Patents Examined by P. Nazario Gonzalez
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Patent number: 7622590Abstract: Catalytic complexes including a metal atom having anionic ligands, at least one nucleophilic carbene ligand, and an alkylidene, vinylidene, or allenylidene ligand. The complexes are highly stable to air, moisture and thermal degradation. The complexes are designed to efficiently carry out a variety of olefin metathesis reactions.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: University of New Orleans FoundationInventors: Steven P. Nolan, Jinkun Huang
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Patent number: 7619000Abstract: Arsenic trioxide, an inorganic compound, is commercially available anti-cancer agent but it carries significant toxicity. Organic arsenicals, on the other hand, are much less toxic, to the extent that the methylation of inorganic arsenic in vivo into organic arsenicals has been considered a detoxification reaction. New organic arsenic derivatives have been synthesized, including S-dimethylarsino-glutathione, S-dimethylarsino-thiosuccinic acid and S-dimethylarsino-thiobenzoic acid, and established its potent in vitro cytotoxic activity against numerous human tumor cell lines, both of solid and hematological origin, as well as against malignant blood cells from patients with leukemia. Results form a basis for the development of S-dimethylarsino-glutathione, S-dimethylarsino-thiosuccinic acid, S-dimethylarsino-thiobenzoic acid, and other organic arsenicals as an anti-cancer therapy, combining high efficacy with very low, if any, toxicity.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Ralph A. Zingaro, Emil J. Freireich, Hatice Duzkale, Hagop Kantarjian, Srdan Verstovsek, Merida Sotelo-Lerma
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Patent number: 7576126Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of platinum (II) complexes, in particular dicarboxylatoplatinum (II) complexes containing a neutral bidentate ligand, such as oxaliplatin. The method includes the step of reacting a bis-dicarboxylatoplatinate (II) species with a suitable neutral bidentate ligand to form a neutral dicarboxylatoplatinum (II) complex and, if necessary, recrystallising the product to form a pure dicarboxylatoplatinum (II) complex containing a neutral bidentate ligand. The invention also relates to a method for producing a bis-dicarboxylatoplatinate (II) species, and to new platinum (II) complexes that can be made by the method of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Platco Technologies (Proprietary) LimitedInventor: Jan Gysbert Hermanus Du Preez
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Patent number: 7566798Abstract: The subject invention concerns platinum complexes that exhibit antitumor cell and/or antiparasitic activity. The subject invention also concerns the use of platinum complexes of the invention to treat oncological and inflammatory disorders. The platinum complexes of the invention can also be used to treat or prevent infection by a virus or a bacterial or parasitic organism in vivo or in vitro.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: Heidi Kay, Jay W. Palmer, Joseph A. Stanko
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Patent number: 7550618Abstract: The present invention relates to a preparation of iron(II) acetate powder from low grade magnetite and comprises the following steps: (a) adding organic acid to low grade magnetite powder to obtain iron solution; (b) adding hydroxide to the iron solution to obtain iron hydroxide; and (c) adding acetic acid to the iron hydroxide, thereby obtaining iron(II) acetate. According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain high purity iron(II) acetate using low grade magnetite and there are advantages of mass producible environmentally-friendly simple process and prevention of corrosion of facilities.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral ResourcesInventors: Hee Dong Jang, Yong Jae Suh, Dae Sup Kil, Kee Kahb Koo, Jae Kyeong Kim, Han Sang Oh
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Patent number: 7495117Abstract: A dietary source of mineral in the form of a metal carboxylate is prepared using the acid-base-like reaction. A salt of a carboxylate anion and a by-product cation is reacted in aqueous solution with a salt of a metal cation and a by-product anion under conditions which form a metal carboxylate and the by-product salt. Solutions formed in the reaction may be applied directly to a dry carrier to produce a dry dietary supplement or, alternatively, the solutions may be filtered to remove precipitated by-product salt and the filtrate used as a liquid dietary supplement. Preferably, a reducing agent, such as ascorbic acid, is added to help prevent the oxidation of divalent to trivalent form of a metal salt, when an easily oxidized divalent metal is used as starting material.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Kemin Industries, Inc.Inventors: Swee-Keng Goh, Jesuadimai Ignatius Xavier Antony, Hai-Meng Tan, Yeun-Mun Choo
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Patent number: 7462731Abstract: A process for the preparation of a compound of Formula (1): wherein: X is S, O or NR3, wherein R3 is H or an organic group; R is H or an organic group; R1 and R2 each independently are H, optionally substituted alkyl or optionally substituted aryl; G is a substituent; and n is 0 to 3: which comprises the steps: (a) reacting a compound of Formula (2) with a compound of Formula NHR1R2 to give a compound of Formula (3): wherein X, R, G and n are as defined above and R4 is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, optionally substituted alkynyl, optionally substituted aryl, optionally substituted heteroaryl or a combination thereof; and (b) reducing the compound of Formula (3) to give a compound of Formula (1) is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: NPIL Pharmaceuticals (UK) LimitedInventor: Ian Nicholas Houson
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Patent number: 7462719Abstract: A metal complex compound having a specific structure having a metal atom such as iridium atom, and an organic electroluminescence device which has one or more organic thin film layers including at least a light emitting layer and sandwiched between a pair of electrodes and contains the metal complex compound in at least one layer in the organic thin film layer. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a great efficiency of light emission and has a long lifetime. The device can be obtained by the use of the novel metal complex compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masami Watanabe
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Patent number: 7456156Abstract: Disclosed is a phenyl boronic acid compound represented by Structural Formula (I): Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group. Z and Z? are independently —O—, —NH— or —S—. X is an electron withdrawing group. R is a substituted or unsubstituted straight chained hydrocarbyl group optionally comprising one or more amine, ammonium, ether, thioether or phenylene linking groups and Y is —H, an amine, —[NH—(CH2)q]r—NH2, halogen, —CF3, thiol, ammonium, alcohol, —COOH, —SO3H, —OSO3H or phosphonium group covalently bonded to the terminal position of R. Each —NH— in —[NH—(CH2)q]r—NH2 is optionally N-alkylated or N,N-dialkylated and —NH2 in —[NH—CH2)q]r—NH2 is optionally N-alkylated, N,N-dialkylated or N,N,N-trialkylated. q is an integer from 2 to about 10 and r is an integer from 1 to about 5.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Genzyme CorporationInventors: Stephen Randall Holmes-Farley, Harry W. Mandeville, III, Pradeep K. Dhal, Chad Cori Huval, Xinhua Li
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Patent number: 7446197Abstract: A metal complex compound having a specific structure having a metal such as iridium, and an organic electroluminescence device which has an organic thin film layer having one layer or a plurality of layers including at least a light emitting layer and disposed between a pair of electrodes and contains the metal complex in at least one layer in the organic thin film layer. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a great efficiency of light emission and has a long life due to the metal complex compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masami Watanabe
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Patent number: 7442820Abstract: Preparation of halogenide-free Platinum(II)acetylacetonate [Pt(acac)2] Platinum(II) hexafluoroacetylacetonate [Pt(hfac)2], Platinum(II) trifluoroacetylacetonate [Pt(tfac)2] or Platinum(II)-alkylsubstituted acetylacetonates by the reaction of a halogen free platinum (IV) oxo- or hydroxo-compound, such as PtO2.nH2O (n being an integer from 1 to 4) or H2Pt(OH)6 or Na2Pt(OH)6 or K2Pt(OH)6, with a reducing agent in aqueous solution in the presence of a stoichiometric or higher amount of acetylacetone (acac), potassium acetylacetoante (Kacac) sodium acetylacetonate (Naacac), hexafluoroacetylacetone (hfac), trifluoroacetylacetone (tfac) or alkyl substituted acetylacetones or their salts and an H+ donor.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2008Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: W.C. Heraeus GmbHInventors: Steffen Voss, Dongshui Zeng, Stephen Jeffery, Kevin King
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Patent number: 7442800Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for a palladium complex characterized by the general formula: where A is a bidentate monoanionic ligand, NHC is a nucleophilic heterocyclic carbene, and Z is an anionic ligand. Such palladium complexes are useful in initiating cross-coupling reactions.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Promerus LLCInventors: Dino Amoroso, Andrew Bell, Oscar Navarro Fernandez, Steven P. Nolan, Nicolas Marion
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Patent number: 7439378Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel fulvene compound and a preparation method thereof, and more particularly to a fulvene compound having substituted groups in the 2- and 5-positions, prepared from an unsaturated ketone having a substituted group in the ?-position and a halogen atom in the ?-position, and a preparation method thereof. The present invention also relates to a metallocene catalyst having a substituted group in the ?-position carbon of the bridge of the cyclopentadienyl group only by reaction of a fulvene compound and an anion group including the cyclopentadienyl group, and a preparation method of a polyolefin copolymer using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Young-Whan Park, Si-Geun Lee, Sung-Don Hong, Kwang-Ho Song, Boong-Goon Jeong, Dae-Woo Nam, Bun-Yeol Lee, Choong-Hoon Lee, Hyo-Sun Lee
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Patent number: 7439338Abstract: The present invention provides metal-containing compounds that include at least one ?-diketiminate ligand, and methods of making and using the same. In certain embodiments, the metal-containing compounds include at least one ?-diketiminate ligand with at least one fluorine-containing organic group as a substituent. In other certain embodiments, the metal-containing compounds include at least one ?-diketiminate ligand with at least one aliphatic group as a substituent selected to have greater degrees of freedom than the corresponding substituent in the ?-diketiminate ligands of certain metal-containing compounds known in the art. The compounds can be used to deposit metal-containing layers using vapor deposition methods. Vapor deposition systems including the compounds are also provided. Sources for ?-diketiminate ligands are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dan Millward, Timothy A. Quick
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Patent number: 7425520Abstract: A supported catalyst for hydrogenating nitro groups of halonitro compounds manufactured from a support, a solvent, and one or more types of organometallic complexes. The organometallic complexes have the formula: wherein, R1-R6 are independently an R, OR, OC(?O)R, halogen, or combination thereof, where R stands for an alkyl or aryl group; Y1-Y4 are independently an O, S, N, or P atom; and M is a metal atom. The supported catalysts show much higher selectivity and activity when used to hydrogenate nitro groups on halonitro aromatic compounds than catalyst currently being used for such hydrogenation.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Headwaters Technology Innovation, LLCInventors: Changkun Liu, Bing Zhou
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Patent number: 7417008Abstract: The invention relates to supported polyoxometalates represented by the formula (An)m+ [M4(H2O)10(XW9O33)2]m? or solvates thereof, wherein A represents a cation, n is the number of cations, m is the charge of the polyoxoanion, M is a transition metal, and X is an element selected from the group consisting of As, Sb, Bi, Se and Te, characterized in that the polyoxometalate is supported on a solid support selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, MgO, TiO2, ZrO2, SiO2, mesoporous silica, active carbon, diatomite, clays, zeolites, polyoxometalate salts and mixtures thereof, with the proviso that the polyoxometalate salt supports are different from the supported polyoxometalates defined by the above formula, a process for their preparation and their use for the catalytic oxidation of organic molecules.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Ryan M. Richards, Ulrich Kortz, Lihua Bi, Kake Zhu
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Patent number: 7414145Abstract: A method of an enantioselective nucleophilic addition reaction to carbonyl, which enables an asymmetric synthesis of an optically active ?-hydroxy-?-keto acid ester, an optically active ?-hydroxy-?-amino acid ester, hydroxydiketone compounds, etc. being useful as a raw material or synthesis intermediate for producing a pharmaceutical preparation, an agricultural chemical, a fragrance, a functional polymer or the like. In this method, the nucleophilic addition reaction of enamide compound accompanied by hydroxyl (—OH) formation to carbonyl is carried out in the presence of a chiral catalyst with copper or nickel.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2005Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Japan Science and Technology AgencyInventor: Shu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7414133Abstract: The invention relates to novel metallo-organic compounds which are phosphorescence emitters. Such compounds can be used as active components (functional materials) in a range of different applications which form part of the electronics industry in the broadest sense. The inventive compounds are described by the formulae (1), (1a), (2), (2a), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8).Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2003Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Inventors: Philipp Stössel, Ingrid Bach, Hubert Spreitzer
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Patent number: 7411080Abstract: A basic copper salt selected from basic copper carbonate, basic copper sulfate, basic copper acetate, basic copper citrate, and basic copper nitrate is manufactured by contacting copper metal with an aqueous solution having ammonia; an acid selected from carbonic acid, sulfuric acid, acetic acid, nitric acid, or citric acid; and oxygen, under conditions where the copper metal is converted to the basic copper salt; and then recovering the basic copper salt. The most economical embodiment is where the ammonia is present in the aqueous solution is in an amount between about 6.7 g/l and about 15 g/l calculated as NH3, and the pH of the composition is between 8 and 10, and the temperature of the composition is between 25° C. and 100° C. The method is particularly useful if the basic copper salt is basic copper carbonate. The basic copper carbonate produced has the formula: (CuCO3)x(Cu(OH2)y, where y is 1 and x is between 0.1 to less than 1; or where y is 1 and x is 1, or where y is 1 and x is between 0.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Phibro-Tech, Inc.Inventor: Gang Zhao
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Patent number: 7402296Abstract: Disclosed is a method of stabilizing copper(II) hydroxide, the method comprising the sequential steps of: (a) combining copper(II) hydroxide, a water-soluble phosphate and water to form a mixture; and (b) drying the mixture. Also disclosed is stabilized copper(II) hydroxide prepared according to said method and a composition comprising stabilized copper(II) hydroxide prepared according to said method and at least one of a surfactant, a solid diluent or a liquid diluent.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Matthew Richard Oberholzer