Patents by Inventor Jose Luis Vidal

Jose Luis Vidal 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).

  • Catalyst and process for producing polyhydric alcohols and derivatives
    Patent number: 4115428
    Abstract: A novel catalyst and process for the manufacture of polyhydric alcohols from synthesis gas. This novel catalyst is a rhodium carbonyl carbido cluster compound. In particular the cluster compound is of the following empirical formula:Cs.sub.2 [Rh.sub.6 (CO).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Luis Vidal, Zoltan Csaba Mester, Wellington Epler Walker
  • Catalyst and process for producing polyhydric alcohols and derivatives
    Patent number: 4115433
    Abstract: A novel catalyst and process for the manufacture of polyhydric alcohols from synthesis gas. This novel catalyst is a rhodium carbonyl sulfur cluster compound. In particular, the anion cluster of the rhodium carbonyl sulfur compound is of the following empirical formula:[Rh.sub.17 (S).sub.2 (CO).sub.32 ].sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Lowell Alan Cosby, Rocco Anthony Fiato, Jose Luis Vidal
  • Catalytic process for producing polyhydric alcohols and derivatives
    Patent number: 4111975
    Abstract: A process for producing polyhydric alcohols, their ether and ester derivatives, oligomers of such alcohols and monohydric alcohols and their ester derivatives by reacting hydrogen and oxides of carbon in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex, an alkali metal cation and a cryptand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: James Norman Cawse, Jose Luis Vidal