MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541134182 A) filed by Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'pilot-scale process for the catalytic conversion of biomass lignin into cyclonon-4-ynone.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. K. L. Vincent Joseph; S. Deepika; and Dr. N. T. Mary Rosana.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The hydrodeoxygenation of biomass-derived eugenol was studied over Re-Ni bimetallic 5 catalysts supported on hierarchical KIT -6/H-Y zeolite in a fixed-bed down-flow reactor operated under atmospheric pressure. Catalysts with...