US Patent Issued to BASF on May 26 for "Preparation of aromatic carboxyamides by a palladium-catalyzed carbonylation reaction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,412, issued on May 26, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Preparation of aromatic carboxyamides by a palladium-catalyzed carbonylation reaction" was invented by Mathias Schelwies (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Florian Vogt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Christopher Koradin (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Rocco Paciello (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 carboxyamides of formula I, which can be obtained by a palladium-catalyzed carbonylation reaction of aromatic chlorides of formula II, amines of formula II...