Patents Examined by Porfirio Nazario
  • Patent number: 9290529
    Abstract: Derivatives of boron cluster compounds of general formula I and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates, and their specific inhibition effect on the enzyme carbonic anhydrase IX, a protein overexpressed in cancer tissues. Methods of synthesis and the use of the novel derivatives. These inhibitors of human carbonic anhydrase IX can be used as active compounds of pharmaceuticals for diagnostics and/or therapy of cancer diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignees: USTAV ORGANICKE CHEMIE A BIOCHEMIE AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY, V.V.I., USTAV MOLEKULARNI GENETIKY AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY, V.V.I., USTAV ANORGANICKE CHEMIE AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY, V.V.I., UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI
    Inventors: Jiri Brynda, Petr Cigler, Bohumir Gruner, Pavlina Maloy Rezacova, Pavel Mader, Vaclav Sicha, Mario Bakardjiev, Josef Holub, Petr Dzubak, Marian Hajduch
  • Patent number: 9290524
    Abstract: Methods for producing functionalized graphene from graphite oxide or graphite are disclosed in which ionic liquids are used as a reaction medium to promote chemical functionalization of the graphene through electrochemically interacted exfoliation of graphene sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Washington State University
    Inventors: Jinwen Zhang, Yu Fu
  • Patent number: 9290841
    Abstract: The present invention is an organoruthenium compound for a chemical vapor deposition raw material, including dodecacarbonyl triruthenium represented by the following chemical formula, wherein the iron (Fe) concentration is 1 ppm or less. The DCR in the present invention can be produced by obtaining crude DCR by directly carbonylating ruthenium through allowing a ruthenium salt and carbon monoxide to react with each other and by purifying the crude DCR by a sublimation method. In the synthesis step, the concentration of Fe in the obtained crude DCR is preferably set at 10 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
    Inventors: Masayuki Saito, Junichi Taniuchi, Hirofumi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9284198
    Abstract: The method described herein provides a method for preparing trisilylamine. In one aspect, the method comprises: providing a reaction mixture of trisilylamine and monochlorosilane into a reactor wherein the reaction mixture is at a temperature and pressure sufficient to provide trisilylamine in a liquid phase wherein the reaction mixture is substantially free of an added solvent; contacting the reaction mixture with ammonia to provide a crude mixture comprising trisilylamine and an ammonium chloride solid wherein monochlorosilane is in stoichiometric excess in relation to ammonia; purifiying the crude mixture to provide trisilylamine wherein the trisilyamine is produced at purity level of 90% or greater; and optionally removing the ammonium chloride solid from the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Krishan Agarwal, Sai-Hong Andrew Lo, Howard Paul Withers, Jr., Joseph T. Sluzevich, James Joseph Hart
  • Patent number: 9284270
    Abstract: The present application provides methods and catalysts for activation of carboxylic acids for organic reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: The Governers of the University of Alberta, Greencentre Canada
    Inventors: Dennis Hall, Nicolas Gernigon, Raed M. Al-Zoubi, Paul D. Thornton
  • Patent number: 9284413
    Abstract: T-aminoalkyl-functional organopolysiloxanes with defined viscosity can be reproducibly prepared without gelling by condensing an organopolysiloxane containing at least two Si-bonded hydroxyl groups with an aminoalkyltrialkoxysilane in the presence of an organic compound bearing one or more hydroxyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Wacker Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Larson
  • Patent number: 9285300
    Abstract: The present invention provides a monolithic silicone in the form of an aerogel or a xerogel having flexibility and capable of dissolving molecules of a substance. This silicone monolithic body having continuous through passages is synthesized by copolymerizing starting materials of both a bifunctional alkoxysilane and a trifunctional alkoxysilane or tri- or higher functional alkoxysilanes through a sol-gel reaction for forming a Si—O network while causing phase separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: GL SCIENCES INCORPORATED, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazuki Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi Kanamori, Gen Hayase, Masahiro Furuno, Yoshiyuki Takei
  • Patent number: 9283554
    Abstract: The invention describes a nickel-based composition. The invention also concerns the use of said composition as a catalytic composition in an olefin oligomerization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Universiteit Van Amsterdam
    Inventors: Pierre Boulens, Pierre-Alain Breuil, Joost Reek, Helene Olivier-Bourbigou
  • Patent number: 9273072
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing amino-functional polyorganosiloxanes, wherein (A) organosiloxanes which contain Si—OH groups are reacted with (B) at least stoichiometric quantities of mono-alkoxy(amino-alkyl)silanes, with respect to the Si—OH groups, (C) in the presence of at least one acid as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventor: Elke Fritz-Langhals
  • Patent number: 9273070
    Abstract: Processes for making an organozinc reagents are disclosed comprising reacting (A) organomagnesium or organozinc complexes with (B) at least one coordination compound comprising one or more carboxylate groups and/or alcoholate groups and/or tertiary amine groups, optionally in combination with zinc ions and/or lithium ions and/or halide ions, wherein the halide ions are selected from chloride, bromide and iodide, the organozinc complex comprises an aryl group, a heteroaryl group or a benzyl group when the coordinating compound is a chelating polyamine, and the reaction is conducted in the presence of zinc complexed with at least one coordinating compound when reactant (A) comprises at least one organomagnesium complex. The resulting organozinc reagents may optionally be isolated from solvents to obtain a solid reagent. The reagents may be used for making organic compounds via Negishi cross-coupling reactions or via aldehyde and/or ketone oxidative addition reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventors: Paul Knochel, Sebastian Bernhardt, Georg Manolikakes
  • Patent number: 9273081
    Abstract: Synthetic methods for the in-situ formation of olefin metathesis catalysts are disclosed, as well as the use of such catalysts in metathesis reactions of olefins and olefin compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventor: Yann Schrodi
  • Patent number: 9266738
    Abstract: A method of modifying a carbon material is disclosed. The method comprises: bonding a metal to a carbon material to form a metal-carbon complex comprising the metal and a benzene unit, wherein the carbon material comprises extended sp2-bonded carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Robert C. Haddon, Santanu Sarkar, Sandip Niyogi, Elena Bekyarova, Mikhail E. Itkis, Xiaojuan Tian, Feihu Wang
  • Patent number: 9266916
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing dodecacarbonyl triruthenium (DCR) including a process of carbonylating ruthenium chloride with carbon monoxide, in which an amine is added to a reaction system at 0.8 molar equivalent or more with respect to chlorine of the ruthenium chloride and the carbonylation is conducted at a reaction temperature of 50 to 100° C. and a reaction pressure of 0.2 to 0.9 MPa. According to the present invention, it is possible to produce dodecacarbonyl triruthenium having less residual impurity metals without applying a reaction condition of a high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Masayuki Saito, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Shigetomi, Kenji Goto
  • Patent number: 9266809
    Abstract: A solid terephthalic acid composition and a process for producing terephthalic acid from para-xylene. The process comprises forming a mixture comprising the para-xylene, a solvent, a bromine source, and a catalyst; and oxidizing the para-xylene by contacting the mixture with an oxidizing agent at oxidizing conditions to produce a solid oxidation product comprising terephthalic acid, para-toluic acid, 4-carboxybenzaldehyde. The solvent comprises a carboxylic acid having from 1 to 7 carbon atoms and an dialkyl imidazolium ionic liquid; and the catalyst comprises at least one of cobalt, titanium, manganese, chromium, copper, nickel, vanadium, iron, molybdenum, tin, cerium, and zirconium. The solid terephthalic acid composition comprises, less than about 4,000 ppm-wt 4-carboxybenzaldehyde content, and more than about 2,000 ppm-wt a para-toluic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: UOP LLC, BORESKOV INSTITUTE OF CATALYSIS
    Inventors: Alakananda Bhattacharyya, Joseph A. Kocal, Joel T. Walenga, Nikolay Y. Adonin, Nina I. Kuznetsova, Bair S. Bal'zhinimaev
  • Patent number: 9266907
    Abstract: Metal organic framework compostions can have a face centered cubic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dong-Xu Xue, Amy J. Cairns, Youssef Belmabkhout, Mohamed Eddaoudi
  • Patent number: 9266915
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the synthesis of novel stable open metal clusters by selective oxidation of bound ligands. The synthesis comprises, for example, using an amine based oxidant for decarbonylation of specific carbonyl ligands. The synthesis can also comprise further removal of a bound amine group by an acid. The resulting metal cluster contains a coordinatively unsaturated site comprising a carbonyl vacancy. The resulting metal cluster can be used as a catalyst in a variety of chemical transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alexander S. Katz, Alexander Kuperman, Alexander Okrut, Ron C. Runnebaum, Xiaoying Ouyang
  • Patent number: 9259403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel crystalline forms of (1S,2R)-2-(amino methyl)-N,N-diethyl-1-phenyl cyclopropane carboxamide. Processes for the preparation of this form, compositions containing the form, and methods of use thereof are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Inventors: Rahul Surana, Mahendra G. Dedhiya
  • Patent number: 9255114
    Abstract: A method for producing a fluorine-containing substituted compound, the method including: introducing an organofluorine compound and an organolithium compound into a microreactor provided with a flow path capable of mixing a plurality of liquids, to thereby obtain a reaction product; and introducing, into the microreactor, the reaction product and an electrophile exhibiting electrophilic effect on the reaction product, to thereby obtain a fluorine-containing substituted compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignees: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshida, Aiichiro Nagaki
  • Patent number: 9249164
    Abstract: A process for preparing an acryloyloxysilane, the process comprising reacting a metal salt of a carboxylic acid having the formula [CR22?CR1COO?]aMa+ (I), with a haloorganoalkoxysilane having the formula XR3Si(OR4)nR53—n (II) in the presence of mineral spirits and a phase transfer catalyst at a temperature of from 50 to 160° C. to form a mixture comprising an acryloyloxysilane and a metal halide having the formula Ma+X?a (III), wherein R1 is H or C1-C6 hydrocarbyl, each R2 is independently R1 or [COO?]aMa+, Ma+ is an alkali metal cation or alkaline earth metal cation, a is 1 or 2, X is halo, R3 is C1-C6 hydrocarbylene, each R4 is independently C1-C10 Q hydrocarbyl, each R5 is independently R1 and n is an integer from 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Cheshire Hupfield, Xiaobing Zhou
  • Patent number: 9249050
    Abstract: Substrates, surfaces, assemblies, kits, compositions, and methods are provided for forming touch screens and other appliance surfaces exhibiting good hydrophobicity, oleophobicity, and abrasion resistance. Methods are provided for increasing a population density of hydroxyl groups on a touch surface of a touch screen substrate without affecting the compressive strength of the back surface. The treated touch surface of the substrate can then be coated with a coating that includes an organo-metallic and/or silane, for example, a fluorosilane such as a perfluoropolyether alkoxysilane. A substrate can retain its compressive resistance to breakage by impact applied to the touch surface while minimizing any decrease in compressive strength against impact against the touch surface. Examples of such substrates include touch screens for mobile and desktop electronic devices, components of 3D display devices, and components for electrowetting display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Cytonix, LLC
    Inventor: James F. Brown