Heavy Metal Or Aluminum Containing Patents (Class 546/2)
  • Patent number: 9698359
    Abstract: Platinum and palladium complexes are disclosed that can be useful as narrow band phosphorescent emitters. Also disclosed are methods for preparing and using the platinum and palladium complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jian Li, Eric Turner
  • Patent number: 9688708
    Abstract: The present invention describes Photolabile Compounds methods for use of the compounds. The Photolabile Compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Inventors: Roberto Etchenique, Rafael Yuste, Luis Baraldo
  • Patent number: 9611347
    Abstract: The present invention, among other things, provides highly syndiotactic poly(dicyclopentadiene) and/or hydrogenated poly(dicyclopentadiene), compositions thereof, and compounds and methods for preparing the same. In some embodiments, a provided compound is a compound of formula I, II or III. In some embodiments, a provided method comprises providing a compound of formula I, II or III.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Richard Royce Schrock, Benjamin Autenrieth
  • Patent number: 9598449
    Abstract: Iridium (III) complexes are described together with methods to prepare and use such complexes. Also described are devices that utilize the iridium (III) complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jian Li, Eric Turner, Nathan J. Bakken
  • Patent number: 9559321
    Abstract: The invention relates to electrochemical devices comprising complexes of cobalt comprising at least one ligand with a 5- or six membered, N-containing heteroring. The complex are useful as p- and n-dopants, as over of electrochemical devices, in particular in organic semiconductors. The complexes are further useful as over-discharge prevention and overvoltage protection agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Julian Burschka, Florian Kessler, Etienne Baranoff, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel
  • Patent number: 9553277
    Abstract: An iridium complex represented by formula (1) and an OLED using the same are shown. In Formula (1), l, m, n, p, b, R1-R6, X1-X6, A1, A2 and B are the same as defined in the specification. The iridium complex is able to emit a range of visible light with high color purity and high efficiency as neat sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Yun Chi, Chu-Yun Kuei
  • Patent number: 9550801
    Abstract: Platinum complexes that exhibit photoabsorption and photoemission, methods of making such complexes, and applications thereof are disclosed, including optical devices comprising the complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jian Li, Zixing Wang, Eric Turner
  • Patent number: 9518217
    Abstract: This invention provides transition metal carbene complexes and the electroluminescent application thereof. Through employing different N^N heteroleptic ligand, as the following, the transition metal carbene complex can display wide-range color tuning ability from deep blue to red. The mentioned transition metal carbene complex can be applied in luminescent device, and the luminescent device can display wide-range color tuning ability with high luminescent efficiency while employing different N^N heteroleptic ligand in the transition metal carbene complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: E INK HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Hong Cheng, Kun-Yi Lu, Yu-Han Ou Yang, Cheng-Han Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9505794
    Abstract: The present invention discloses novel Ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes, preparation and its application as DNA imaging agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Amitava Das, Samit Chattopadhyay, Vadde Ramu, Nandaraj Taye
  • Patent number: 9463451
    Abstract: A hydrogen transfer reaction may be more efficiently promoted by using a metal complex represented by Formula (2): (wherein, R1 to R8 are the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or the like; or wherein; R1 and R2, R2 and R3, R3 and R4, R4 and R5, and R5 and R6 are respectively bonded to each other to form a bivalent hydrocarbon group; R9 are the same or different, and each represents an alkyl group or cycloalkyl group; M is ruthenium (Ru) or the like; X is a ligand; and n is 0, 1 or 2). More specifically, the metal complex enables a hydrogenation reaction of various substrates having a stable carbonyl group or the like to be advanced with a high yield under mild conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Susumu Saito, Ryoji Noyori, Takashi Miura, Masayuki Naruto, Kazuki Iida, Yuki Takada, Katsuaki Toda, Sota Nimura, Santosh Agrawal, Sunkook Lee
  • Patent number: 9447113
    Abstract: Novel heterocyclic materials are disclosed. The materials contain a fused tetracyclic structure that can improve the properties of OLED devices when the novel heterocyclic materials are incorporated into such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bin Ma
  • Patent number: 9339516
    Abstract: Methods of inhibiting Barrett's esophagus and/or adenocarcinoma in a subject are provided. In a particular embodiment, the method comprises administering at least one composition comprising at least one zinc compound and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to the esophagus of the subject. The zinc may be a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of zinc, such as zinc gluconate. The zinc may be administered, for example, orally, topically, or by an implantable medical device. In a particular embodiment, the methods further comprise administering at least one analgesic, anesthetic, or other therapeutic agent or therapy for the treatment of Barrett's esophagus. The method may further comprise monitoring the progression of Barrett's esophagus in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Monk Street Partners LLC
    Inventors: James M. Mullin, Jonathan Raines
  • Patent number: 9339506
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an anhydrous copper complex of formula C12H10ClCuN2O4 and methods of treating neuromuscular and other diseases, including but not limited to fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, rheumatoid arthritis, pain, fatigue, sleeplessness, loss of fine motor control, speech loss, inflexibility, Alzheimer's, dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, depression, lyme disease, lyme disease co-infection, gastroparesis (GP), myopathy, chronic inflammation and/or incontinence. The anhydrous copper complex preferably is administered in a pharmaceutical and/or dietary supplement composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: C LAB PHARMA INTERNATIONAL, S.A.
    Inventors: Sean Kerrigan, Nolan Mente, Charles Louis Albartus Barker
  • Patent number: 9290518
    Abstract: An efficient, one step solution state processing of Proton Conducting Homochiral Metal Organic Framework has been achieved by using derivate of amino acid and Zn(II) salt as a MOF constructor. Control over MOF solubility as well as proton conductivity has also been achieved by judicious selection of the ligand architecture. This invention will lead the way for ease preparation of MOF films for industrial application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Rahul Banerjee, Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Tanay Kundu
  • Patent number: 9291561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-assembled helical metallic complex of formula (1): [M1M2M3(L1)3] (1) said metallic complex forming a triad donor (M1)/acceptor (M2)/donor (M3), wherein the efficiency of the intermolecular energy transfer between the pair of donors (M\) and (M3) to the acceptor (M2) is from 30% to 70% and the L1 ligand-field strength of the donors (M1) and (M3) is at least 19000 cm?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Andreas Hauser, Claude Piguet
  • Patent number: 9273032
    Abstract: The present invention describes photolabile compounds and methods for use of the compounds. The photolabile compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Roberto Etchenique, Rafael Yuste, Luis Baraldo
  • Patent number: 9269913
    Abstract: A copper(I) complex is represented by the following Formula (1): [Cua(XS)b(L)c], wherein, L is triphenylphosphine, acetonitrile, tri-iso-butylphosphine, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic compound having 5 to 18 carbon atoms, a is an integer from 2 to 6, b is an integer from 2 to 6, c is an integer from 0 to 6, X is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, substituted or unsubstituted carbazole, or PR3, where R is a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted cyclohexyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nobutaka Akashi, Masako Kato, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kotaro Shimada, Hiroki Ohara
  • Patent number: 9224963
    Abstract: Stable and efficient organic light-emitting diodes were prepared using tetradentate platinum-based blue and red emitters. In one example, a series of stable and efficient red phosphorescent OLEDs was fabricated employing a phenyl-pyridyl-carbazole based tetradentate cyclometalated Pt(II) complex as an emitting dopant and utilizing a commercially available host, transporting, and blocking materials. By implementing this platinum complex in electrochemically stable device architectures, long operational lifetimes were achieved with an estimated LT97 of over 600 hrs at luminance of 1000 cd/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Jian Li, Guijie Li
  • Patent number: 9219237
    Abstract: A bis-tridentate iridium complex represented by a formula (I): where R3 to R8, R21 to R23, R9, R10, X1, X2, and X3 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yun Chi, Bi-Hai Tong, Tai-Nan Duan, Hsiao-Yun Ku, I-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 9200023
    Abstract: A method for obtaining, with high selectivity as compared to a conventional method of mixing reaction substrates and thereafter reacting the mixture under heating, a facial isomer of tris-orthometallated iridium that is suitably used particularly as an organic electroluminescence device material, among complexes of tris-orthometallated iridium. The method for producing a complex of tris-orthometallated iridium according to the present disclosure includes, in order, a step (1) of preliminarily heating at least one of the complex of orthometallated iridium or the bidentate organic ligand; a step (2) of mixing the complex of orthometallated iridium and the bidentate organic ligand; and a step (3) of reacting the complex of orthometallated iridium and the bidentate organic ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology & Furuya Metal Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Konno, Takashi Ito, Yoshiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 9203039
    Abstract: A platinum (II) complex of the general formula (I) or (II), in which Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 are each independently aryl, heteroaryl, or heterocyclic. Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 together form a tridentate ligand coordinated to the platinum through atoms X, Y, and Z, respectively, and X, Y, and Z are independently carbon or nitrogen. V is a bridging group or a covalent bond, and W is an anion. In general formula (I) in some cases, Ar1 is an anion and Ar2 and Ar3 are neutral; in other cases, Ar1 and Ar3 are neutral and Ar2 is an anion. In general formula (II), in some cases, Ar3 is an anion and Ar1 and Ar2 are neutral; in other cases, Ar1 and Ar3 are neutral and Ar2 is an anion. The complexes are asymmetric. The complexes emit in the UV to near IR range and are useful as emitters for organic light emitting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Jian Li, Zixing Wang, Eric Turner
  • Patent number: 9174906
    Abstract: Methods are provided for producing an optically active secondary alcohol at a high optical purity by hydrogenating a substrate carbonyl compound at a high efficiency using as a catalyst a ruthenium complex bearing as a ligand certain optically active diphosphine compound and a readily synthesized amine compound. For example, aromatic ketones and heteroaromatic ketones are reacted with hydrogen and/or a hydrogen donating compound in the presence of the ruthenium complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: KANTO KAGAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takeaki Katayama, Kunihiko Tsutsumi, Kunihiko Murata, Takeshi Ohkuma, Noriyoshi Arai
  • Patent number: 9127031
    Abstract: Methods for deposition of elemental metal films on surfaces using metal coordination complexes comprising bisamineazaallylic ligands are provided. Also provided are bisamineazaallylic ligands useful in the methods of the invention and metal coordination complexes comprising these ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: David Thompson, Jeffrey W. Anthis
  • Patent number: 9079857
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a novel process for preparing alkali metal pyrithione from pyridine N-oxide, using a sulfurination agent and a base agent. In particular, the present invention relates to an efficient process for preparing polyvalent metal complexes of sodium pyrithione from the alkali metal pyridine N-oxide described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Arch Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahim Hani, John J. Jardas, Richard Dumas, David Lei
  • Patent number: 9051345
    Abstract: A composition including a Rh or Ru metalloinsertor complex specifically targets mismatch repair (MMR)-deficient cells. Selective cytotoxicity is induced in MMR-deficient cells upon uptake of the inventive metalloinsertor complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jacqueline K. Barton, Alexis Komor, Curtis J. Schneider, Alyson Weidmann, Russell Ernst
  • Patent number: 9040702
    Abstract: A platinum complex of a formula (I): where R1 and R2 are each fluoroalkyl, X is C—H or nitrogen, and L1 is a bidentate, nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yun Chi, Hsiu-Hsuan Yeh
  • Patent number: 9040514
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an anhydrous copper complex of formula C12H10CICuN2O4 and methods of treating neuromuscular and other diseases, including but not limited to fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, rheumatoid arthritis, pain, fatigue, sleeplessness, loss of fine motor control, speech loss, inflexibility, Alzheimer's, dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, depression, lyme disease, lyme disease co-infection, gastroparesis (GP), myopathy, chronic inflammation and/or incontinence. The anhydrous copper complex preferably is administered in a pharmaceutical and/or dietary supplement composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: C LAB PHARMA INTERNATIONAL, S.A.
    Inventors: Sean Kerrigan, Nolan Mente, Charles Louis Albartus Barker
  • Publication number: 20150141647
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cobalt complexes containing terpyridine ligands and chelating alkene-modified silyl ligands, and their use as hydrosilylation and/or dehydrogenative silylation and crosslinking catalysts. The cobalt complexes also exhibit adequate air stability for handling and manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Tianning Diao, Paul J. Chirik, Aroop Kumar Roy, Kenrick Lewis, Susan Nye, Johannes G.P. Delis, Keith J. Weller
  • Patent number: 9029539
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of the Structure 1 wherein Structure 1 contains a metal Met, coordinated to a tetradentate chelating ligand Lig of Structure 2 where V is a bridging unit which contains 1 to 40 atoms from the third, fourth, fifth and/or sixth main group and connects the two ligand moieties L1 and L2, which may be identical or different on each occurrence, covalently to one another, and where the two ligand moieties L1 and L2 satisfy Structure 3 where Cy1 and Cy2, identically or differently on each occurrence, correspond to a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated, unsaturated or aromatic homo- or heterocyclic ring, which is in each case bonded ionically, covalently or coordinatively to the metal via a ring atom or via an atom bonded exocyclically to the homo- or heterocyclic ring; and where L3, identically or differently on each occurrence, is a mono- or bidentate, neutral or monoanionic ligand, and where a is 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stössel, Anja Gerhard
  • Patent number: 9029540
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel ruthenium compounds of formula (Ia) and (Ib): wherein R1 and the moiety are defined herein. Also disclosed is a process for using these novel ruthenium compounds as catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of ketones with high reactivities and excellent selectivities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Nizar Haddad, Heewon Lee, Bo Qu, Sonia Rodriguez, Chris Hugh Senanayake
  • Patent number: 9012639
    Abstract: The invention relates to copper(I) complexes of the formula A wherein X=Cl, Br or I (independently of one another); N*?E=a bidentate ligand, wherein E=a phosphinyl group including a phosphorus atom or an arsenyl group including an arsenic atom, wherein the phosphinyl group or the arsenyl group is combined with R in the form of R2E (where R=alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, or phenoxy; N*=imine function which is part of an aromatic group selected from pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyridazinyl, triazinyl, oxazolyl, thiazolyl and imidazolyl, the aromatic group optionally having at least one substituent to increase the solubility of the copper(I) complex in an organic solvent; and ?=at least one carbon atom which is likewise part of the aromatic group. The carbon atom is located directly adjacent both to the imine nitrogen atom, coordinating to Cu in the case of a bridging ligand and to the phosphorus or arsenic atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Cynora GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Yersin, Uwe Monkowius, Tobias Fisher, Thomas Hofbeck, Thomas Baumann, Tobias Grab
  • Publication number: 20150099857
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a high-molecular-weight copolymer of polar group-containing allyl monomers comprising monomer units represented by formulae (3) and (4) (in the formulae, R1 represents a hydrogen atom (H) or hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R2 represents —OH, —OCOR3 (R3 represents hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms), —N(R4)2 (R4 represents a hydrogen atom or hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms); and n and m are a value representing the molar ratio of each of the monomer units), which has few branches and unsaturated group at the molecular end, by copolymerizing olefin and an allyl compound using a metal complex of group 10 elements in the periodic system represented by formula (I) as a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Kyoko Nozaki, Brad Carrow, Yoshikuni Okumura, Junichi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9000166
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel ionic metal complexes. Compounds of this type can be employed as functional materials in a number of different applications which can be ascribed to the electronics industry in the broadest sense. The compounds according to the invention are described by the formulae (1) and (1a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Heinrich Becker, Amir H. Parham, Esther Breuning
  • Publication number: 20150086473
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a novel dehydrogenation reaction catalyst, to provide a method that can produce a ketone, an aldehyde, and a carboxylic acid with high efficiency from an alcohol, and to provide a method for efficiently producing hydrogen from an alcohol, formic acid, or a formate, and they are accomplished by a catalyst containing an organometallic compound of Formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohei Yamaguchi, Ken-ichi Fujita
  • Patent number: 8987450
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a class of luminescent gold(III) compounds containing a tridentate ligand with one strong ?-donating group. The present invention also provides methods for synthesizing these compounds, as well as uses of these compounds as electrophosphorescent materials in phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) to provide electroluminescence (EL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: The University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Vonika Ka-Man Au, Mei-Yee Chan, Keith Man-Chung Wong, King Chin Yim
  • Patent number: 8987451
    Abstract: A single-step method of making tetradentate platinum complexes is disclosed. The method advantageously allows the formation of a platinum complex in a single step, even with sterically hindered ligands, without the use of highly reactive intermediates. The compounds made by the disclosed method are useful in OLED applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Yi Tsai, Gregg Kottas, Walter Yeager
  • Publication number: 20150080433
    Abstract: A metal coordination complex of a biologically active moiety and a metal is disclosed. The complex confers to the biologically active moiety an improved performance which can include potency, stability, absorbability, targeted delivery, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Thomas Piccariello
  • Publication number: 20150079393
    Abstract: Described herein are organometallic or inorganic complexes with high extreme ultraviolet (EUV) optical density (OD) and high mass density for use in thin films. These thin films are used as high resolution, low line edge roughness (LER) EUV photoresists. The complexes may also be included in nanoparticle form for use in photoresists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Daniel FREEDMAN, Miles MARNELL, Robert BRAINARD, Brian CARDINEAU
  • Patent number: 8981086
    Abstract: Described are palladium precatalysts, and methods of making and using them. The palladium precatalysts show improved stability and improved reactivity in comparison to previously-described palladium precatalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Bruno, Stephen L. Buchwald
  • Publication number: 20150073143
    Abstract: The present invention provides ruthenium or osmium complexes and their uses as a catalyst for catalytic water oxidation. Another aspect of the invention provides an electrode and photo-electrochemical cells for electrolysis of water molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    Inventors: Javier Jesus Concepcion Corbea, Zoufeng Chen, Jonah Wesley Jurss, Joseph L. Templeton, Paul Hoertz, Thomas J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 8969560
    Abstract: A novel bidentate ligand of general formula (I) is described together with a process for the carbonylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds. The group X1 may be defined as a univalent hydrocarbyl radical of up to 30 atoms containing at least one nitrogen atom having a pKb in dilute aqueous solution at 18° C. of between 4 and 14 wherein the said at least one nitrogen atom is separated from the Q2 atom by between 1 and 3 carbon atoms. The group X2 is defined as X1, X3 or X4 or represents a univalent radical of up to 30 atoms having at least one primary, secondary or aromatic ring carbon atom wherein each said univalent radical is joined via said at least one primary, secondary or aromatic ring carbon atom(s) respectively to the respective atom Q2. Q1 and Q2 each independently represent phosphorus, arsenic or antimony.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Lucite International UK Limited
    Inventors: Graham Ronald Eastham, Mark Waugh, Paul Pringle, Thomas Philip William Turner
  • Publication number: 20150056536
    Abstract: A method of preparing a nitrogen containing electrode catalyst by converting a high surface area metal-organic framework (MOF) material free of platinum group metals that includes a transition metal, an organic ligand, and an organic solvent via a high temperature thermal treatment to form catalytic active sites in the MOF. At least a portion of the contained organic solvent may be replaced with a nitrogen containing organic solvent or an organometallic compound or a transition metal salt to enhance catalytic performance. The electrode catalysts may be used in various electrochemical systems, including a proton exchange membrane fuel cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Di-Jia Liu, Shengqian Ma, Gabriel A. Goenaga
  • Patent number: 8961776
    Abstract: A composition of matter suitable for the generation of hydrogen from water is described, the positively charged cation of the composition having the general formula [(PY5W2)MO]2+, wherein PY5W2 is (NC5XYZ)(NC5H4)4C2W2, M is a transition metal, and W, X, Y, and Z can be H, R, a halide, CF3, or SiR3, where R can be an alkyl or aryl group. The two accompanying counter anions, in one embodiment, can be selected from the following Cl?, I?, PF6?, and CF3SO3?. In embodiments of the invention, water, such as tap water containing electrolyte or straight sea water can be subject to an electric potential of between 1.0 V and 1.4 V relative to the standard hydrogen electrode, which at pH 7 corresponds to an overpotential of 0.6 to 1.0 V, with the result being, among other things, the generation of hydrogen with an optimal turnover frequency of ca. 1.5 million mol H2/mol catalyst per h.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Long, Christopher J. Chang, Hemamala I. Karunadasa
  • Patent number: 8962838
    Abstract: The invention relates to platinum complexes and their use in biomedical applications, like in vitro and in vivo imaging and cell staining. The present invention provides new materials and their use as imaging agent. The formation of luminescent aggregates can allow a switch of the emission leading to a dynamic label and on the formation of soft assemblies, which, in some cases, are even more emissive than the isolated corresponding species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
    Inventors: Luisa De Cola, Matteo Mauro, Nermin Seda Kehr, Cristian Alejandro Strassert
  • Patent number: 8957208
    Abstract: A heteroleptic iridium complex of a formula (I): where R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, fluoroalkyl, or aryl, X is C-X1 or nitrogen, X1 being hydrogen or phenyl, L1 is a monoanionic bidentate ligand, and L2 is a neutral bidentate ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Yun Chi, Jia-Ling Liao
  • Publication number: 20150037253
    Abstract: The present invention relates to copper, gallium and technetium coordinated thiosemicarbazone-pyridylhydrazine (substituted at the pyridine ring with a substituted benzothiazole or stilbene moiety) complexes and methods thereof. Such compounds possess utility in PET imaging and diagnosis of amyloid diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Donnelly, James Hickey, Kevin Barnham, Sin Chun Lim
  • Patent number: 8946417
    Abstract: Platinum complexes that exhibit photoabsorption and photoemission, methods of making such complexes, and applications thereof are disclosed, including optical devices comprising the complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Arizona Board Of Regents Acting For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Li Jian, Zixing Wang, Eric Turner
  • Patent number: 8946418
    Abstract: The invention relates to a series of novel chiral nitrogen-phosphorus ligands of formulae (Ia) and (Ib): wherein R1-R3 and X are as defined herein. The invention also relates to chiral metal complexes prepared with these chiral nitrogen-phosphorus ligands. The chiral metal complexes are useful as catalysts for carrying out asymmetric hydrogenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Nizar Haddad, Bo Qu, Jolaine Savoie, Chris Hugh Senanayake, Xudong Wei
  • Publication number: 20150027309
    Abstract: Embodiments include selective adsorbents having a structure of Formula (I) where a connection to X represents a connection to a structure of Formula (II), and a connection to Y represents a connection to a structure of Formula (III), where each R1 is independently selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, and each R2 is independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, an alkyl, an aryl, and a trisubstitutedsilyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Chang Y. Lee, Omar K. Farha, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Joseph T. Hupp, Randall Q. Snurr, Youn-Sang Bae
  • Publication number: 20150032045
    Abstract: The present invention describes Photolabile Compounds methods for use of the compounds. The Photolabile Compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In some embodiments, the Photolabile Compounds comprise a light antenna, such as a labeling molecule or an active derivative thereof. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect. In another embodiment, the photoreleasable ligand can be a labeling molecule, such as a fluorescent molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Rafael Yuste, Roberto Etchenique, Luis Baraldo