Patents Examined by Michael G. Ambrose
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Patent number: 6215013Abstract: A method for the preparation of alkene phosphonic acids and salts thereof, such as VDPA (vinylidene diphosphonic acid) is disclosed. The products can be produced in a stable, substantially pure form and in high yield. The method includes the azeotropic removal of water from salts of &agr;-hydroxy-alkane diphosphonic acid dimer or corresponding acids thereof, and the pyrolysis of the dehydrated reactant at a temperature of from 170° C. to 300° C. There may be included a step to convert anhydrides which have been formed during the pyrolysis. The method may include the use of heat transfer agents and/or bases, and may be carried out at elevated or reduced pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Rhodia Consumer Specialties LimitedInventors: Gary Woodward, Timothy Kevin Brierley, Ranbir Singh Padda, John Christopher Harris, Aidan Michael Hayes
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Patent number: 6215015Abstract: Hydroxyaromatic compounds such as phenol are carbonylated with oxygen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a Group VIIIB metal, preferably palladium; an iodide salt, preferably sodium iodide; and at least one organic bisphosphine such as 1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane or 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane. The catalyst system also preferably contains a compound of cerium or lead.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2000Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ben Purushotam Patel, Grigorii Lev Soloveichik, John Yaw Ofori
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Patent number: 6215014Abstract: Hydroxyaromatic compounds such as phenol are carbonylated with oxygen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a Group VIIIB metal, preferably palladium; an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal halide, preferably sodium bromide; and at least one sulfone such as sulfolane. The catalyst system also preferably contains a compound of another metal, preferably lead.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Kirill Vladimirovich Shalyaev, Grigorii Lev Soloveichik, Eric James Pressman
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Patent number: 6211396Abstract: A process for producing a halogen-containing phosphate ester includes the steps of: (i) reacting a phosphorus halide selected from the group consisting of phosphorus oxyhalides and phosphorus pentahalides with a halogen-containing hydroxy compound to obtain a reaction mixture including a halogen-containing phosphate ester, (ii) purifying the halogen-containing phosphate ester by adding an aqueous medium selected from the group consisting of water, neutral aqueous solutions, acidic aqueous solutions and basic aqueous solutions to the reaction mixture to crystallize the halogen-containing phosphate ester, and (iii) distilling waste water from the purification step.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Daihachi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shin Nakamura
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Patent number: 6211167Abstract: The invention provides compounds, compositions and methods relating to novel arylsulfonanilide derivatives and their use as pharmacologically active agents. The compositions find particular use as pharmacological agents in the treatment of disease states, particularly cancer, psoriasis, vascular restenosis, infrections, atherosclerosis and hypercholesterolemia, or as lead compounds for the development of such agents.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Tularik Inc.Inventor: Jonathan B. Houze
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Patent number: 6207848Abstract: The method of the present invention comprises reaction of a gaseous mixture of oxygen and carbon monoxide with an aromatic hydroxy compound in the presence of a catalyst under controlled pressure, wherein the partial pressure of oxygen is optimized to effect increased yields at reduced overall pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Eric James Pressman
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Patent number: 6207849Abstract: A method and catalyst system for producing aromatic carbonates from aromatic hydroxy compounds. In one embodiment, the method includes the step of contacting at least one aromatic hydroxy compound with oxygen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst system having catalytic amounts of the following components: a Group VIII B metal source; a combination of inorganic co-catalysts including a copper source and at least one of a titanium source or a zirconium source; an onium chloride composition; and a base. Alternative embodiments include inorganic co-catalyst combinations of a lead source and at least one of a titanium source or a manganese source.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kirill Vladimirovich Shalyaev, Grigorii Lev Soloveichik, Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Donald Wayne Whisenhunt, Jr.
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Patent number: 6207850Abstract: A method is provided for co-producing dialkyl carbonate and alkanediol by reacting alkylene carbonate with alkanol in the presence of a IIIA metal oxide catalyst, preferably alumina.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Mobil Oil CorporationInventors: Zhaozhong Jiang, Rene B. LaPierre, Jose G. Santiesteban, Hye Kyung Cho Timken, William A. Weber
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Patent number: 6204404Abstract: A process for preparing an ester compound comprising reacting a halogen-substituted aliphatic hydroxy compound or aromatic hydroxy compound with a phosphorus oxyhalide or phosphorus pentahalide in the presence of 0.005 to 10 mol % of a phosphorus trihalide with respect to the hydroxy compound to obtain a phosphoric ester compound. Phosphoric ester compounds of high purity containing less coloring components can be prepared without using an antioxidant.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Daihachi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriaki Tokuyasu, Shin Nakamura
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Patent number: 6201146Abstract: A method and catalyst system for economically producing aromatic carbonates from aromatic hydroxy compounds. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of carbonylating aromatic hydroxy compounds by contacting at least one aromatic hydroxy compound with oxygen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst system that includes a catalytic amount of an inorganic co-catalyst containing titanium. In various alternative embodiments, the carbonylation catalyst system can include an effective amount of a palladium source and an effective amount of a halide composition. Further alternative embodiments can include catalytic amounts of various inorganic co-catalyst combinations.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James Lawrence Spivack, James Norman Cawse, Donald Wayne Whisenhunt, Jr., Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Grigorii Lev Soloveichik
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Patent number: 6200962Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula (I) in which X1 and X2 each independently represents an oxygen or nitrogen atom; p,m and n are each independently an integer of at least 2; R, R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom; an optionally substituted straight-chained or branched alkyl alkenyl or alkynyl radical; a group R3O in which R3 is hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted straight-chained or branched alkyl alkenyl or alkynyl radical; optionally substituted acyl or optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl; a group R4O(O)C in which R4 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally straight-chained or branched alkyl, alkenyl or allkynyl radical; a group —SR5 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted straight-chained or branched alkyl alkenyl or alkynyl radical; a group —NR6R7 in which R6 and R7 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted straight-chained or branched alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl radical; optionally suType: GrantFiled: August 7, 1997Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of JerusalemInventors: Oren Tirosh, Joshua Katzhendler, Isaac Ginsburg, Yehezkel Barenholz, Ron Kohen
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Patent number: 6197759Abstract: Osteoblast-specific mitogens and drugs containing such compounds can be used for treating metabolic bone diseases. These compounds include lysophosphatidylic acid derivatives selected from the group consisting of compounds of formula: wherein R1=alkenyl or alkynyl having from 6 to 24 carbon atoms; n=0-12; X=oxygen or NH; the compounds (all-cis-5,8,11,14)-eicosatetraenoic acid 2-hydroxy-3-phosphonooxypropyl ester; cis-9, cis-12-octadecadienoic acid 2-hydroxy-3-phosphonooxypropyl ester; (all-cis-9,12,15)-octadecatrienoic acid 2-hydroxy-3-phosphonooxypropyl ester; cis-9-octadecenoic acid 2-hydroxy-3-phosphonooxypropyl ester; and erucic acid 2-hydroxy-3-phosphonooxypropylester being excluded, and the physiologically tolerable salts, esters, optically active forms, and racemates of said compounds, and derivatives of said compounds, salts, esters, optically active forms and racemates which can be metabolized in vivo to yield the corresponding compound of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2000Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Roche Diagnostics GmbHInventors: Angelika Esswein, Lothar Kling
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Patent number: 6197991Abstract: A method and catalyst system for economically producing aromatic carbonates from aromatic hydroxy compounds. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of carbonylating aromatic hydroxy compounds by contacting at least one aromatic hydroxy compound with oxygen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst system that includes a catalytic amount of an inorganic co-catalyst containing lead and a catalytic amount of an inorganic co-catalyst containing titanium. In various alternative embodiments, the carbonylation catalyst system can include an effective amount of a palladium source and an effective amount of a halide composition. Further alternative embodiments can include catalytic amounts of various inorganic co-catalyst combinations.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James Lawrence Spivack, Donald Wayne Whisenhunt, James Norman Cawse, Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Grigorii Lev Soloveichik, John Yaw Ofori, Eric James Pressman
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Patent number: 6197760Abstract: Isophosphoramide mustard analogs useful for treating cancer are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Southern Research InstituteInventor: Robert F. Struck
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Patent number: 6194454Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of the Formula and prodrugs thereof, geometric and optical isomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of such compounds, prodrugs and isomers, wherein R1-R8 and X are as described herein. Pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, prodrugs, isomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods, pharmaceutical compositions and kits for treating obesity, hyperlipidemia, thyroid disease, hypothyroidism and related disorders and diseases such as diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hypercholesteremia, depression and osteoporosis are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventor: Robert L. Dow
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Patent number: 6194599Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing biaryl compounds comprising reacting an arylzinc reagent with an arylchloride in the presence of a nickel catalyst or a palladium catalyst. The present invention specifically provides a process for the preparation of 2-(4′-methylphenyl)benzonitrile comprising reacting a 4-methylphenylzinc reagent with 2-chlorobenzonitrile in the presence of a nickel catalyst or a palladium catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1997Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Catalytica, Inc.Inventors: Joseph A. Miller, Robert P. Farrell
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Patent number: 6191298Abstract: A phosphonic acid ester compound of the formula: R1C(SR3)═CHP(═O)(OR2)2 or [P(═O)(OR2)2]CH═C(SR3)—R4—C(SR3)═CH[P(═O)(OR2)2] wherein R1 represents a monovalent group selected from hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkenyl and silyl, R2 and R3 each represent aryl and R4 represents alkylene or cycloalkylene. The ester compound is produced by reaction of an acetylene compound, R1C≡CH or HC≡C—R4—C≡CH, with with a phosphorothioate, (R2O)2P(═O)SR3, in the presence of a palladium complex catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Li-Biao Han, Masato Tanaka
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Patent number: 6191299Abstract: An improved method for producing an aromatic carbonate by reacting an aromatic hydroxy compound, carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst system comprising at least one of palladium or a palladium compound; at least one lead compound; at least one halide source; and at least one desiccant, wherein the ratio of equivalents of lead co-catalyst relative to equivalents of palladium catalyst is optimized to increase reaction rate, as well as to allow production of aromatic carbonate in an economically feasible continuous process.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eric James Pressman, Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Phillip Oscar Moreno, Richard Anthony Battista
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Patent number: 6187942Abstract: A method and catalyst system for producing aromatic carbonates from aromatic hydroxy compounds is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes the step of contacting at least one aromatic hydroxy compound with oxygen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst system having an effective amount of an iron source as the primary catalyst component in the absence of a Group VIII B metal source. In various alternative embodiments, the carbonylation catalyst system can include at least one inorganic co-catalyst, as well as a halide composition and/or a base.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2000Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ben Purushotam Patel, Grigorii Lev Soloveichik, Donald Wayne Whisenhunt, Jr., Kirill Vladimirovich Shalyaev
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Patent number: 6187775Abstract: The present invention relates to several novel acridone-derived compounds of of formula (I) or (II). These compounds are potent anti-viral agents, useful in the treatment of viral diseases, such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus. In addition, these compounds are anti-neoplastic agents useful in the treatment of various forms of cancer. wherein R1 and R2 are independently —H, —OH, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkoxy, alkyl, haloalkyl or halogen; n is 2 to 6, X and X′ are independently —N or —NO2; Y and Y′ are independently —N or —CH, or —H; and the double-slash represents a double bond or no bond.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Christopher J. Michejda, Marek W. Cholody, William G. Rice, James A. Turpin