US Patent Issued to BASF on March 24 for "Preparation of aromatic carbonyl compounds by catalytic oxidation with molecular oxygen" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,828, issued on March 24, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Preparation of aromatic carbonyl compounds by catalytic oxidation with molecular oxygen" was invented by Alexandre Guthertz (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sven Rautenberg (Bornheim, Germany), Joaquim Henrique Teles (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Florian Vogt (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Roland Goetz (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of aromatic carbonyl compounds of formula I, which can be obtained through reaction of compounds of formula II with molecular oxygen in the presence of a solven...