Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Anton Herrmann

Wolfgang Anton Herrmann 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: 20150038723
    Abstract: Akylidene complexes of ruthenium containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands and their use as highly active, selective catalysts for olefin metathesis The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphite, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 8153810
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphate, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Publication number: 20110282068
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphate, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 7652145
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex compound of ruthenium of the general structural formula I in which X1 and X2 may be identical or different and represent an anionic ligand, in which R1 and R2 are identical or different, but may also have a ring, in which R1 and R2 represent hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, in which the ligand L1 is a N-heterocyclic carbene and in which the ligand L2 is a neutral electron donor, especially a N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphane, phosphite, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Publication number: 20080207911
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphate, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 7378528
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphate, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 7294717
    Abstract: Alkylidene complexes of ruthenium containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands and their use as highly active, selective catalysts for olefin metathesis The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphite, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 6787620
    Abstract: The invention relates to complexes of ruthenium of the structural formula I where X is an anionic ligand, Z is a monodentate to tridentate ligand which contains a metal and is nonionically bound to the ruthenium center, R1 and R2 are identical or different and are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, but may also form a ring, and Ligand L is an N-heterocyclic carbene, and also to a process for preparing acyclic olefins having two or more carbon atoms or/and cyclic olefins having three or more carbon atoms and the use of at least one complex of the formula I in olefin metathesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Florian J. Kohl, Thomas Weskamp
  • Publication number: 20040095792
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 6635768
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex of ruthenium of the structural formula I, where X1 and X2 are identical or different and are each an anionic ligand, R1 and R2 are identical or different and can also contain a ring, and R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, the ligand L1 is an N-heterocyclic carbene and the ligand L2 is an uncharged electron donor, in particular an N-heterocyclic carbene or an amine, imine, phosphine, phosphite, stibine, arsine, carbonyl compound, carboxyl compound, nitrile, alcohol, ether, thiol or thioether, where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or/and hydrocarbon groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Wolfgang Schattenmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Publication number: 20030149274
    Abstract: The invention relates to complexes of ruthenium of the structural formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Florian J. Kohl, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 6552139
    Abstract: The invention relates to complexes of ruthenium of the structural formula I where X is an anionic ligand, Z is a monodentate to tridentate ligand which contains a metal and is nonionically bound to the ruthenium center, R1 and R2 are identical or different and are each hydrogen or/and a hydrocarbon group, but may also form a ring, and Ligand L is an N-heterocyclic carbene, and also to a process for preparing acyclic olefins having two or more carbon atoms or/and cyclic olefins having three or more carbon atoms and the use of at least one complex of the formula I in olefin metathesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Florian J. Kohl, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 6365762
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of the formula R1aRebOc.Ld  (I), in which and the total of a, b and c is such as to comply with the pentavalency or heptavalency of rhenium, with the proviso that c is not larger than 3×b, and in which R1 is absent or identical or different, and is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aromatic hydrocarbon radical having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an arylalkyl radical having 7 to 9 carbon atoms, it being possible for the R1 radicals where appropriate to be substituted identically or differently, independently of one another, as catalysts for oxidizing electron-rich aromatic compounds and their derivatives, the catalysts being employed in a peroxide-containing solution in the presence of an anhydride of a carboxylic acid and/or of a dehydrating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Aventis Research & Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Richard Walter Fischer, Joachim Haider, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Roland Kratzer
  • Patent number: 6326502
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the epoxidation of alkenes of the formula (1) where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, C1-C20-alkyl, C1-C12-alkoxy, C6-C10-aryl, —CHOH—CH3, —CH—NH2—CH3 or carboxy, using air or oxygen over a catalyst comprising compounds of the formula (2) MoxOy(L)z  (2) where x is 1, 2 or 3, y is an integer from 0 to 2x+1, z is an integer from 1 to 2x, where the ligand L is a compound of the formula (3) or (4) where X is a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom, Y is hydrogen, C1-C8-alkyl, C1-C8-alkoxy, F, Cl, Br, I, COOCH3, C6-C14-aryl or C3-C8-cycloalkyl, R7 and R8 form a ring containing from 4 to 8 carbon atoms onto which one or two aromatic rings may be fused, R5 and R6 are hydrogen, branched or straight-chain C1-C12-alkyl or branched or straight-chain C1-C12-haloalkyl which are substituents on the ring formed by R7 and R8 and/or the rings fused onto this ring, or t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Research & Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Peter Schulz, Uwe Dingerdissen, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Gerhard Lobmaier
  • Patent number: 6303828
    Abstract: The use of compounds of the formula (I) R1aRebOc•Ld  (I), in which a=zero or an integer from 0 to 6 b=an integer from 1 to 4 c=an integer from 1 to 12 d=an integer from 0 to 4 L=Lewis base and the total of a, b and c is such as to comply with the penta- or hepta-valency of rhenium, with the proviso that c is not greater than 3•b, and in which R1 is absent, identical or different and is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aromatic hydrocarbon radical having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an arylalkyl radical having 7 to 9 carbon atoms, where the R1 radicals can, where appropriate, be substituted identically or differently, independently of one another, as catalysts for the selective oxidation of olefins with cleavage of C═C bonds to give the corresponding carbonyl compounds in the presence of a peroxide-containing compound, where the amount of substance ratio of olefin to peroxide-containing compound is in a range from 1:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Research & Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Richard Walter Fischer, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Thomas Weskamp
  • Patent number: 6248913
    Abstract: A catalyst for the selective oxidation of olefins in the presence of air or oxygen, comprising a compound of the formula (1) MoxOy(L)z  (1) where x is 1, 2 or 3, y is an integer from 0 to 2x+1, z is an integer from 1 to 2x, wherein the ligand L is a compound of the formula (2) or (3)  where n is 0 or 1, X is a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom, Y is hydrogen, C1-C8-alkyl, C1-C8-alkoxy, F, Cl, Br, I, COOCH3, C6-C14-aryl or C3-C8-cycloalkyl, R3 and R4 form a ring containing from 4 to 8 carbon atoms onto which one or two aromatic rings may be fused, R1 and R2 are hydrogen, branched or straight-chain C1-C12-alkyl or branched or straight-chain C1-C12-haloalkyl which substitute the ring formed by R3 and R4 and/or the rings fused onto this ring, or the ligand L is a compound of the formula (4) or (5) where R is hydrogen, C1-C8-alkyl, C1-C8-alkoxy, COOCH3, carbonyl oxygen, C6-C14-aryl or C3-C8-cycloalkyl and n is 1 or 2 and m is from 1 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Research & Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Lobmaier, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Rolf Peter Schulz
  • Patent number: 6180807
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of organorhenium oxides from rhenium-containing compounds, where the rhenium-containing compound is reacted with a silylating agent and organylating reagent, and the rhenium-containing compound originates in particular from the residue from a spent organorhenium oxide catalyst or rhenium oxide catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Research & Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Richard Walter Fischer, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Roland Kratzer
  • Patent number: 6087292
    Abstract: A highly effective catalyst system for the polymerization of olefins comprises a cocatalyst, preferably an aluminoxane, and a metallocene of the formula I ##STR1## where M.sup.1 =Zr or Hf, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 =(C.sub.1 -C.sub.3)-alkyl or chlorine, R.sup.3, with the proviso that at least one of the radicals R.sup.3 is not hydrogen, is hydrogen, F, Cl, --OR.sup.7, --NR.sup.7 R.sup.8, --P(O)R.sup.7 R.sup.8, --P(OR.sup.7).sub.2 or SR.sup.7, R.sup.4 is a ##STR2## radical, and m plus n are zero or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Tangor GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Winter, Juergen Rohrmann, Martin Antberg, Walter Spaleck, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Herbert Riepl
  • Patent number: 6040469
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metallocene compound of the formula I, ##STR1## where Cp is an unsubstituted or substituted cyclopentadienyl group, Ind is unsubstituted or substituted indenyl, M is a tetravalent metal, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -hydrocarbon radical, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -hydrocarbon radical, m is 1 or 2 and k and l are 1 when m is 1 when m is 1 and k and l are zero when m is 2. The metallocene compound is suitable as a catalyst component for olefin polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Targor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Riedel, Thomas Weller, Alexandra Jacobs, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Markus Morawietz
  • Patent number: 6005151
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing monofunctional, bifunctional or polyfunctional aromatic olefins of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein a palladium compound of the formula (IV) ##STR2## is used as a catalyst in the preparation of the compounds of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Aventis
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Matthias Beller, Ahmed Tafesh