Patent Watch Archive

2012 | 2011 | 2010

• May 21
  Use methane-derived syngas to make liquid motor fuels.
• May 14
  Make cyclododecatriene with an improved catalyst system.
• May 7
  Make a nerve agent antidote without using a toxic reagent.
• April 30
  This catalyst makes aromatics from shale gas–derived propane.
• April 23
  Use less tin catalyst in a diol monotosylation reaction.
• April 16
  Use less catalyst to make a commercial fungicide.
• April 9
  Make monoaromatics from natural gas.
• April 2
  Use olefin metathesis to make neohexene from isobutylene.
• March 26
  Make olefins from natural gas– or coal-derived alcohols.
• March 19
  Use this non–transition-metal catalyst for olefin codimerization.
• March 12
  Make high-value chemicals safely with a microreactor.
• March 5
  Make triazoles by cyclizing hydrazones.
• Feb. 27
  Produce benzene and ammonia from natural gas.
• Feb. 20
  Improve the synthesis and flow properties of an insomnia drug.
• Feb. 13
  Make “green” butanol from bioderived ethanol.
• Feb. 6
  Oligomerize ethylene to 1-hexene and 1-octene.
• Jan. 30
  Recycle PET bottles into a more valuable polymer.
• Jan. 23
  Improve the synthesis of cell-proliferation inhibitors.
• Jan. 16
  Rhenium improves the hydrogen peroxide oxidation of propylene.
• Jan. 9
  Improve the synthesis of drugs for bladder disorders.
• Jan. 2
  Modify reaction conditions to improve an anesthetic synthesis.

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