Patents by Inventor Dirk BOELE

Dirk BOELE 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).

  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ALKYLENE CARBONATE
    Publication number: 20080071096
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an alkylene carbonate, said process comprising contacting the corresponding alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of water and in the presence of a catalytic composition comprising an organic base neutralised with a hydrogen halide, wherein the organic base comprises a carbon-based compound comprising one or more nitrogen atoms with at least one free electron pair and/or one or more phosphorous atoms with at least one free electron pair and wherein the organic base has a pKa greater than 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Dirk BOELE, Henricus Petrus Duijghuisen, Eugene Marie Van Kruchten, Jan Meurs