• 10/12/09
  Converting renewable resources to “petrochemicals”
• 10/4/09
  Here’s a new, easy route to dimethyl carbonate
• 9/28/09
  Converting benzene to cyclohexylbenzene in good selectivity could lead to a new route to phenol
• 9/21/09
  Resolve citalopram enantiomers with L-tartaric acid
• 9/14/09
  Use a microreactor to optimize a Buchwald amination
• 9/7/09
  Use a molybdenum complex in the synthesis of a key drug intermediate
• 8/31/09
  New on-purpose route to 1-octene is under development
• 8/24/09
  Here's a new production method for p-xylene
• 8/17/09
  Here's a new biomass-based route to ethanol
• 8/10/09
  Produce duloxetine with high stereoselectivity
• 8/3/09
  Make a key drug intermediate in a continuous reactor
• 7/27/09
  Here’s an improvement on luminol synthesis and its use to detect blood
• 7/20/09
  Catalysts for the high-selectivity telomerization of butadiene have been developed
• 7/13/09
  Manufacture acrolein by a partially "green" route
• 7/6/09
  Run a ring-closing metathesis reaction in a supercritical fluid
• 6/29/09
  Manufacture isocyanates without using phosgene
• 6/22/09
  Here's a practical route to a safer analgesic
• 6/15/09
  Alkylating benzene with 2-butene boosts phenol prospects
• 6/8/09
  Here’s an improved synthesis of atorvastatin
• 6/1/09
  Here's a cracking catalyst that gives good selectivity to ethylene
• 5/25/09
  Olefin metathesis is a powerful tool for manipulating olefins
• 5/18/09
  Use a safer and less expensive reduction reaction to produce diabetes drugs
• 5/11/09
  Make the natural product lobelin in large quantities
• 5/4/09
  Here's an improved route to potentially valuable drug
• 4/27/09
  Nonacetone routes to phenol continue to be developed
• 4/20/09
  A route for making ethylene glycol without starting from ethylene is under development
• 4/13/09
  A lower cost, direct route to hydrogen peroxide would spur increased use in petrochemical production processes.
• 3/30/09
  The catalyst system for making alkylene carbonates is being improved
• 3/23/09
  Run a ring-closing metathesis reaction in a supercritical fluid
• 3/16/09
  New catalysts help produce specific α-olefins
• 3/9/09
  Synthesize a flavoring compound by enzymatic esterification
• 3/2/09
  Here’s an improved process for γ-cyhalothrin
• 2/23/09
  Here's a new process for converting methane to ethane
• 2/9/09
  Manufacture isocyanates without using phosgene
• 2/2/09
  Here’s a better way to make α-aminoindan intermediates
• 1/26/09
  Here’s an improved process for a pharmaceutical intermediate
• 1/19/09
  Here's a practical route to a safer analgesic
• 1/12/09
  A new procedure for making propylene oxide is under development
• 1/5/09
  Produce cyclododecanone more efficiently

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