US Patent Issued to BASF on April 7 for "Process for preparing a hydroxy group functionalized thioether" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,338, issued on April 7, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for preparing a hydroxy group functionalized thioether" was invented by Bernd Bruchmann (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Peter Rudolf (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Markus Meise (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Elliot Christ (Freiburg, Germany), Juergen Ruehe (Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl, Germany) and Tassilo Gleede (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process can be used for preparing a compound A having n groups of formulaIn Formula (I), X is C2-C12-alkylene or C2-C12-alkylene substituted with C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio, and/or interrupted with O ...