Patents by Inventor Marco Pagnotta

Marco Pagnotta 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).

  • Method for converting amides to nitriles and nitriles to amides
    Patent number: 5449808
    Abstract: A process which comprises contacting and catalytically reacting under essentially anhydrous conditions in the liquid phase an amide with a nitrile according to the equation:RCONH.sub.2 +R.sup.1 CN.revreaction.RCN+R.sup.1 CONH.sub.2where R and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: The Standard Oil Company
    Inventors: Marco Pagnotta, Mark C. Cesa, Sandra L. Denman, Robert D. Boyer, Jr.
  • Preparation of indenes
    Patent number: 4568782
    Abstract: Disclosed is the vapor phase cyclodehydration of an aldehyde or ketone over a solid Lewis acid as catalyst to make indene or a substituted indene according to the equation: ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: The Standard Oil Company
    Inventors: Marco Pagnotta, Mark C. Cesa, James D. Burrington