Patents by Inventor Bruce C Gilbert

Bruce C Gilbert 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).

  • Publication number: 20100249321
    Abstract: Ethylenically unsaturated, particularly acrylic, monomers are polymerised using a catalyst system including a manganese carbonyl initiator, an organic halogen reactive substrate and an allylic halide chain termination agent. Desirably the manganese carbonyl initiator is a dimanganese compound, particularly dimanganese decacarbonyl (Mn2(CO)10). The catalysis mechanism appears to involve initiator homolysis, abstraction of halogen from the reactive substrate forming an organic free radical which acts as a chain initiator for polymerisation and eventual reaction of the propagating chain radical with the chain terminating agent. The speed or extent of reaction may be modified by the inclusion of Lewis acids in the reaction mixture. The resulting polymers are telechelic and may have different end groups. The polymers can be reacted further to functionalise them and/or to form block copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Croda International PLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Harrison, Bruce C. Gilbert, Andrew F. Parsons, Derek J. Irvine
  • Patent number: 7759443
    Abstract: Ethylenically unsaturated, particularly acrylic, monomers are polymerized using a catalyst system including a manganese carbonyl initiator, an organic halogen reactive substrate and an allylic halide chain termination agent. Desirably the manganese carbonyl initiator is a dimanganese compound, particularly dimanganese decacarbonyl (Mn2(CO)10). The catalysis mechanism appears to involve initiator homolysis, abstraction of halogen from the reactive substrate forming an organic free radical which acts as a chain initiator for polymerization and eventual reaction of the propagating chain radical with the chain terminating agent. The speed or extent of reaction may be modified by the inclusion of Lewis acids in the reaction mixture. The resulting polymers are telechelic and may have different end groups. The polymers can be reacted further to functionalize them and/or to form block copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Croda International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J Harrison, Bruce C Gilbert, Andrew F Parsons, Derek J Irvine
  • Patent number: 5416235
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of aromatic compounds of the general formula I,Ar--X Iin which Ar represents an optionally substituted aryl group and X represents a group OH, Cl, Br or CN, by reaction of an aryl diazoniumsalt of the formula II,Ar--N.dbd.N.sup.+ Y.sup.- IIin which Ar is as defined above and Y represents a suitable counterion, with water, hydrogen chloride or a salt thereof, hydrogen bromide or a salt thereof, or a cyanide in the presence of a copper(I)salt, characterized in that the copper(I)salt is a copper(I)salt derived from an hydroxy carboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Octel Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Bruce C. Gilbert, Peter Hanson, Jason R. Jones, Allan W. Timms