Patents by Inventor Claudia Merk

Claudia Merk 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: 20040195108
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing compounds of general formula (I), wherein Rt represents an oxocyclohexyl radical which is optionally substituted by a hydroxyl radical, an alkoxy radical, and/or alkyl radicals, or an oxocyclohexenyl radical which is optionally substituted by a hydroxyl radical, an alkoxy radical, and/or alkyl radicals, the oxo groups being in the form of an acetal, a ketone, or an enol ether, and R2 represents a hydroxy group or a protective group which can be transformed into a hydroxy group by means of hydrolysis. A compound of general formula (II) is cathodically reduced in a divided or partially divided electrolysis cell at a pH value of between 2 and 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Jorg Botzem, Hansgeorg Ernst, Johannes Grimmer, Claudia Merk, Thomas Muller, Manfred Sauerwald
  • Patent number: 6787009
    Abstract: Electrolysis cell consisting of 2 monopolar electrodes and one or more intermediate bipolar electrodes, where the one monopolar electrode and the parts of the bipolar electrodes charged in the same sense thereto together form the working electrode and the other monopolar electrode and the parts of the bipolar electrodes charged in the same sense thereto together form the counter electrode the space between counter and working electrode is undivided the surface of the counter electrode consists of electrochemically active and inactive parts the sum of the electrochemically active parts of the surface of the counter electrode is smaller by a large amount than that of the electrochemically active parts of the surface of the working electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Martin Brudermüller, Hermann Pütter
  • Publication number: 20040069653
    Abstract: A process for an electrochemical reduction of a reducible dye by contacting said reducible dye with a cathode comprising a support of an electrically conductive material and an electrically conductive, cathodically polarized layer formed thereon in situ by alluviation comprises conducting said electrochemical reduction in the presence of a base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Jorg Botzem, Gunther Huber, Norbert Grund Ludwigshafen
  • Publication number: 20030098246
    Abstract: A process for an electrochemical reduction of a reducible dye by contacting said reducible dye with a cathode comprising a support of an electrically conductive material and an electrically conductive, cathodically polarized layer formed thereon in situ by alluviation comprises conducting said electrochemical reduction in the presence of a base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Jorg Botzem, Gunther Huber, Norbert Grund
  • Patent number: 6533916
    Abstract: An electrode consisting of a substrate and a diamond layer applied to the substrate, in which the applied diamond layer is pore-free, and a process for producing a diamond-coated electrode, in which the process comprises at least the following steps: a) cleaning the surface of the substrate; b) seeding the surface of the substrate with a high diamond nucleation density; c) coating the surface of the substrate with diamond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Hermann Puetter, Andreas Weiper-Idelmann, Claudia Merk, Matthias Fryda, Claus-Peter Klages, Lothar Schaefer, Alexander Hampel
  • Publication number: 20020108852
    Abstract: Electrolysis cell consisting of 2 monopolar electrodes and one or more intermediate bipolar electrodes, where
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Martin Brudermuller, Hermann Putter
  • Patent number: 6398938
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a process, which includes: electrochemically oxidizing at least one organic compound by bringing the organic compound into contact with an anode, wherein the anode includes: an electrically conductive support; and an electrically conductive, anodically polarized layer on the support; wherein the anodically polarized layer is formed in situ upon the support by precoating; and wherein the organic compound is not phosphonomethyliminodiacetic acid. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a product, produced by the above process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Günther Huber
  • Patent number: 6348630
    Abstract: The level of an unsaturated cyclic imine (I) of the formula (I) where R1 is alkenyl having 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 carbon atoms belonging to the ring system, in a mixture comprising hexamethylenediamine and an imine (I) is reduced by electrochemical conversion of an imine (I) in a mixture comprising hexamethylenediamine and an imine (I) in the presence of solvated protons into a saturated cyclic amine of the formula (II)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Peter Bassler, Rolf Fischer, Guido Voit, Hermann Luyken
  • Publication number: 20010019020
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a process, which includes:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Claudia Merk, Gunther Huber