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090062: Improved Method for Succinic Acid Recovery

Succinic acid and other carboxylic acids have commercial relevance in the pharmaceutical, food, and polymer production industries, as well as in the manufacture of other industrial chemicals. Description MSU’s invention simplifies the process for the recovery of succinic acid from fermentation broths in the form of ethyl esters, which enables separation...

020007: A Safe, Efficient Method of Oxidatively Cleaving Olefins to Selectively Produce Aldehydes, Carboxylic Acids, Esters, or Ketones

Oxidative cleavage of olefins is a powerful synthetic method for producing a range of desired organic compounds and is often used, for example, by the pharmaceutical industry and the petroleum industry. Current methods rely on oxidants, such as potassium permanganate and sodium periodate, or ozonolysis. There are serious drawbacks to these methods...
Published: 7/21/2014   |   Inventor(s): Babak Borhan, Benjamin Travis, Jennifer Schomaker
Keywords(s): Alkene, Carboxylic Acids, Osmium-Assisted Catalyst, Ozonolysis Category(s): Chemicals, Materials