Patents by Inventor Filipe Manjolinho Costa

Filipe Manjolinho Costa 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 preparing a propiolic acid or a derivative thereof
    Patent number: 9073844
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a propiolic acid or a derivative thereof by reacting a terminal alkyne with carbon dioxide, which comprises performing the reaction in the presence of a base and a copper complex, especially a copper (I) complex having at least one ligand, at least one of the ligands of the copper complex being selected from monodentate ligands which have an aminic or iminic nitrogen atom capable of coordination with copper, and polydentate ligands having at least two atoms or atom groups which are capable of simultaneous coordination with copper and are selected from nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, phosphorus and carbene carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lukas J. Goossen, Nuria Rodriguez Garrido, Filipe Manjolinho Costa, Paul P. Lange
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING A PROPIOLIC ACID OR A DERIVATIVE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140012000
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a propiolic acid or a derivative thereof by reacting a terminal alkyne with carbon dioxide, which comprises performing the reaction in the presence of a base and a copper complex, especially a copper (I) complex having at least one ligand, at least one of the ligands of the copper complex being selected from monodentate ligands which have an aminic or iminic nitrogen atom capable of coordination with copper, and polydentate ligands having at least two atoms or atom groups which are capable of simultaneous coordination with copper and are selected from nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, phosphorus and carbene carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lukas J Goossen, Nuria Rodriguez Garrido, Filipe Manjolinho Costa, Paul P. Lange