MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001250 A) filed by Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, on Jan. 6, for 'bifunctional lewis/bronsted acidic tin metal organic framework with pendant carboxylic acid groups.'

Inventor(s) include Pushparaj L; Muthukumar D; and Sunaja Devi K. R.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Herein, we report the synthesis of a new bifunctional tin-based metal-organic framework (Sn- H2BTC-bpy-COOH) is disclosed, comprising Sn nodes coordinated by benzene-l,3,5-tricarboxylate (H2BTC2;) and 4,4'-bipyridine linkers, in which two carboxylat...