Patents by Inventor Balakrishnan Ganesan
Balakrishnan Ganesan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9340502Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group and R2 is a hydrogen, a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, and wherein the method comprises dissolving a crude phthalimidine compound in an aqueous base solution; precipitating the dissolved, crude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution by adding an acid in an amount effective to lower the pH of the solution to 9.0 to 12.0, to provide a semicrude phthalimidine compound; and isolating the semicrude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution, to provide the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I), and having a phenolphthalein compound content of less than 2,500 ppm, based on the weight of the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bhotla, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Kishan Gurram, Salkod Parameshwar Mallika, Arun Satyanarayana Kumar, Shubashree Swaminathan
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Patent number: 8975346Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to relates to copolymer compositions comprising domains of polycarbonate and polyacrylate, and to methods of preparing the copolymers, wherein the method comprises reacting a polycarbonate macroinitator with a vinyl monomer by atom transfer radical polymerization. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.Inventors: Meghna Markanday, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Theo Hoeks, Jan Henk Kamps
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Publication number: 20140357830Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl) phthalimidine of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group and R2 is a hydrogen, a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, and wherein the method comprises dissolving a crude phthalimidine compound in an aqueous base solution; precipitating the dissolved, crude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution by adding an acid in an amount effective to lower the pH of the solution to 9.0 to 12.0, to provide a semicrude phthalimidine compound; and isolating the semicrude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution, to provide the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl) phthalimidine of formula (I), and having a phenolphthalein compound content of less than 2,500 ppm, based on the weight of the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy BHOTLA, Balakrishnan GANESAN, Kishan GURRAM, Salkod Parameshwar MALLIKA, Kumar Arun SATYANARAYANA, Swaminathan SHUBASHREE
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Patent number: 8809486Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group and R2 is a hydrogen, a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, and wherein the method comprises dissolving a crude phthalimidine compound in an aqueous base solution; precipitating the dissolved, crude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution by adding an acid in an amount effective to lower the pH of the solution to 9.0 to 12.0, to provide a semicrude phthalimidine compound; and isolating the semicrude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution, to provide the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I), and having a phenolphthalein compound content of less than 2,500 ppm, based on the weight of the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bhotla, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Kishan Gurram, Salkod Parameshwar Mallika, Kumar Arun Satyanarayana, Swaminathan Shubashree
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Publication number: 20130310524Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to relates to copolymer compositions comprising domains of polycarbonate and polyacrylate, and to methods of preparing the copolymers, wherein the method comprises reacting a polycarbonate macroinitator with a vinyl monomer by atom transfer radical polymerization. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Meghna Markanday, BALAKRISHNAN GANESAN, THEO HOEKS, JAN HENK KAMPS
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Publication number: 20120309926Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group and R2 is a hydrogen, a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, and wherein the method comprises dissolving a crude phthalimidine compound in an aqueous base solution; precipitating the dissolved, crude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution by adding an acid in an amount effective to lower the pH of the solution to 9.0 to 12.0, to provide a semicrude phthalimidine compound; and isolating the semicrude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution, to provide the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I), and having a phenolphthalein compound content of less than 2,500 ppm, based on the weight of the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.Inventors: Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy BHOTLA, Balakrishnan GANESAN, Kishan GURRAM, Salkod Parameshwar MALLIKA, Kumar Arun SATYANARAYANA, Swaminathan SHUBASHREE
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Patent number: 8247523Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl) phthalimidine of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group and R2 is a hydrogen, a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, and wherein the method comprises dissolving a crude phthalimidine compound in an aqueous base solution; precipitating the dissolved, crude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution by adding an acid in an amount effective to lower the pH of the solution to 9.0 to 12.0, to provide a semicrude phthalimidine compound; and isolating the semicrude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution, to provide the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I), and having a phenolphthalein compound content of less than 2,500 ppm, based on the weight of the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bhotla, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Kishan Gurram, Salkod Parameshwar Mallika, Kumar Arun Satyanarayana, Swaminathan Shubashree
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Patent number: 7915332Abstract: This invention relates to organic salt compositions useful in the preparation of organoclay compositions, polymer-organoclay composite compositions, and methods for the preparation of polymer nanocomposites. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an organoclay composition comprising alternating inorganic silicate layers and organic layers, said organic layers comprising a quaternary phosphonium cation having structure X wherein Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 are independently C2-C50 aromatic radicals; Ar4 is a bond or a C2-C50 aromatic radical; “a” is a number from 1 to about 200; “c” is a number from 0 to 3; R1 is independently at each occurrence a halogen atom, a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C5-C20 cycloaliphatic radical, or a C2-C20 aromatic radical; and R2 is a halogen atom, a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C5-C20 cycloaliphatic radical, a C2-C50 aromatic radical, or a polymer chain.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Kwok Pong Chan, Joshua McClellan Croll, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Marcus J. Harrigan, Farid Fouad Khouri, Gurram Kishan, Ritesh Mathur, Rachel Marie Suffield, Wenhul Wang, James Mitchell White
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Patent number: 7863209Abstract: A method for recovering and reusing a ring-halogenation catalyst comprises: (A) contacting an aromatic compound with chlorine or bromine in the presence of a catalyst composition, where the catalyst composition comprises at least one salt comprising a Group 4-13 metal, a lanthanide metal, or an actinide metal; and at least one organic counterion derived from an organic acid having a pKa relative to water of 0 or greater; and at least one organic sulfur compound; to form a first product mixture comprising a monochloro or a monobromo aromatic compound and a Group 4-13 metal halide, a lanthanide metal halide or an actinide metal halide; (B) separating the metal halide from the first product mixture; and (C) contacting at least a portion of the metal halide and an aromatic compound with chlorine or bromine, and at least one organic sulfur compound; to form a second product mixture comprising a monochloro or a monobromo aromatic compound and a Group 4-13 metal halide, a lanthanide metal halide or an actinide metalType: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Balakrishnan Ganesan, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni, Robert Edgar Colborn, Dan Hancu
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Patent number: 7842188Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing a neutral or an ionic guanidine compound from aqueous media optionally comprising an alkali metal halide, wherein the method is selected from the group consisting of (a) adsorption onto a carbonaceous adsorbent, (b) adsorption onto a clay adsorbent, (c) filtration through a nanofiltration membrane, and (d) removal of water and calcination.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: David Bruce Hall, Thomas Link Guggenheim, James Manio Silva, Farid Fouad Khouri, Matthew Hal Littlejohn, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Ashok Shankrappa Shyadligeri, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni
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Patent number: 7790832Abstract: A method for purifying a 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine comprises contacting a crude 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine with a purification agent, removing a 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound from the crude 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, and producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine product comprising less than 200 parts per million of the 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound. The purification agent is selected from the group consisting of an acidic material, an organic acid chloride, an organic anhydride, or a combination thereof. The 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound has a formula: wherein each R1 is independently selected from a group consisting of a hydrocarbyl radical, a nitro radical, and a halogen atom; “a” is an integer from 0 to 4; and Ar1 and Ar2 are independently at each occurrence an aromatic radical.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Balakrishnan Ganesan, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni, Kumar Arun Satyanarayana, Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bhotla, Suresh Shanumgam, Gurram Kishan, Ravindra Vikram Singh
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Patent number: 7763760Abstract: A method for ring-halogenating an aromatic compound comprises contacting with chlorine or bromine, a mixture comprising the aromatic compound and a mixed copper salt of formula Cu(Y)X, where Y comprises a counterion derived from an organic acid, where the organic acid has a pKa relative to water of 0 or greater; and X comprises Cl, Br, I, or (SO42?)1/2; to produce a reaction mixture comprising a haloaromatic compound and a copper(II) halide residue.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Balakrishnan Ganesan, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni
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Publication number: 20100152416Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl) phthalimidine of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group and R2 is a hydrogen, a C1-25 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, and wherein the method comprises dissolving a crude phthalimidine compound in an aqueous base solution; precipitating the dissolved, crude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution by adding an acid in an amount effective to lower the pH of the solution to 9.0 to 12.0, to provide a semicrude phthalimidine compound; and isolating the semicrude phthalimidine compound from the aqueous base solution, to provide the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine of formula (I), and having a phenolphthalein compound content of less than 2,500 ppm, based on the weight of the purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy BHOTLA, Balakrishnan GANESAN, Kishan Gurram, Salkod Parameshwar MALLIKA, Kumar Arun Satyanarayana, Swaminathan SHUBASHREE
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Patent number: 7592464Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising reacting a phenolphthalein material and a primary hydrocarbyl amine in the presence of an acid catalyst to form a reaction mixture comprising 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, wherein the phenolphthalein material comprises greater than or equal to 99 weight percent phenolphthalein, based on the total weight of the phenolphthalein material; quenching the reaction mixture and treating the quenched reaction mixture to obtain a first solid. The first solid is purified by a combination of techniques to produce a solid comprising 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine with sufficient purity to be used as a monomer in the synthesis of clear polymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP BVInventors: Rajshekhar Basale, Hyacinth Mary Bastian, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bhotla, Gurram Kishan, Pushpa Narayanan, Swaminathan Shubashree, Ravindra Vikram Singh
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Patent number: 7563817Abstract: A method for purifying a 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine comprises contacting a crude 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine with a purification agent, removing a 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound from the crude 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, and producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine product comprising less than 200 parts per million of the 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound. The purification agent is selected from the group consisting of an acidic material, an organic acid chloride, an organic anhydride, or a combination thereof. The 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound has a formula: wherein each R1 is independently selected from a group consisting of a hydrocarbyl radical, a nitro radical, and a halogen atom; “a” is an integer from 0 to 4; and Ar1 and Ar2 are independently at each occurrence an aromatic radical.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP BVInventors: Balakrishnan Ganesan, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni, Kumar Arun Satyanarayana, Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bhotla, Suresh Shanmugam, Gurram Kishan, Ravindra Vikram Singh
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Patent number: 7514524Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising reacting a phenolphthalein material and a primary hydrocarbyl amine in the presence of an acid catalyst to form a reaction mixture comprising 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, wherein the phenolphthalein material comprises greater than or equal to 95 weight percent phenolphthalein, based on the total weight of phenolphthalein material; quenching the reaction mixture and treating the quenched reaction mixture to obtain a first solid. The first solid is then triturated with a trituration solvent and washed to obtain a second solid, wherein the second solid comprises greater than or equal to 97 weight percent 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, based on the total weight of the second solid. The second solid may be polymerized to form a polycarbonate.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Rajshekhar Basale, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bholta, Gurram Kishan, Surendra Kulkarni, Pradeep Nadkarni, Suresh Shanmugam, Ravindra Vikram Singh
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Publication number: 20080242873Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising reacting a phenolphthalein material and a primary hydrocarbyl amine in the presence of an acid catalyst to form a reaction mixture comprising 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, wherein the phenolphthalein material comprises greater than or equal to 99 weight percent phenolphthalein, based on the total weight of the phenolphthalein material; quenching the reaction mixture and treating the quenched reaction mixture to obtain a first solid. The first solid is purified by a combination of techniques to produce a solid comprising 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine with sufficient purity to be used as a monomer in the synthesis of clear polymers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Rajshekhar Basale, Hyacinth Mary Bastian, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Venkata Rama Narayana Ganapathy Bhotla, Gurram Kishan, Pushpa Narayanan, Swaminathan Shubashree, Ravindra Vikram Singh
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Publication number: 20080242784Abstract: A composition of matter comprising a polyester composition derived from: (i) greater than 80 mole percent of a diol derived from a disubstituted xylene glycol of the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of aliphatic, aromatic, cycloaliphatic, sulfur containing compounds, amines and halogen; and (ii) a diacid is disclosed. Also disclosed are blends of these polyesters with polycarbonate and process to prepare these compositions and articles therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Balakrishnan Ganesan, Subodh Kumar Pal, Deepak Ramaraju, Gomatam Raghavan Ravi, Abbas Alli Ghudubhai Shaikh, Govind Subbanna Wagle
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Publication number: 20080242783Abstract: A composition of matter comprising a polyester composition derived from: (i) 20 to 80 mole percent of a first diol derived from a disubstituted xylene glycol of the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of aliphatic radical, aromatic radical, cycloaliphatic, radical and halogen; and (ii) a second diol and (iii) a diacid is disclosed. Also disclosed are blends of these polyesters with polycarbonate and process to prepare these compositions and articles therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Balakrishnan Ganesan, Subodh Kumar Pal, Deepak Ramaraju, Gomatam Raghavan Ravi, Abbas Alli Ghudabhai Shaikh, Govind Subbanna Wagle
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Publication number: 20080242829Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising reacting a phenolphthalein material and a primary hydrocarbyl amine in the presence of an acid catalyst to form a reaction mixture comprising 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, wherein the phenolphthalein material comprises greater than or equal to 95 weight percent phenolphthalein, based on the total weight of phenolphthalein material; quenching the reaction mixture and treating the quenched reaction mixture to obtain a first solid. The first solid is then triturated with a trituration solvent and washed to obtain a second solid, wherein the second solid comprises greater than or equal to 97 weight percent 2-hydrocarbyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, based on the total weight of the second solid. The second solid may be polymerized to form a polycarbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Rajshekhar Basale, Balakrishnan Ganesan, Venkata Rama Narayanan Ganapathy Bholta, Gurram Kishan, Surendra Kulkarni, Pradeep Nadkarni, Suresh Shanmugam, Ravindra Vikram Singh